Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Waters

It's a good possibility we won't have Adrian the rest of the season. It hurts, obviously, because in my estimation he's one of our best defenders and he's an inside presence.

Karl Dorrell

Our defense has been coming up with big stops, ... They had their best game of the season. They did a tremendous job of limiting Oklahoma's rushing attempts, particularly Adrian Peterson.

Jim Schwartz

I've always wanted to come back to Adrian as an administrator with the Adrian Police Department.

Denny Green

Adrian Wilson is really one of the best safeties in the game. (But) you have to win in order to get some recognition.

Ted Bahhur

Adrian wasn't that stable in the second half. We had the athletes to win this game. Big plays and mistakes hurt us. I'm disappointed because we talk about mistakes every day in practice.

Dale Tallon

Adrian was high on our list. We liked the fact that he can play offense and defense and lots of minutes. We also liked that Adrian is a class act.

Jeff Pentland

Adrian wanted to talk about his hands, and I wanted to discuss his legs. Really, this was a situation where he needed greater movement off his back hip. This spring, he regained control and direction of his swing and body movement, and you see the difference.

Davin Joseph

Adrian took off, and it looked like they were little kids trying to hold on to a train. Man, that dude's just dangerous.

Dave Clark

Adrian runs the offense. He penetrates. He sees the floor as well as anybody. He can pull up and hit a jump shot, and defensively he can really get after somebody.

Charles Dickens

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.

Charles Caleb Colton

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

Charles Dickens

Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.

Charles Dickens

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.

Charles Dickens

The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.

Charles Dickens

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

Charles Dickens

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.

Charles Dickens

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

Jack Dolan

We are looking to them. Oklahoma did an excellent job getting people paid promptly.

William Shakespeare

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

Jon Oringer

Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start.

Bruce Bochy

We're getting hit pretty hard right now, especially with the way spring was going. We were in excellent shape, right until the final days.

Craig Monroe

It's exciting for us as a team to be able to go out and have pitching like that. Our pitching staff has done an excellent job. Things are going to be fun around here.

Tara VanDerveer

It seems like the strengths of a lot of these teams are really similar. Everybody's got excellent post players.

Gordon Strachan

It's a shame for him because he has been playing excellent football and in a nice partnership with a nice midfield going there but we will just get on with it.

Kathy Langston

Alyssa did excellent today. She still makes some freshman mistakes, but she gels very well with the other girls.

Joel Trickey

They have four excellent defensemen. You don't get too many second chances.

Alain Vigneault

We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.

Alain Vigneault

You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.

Al Michaels

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

Al MacInnis

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.

Chris Chelios

When no one else signs me.

Chris Chelios

It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

Ed Belfour

There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.

David Walton

My wife likes the hockey smell because its the smell of a warrior.

Ben Stiller

I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

Charles Caleb Colton

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

Eartha Kitt

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

Bear Grylls

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

Shannon Kleibrink

We struggled with our weight all game. The ice was perfect. I love the ice here. We've had two picks all tournament. Today we just didn't throw right.

Bill Murray

We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it

J. J. Johnson

We have never been on the track this early. There are always six inches of ice out there.

Charles M. Schulz

Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream!

Bob Hartley

The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.

Dallas Drake

Until you get to step on the ice with him every day, you don't realize how much he puts into it.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Chris Christie

The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

Chinua Achebe

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Jerry Clements

We respond to lots of things; that's why it's interesting. You're not doing the same thing every day.

Christine Walsh

Usually, it's complicated enough just doing a role. But when it's your senior project, there's lots, lots more involved.

Jeanette Miller

It's a small town with lots of shops, sort of like Peddler's Village. We thought we'd look around.

Carol Lee

A lot of stress, lots of that. Sleepless nights, the waiting is the hardest.

Cesar Conda

They have been in recent weeks delegating lots of responsibility to other members of the senior staff. They've been preparing for it. There are lots of talented people there.

Paul Saffo

They're taking lots of really smart risks and doing things that are very strategic.

Julian Schnabel

It's very difficult, I think, for people to be around you when you're getting lots of attention. It's very difficult for young people to understand what that's about when people start treating you differently when you've been doing the same thing you were doing the day before.

Richard Long

There was lots of red ink, but that was to be expected.

Richard Dodd

There was lots of apocalyptic talk before it was introduced.

Brett Favre

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Lindsay Davenport

It seems like the top players are really stepping up and have been getting through with relative ease,

Mike Fisher

A lot of our top players are out right now and we haven't been able to find a way to score.

John Osborn

A lot of my players from Hancock who live in Santa Barbara,

Carlo Ancelotti

This continual rotation of players is very important to make everyone feel useful.

Gerard Gallant

They (the fans) are disappointed. I am disappointed and our players are disappointed.

Michael Chang

It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need.

Avery Johnson

It's the way we play. More than assists, we want to make sure our players move. We're really a different team.

Hiroyuki Nakai

The yen's rise and uncertainty over possible (dollar-supporting) intervention made players take a wait-and-see stance.

Gordon W. Allport

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

Christopher Paolini

I like to think that he possesses my better traits, ... But he is very much his own person.

Peter Edwards

The other, the Klingensmith's cat, he'd shot and buried,

Mitchell Davis

We started out well, and we made them take shots that we wanted them to. But Trinity's very good. And we just couldn't make any shots.

Scott Wilson

We struggled offensively all night. The shots just rolled off the rim.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

Mariusz Czerkawski

We have to get more traffic, simple plays, with more pucks on the net. Simple shots can work sometimes.

Dick Davey

We're making shots and that's something that we haven't been able to do this year.

Ned Yost

We're going to give this a shot, and a shot is not one day.

Keegan Bradley

Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.

Mark Richard

We're getting closer. At least we didn't give up 52 shots this time.

Edward Gibbon

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

Arne Jacobsen

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

Antony Sher

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

Denis Waitley

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

Charlotte Bunch

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Charlie Munger

Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.

Bill Walton

Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all

Bill Watterson

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

Carl Icahn

Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.

Charles Stross

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

Chris Carter

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

Chris Christie

I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.

David Duchovny

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

David Brin

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up..

David Brin

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Barry Diller

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

Arne Duncan

The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.

Arnold Palmer

If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

Stuart Rose

It's a solid set of results. I would say so far, so good,

Nate Moore

We're a solid staff all the way around. It's just one of those days.

Martin Pyykkonen

This seems, on balance, a solid report, with nothing wrong in the quarter,

David Heard

We got real solid play from everybody. We?re that kind of team. We get different contributions from different people.

John Jones

We're going to try to use solid technique.

Bill Carr

February, in recruiting, was another really solid month.

Jay Taylor

Everything was pretty slow, which is fine. We want to stand in solidarity on the issue.

Martin Schulz

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

David Granger

Make sure they're solid so they make you look substantial, not too slight.

Bobby Cox

They're very similar. They're on top of their games.

Kale Liechty

It's not like my top priority. It's not an obsession.

William Hall

It's one of those places, when you want to go out and touch the American people, it comes to the top of the list,

Mike McConathy

It's a little different for us today, going from the top of the world to the trash barrel." ()

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Frank Robinson

It was an explosion. He had to top me, you know?

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.