Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Cody Vanderford

People challenged him and he stepped up to the challenge. He solidified himself as one of the best corners in the area.

Sidney Crosby

People can speculate that for sure, and why not? ... I haven't played in the NHL and only played (24) games in junior so there are going to people who speculate. There will always be people who doubt me and want to see me fail and every time I step on the ice it is my job to prove people wrong. In the cases where they like the way I play it is to prove them right. I just want to go out there every game and do my best and let people form their opinions.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Stephen Jackson

People don't understand that a lot of stuff he's done and the reason he plays so hard and is so hungry is because he wants to be great. I think a lot of time Ron gets frustrated because he knows he's better than what he's been playing. He wants to be the best player in the game. That's what drives him, that's what motivates him.

Jim Lefebvre

People don't expect much from us, but the most important thing is to go out and play hard and enjoy the experience. This is the first time our players have been on the field with such experienced players. You just go out and do the best you can.

Craig Bellamy

People forget Scott was close to our best and most consistent player at the start of the year and we just need him to get back to that,

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Alaina Huffman

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

Walter Rodgers

This is a terribly closely contested election in a very tough campaign.

Rick Comley

This is a team that's needed validation and it's earning respect. It's all very encouraging. I don't think we've come close to peaking yet. We can get better.

Howard Rogers

This is a sport a lot of kids have taken to. They may not be playing other sports. It gives close to 100 kids something to do between the hours of 4-6 when they could be doing who knows what. Why not vote for it?

Geno Auriemma

This is the game that puts you in the Final Four. To come this close and not win and have to come back and wait 12 months and be lucky enough to do it again, it's unbearable.

Henry Tang

This is the first time that Hong Kong films have been selected to close and open one of the major film festivals in Europe,

Stephen Hess

This is not a full-fledged mea culpa. But by presidential standards, it's there, or pretty close to it, ... The government did screw up, and he is president of the United States.

Chris Smith

You have to have that consistent effort ... to win the game, period.

Bill Bavasi

This was a pretty high priority for us in the off-season. The signing for us is terrific because there's so few real quality left or switch-hitters that can operate in the middle of the lineup and be as consistent as Raul. We wanted to lock him up.

Chris Petersen

We talked last year about him taking the next step there, and that didn't happen for whatever reason where we wanted him to. Did he get better? He did. He got better on occasion, but he wasn't the consistent guy that we needed.

J. J. Johnson

I think just having a good, consistent product and being locally owned has helped.

Scott Parker

Derek is getting and converting a lot of good shots. We need to find another consistent scorer.

Probably the saddest thing you'll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend.

James Gray

The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.

Jason Michaels

We had to forget about last night. Last night was last night.

Andy Goldsworthy

We often forget that we are nature...

Alice Englert

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

Sylvia Plath

They would grow old. They would forget me.

Johnny Damon

We have to try and forget this as quick as we can. This is a devastating loss.

Ashley Josephson

I just try to forget about what happened in the first half. And then it's a new 20 minutes. You just have to go out there with a fresh mind and stroke the ball.

Enrique Pena Nieto

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Mike Davidson

People do not understand how powerful that water is.

Doug Flynn

People do feel better about investing. But they are still very skeptical about the recovery and their expectations are way down.

Peter Thiel

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

David Green

People are walking all over town just going crazy. I've never seen it like this before.

Ahmed Ali

People are very, very provoked, ... They are boiling.

Richard C. Armitage

People get to know me slowly and over the course of time. I'll probably still be a newcomer when I'm 60.

Jennifer Smoter

People did need ample time to be able to transition to an alternative therapy.

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.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Mark Recchi

Hopefully, it's a starting point. That's what we have to look for right now. We're getting better.

Charles Davis

That was his first start and he was sharp.

David Barber

I wish we would have started 50 years ago, but to not start now would be a real tragedy.

Shea Hillenbrand

Without A.J. and without our team on all cylinders, you really can't get a gist of what's going on. You can start off hot, you can start off slow, it's going to take a while to see how everything goes.

Kim Evans

We'll try to get our jitters out and start getting it together for league,

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.