Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Meehan

They allowed it to be physical, and that's just the way it is.

Tim Craft

We really got after them on defense. That allowed us to get off to such a quick start.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

John Battelle

At the Web 2.0 Conference a year ago, we gathered to discuss the implications of the Web becoming a platform. This year, we're taking it further, focusing not just on declaring the platform, but showing where the innovation is happening and what we might expect in the coming year, ... Web 2.0 attendees will be immediately plugged into the ecosystem of the new Internet and allowed to make connections vital to their business strategy.

Jeff Bzdelik

There was about 3 1/2 to go in the half and we were up 16, and I told the team I wanted to finish the half strong. And the reverse happened. We allowed No. 21 (Utah's Shaun Green) to break loose. He was 1-for-1. We had a little discussion about that at the half. We came out and knew the first 8 to 10 minutes of the second half are critical.

John Grandoff

There's got to be quid pro quo for it. If my client is going to sacrifice his land for a park, he's got to be allowed to go up to 195 feet.

Steve Alford

There's no question text-messaging recruits is very valuable. That's something that's changed. It's amazing how rules keep changing and it seems like the rules keep trying to keep up with technology, whether it be e-mails or text messaging, but that's one thing in the rules where we're allowed to stay in pretty good contact with people.

John Tavares

There's obviously going to be attention since I'm the youngest guy in the league and the first guy allowed in under the exceptional player rule, ... I don't go into games thinking about the pressure, that everyone is watching.

Braden Looper

The trade gave me a chance to pitch and grow. In retrospect, it worked out well. It allowed me to establish myself at the major league level.

Herb Kohl

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.

Matt Thissen

San Diego isn't a hard place to want to go to school. It's a good school. Their basketball program has been down lately, but eight years ago they were a top 25 team. Their coach left to go coach her alma mater at Ohio State. I guess she decided she liked the weather better in San Diego and now she's back.

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

Bobby Cremins

I've been blessed. I got to live the American dream when I was coaching, and I continue to live the American dream. Without basketball in my life, I don't know what I would have wound up doing.

Mike Predmore

They are a great group of guys and a great group of young men. I'm not taking anything away from them as basketball players, but they really are great people. I can't say enough about them as people. In the long run, that's probably more important than anything else in life.

Todd Hansen

This is a nice win because it puts us up two games over three teams. We've been winning games, but could only get a one-game lead. Now we've got a little cushion. I thought our kids played a pretty good basketball game tonight.

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Ron Artest

That's gonna be fun, ... I love the tension. I love when everything's going wrong ... In the NBA, they don't promote guys like me. They like guys who like Cheerios, good guys. But I find a way to promote myself.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Jack McMahon

People say it's Calistoga's best team since 1992.

Ron Guidry

People say he struggled. But I'll take five guys like him who struggle. Randy is still one of the best pitchers in baseball.

Scott Kahan

People should look at this market as a great learning experience. The best learning experience of how much risk you want to take is going through a down market.

Lou Steinberg

People should know that Camille was someone who always looked out for the best interest of kids, understood the importance of shared decision making and was always willing to listen to the concerns of the community. I think the community owes her a great debt of thanks.

Mark Savage

People should be curious about what the changes will mean, and look around for the best deal.

Jerry Hunton

People reasonably would rather not have one of these next door, but we also get complaints from people who have businesses, chicken houses, all sorts of other things nearby. It's one of those growth issues we're always dealing with, and we do the best we can to solve problems as they appear.

Tom Woods

That's where toughness shows, on the defensive side of things. And I think that's exactly what happened tonight. I was real pleased with the defense, and the intensity level.

John Bliss

Our defensive pressure was a big part in the win. It kind of fueled our offense and gave us some relatively easy baskets.

Chris Richards

We're a defensive team. I think we can stop anybody.

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.

Joe Neff

That was the key play right there. He's a very good defensive pitcher, a very good all-around player.

Charlie Villanueva

That was the turning point in the game. That's definitely huge. I was struggling on the offensive end and a big defensive play made up for the offence.

Lisa Bluder

That was the difference. Our defensive intensity was there in the first half and non-existent in the second half. They just about scored at will. When somebody comes into your home floor and scores 48 points (in the second half), that's an embarrassment.

Heath Eliason

That was the difference in the game, we picked up the defensive intensity in the second half.

Mindi Winters

That was a huge thing, the defensive intensity. But I really feel like that experience with Highland the first time has matured us in a lot of ways. One thing about our season, we've had some 'necessary' failures.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Dave Moates

That's high school baseball. It's not earth-shattering. It's early in the year, too. They have to learn to pitch and play in games like this to be successful in games like this in April.

Bob Cook

We have incorporated the teachers into an early intervention team which visits all our nurseries up to twice a week.

Dana Altman

We've won some games we shouldn't. We probably lost some games we should've won. We just need to focus on getting better. If a few weeks down the line we're still in the hunt, we can talk about it later. But it's too early for our team to be talking about anything like that.

Frank Schade

Early in the year we would have been fouling in that situation. Toward the end of the year we've gone away from that.

Barry Trotz

Early in the year we were getting a lot of grief from people, saying you're playing some teams that aren't quite as strong. But they were strong teams, we just sort of got their number early.

Ramon Ortiz

Early in the year, we know what happened. I didn't feel too good. I was scared about the groin. I feel good now, and everything is working. I don't feel anything in the leg.

Richard Segal

There will be two new products next year. In the first half there will be a person-to-person skill game and in the second half there will be another more akin to casino.

Rory Sabbatini

It would be nice to get back. I haven't had as much success there as I would like, but I think my mental game is ready for it now. I'm a lot more mature.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Carlos Beltran

I've been playing the game like that since I got to the big leagues. Some people like it, some people don't. But the thing is for me to help the team, and there's nothing better than that.

Richie Benaud

I've been picking around with the game now for some time, but I've never seen anything like this -

Bill Belichick

I've been in the game for a while. I've heard 'Belichick' and 'genius' together. I've also heard 'Belichick' and 'moron' together.

Roger Clemens

I've been in a lot of wonderful playoff games, wonderful World Series games, but never anything like this. This game here was incredible.

Joe Crocco

It would have been nice to win the game, just like it is to win any game, but what's really important is our game with Jericho. That gets us up to the state tournament. That's where we want to be.

Ben Bishop

It would have been nice to get a shutout, but I would take one goal a game every game.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Jim Tressel

Antonio showed a lot of burst. I thought this was a good step for him.

Bob Combs

A number of sites have been mentioned inside the PGA Tour, and Harding would be on that list. Harding has proven itself to be a good venue for unique, significant events.

Robert Sellar

Any M&A on this scale is good news for the market. Consolidation is needed in the telecoms industry and premiums increase investor sentiment.

Kate Warne

Any little signal like this can lead people to sell first and to think about it later ... and it's partially a response to nervousness over whether the good times can continue,

Proverb Proverbs

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Dougray Scott

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

Sidney Spencer

I could tell when she took off. I was like, 'Oh, here it goes.' That was awesome. I was so excited. I couldn't even find the person I was guarding because I was so excited. I was just jumping up and down on the court. I was screaming at her.

Brick Haley

He jumps out and scares the (explicative) out of them,

Ryan Lochte

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

Tedy Bruschi

I'm not setting any because I'm sort of doing something I've never done before and that's jump into a season six, seven weeks in.

Rashean Mathis

I told Deon Grant, 'Listen, I'm going to jump it. I know the route,' ... And I told my linebacker, 'If the running back runs a wheel route, just stay with him because I'm going to jump the route.' They ran the same route and I was right.

John Muller

We are not going to jump on everyone overnight.

Lupe Fiasco

I have so many miles and I've been flying for so long that every time I fly, it's first class. It's one of those things that, if I needed to jump on a plane, and fly to Spain tomorrow, I know I could get it done. Just like that.

Dick Jauron

We are just trying to see if we can jump start and get a win somehow.

J. C. Ryle

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

Eminem

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

Mike Sherman

This is the healthiest we've been on the offensive line. We've really survived this preseason without injury, and that's been a first for us.

Steve Hutchinson

It was special. An offensive lineman doesn't really have stats for himself, so any time you can get the rushing record or a touchdown record like that it's big for us, too.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

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.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Russell Wilson

We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.

Sparky Anderson

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Slash

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

Bobby Knight

Competitive drills enhance quickness.

Jason Bacashihua

It was 1-1 going into the third. We were doing great. Then they got two quick ones and we could not recover. But we will turn this thing around.