Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelby Gross

That was my amateur background. I fought about 55 fights and took a year off before deciding I wanted to try and make a living at boxing.

Andre Seymour

Our boxers need technical support and we need the technical coaches who work them to travel with the national teams. They will be of great assistance to our national teams. Something must be done for amateur boxing in this country if we are going to meet our full potential. We need international help. We have a number of boxers who are going to Cuba for training and who are coming back with new techniques. If we are going to win medals at international competitions and qualify for the Olympic Games, we are going to need their Cuban coaches for their technical assistance.

Ryan Armour

The shot I hit on the second hole could very easily have missed the cup and rolled 40 feet by. That is the way the ball bounces sometimes.

Dave McCarthy

(The Tigers) had the best of the second half. I thought we controlled the game in the first half. If you can't get the ball forward, though, you're not going to win.

Matt Miller

The thoughts that came to our minds when we came down here was to take their minds off of everything. It's their Spring Break. This gives them some fun, something other than cleaning up. Just throw a ball out there and let them play soccer.

Bill Belichick

The third quarter was really frustrating, ... We had the ball at their end of the field for most of the quarter and couldn't get a whole lot done.

Mike Drews

The third quarter was our demise tonight. We continued to take the ball to the ball to the basket, but we just came up empty. When you score four points in one quarter, that's definitely a dry spell.

Cindy Allison

The third quarter really hurt us. They had been playing us full-court man the entire game, but we went through a couple of minutes in that period where Oakland got even more aggressive; we just couldn't hang on to the ball and they were able to score off it.

John Presnell

The third game we laid back a little bit. We were not quite as inspired. We knew that they were going to try and tip and shoot the ball on us. It was a matter of getting our feet going.

Al Melnick

The sun came up today and we played a decent game and we are back as far as playing decent baseball. Hopefully, we can stay there. The other day we made six errors in the sixth inning, but the kids battled back and it was good to see us hit the ball hard.

Heather Hibner

The South Park coach made a classy gesture by presenting the game ball to our starting pitcher and then she went home and had the ball cut in half and gave the other half to April, which I thought was pretty cool.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Kevin English

Competing in this event is going to raise his confidence level. He got to see what he needs to do to get past some of the best talent in the state. There are no easy matches once you get here.

Larry Blair

Anthony (Smith) played it the best he could. It just went in.

Jim Scheer

A number of our governing bodies are bound and determined to be the best in the world. Witness the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team -- they want to be the best in the world.

Brian Green

And that's the thing that a lot of people don't really get and a lot of you guys (sportswriters) don't understand. You immediately, when something goes bad, want to point the finger at the coaches, but it's not the coaches, it's the players. Right now we're not getting the job done. We're making mistakes and missing plays, things that we control. The coach has no control over what goes on on the field. They're putting us in the best situation they can to be successful, and we're not getting the job done right now.

Jim Haney

A regular Palm customer can come in here a couple times a week and get different things. That's the goal. They are going to get the best steak, but they are also going to find the same quality in our veal dishes or whatever.

Ellen MacArthur

A record is nothing if not shared. I'm proud of the record but I'm even more proud to be working with the best team in the world.

Ruben Brown

Anything that's going to compromise that and is going to set us back, then, as you can tell, in the American culture we'll look for the next best thing. And football will be gone, and it will be hockey next year.

Michael Caine

My career is going better now than when I was younger. It used to be that I'd get the girl but not the part. Now I get the part but not the girl.

Paul Stoddart

Like many drivers, Fernando started his career with Minardi, and even in those early days, there were obvious signs of his huge natural talent and ability. It was equally clear that with the right team and the right car at the right moment, (Alonso winning the title) was always going to happen.

Jeff Smith

You can go your whole career without going into a new station.

Carson Palmer

Hopefully this is the last place I'll end up playing. That's so rare in this league these days. It's so rare to see a person have a five-, eight-, 10-, 12-year career in one place. And I feel very fortunate that it looks like that's going to be my future.

Sarah Doscinski

There is an excellent team here and I am at a place in my career where I am ready to focus on one project to have a greater impact.

Kelsey Chow

When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.

Jane Harman

Hundreds of years of leadership and experience has walked out the door in the last year, ... and more senior people are making critical career decisions as we speak.

Judy Taylor

He was proud of what he was doing. About two weeks before he was killed, he told Marcy he was re-enlisting. He was going to be a career military man.

Rico Thompson

He was great tonight. It was a great way for him to end his career here.

Steve Payne

He's never complained or felt sorry for himself. That's been the hard part for me, having to watch him go through this. It's been an inspiration for our guys and our program to see how he's handled everything as far as being unselfish and how tough he's been.

Greg Oden

I know that's where I want to go, ... I'm not really worried about other schools or things like that. As far as signing, I just haven't talked it over with Mike or Mom yet.

Ernie Whitt

I know you are not supposed to look too far ahead, but you have to in a tournament like this.

Fred Bennett

The guys we've got replacing them (Simpson and Joseph), I think they're ready for the challenge. I think this far through the spring they've showed that they can play. I felt they've done a great job. Losing those guys was a lot, but I think we've got some great replacements.

Steve Schultze

The younger kids are following suit. It's nice that we don't have egos, and you like the idea that you have to play as a team to win. That will take you as far as you're going to go.

Rob Enderle

There will be a vastly improved user experience, particularly for the 9x users, ... It is far more stable, reliable and secure than the 9x base. Unlike Windows 95, this actually delivers on the promises.

Andy Butler

They probably haven't gone far enough, but it's a good start.

Joe Browne

It was so far down that the ... people looked really small. You could see it was completely charred.

Steve Hill

We're making this investment because Verified is not only first, but the only private provider of Registered Traveler services. So far the program has been very successful.

Tommy Lasorda

You wait till you see that Dominican team. You wait till you see Puerto Rico. You wait till you see Venezuela. . . . Matsui is a great player. The Japanese team needs him.

Ken Johnson

You really hope that he's OK. He's a great player and you never want to see a player get hurt like that.

Mike Dunne

You're a great neighbor and we all know what you're doing, and we know you're going to do this with care,

Tino Martinez

We all think it shouldn't be, because he's done such a great job here.

Eric Brock

Every guy here has great talent. Guys are just sitting around waiting for their chance. When the opportunity comes a lot of guys are ready to step in and prove themselves on a national level.

Jonathan Freeman

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.

John Lasseter

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

Jon Kyl

At 47 percent, the (estate) tax today is a great inhibitor to growth, ... and is also a business-ending event.

Seth

As I get older and I see all my friends starting to have children, I see them have different reactions to the material that was probably not of great interest to them when they were younger, because they're re-experiencing it through their kids.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Luc Robitaille

Selling L.A. is going to be easy. Phil (Anschutz, the Kings' co-owner) should offer the young guys a movie role.

Jon Heacock

Obviously, there are some guys that can help us. How soon, I don't know.

Brian Cashman

Obviously it's something that's unique and difficult. We'll lose some guys for a period of time. Hopefully they produce at high levels for those clubs, stay healthy and get back to us whenever their WBC season is over.

Brodie Croyle

Obviously, as you say, there's the top three guys that probably go in the top three picks. There's a lot of quarterbacks to be taken after that. Hey, I'm happy to be here. A year ago today, I was still recovering from a knee injury and wondering if I'd have this opportunity. I'm loving every minute of it.

Lleyton Hewitt

Obviously, all us young guys have been playing since we were six or seven years old.

Bob Stoops

No, they had most of their guys before they won the national championship.

Rocket Wheeler

Right now, it's just working squads because there's so many guys over with the big club. They're getting their at-bats in, getting their innings in. Then, in the last two or three days, we'll do the teams.

Mark Turgeon

They hit shots, and we didn't during that stretch. We had two wide-open threes and missed them both.

Rick Tacy

It seems like we're taking the hit all the way around.

Bobby Cox

Roger should have won in the low 20s this year and John should have won 18, 19 or 20.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

M. Wolfe

Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it,

Eric Lyons

Zach and Ryan really didn't have much problem with their opponents,

Kirby Copeland

This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.

John Anderson

The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine.

Matt Watson

I'm very proud of the guys. We swam very well when we could've just showed up, we showed a lot of pride.

Maria Edgeworth

Confidence is the best proof of love.