Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Akhenaton

As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Isaac Bruce

As I've been away from South Florida, I see a lot of coaches being pacifiers to children. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. But I came up with coaches screaming and yelling in your face, telling you what to do and putting the fear in your heart if you didn't do it.

David Noel

That was a big shot for us, and then when we came out in the second half we just came out with that much more firepower, and I think that definitely put us over the hump.

Jim Thome

That was a big reason why I came here ? because of the success they had, winning it a year ago. Going to spring training and seeing the guys, how they prepare and how they go about their business, you can tell why they won it.

Pam Gainey

That was a big play; especially since it was Melton's man (James) who scored on the previous lay-up. So she kind of owed us that one, but she came through for us when it mattered.

Rashard Lewis

That's where things started wrong. Guys came in here worried about themselves instead of the team. And it never got better. Guys were worried about playing time because of their contract situation and never got into the team concept. You could see it in guys' faces.

Jeff Phillips

That's where the title came from. He still had things to say. It just wasn't in God's plan to say it in person.

Luis Valdez

Raines came in and gave us a big spark and presence in the inside.

Jerry Butler

The seniors here are about pushing you and motivating you to get better. They're not about, 'You're a freshman trying to take my job.' If you can play, they're going to push you to get better. Right now, I'm learning and they're helping.

Rudy Morrow

After my freshman year when I got the gold in the 200 I was really excited. The 100 was a little too short for me.

Kenton Paulino

I don't think of him as a freshman anymore. To come in and play like he did in a game like this shows how mature he is.

Scott Touchette

We have a lot of good freshman athletes.

Reed Goldsmith

I think they really stepped up and played well. They were competitive and played hard. At times they made some freshman mistakes, but that's OK.

John Beilein

It's very, very impressive right now for a freshman playing in that type of pressure situation.

Diane Laffey

You don't get a kid like this one too often. She's worked hard from day one (her freshman year).

Lindsay Bowen

It's a tough race, but, I don't know, I like it. I never ran the 400 until my freshman year in high school but I'm pretty good at it and I like it.

Brian Kolze

It was the first month of her freshman year. When someone can do that, I knew it could be something special, and so did our team.

Svetlana khorkina

I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!

Shawn Johnson

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

Shawn Johnson

I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!

Shawn Johnson

I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.

Nolan Gerard Funk

I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.

William Feather

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

Olga Korbut

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

Shannon Miller

So if you think being thin is enough to succeed in gymnastics, you're wrong.

Francois Fenelon

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

Massimo Moratti

I wouldn't say that we are in pole position but we are in position.

Brant Sponberg

That's really the long pole in the tent.

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Charles Darwin

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Brendon Burchard

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Mike Schroeder

At this point, they're not supporting an alternative. They simply have no reason to care.

Brett Gardner

I never go up there trying to hit a home run

Brett Favre

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Barbara Jordan

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

Barbara Jordan

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

Ashton Eaton

I always liked running as a kid. You know how eating chocolate or ice cream makes you feel good? That's the same way that running and competing makes me feel.

Baruch Spinoza

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Bruce Dern

Track and field has always interested me.

Deepak Chopra

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

John Norris

Everything is on track and going very well.

Claude Chabrol

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Albert Einstein

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

Suze Orman

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

Tim Lincecum

I'm focused on myself and on what I've got to do...I'm just trying to get back on track and keep this positive mindset.

Vince Clarke

I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

Usain Bolt

The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all