Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ron Lievense

The thing that we did well was make the extra pass. I thought we were crisp. We really had great ball movement and penetrated their zone well. We took two steps forward in those areas.

Drew Bledsoe

The thing I liked best about our offense tonight is that we finally got out of our own way, ... We were making mistakes, but not because the defense was forcing us to do it. When we run the ball like we did tonight, we're going to be good offensively.

Mike Patterson

The thing I have to worry about the most is getting off the ball. It's important for me to get off the ball as fast as possible to make plays.

Mike Sevier

The thing about Josh is he does not beat himself. He throws strikes, he moves the ball in and out. If you try to go yard on him, he's got you. He does a very good job. He doesn't walk anybody.

Jim Jarrett

The thing about it is we could have easily won three out of the four. Our defense just let us down the first three ball games. This is really the first time all year this has happened. I really think it was our guys tried to hard wanting to win. You can't play baseball like that. Our guys finally relaxed and played pretty good baseball.

Howard White

The thing about a kid like that is his presence is felt. If you don't give him ball fakes he's going to block it. The thing I like about him is he goes and gets it. It wasn't that our kids were intimidated by him. It's his presence.

Jose Oquendo

The things that I know from watching him in Milwaukee and Arizona, the thing we're going to work on is to charge harder. He kind of plays deep a little bit. He has tremendous range and a tremendous arm. Sometimes he has to charge the ball more and not lay back.

Rodney Harrison

I've never been around anything like it. We'd stop 'em, three and out. Then Ryan Leaf and our offense would give 'em the ball back on the first play, so we'd go out and hold them, three and out, again. We never let up.

Jake Krause

It's great. These seniors have bought in to what I've brought since day one and this just validates their effort and how hard they've worked to get here. It puts a stamp on the program.

Michael Hutchison

It was kind of the consensus that the stock would be bought out for as much as $30. It seems in line with expectations.

Thomas Vinje

The meaningfulness of the 2004 ruling is at stake here. So far no one has bought a license to see Microsoft's technical documentation. There is a danger that this side of the case could be rendered meaningless.

Annie Leibovitz

I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.

David Edwards

When at my heaviest, I wore 48-inch waist pants. I bought 32-inch slacks I'm planning on wearing this weekend at my son's graduation with the Marines.

Zubin Mehta

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

Nick Mason

The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today.

Britt Beemer

Today, only about one-third of holiday purchases are returned as compared to just four years ago, ... Returns are very expensive for retailers because they have to retag the item and mark down the price. If I bought something for $29 and return it, store may have to cut the price to as low as $14 before restocking it.

Wynter Gordon

I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.

Alan Nicholl

Twenty-some shots is a tremendous game, offensively. For them not to score a goal, you have to hand it back to our kids; they put up such a great defensive effort.

Shaun McGinn

Song is making a very good impression so far. He's got a fastball, curveball and throws a changeup, but his split-finger is a true out pitch. He's got very good numbers.

Duncan Hunter

So my point is, you can have a good reform, but in doing that, you don't want to hurt the troops that are in the field.

Norm MacDonald

So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

Joe Tiller

Some years the schedule rolls your way and some years it doesn't. There are a lot of very good teams in the conference, so I don't think you can make any assumptions about any teams.

Don Norton

Some years it probably would because you're hit with a lot of injuries. Some years, it's probably not so good because you don't want to (break) your routine.

Jim Bates

Sometimes when you want inside push we'll use Grady. He's been a good pass-rusher in his career.

Mike Redmond

Sometimes I laugh when we talk. I'm 13 years older than he is. He's got a great grasp for what's going on out there. I don't think I've ever talked to a 22-year-old kid with as much of a good idea as he has.

John Adair

Teamwork is no accident.It is the by-product of good leadership.

Mike Devaney

Teams will give us a really good shot because we have a target on our back.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Andy Kindler

Maybe Bill Maher should just practice his monologue a few times before the show, so he wouldn't find it so hilarious. But I kid the asshole.

Andy Murray

I try to anticipate the ball well. That's something that's helped me since when I was a kid. Just learning to anticipate and read the game well. That's helped me. When I moved over to Spain and I was 15 I was playing with big guys who were 22 years to 28 years old and I was 15 so I couldn't beat them with power. I had to beat them with touch shots and variety and anticipation and all of those things. I learned a lot when I was over there.

Andrew Dice Clay

There was an old lady who lived in a shoe. She had so many kids... her uterus fell out!

Anthony Hopkins

I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.

Anthony Hopkins

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

Anthony Hopkins

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

Alison Bechdel

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

Alicia Keys

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Eric Hoffer

Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

Diana Peters

It was a wonderful, wonderful sense of pride for us to work there.

Alan Paton

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

Chogyam Trungpa

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

William Shakespeare

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

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.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Johnny Giles

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

Michael Jordan

I can remember a game, we were down with about 5 to 10 points, I go off about 25 points, we come back and win the game, we're walking off the floor. Tex (Winter) looks at me and says "There's no "I" in team!" I looked at Tex and say, "There's not, but there's an 'I' in win!

Cathy Martin

She tends to take the team on her back. The team relies on her to lead.

Jim Harbaugh

I love people, I really do. I'm a people person. I think that's a strength of mine. I love being around people, especially in a team setting.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I love being part of the team.

Gary Neville

When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team. (on Manchester United)

Jack Brickhouse

Any team can have a bad century.

Jay Leno

A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.