Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Holtz

We decided we couldn't (cover punts) with two sprinters, ... So we said, 'Let's get seven sprinters going off the line so we can cover them.'

Alan Henderson

I covered her up with my jacket, ... We couldn't get her out of the driver's side, so we worked around and pulled her through the passenger side.

Mike Singletary

Playing coverage isn't about speed. It's about technique and studying film. Jeff Ulbrich understands that. He's the ears and eyes of the defense.

Toby Miller

It's primarily to cover the debt service on the bonds. The debt service is $1.4 million a year, and this increase would provide about $1.28 million.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Barry Trotz

Early in the year we were getting a lot of grief from people, saying you're playing some teams that aren't quite as strong. But they were strong teams, we just sort of got their number early.

Ramon Ortiz

Early in the year, we know what happened. I didn't feel too good. I was scared about the groin. I feel good now, and everything is working. I don't feel anything in the leg.

Terry Cornett

We just started slow. We didn't take it to them early like we did in the first game.

Julie Hansen

We just figured kids would still be in school so they wouldn't be able to sneak in early to the mall and sort of hide out in these places. It's just a slight modification.

Ken Jr.

We were like, 'OK, if we can get out to an early lead, put some pressure on and let Roger relax and have some fun.

Li Na

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Ron Noedel

Last year what happened is we jumped on them early and got her frustrated. Today was a whole different story. We couldn't get to her today and she just got really strong.

Don Hill

So it's been growing and thriving. But Jerry's in his early 60s now, and he's been wanting to retire.

George Barrett

You know what that tells me? It tells me they are not ready to fly on their own, not ready to leave the nest.

J. J. Abrams

I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Nick Harkaway

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

Michael Jackson

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

Willard Wigan

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

Willard Scott

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

Warren G. Bennis

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

Zora Neale Hurston

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.

Zachary Quinto

My relationship with Leonard [Nimoy] was a byproduct of playing Spock that I never would have imagined, but the more I got to know him, the more I realized, there are no mistakes. I'm playing this role for very specific reasons, and maybe those reasons have to do with where I am creatively in my life, but maybe they have to do with where I am personally in my life. Leonard was such a teacher for me.

Yusef Lateef

I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc.

William Glasser

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Steve Spurrier

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

Stacy Schiff

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.

Rick Riordan

All I could think to say was, "The Lakers are my home team!

Rick Riordan

Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook —BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail. I couldn't help but smile.

Roy Spencer

Man-made global warming was a potential serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished.

Roy Keane

I still say the '94 Double team is the best. They could outfight you or outplay you, depending on the way you wanted it. But this side is moving in the same direction.

Ron Fairly

In all the years I played, he (Stan Williams) was the only guy who ever scared me and he was on my team.

Sue Wicks

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.