Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bowden

We've got 119 I-A schools. Out of 119 of us, I'll bet you 100 are fighting an attrition battle. You've probably got 19 lucky teams. Boy, they're lucky. They've kept their offensive line healthy all year, they've kept their running backs healthy, and they're probably playing for Southern Cal and Texas.

Robert Redford

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

David Harris

People who you call friends turn their backs on you,

Yossi Beilin

But it doesn't mean if, God forbid, this opportunity is missed that we have to turn our backs to each other and say, 'Alas, there's no peace between us,'

The Vikings

He's just a very natural runner, ... He doesn't have Bennett's breakaway speed, but few backs do. We know this much: He's the most physically talented running back on the roster. He just doesn't have Michael's speed. But if he can come in here and handle the load, he's got a pretty shot to be our No. 1 back this season.

Gregg Williams

He's one of those rare backs that has the patience, speed and power-the whole package-put together. We're going to have to do a good job of tackling and swarming the ball carrier because he's not a guy that's easy to bring down in one-on-one situations.

Jerry Allen

He's one of those backs that can go the distance on any play. You may hit him six times in a row in the backfield, but on that seventh time he can score.

Jerry Allen

He's one of those backs that can go the distance on any play, ... You may hit him six times in a row in the backfield, but on that seventh time he can score.

Ben Roethlisberger

My job is to lead this team, ... We knew it was going to be a battle and a challenge. We made some mistakes, but we had each other's backs when we need to have it and pulled through.

Jeremiah Trotter

These next three weeks are going to tell the tale of this team. It's imperative that we go down there to Washington and get this win. We lost our first game in the division to the Cowboys, so this is a must-win. A must, must-win.

Richard Engel

The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

Carl Crawford

We all want to be measured up in this division and see where we stand. We'll have a good idea after this road trip.

Chris Terry

This was a big division win for us. Brandy pitched very well.

Rob Kurz

There's only 105 teams in Division I still playing. We're fortunate to be one of them, and we really want to end the year on a positive note.

B. R. Ambedkar

Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

Gina Talamona

The antitrust division is looking into the possibility of anticompetitive practices in the music download industry.

Thomas Penfield

Microsoft, of course, did not progress as well as some because it did have that problem with the antitrust division with the Justice Department,

Ben Voogd

I worked extremely hard for this moment. So many people doubted me playing Division I basketball. People have told me I can't do that, I can't do this. And that's pushed me my whole life. To be a part of this is just amazing.

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.

Max Cleland

Deployments have increased some 300 percent, and the military has been decreased by a third: Hello, good morning -- you can't keep that up forever, ... Sooner or later you're going to get people stressed out, spread too thin around the world, and they just won't put up with it anymore.

John Feehery

Denny is good at picking up the pieces. He is a very soothing influence. At the end of the day, I think people will be looking to Denny for leadership.

Bill Walsh

Dennis Green is as good as they get,

Randy Martin

DeMorius had a good night and Markie had some good, tough runs on second effort.

Thomas Carlyle

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Chris Ault

That Virden keeps showing up. He has done a very nice job. He might be the most improved secondary guy we have got.

Charles Barkley

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

Craig Counsell

There are plenty of guys who have this, who are playing through it. There is no reason I can't be another one of them.

Frank Haith

We're playing better. When you're in a tournament like this, the more you win, the more guys realize they're playing for something.

Adam McKay

For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.

Billy Burke

I'm not a guy who has ever seen the inside of a gym.

Rod Smith

The season is nowhere near over. We just can't go undefeated. That's the only thing.

Baha'u'llah

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

Kelly Clarkson

I always get bored, and I like to do different things, but it isn't something I'm going to do in the near future.

Fran Tarkenton

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

Kurt Warner

Nobody knew who I was.

Jim Thorpe

Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.

Josh Hopkins

Guys are just too fast and too big in the NFL.

John Madden

It's a big deal. ABC and MNF are a big part of NFL history, and it's going to end with the Super Bowl (on ABC). You can't say you're not looking forward to it .

Bobby Bowden

There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

Aaron Rodgers

Aaron Rodgers, starting quarterback - that just has a good ring to it.

Aaron Rodgers

Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.

Aaron Rodgers

I'm not playing for anybody but the guys in this locker room.

Jerry Hayes

We just shut down as a team, ... They got more physical and we shut down.

Joe Haldeman

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Brenda Frese

I didn't have to say a word to them before overtime. They know it's their time. They played with so much confidence.

Larry Penley

Most of the teams that have won here have played No. 18 very, very well.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Cody Wright

If we have a week of temperatures in the 50s when it's rainy and overcast that turns right around and it's 75 and sunny for a week - that's a situation when the potential can be pretty great.

Keith Hennig

Jess has the potential to be something really special.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Don Shuler

Christiansburg's ranked nationally in the top 10. They don't have many weaknesses. They're strong from top to bottom. Fortunately, there's only one of them in each weight class.

John Underwood

It's going to make our relative rank weaker.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Jane Smiley

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

bell hooks

In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

Diana Vreeland

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.

Demi Lovato

When I was four years old, I remember looking in the mirror and running my fingers over my stomach and thinking I was fat.

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

Mike Hathaway

I'd say right now there are seven teams (that could win it).

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Theresa Carroll

All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.

David Blunkett

I've had a guide dog since 1969. Not the same one, of course: I've had five.

Bill Smith

It's always been in the air, since the day it opened.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Angela Kinsey

I keep my sisters on speed dial.

Anthony Chan

I just see it as a speed bump.

Bob Newhart

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Dave Russell

What's not to like? For $1999 you are going to get the processor speed you thought you had to spend $2499 to get.