Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

Joe Thompson

As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

Rhonda Rompola

Our slow start in the first half hurt us. We dug ourselves a hole against a very, very good team.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Ryan Crawford

Our entire front row is (6-foot-2 or taller), and we put up a huge block against everybody. Most of the time when we block right, they're not going to be able to get it over with authority. It's going to be a roll shot or a tip to the corner. You've got to have guys back there who are on the same page and ready to get the ball back to the setter.

Henning Kagermann

Against this background we are confident of our earlier expectations that we will be able to grow pre-tax profits for the current year, excluding provisions for the STAR program, by 30 percent to 35 percent and sales by around 40 percent.

Robin Bhar

Against this background, speculative buying underpinned a rise in prices.

John Cridland

Against this background firms are cutting back on their investment plans and expect the rate of job losses to increase.

Wolfgang Schaeuble

Against this backdrop, developments in Iran not just on the question of proliferation, but also on the issue of external security and the impact on life in our own country as well represent a danger.

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

Thomas Hales

After a year they came back to me and said that they were 99% sure that the proof was correct.

David Perno

The most we gained from it is seeing Kennedy. Not the physical part, but the myth part. It was a challenge for us. It's rare to go out and win a game like that, especially the first game. They came back and took the next two games from us.

Kevin Garnett

A.C. was unbelievable with energy. He came in and kicked it off. When A.C. came in, the tempo just picked up immediately.

Greg Biffle

A couple of young guys came in and did really well, so then everybody thought, /x27/OK, it's all these young guys now as the new thing,

Herbie Hancock

A couple of years ago, I came up with the idea for a film that I thought could be interesting, and I took it to a couple of people - nobody professional or anything - but I thought it was kind of cool.

Renee Montgomery

ACS is very pleased with Judge Stephens' decision. Our prediction came true.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Ben Lindsey

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Glen Gulutzan

We couldn't win a puck battle. I thought our effort was fine, but we made some glaring mistakes and lost battles.

Dave Baseggio

We showed an excellent effort to make a great comeback.

Rajneesh

My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if you are, you will remain in trouble. If you are, you will remain limited. If you are, there will be a definition to your being - and you will never be overflowing. Only emptiness can be overflowing, only emptiness can be at ease. Only emptiness can be life abundant. To be, the way passes through non-being. If you really want to be, you will have to drop all concepts of your being. You will have to disappear, by and by. You will have to melt into nothingness.

Angel Fuentes

No one from the administration has made such an effort

Stephen Vizinczey

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

Gianluca Vialli

You should take your time and do it now and again, like watching football

Brett Favre

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Charles Kelley

I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

Bobby Robson

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Eric Snyder

Turkey Day was only a little over a month ago, and the football loss is still fresh in the memory of a lot of these kids. It was sort of a 'You got one in football, we'll get one in basketball' kind of thing. It's just a great rivalry.

Lee Etzler

We knew Ida was a good football team and we were without three two-way starters, so I was happy with the result.

Mark Bruener

We knew he was going to come. He's an outstanding football player. He may not be 100 percent sound with his blitz, but he's a relentless football player.

Kyle Wright

We kind of know there's a lot lying on this game. And we're going to go up, hopefully, play mistake-free football and get better.

Denton Fox

Turnovers really hurt us tonight. I think that's part of being a young football team and what kept us from winning the game.

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Terrence Holt

It was funny. We were going back and forth with each other, talking the whole 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.

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.

Randy Martin

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

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.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Taylor Twellman

We need to keep our heads up, because we played very well.

Carl Robinson

We won't let out heads drop. We know a win is just around the corner.

Jeff Hanna

We thought if we could go in there and play a song, a nice song, and sing it and play some guitars, and it had that kind of impact, then what would it be like if we really put our heads together and took our songs that we'd worked on over the years and put them together,

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

George Becker

China's a rogue nation, ... We should hold our congressional leaders accountable.

Bengie Molina

I got a hold of it. I didn't think it was going to stay fair, but it did.

Steve Cummings

If you are going to sit on it, you want it to hold you.

Robert Mahon

I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope.

Nick Reid

He's our secret weapon. We've been holding him out the first two games. We let him loose today.

Brent Guy

I'm hoping this week is going to hold up. We had about everything last year.

Pete MacArthur

That was tough. There's no sense in trying to hold it back.

Jack Baker

While the Dow has been fluctuating, it's positive that the Nasdaq has been able to hold on.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Rig Veda

People who are soft spoken and truthful are loved by all.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Rachel Remen

I did this because the person I loved wanted it.

Freddy Mella

They loved the idea and I have been registered with them since September.

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Asa Butterfield

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Dave Ramsey

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

Steve Spurrier

toward the end there, my give-a-damn was busted. This is not the way I ever coached...I'm not proud of what happened, but there it is.

Amy Poehler

Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.

Ali Lohan

I'm proud to be a Lohan, and I will always will be.

Andrew Jackson

I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Boris Becker

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Jason Williams

We feel like we can not just get there to the finals. We feel like we can get there and win it.

Reggie White

(Favre) did what he had to do to win the game. He made the play, and he won one for us. Him and Sterling, today, they won it for us.