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,

Ed Hartwell

Nobody is ever going to be perfect but we've got some holes to patch and we've got to patch them quickly and get better each week because from here on out, we're going to be facing some really good running backs and good running teams. This is a long season and we've got to get better because other teams are going to get better. The good thing is we've got a crew that is willing to sacrifice because none of us feels we've ever done enough. We'll never be satisfied.

Robert Cullen

But it's going to be harder for us too. I know we're going to have a bright red X on our backs come sectional time,

Tana Umaga

No one backs them this week and that's a very dangerous thing for us. We're the only ones that give them any credit really.

Ron Jackson

Montclair probably has the best back in the league, ... There are no other backs in the league of his caliber.

Aaron Wies

Maybe. But running backs in the NFL make millions of dollars.

Vance Wilson

From my standpoint, there's not a whole lot different that he could have done. He's passionate. He cares about the players, he backs the players and never once bashed them to the media. I thought he handled things very well and took the pressure off the players. He's taken the fall now for a couple of months. If anything, he might have been too supportive of us.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Charles Grassley

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Jack Bicknell

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Ogden Nash

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,/ Is those things arms, or is they legs?/ I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me Us.

John Wallach

Seeds of Peace is not some left wing, 'make love, not war,' sing a song, plant a tree, call it peace,

Felicia Lofton

Ryan has done that for us all year. I call her our X-factor because she does all the dirty work. She gets crucial rebounds and just played big-time tonight.

Joe Girardi

The WBC will provide a lot of excitement, so it's a good thing, but I'm going to miss my players, no doubt about it.

Bertrand Russell

Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.

Wallace Smith

There is no doubt that it was a providential act.

Edward Abbey

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

Aristotle

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

Mike Schulze

We've got a good plan in place. It's going to come together, there's no doubt in our minds. It'll be a lot of work for a lot of people.

Greg Biffle

We got ourselves into a little hole in Daytona. But I have no doubt this team will turn it around this weekend.

Ozzie Guillen

There's no doubt about it, we really flat-out stink.

Robert Frost

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Chris Lofton

This is Rupp Arena. It's hard to win up here. I think they felt like they had to win. This their home court, and you're supposed to protect your home court. But we never give up. We just keep executing plays and doing what we've got to do to win the game.

Charli Thorne

I think we're at a point in our program where we can pretty much match up with anybody. I think we've proven that throughout the season. It doesn't necessarily mean we're going to come out on top, but it's pretty fun to be in a situation where you go into a game and it's just a question of executing your game plan.

Tony Sabatino

I thought one of the big keys is the fact we made a much higher percentage of three-point goals the second half. We did a nice job executing and finding an open guy.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

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.

Erik Anderson

Defensively, we're as good as we have ever been.

Quincy Douby

Defensively, they did a good job overplaying my side and putting two guys on my side, trying to get the ball.

Stan Gundy

Defensively he's not there yet because he's still got a ways to go conditioning-wise, ... but he's a very good defender.

Brent Faurote

Deke (Nelson) has Urich (46-6) of Perry Meridian, a kid who placed third last year. There are just so many good kids.

Gary Edwards

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

Nick Reid

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

Ryan Coleman

I think we're doing a tremendous job defensively. We're holding our opponents to 50 points or less, which is right where they need to be.

Asma Jehangir

I did not see ill will on the part of the government, that they were holding it for themselves, or misappropriating it. But nevertheless, what they didn't understand is the need for speed. They're being bureaucratic.

Brian Hill

I'm sure it's discouraging for him. He looked to me that he was having some pain and I didn't want to take any chances. I saw him wincing out there and holding his midsection. It didn't make sense for him to continue. I know he's down.

Jeremy Lewis

It's like holding a wolf by the ears, ... You don't want to hold it, but you don't want to let it go.

Mike Holmgren

I've had the privilege of holding it (the Lombardi Trophy) before and I hope to touch it again.

Kristin Hannah

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

Sheryl Sandberg

As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Cameron Diaz

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.

Carol Bartz

Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.

Joe Torre

Randy was great, we just didn't give him anything to work with.

Dr. Seuss

Sam Ran Over Sand or Sand Ran Over Sam,

Chris Davis

I showed him how to do it, how to work in TV. There's a formula. Richard ran with it.

Robert A. Heinlein

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

Graeme Souness

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Charlie Anderson

He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses.

Sean Fleming

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

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

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.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

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.

James Walsh

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

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.

Camila Alves

A lot of times, drama around it is not for the worse but for the best in the long run. If we look at it that way, I have learned to find the best of it in most situations.

Celia Rivenbark

I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Dee Brown

That was what we set out to do, stop Grier.

Maudie Samiee

It doesn't stop her for a minute. She's very adaptable.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

Questlove

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time,

Dan Davis

I told them to stop their friend. They didn't.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Michael Gartenberg

It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.

Kenny Rogers

You want to do what you're supposed to do here. But it's a long year.

Francine Prose

I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

Kenny G

I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.

Gary Thomas

This is overreaction. It won't make a difference. They'll turn 18, but they'll still be inexperienced.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Antonin Scalia

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Theodore Kaczynski

I would just turn my back and wouldn't talk to him.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Mike Anderson

Obviously. I have to turn it up a notch.

Wendee Saintsing

But they have got to turn around and do the same thing.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Julia Glass

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Greg Aiello

We were disappointed we weren't able to work it out with him.

Elbert Hubbard

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.