Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liz Nichols

We are unable to set a target at this point. UK Sport's ultimate goal is to finish fourth in the 2012 Olympic medal table, finishing as top European nation, and retain our second place in the Paralympics, whilst aiming for the top spot.

Diana Wynne Jones

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.

Rick Stockstill

As far as the class, I'm not one to stand up here and talk about this guy and that guy and say, 'We beat this team or we beat that team on a player.' That's just not my style. We are excited about this class. I think the big thing in it is what I have said since I've been here, which is I want to surround myself with winners.

Jim Calhoun

A No. 16 seed is going to beat a No. 1. The gap is closing.

James Blake

Any of the top 100 guys in the world can beat any of the top 10 guys on a given day,

Rick Allen

So, we decided, if you can't beat 'em, just join 'em.

Jerry Smith

South Fork also only has three losses, but we beat them head-to-head.

Lewis Carroll

Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.

Lewis Carroll

Speak roughly to your little boy, / And beat him when he sneezes: / He only does it to annoy, / Because he knows it teases.

Rod Laver

Speaking about Roger Federer: "The best way to beat him would be to hit him over the head with a racquet.

Danica Patrick

So you're telling me that Jaques is saying he got beat up by a girl?

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Geir Braathen

The size of this year's ozone hole is approaching an all-time high, but it will probably not break any records.

Jim Ellis

Temperature will make or break you, and it broke us this year. This is the worst I have seen it for the hot water.

Michael Huff

Sometimes he'd break into the open field, he'd try to give you a move and try to make you look bad, so it got intense. But if we hit Vince, we probably wouldn't play that Saturday. So we had to back off. Stay away.

Austin Corson

Sometimes I would race in two races, get a one race break and get back on for the next race. After that third race I would collapse when I got off my sled.

Craig Wilson

It would be nice if it was a true day off. Unfortunately, we have to travel on it. But it will be good to have the mental break more than anything else.

Jeff Cooley

I typically just try to break them into the concept of club Scrabble as opposed to family Scrabble.

Juran Bolden

It was unfortunate that I couldn't pick it. But I got a nice little break up and 'Bad Hands Will' caught it.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Ryan Ward

We might be related, but it's very distant.

E. B. White

And you can use the time as you want. You could say, 'I need you to go pick up a prescription for me,' and that might take up 15 minutes of your time allotment.

Jim Calhoun

This weekend might be like a root canal.

Les Miles

This team (LSU) might be the worst team to play if you're the next team,

Sam Perry

You do see that a lot. People being overly nice because they are worried you might think they are racist.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

Rastislav Spirko

We don't have any more time for some losses. We know where we are. We want to get to the national tournament and play here.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Beck

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Rita Ora

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

Gary Bauer

I have a 25-year record on the sanctity of life. I'm not a Johnny-come-lately like Mr. Forbes.

Gwen Stefani

Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.

Thomas Morgan

He set the school record for the most receptions in a season.

Matt Paxton

He set it Tuesday and he re-set it tonight. The record had been standing since 1983.

Kyle Gilchrist

I didn't (expect to be 44-0). I just wanted to go to state. The record was never a concern.

Bert McCracken

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy