Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bud Lachel

Competition is a good thing to have, but you have to keep everybody happy.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Abdoulaye Sarr

The three points will serve us really well for the rest of the competition. The road is long but it's clearer.

Colin Croft

The thinking therefore could only have been that Lara will somehow reunite the team and the region in less than a year, with approximately 20 one-day games to play before the competition starts.

Eddie Jordan

The thing that stood out to me is that Andray seems to have an excellent feel for the game, ... He passes well, he defends well, he can step out and shoot the ball. He competes on the glass. He doesn't back down on the defensive end. Those are the kinds of things you like to see from a young player getting his first taste of competition at this level.

Mauli'a LaBarre

The thing in men's volleyball is the competition is so tight. You only have so many programs. You don't have one or two good players on every team. You've got six or seven good players on every team. You've got to be focused or you'll be in trouble. That's a lesson we learned in (Friday's) match.

Mike May

The thing about winter sports that will always restrict participation and competition opportunities is weather. It's tough to go snow skiing in San Diego. Another problem is that there are only so many places you can do some of these things.

Jim Pattison

I've always believed that competition is good for consumers and good for businesses.

John Hurt

I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Whitney Frament

After the first or second time (Rookie of the Week), teams started to realize what I could do. Some games I didn't score as much, so I had to have assists and rebound more.

Curt Smith

Again, we gave up a run in the first inning. That's three games in a row we gave up a run in the first. Hopefully, that won't happen (today).

Gao Zhidan

The National Games is a warm-up for the 2008 Olympics. A good result at the 2008 Olympics is our ultimate goal.

Warren Spector

Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

Clint Dempsey

The more games you get, obviously the more comfortable you get. When he's scoring goals like he did, that lets you know he is comfortable.

Vince Carter

The more games we let slip away, we're letting other teams have a chance. It's important for us to be who we are and win. It doesn't matter how ugly or how lucky we are.

Rich Brooks

The momentum will really get going when we start winning games. I think we've turned the corner, but we've got to get to the straightaway and accelerate.

Red Berenson

(The momentum) gives them the advantage. Their team is in sync, especially after giving up one goal in two games last weekend (against Alaska-Fairbanks). They are much better than they were at the start of the year, when they had all of those injuries.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Leslie Fiedler

The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Felipe Alou

Sometimes, ... you have to take less to get more.

Penny Bartley

Sometimes they will return because they have been successful at that place. They feel less risk.

Francis Borrego

Right now, we are playing with less than two-thirds of the team.

Sarah Clarke

There are more than 786,000 uninsured people in the state of Maryland, and less than one-half of 1 percent works for Wal-Mart.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Amber Tamblyn

Being a performer myself I can understand that, but I think that poetry, for me, might be less about the performance and more about the words.

James Cabell

There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted

Craig Drury

The teams in our region know he is a shooter, but I don't know if the teams up here do.

Tim Beck

This doesn't take away from us winning the region title.

Carlos Gutierrez

only then will the region be truly reborn.

Saddam Hussein

for the sake of their own people, for the region and for world order.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Lyle Mangum

Region 4 is tough. I think Region 1 is the toughest, but Region 4 is right after. I think our wrestlers have fared well.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.

Herman Frazier

For the most part, they have really been our bank. They have been the ones to step up and support us when we somehow get to downfalls.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Brett Eldredge

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

Brett Ratner

You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.

Brett Ratner

I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.

Brett Favre

I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.

Brandon Routh

As I said before, I'm prepared to be prepared and I think that remains the same, you know there's no way to really know what it's going to feel like. I think for each individual it's different.

Brandon Routh

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.

Brandon Sanderson

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

Ben Mendelsohn

Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.