Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Taylor

We talked about getting better in practice from day one. They bought into it and we never looked past anyone.

Steve Stirling

I'm very impressed. I can't emphasize enough that the top players bought into the system. Obviously, they're playing hard, obviously, they're playing well. And that sets the precedent for the younger kids.

Dennis Felton

I never had any doubt that the league would continue to be very, very strong. I said the league would be a little unpredictable, and it's playing out just that way, but I knew it'd be very strong because we have so much talent in the conference and such good coaching. I never bought into the idea that it'd be a down year.

Matt Evans

I never really got more than a few feet off the water. This was the first time that I tried to fly it by myself. I took a few lessons in Canada when I bought it.

Charles Gray

I know the state has bought a lot of land over the years, and I feel they should open some of that up to hunters.

Dan Castellaneta

I know what you're saying, Bart. When I was young, I wanted an electric football machine more than anything else in the world, and my parents bought it for me, and it was the happiest day of my life. Well, goodnight.

Rena Sofer

I knew my boyfriend was going to ask me to marry him. And I was sure the ring was going to be exceptional, and I bought him a Rolex Explorer. And I engraved 'yes' on it. And when he proposed, I gave him the watch.

Paul Stoddart

I leave Minardi in a lot healthier state than when I bought it in 2000.

Jen Lancaster

I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, 'I'm going to glitter some pumpkins!' No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing.

Bill Cowher

I've been waiting a long time to do this. This is yours, man. This is special group of coaches, a special group of players and I was a small part.

Ira Zuckerman

You're one person and I could have a group of loans that will go to that bank.

Troy Davis

It was like unbelievable. There were so many holes. I love this line. They are a big group of lovely people, really.

Wendy Lawrence

I've got a very willing group of pack mules here.

Bob Cramer

Nothing has been done for the lake for a long time. It's going to be a group effort.

Stacey Houtary

It was a group effort. There's three of us.

G. H. Hardy

It's the first time I've seen a radio group and premier Internet property get together and look at ways to share and leverage content.

Bill Cowher

It's a loose group of guys. They know when to turn it on and off. That's the way it's been all year.

Mike Butters

Its always hard to repeat. But I think we have the group of guys to do it. We wanted to get out of Eugene with a split and we did. Now we get to come home and play on our ice.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

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.

Margaret Spellings

We don't want to write off this school year academically for these kids, and shouldn't, at least not yet.

Sue Grinnell

We don't want to scare people, but we do want any kids with this to get treated and not come to school Monday and infect others.

Dave Tanner

You have to support that, but the kids were in tears over that.

Lim Coats

You have to stay on them all the time. The peer pressure out there is rough. It's not like when I was a kid, or even when my kids were kids.

Craig Thompson

You get outside, let the kids ride all the rides, see all the different people.

John Edward

You find other people who have kids in the military, and it's like a grapevine,

Mike Dubbelde

Every time we have a lacrosse match, another two or three kids come up and want to play. As long as we keep playing the games, we'll keep growing.

Roscoe Googe

Everything went just as expected. We qualified a lot of people for state. A lot of our kids did what they were supposed to do.

John Green

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

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.

Cindy Klassen

I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Over the past 16 days we've had some outstanding performances by Canadian athletes and it is truly overwhelming to be selected as the flag bearer amidst the most successful Canadian Olympic Winter Games team ever.

Cindy Gallop

When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.

Alfie Kohn

Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

Amnat Ruenroeng

I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team.

Amitabh Bachchan

The Indian team does not need any best wishes - they are going to win anyway. I have been close to Sourav Ganguly, and I hope he does well in the World Cup.

Andy Stanley

Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

Andy Stanley

Leaders who carry unresolved guilt are forced to hide a part of themselves from those to whom they are closest. They have a secret. They are forced to expend time and energy to ensure that no one finds them out. They know they are not completely trustworthy. Often they assume no one else is either. Guilty leaders have a difficult time trusting. Consequently, guilty leaders have a difficult time building teams.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Tallulah Bankhead

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

Tom Petty

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

Simone de Beauvoir

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

Rene Auberjonois

The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.

Roger Miller

Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

Thomas Menino

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Thomas Carlyle

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.