Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Jones

I was lucky to get a couple by him. Because he's a pretty deadly hitter.

Max von Sydow

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.

Shawn Chacon

I wouldn't say I needed it desperately. But after struggling the first couple of times you put more pressure on yourself.

Billy Beane

Kenny called me a couple days ago in Phoenix, ... He gave me a call.It took a lot for him to pick up the phone.

Dwyane Wade

Just the right place at the right time. Some nights are like that. I was able to get in a couple passing lanes and get some picks, but for the most part, it was just being in the right place at the right time.

Chuck Grant

Jon pitched a very good game, but there were two innings when we gave them five outs. We're a pretty young team, and we were missing a couple of players today, but that's no excuse for mental errors. We have to improve in that area, and it's my job to see that we do.

Mary Roach

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

Patrick Sweeney

I think it can use a little more upgrading -- a couple more stores, a few more restaurants, things of that nature.

Flip Saunders

I think I recall that we lost our last couple games in the exhibition season, and we got off to a pretty good start with the regular season. These guys have been there. They know that this is when it all begins.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Ian Thorpe

I think I should retire after the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Mark LeRose

He keeps us in games. He's really stepped up recently and made a statement.

Don Mattingly

He's a tough little kid, there's a lot to like. These games down the stretch are hard to win.

Ross Jones

He should have won 12 games for us last season.

Cody Robbins

He's got 50-something varsity games under his belt. He's seen a lot of quality varsity pitching.

Chris Young

I think it's great. It looks as if I will be able to host all my home games up to Nov. 11 without there being a complicating issue.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Roy Blunt

I think we'll have the votes next week,

Robert Froehlich

I think we could be in for some very rough sledding over the next day or two.

Yorvit Torrealba

I was in one big rush, that's probably why I'm taking so long. I should have just taken my time in Spring Training and I'd probably be ready now. I want to be out there. I wanted to throw more today, but we're going step by step.

Mitch Gilfillan

It all starts Sunday. Trust me, we'll be ready to go.

Sasha Cohen

It can be frustrating, ... But I am where I am, and everyone has their own trajectory. I know my time will come. I just have to be ready for it.

Mike Greene

Hamburg?s not going to show us anything we haven?t seen. I think we?re well-seasoned and ready for anything that can be thrown at us.

Barry Alvarez

He runs through a lot of tackles. He's a very strong runner. You're not going to arm-tackle him. You'd better be ready to gang-tackle him.

Terry Hill

He said he was ready to come home.

Mark Headley

He's always going to be well-prepared mentally. He's not a big talker, but he's always ready to play.

Thor Hushovd

It is about getting ready for Madrid. But for sure I will try to get a stage here first.

Mike Madden

We (thought we) were about ready to watch a train wreck.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Robert Smith

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Richardson

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.