Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saina Nehwal

Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.

Howard Bach

Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.

Taufik Hidayat

I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.

Chris Olson

Currently programs are getting 1? hours to practice at West, which will not include inside space for girls soccer. Practices will finish around 10 p.m. We will be moving all volleyball games and badminton matches to the West Campus.

Chris Olson

Currently programs are getting 1½ hours to practice at West, which will not include inside space for girls soccer. Practices will finish around 10 p.m. We will be moving all volleyball games and badminton matches to the West Campus.

Arthur Schwartz

We are thrilled to have Wilson participate in this prestigious event. The Boston Open is recognized in badminton for its top player draw and high quality competition, and represents a great opportunity for Wilson to expand its reach in the sport.

Saina Nehwal

Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.

Saina Nehwal

I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.

Saina Nehwal

Badminton will gain momentum in a big manner after my win in Olympics. More players will participate in the game now.

Ken Hill

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Seth Shostak

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.

Dick Cheney

To date, that hasn't happened, and therefore has been no meeting currently scheduled.

Stella Young

I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

Peter Davis

Relevance to Alzheimer's? I don't know, ... It's a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer's is currently obscure.

John Hahn

Our organizations currently provide the majority of the security details required during events at our venues.

Richard Wilson

If there's a frustration about the Rosebud season this year, it's that there's not enough Friday nights to screen all the good stuff that's currently available.

J. Taylor

We are currently two hundred thousand dollars over goal for the Meyer wellness center.

Brian Jones

We are currently over the Sahara Desert. We are positioning ourselves to enter the Gulf Stream.

Wayne Taylor

Kevin was a good friend to me. After his death, and seeing his little boy, I got to thinking ? I'm going to do it. Kevin started that house three years ago, and we joked with him about having to finish it for him. Then this happened.

Ryan Hollins

Knowing it could be your last game, you want to finish with no regrets in your mind. There is no could have done this, or could have done that. This is something I am not taking for granted.

Brent Newman

Jake was trailing most of that race. He finished super strong and just out-touched the other two.

Mark Harris

just long enough to finish his training at the academy.

Chris Bryant

I think it could've been better. We've got to finish and we've got to find people to step up who can finish.

Teri Hatcher

I actually thought 'Desperate Housewives' finished very well. I just think there's still stories to be told. I feel like I get that from fans that they weren't done watching those people's lives.

Nancy Karl

He was about 95 percent finished when he died,

Casey Schweitzer

He didn't place and finished 3-2. He was a little disgusted, frustrated with his performance. He thought he could place.

Florence Mumba

He just got to finish the race, you can see the finish line and I think Zambians will never forgive him if he did not finish. We have people who have sacrificed their lives to support us.

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.

Brian Dawkins

We've been through so much before as a team, all those big games that we have lost and the way that we have been able to rebound,

Ian Livingstone

I thought there was going to be a limit to paper and pencil games and I really wanted to get into the next medium,

Sam Huff

I thought they might win 10 games last year. If they win 10 games this year, I think it would be a hell of a successful season. Right now I think Joe Gibbs would settle for 10. Who wouldn't?

Ed Pultz

I thought that was one of her better games at managing the game. She played under control, rebounded and played pretty good defense.

Lynda Carter

I was also happy to see girls represented in this superhero thing all the way through,

Jesper Parnevik

He could be the next Casanova superstar on tour. The girls love him. He's fresh, has a lot of charisma, and he's fun.

Jim Sheehan

This was a good win. I am really pleased the girls played as well as they did.

Javier Ramirez

What we worked on this summer was our vertical. I don't have great size. But these girls can get off the ground.

Julie Klausner

Here is how you meet women: You tell the girls you are friends with - the ones in relationships - that you want a girlfriend. You shouldn't even have to say 'Set me up' or 'Introduce me!' If they're good girls, they'll get the hint.

Sasha Cohen

I think it's hard for the girls here and everyone who's worked so hard to make the Olympic team.

Todd Borrison

I thought when their guards penetrated and got good shots, our big girls made the shots tough one them and that made the big difference.

Dallas Richter

We surprised a lot of people. It's starting to sink in with the girls and the community. The town is abuzz.

Andy Scott

We threw it into high gear. The girls played with passion.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Steve Earle

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

Annelise Hoffman

I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

John Tracy

Well, you should be, ... You've been saying 'Yes' for three hours straight.

Maxwell Anderson

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

Jennifer Johnson

I don't have time to spend hours looking for just the right things at a mall. I think I've been to a mall three times in the past year.

Lloyd Johnston

It is possible that some students know what drugs are and are not included in the tests, and migrate toward using those not included.

Charlie Higley

I agree, that since this has come up, it would have been appropriate to include more disclosure.

Tara VanDerveer

Ideally, I'd like to have an eight-or-nine player rotation, and I'd like to include another perimeter contributor.

Julian Fellowes

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile.

Ali Larijani

I want to say that the process of enrichment is the sovereign right of any country. You should not take away this right from nations which have a peaceful nuclear program, which consequently, includes also enrichment.

Barry McCaffrey

The medical, scientific process is open to any drug. That includes marijuana. But you have to get through a process and demonstrate scientific validity. And in this case, to be honest, I think it's nonsense. This is mostly a 'Cheech and Chong' show for the quasi-legalization of marijuana.

Bill Snyder

I told them just to include the really special runs, not the mundane ones. Well, there's over 200 snaps on there.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

Charles Kingsley

He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.

Scott Pruett

He just dived on the inside and used me to stop.

Bruiser Flint

He's a big kid who can score inside and outside and can rebound the ball. He can post you up. That's the tough thing about him.

Randy Moore

I thought we executed in every aspect, inside and out. We had a total package and made this happen.

Wolfgang Nowak

I think that Merkel has solved the principal unsolvable problems inside her own party. The problem for her now is the Social Democrats.

Cassie Schrock

I was just looking to penetrate every time. My teammates kept looking for me inside and my shot was just falling.

Leon Powe

I was just having fun. We were here at Staples, so I wanted to come out hard. If I can get something going inside for my team, that sets them up on offense.

Lewis Witcher

I was kind of shocked they did that, but that's OK though. Let them come in. They're not going to get too much inside when I'm in there.

Ken Hitchcock

We maybe had three inside shots in the third period. We had kind of wild turnaround shots. We didn't have any presence with shots at the net. We were one shot at the net and gone.

Alan Deal

There are other shooting matches open to the public.

Zinedine Zidane

It's promising for the future. The important matches are coming.

Dave Hohenthal

It was just nice to get some competitive matches played, get some nerves out of the way, and get the season started.

Brandon Kendzierski

It seems like whenever we wrestle, somebody wins by one point. And I think that's why our matches are so good, so intense. We know it's going to be close.

Thomas Doll

It's the worst thing when something like that happens. We're missing the one or two percent we need to win matches like we did in the first half.

Gary Parker

It is very frustrating. That's two matches which were there for the winning.

Zinedine Zidane

It was an exceptional game, like we had in 2000 with Portugal and Italy, ... In these two matches we managed to reverse the trend, and we did it again.

Kevin Pietersen

These days you can play almost 100 Test matches in six years.

Mark Johnson

Whenever you win two Big Ten matches on the road, no matter who it is you're up against, you have to feel pretty good.

Joseph Allen

God's timing in moving me down here was perfect,

S. Walker

Today I said, 'I'm not moving my truck'. I said, 'Ask one of the neighbors. I'm not moving my truck'.

John Graves

I think we're moving toward that as the norm.

Bill Hall

When he comes back, I'll start moving around if need be.

Carl Jung

Soundlessly whispering into the void, my lips moving quickly, silently, without ceasing. Calling his name, calling him to me. Even though there's no use. Even though it's futile. Even though it's way past too late.

Carl Jung

The only reason I lost, the only reason I failed to get what I want, is because the monster is me, there's no difference between us. It makes all the moves, calls all the shots, while I'm just along for the ride, with no idea how to pull the brakes or get off.

Carl Jung

And just as I start to move past him, my hip accidentally rubs against his, and his face is so close, and his eyes so deep, that I can't help but lift my fingers to his smooth, sculptured cheek. Then without even thinking, I close my eyes, lean in, and kiss him.

Alan Black

This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.

Two Chainz

The independent route was the best move for me. But I think I've maximized everything I could do independently. I've done everything out the mixtape market. I think getting the big machine behind you is the next stage when you've maximized the independent level.

Todd France

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Daisuke Takahashi

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Confucius

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Robert E. Lee

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Robert Neelly Bellah

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Samuel Johnson

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Samuel Johnson

Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.

Mike Goforth

It's one of the two or three worst spring practices (for injuries) I can remember.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Jon Zofkie

By scheduling the tougher tournaments that we go to, the coaching, conditioning and practices that we have.

Caroline Brown

In the programs we've run before, I would say that more than 75% of the participants have NOT truly been in this at-risk category.

Ray Tanner

I like it the other way; I like the stability. But there are a lot of teams that make changes. There are many very successful programs that don't always stick with their rotation.

Thomas Burke

That's $200,000 in drug programs that won't get funded,

Tom Brookes

It will be similar to the licensing programs in the U.S..

Susan Hayward

It's for the public, it's year round, and it's also for the schools because we're going to re-establish our school programs and all our outreach programs.

Greg Allen

They're two programs that don't seem to have hiccups.

Evan Depew

They're starting to make programs that can show everyone your cards, if one guy's winning a whole lot get out of it.

Brian Postol

There's a long way to go for these guys, but I think their programs are the right ones.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Ed Wade

I think we need some space at this point,

Geoffrey Canada

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

Jack Berry

Hopefully, we'll be able to backfill that space.

Josh Smith

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

Robert Crippen

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

Robert Crippen

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Rebecca West

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Rick James

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

William S. Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.

Ursula Burns

You don’t have to be at every volleyball game. We can’t guilt ourselves.

Will Rogers

We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.

Vince Lombardi

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

Jose Mourinho

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

Jose Mourinho

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

Emo Philips

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.

Kerri Walsh

To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.

Nicholas Sparks

I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.

Bear Bryant

There's no substitute for guts.

Samuel P. Huntington

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

Whittaker Chambers

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

Zhang Yimou

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

Mahatma Gandhi

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Eric Lefkofsky

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Leona Lewis

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

Peter Jackson

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

Ramakrishna

If you want to go east, don't go west.

Jung Chang

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.