Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandy Alderson

As they become more frequent there is a chance they will become more serious. We want to stop these things before they escalate, ... When they do happen, we have to set an example for anyone else with the remote idea of doing something like this.

Marc Conti

I don't know if anyone could do the job George has done over there. It's been amazing.

Paul Browne

He's never asked anyone to do for him what he won't do for himself. That he's willing to put in $500,000 of his own money just shows how dedicated to becoming the state auditor he is.

Colin Gorman

I cannot say that there is any reason to fear death; I've yet to meet anyone who's been through it come back to complain about the experience.

Carol Foreman

I couldn't be more pleased, ... These kids are great here. They don't hardly know anyone in New Orleans ... but they wanted to do something.

Michael Walden

Go for your dreams, forget the drugs, stay in school, get your education and don't let anyone pull you down.

Mike Cameron

He's as good as anyone -- kid or veteran -- making adjustments. He knows himself and knows the game, so he can self-correct and improve. David's going to play at a high level pretty soon.

Austin Kearns

He's as clean as anyone you'll ever see.

Jim Boeheim

He's got more guts than anyone I've ever coached.

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Max Cobb

Historically, there was a difference in the percent back between the men and women, so we were trying to equalize that. That was the concept. ... But today, it doesn't look the same. Rachel built her case and we supported that, but the Olympic committee didn't feel like they could make a change.

Robert McCullough

It's part of what we do at the University of Vermont, we teach the history of the built environment." ()

Kathy Sierra

It was actually a little platform they had built for tourists or people who come to see the place, ... We sang to some people there people from everywhere. Everybody liked it. A few people cried. It was real emotional.

Michael Chetcuti

It's been virtually untouched since it was built and we'll have to tap into the water system.

Steve Carr

It makes the financing more difficult and the cash flow tighter, and it may take some people out of expansions. But the market has had this (rate increase) built into it. It's expected. Projects that make economic sense will still be taken on.

Stephen Roberts

A lot of plants were designed and built during the 1970s, ... There's a 20- to 25-year design period for those plants. That gets us to 2005, which is why plants such as Allenstown are about where they are.

Robert Brusca

A lot of the main components are still showing weakness. We still have orders declining, and order backlogs haven't built up to any particular degree. This is the picture of a still-weak manufacturing sector.

Robert H. Connelly

A lot of the main components are still showing weakness, ... We still have orders declining, and order backlogs haven't built up to any particular degree. This is the picture of a still-weak manufacturing sector.

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

Curt Fredrickson

Winona's a physical team. But I thought we had a good game plan going in. They like to do a lot of switching and we caught them a lot on flashes going to the basket. We scored some easy baskets on overhead lobs, and we did a great job of executing our offense the way we wanted to.

Mariella Frostrup

While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye.

Rudy Fuller

We can't get caught up in their record.

Matthew Gipson

We can't get caught up in the emotion of it -- first and foremost we have to win. We have to take this momentum that we have going right now into the WAC tournament and get to the NCAA.

Jeff Courtright

We pulled out big wins at the end that kind of sealed it. There were a couple of matches where we were caught out of position and got pinned. At this stage of the season, you hope you don't see those incorrect tactical things.

Rob Kittrell

He also went to the combine this summer, and his sheer size caught some (college) coaches' attention. You can't teach 6-8. He's always been good in the weight room, and I think football will help him in basketball, too.

Marat Safin

He played really well and his game caught me off guard a bit. But I was expecting him to give me a tough match because the French always raise their game when they're playing at home in Davis Cup.

Robbie Lawler

He pressed in and I stayed tight just trying to keep my hands up. I caught him with a right and that was it.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

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.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.