Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darryl Tapp

Teams are remembered by their last game. Our last game, we lost to Florida State, so we have to get that bad taste out of our mouths and go out there and do our job. We can be one of the greatest teams in Virginia Tech history and go out there and win 11 games. That's a big statement, so there's a lot on the line and we all know that.

John Gibbons

Ted (Lilly) has a bad back right now, something he felt the day after his last start (March 26). So we'll give him an extra day of rest and have Josh (Towers) start the second game and Lilly the third.

Chan Gailey

Tell me how bad the field was beat up.

M. Hopper

Sometimes my teams get a bad rap of hanging onto the ball too much. We're trying to score. It's just the way we play.

Linda Jay

Right now there's nothing too, too bad to focus on. As long as things stay calm in the Middle East, I think this continues.

Glenn McAninch

Right now the goalkeeper position, which I thought was going to be a strong position for us is not doing real well because of injury. It's just bad luck, sometimes that happens to a team. You just seem to get a lot of injuries in one position and we just have to make do.

Proverb Proverb

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Robert Esche

Pressure isn't a bad word. It's a great word. It gives you tunnel vision and let's you focus on the task at hand.

Brian Dobie

Pressure is a good thing. Pressure is not a bad thing. So if we were to win in Saskatoon that's all well and good -- and I want that to happen -- but I have no problem with us being in a pressure situation all the way down to the bitter end.

Ryan Armour

The shot I hit on the second hole could very easily have missed the cup and rolled 40 feet by. That is the way the ball bounces sometimes.

Drew Bledsoe

The thing I liked best about our offense tonight is that we finally got out of our own way, ... We were making mistakes, but not because the defense was forcing us to do it. When we run the ball like we did tonight, we're going to be good offensively.

Mike Patterson

The thing I have to worry about the most is getting off the ball. It's important for me to get off the ball as fast as possible to make plays.

Howard White

The thing about a kid like that is his presence is felt. If you don't give him ball fakes he's going to block it. The thing I like about him is he goes and gets it. It wasn't that our kids were intimidated by him. It's his presence.

Khalil Sikander

I've never been there and the girls have never been there. But I have confidence in these girls. They might be nervous but I think when the ball is tipped, they'll go out and show all of their work has paid off. They believe in themselves.

Flip Saunders

I've always said that to win on the road you have to defend, you have to not beat yourselves and you have to not turn the ball over.

Mike Walker

I've been a lot smarter with the ball this year, I've made better decisions.

Dwane Casey

I've always told them to run. The only time we want to stop and run a set play is on a dead-ball situation. We get a rebound, we want to push it. We never want to walk the ball up the court, never.

Warrick Dunn

I've always told people that if I get an opportunity to carry the ball enough I'll pick up yards.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Vida Blue

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

Usher

I tried football and got my ass beat. I tried baseball, and the ball knocked out one of my teeth.

Stephen King

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

Stan Musial

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

Stan Coveleski

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

Ron Gardenhire

It's always an honor to work with the Twins Community Fund and be a part of all the good that they do. They help people in so many ways. To be part of not only a baseball team, but being a part of something where you're helping people who need help, that's what life is all about really.

Steve Garvey

Baseball is the life.

Steve Garvey

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Trent Hunter

Special teams are what usually win games. We were working hard on both sides of that.

Joe Faraldo

This is a reasonable solution. We'll both lose some things through arbitration, but that's what a negotiation is.

Larry Fisher

This is an exploration of both the design and the cost. We are not committed to doing it. It'll depend upon the feasibility.

Jamie Rains

This is going to be a typical week in our conference. We know both teams will be tough. We are taking it one game at a time and keeping our focus.

Mark Driscoll

The whole idea is to keep the game alive. There was give and take on both sides.

Linton Brooks

The United States will, for the foreseeable future, need to retain both nuclear forces and the capabilities to sustain and modernize those forces.

Joe Biden

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

Bob Hilmer

This group has done a remarkable job of finding a way. I didn't think we played very well offensively. But both teams played so well on defense. They just know what it takes.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Alex Pettyfer

The biggest thing for me is I don't want to let people down. At the same time I love things that scare me and challenge me. If your job doesn't do that and doesn't excite you there's no point in doing it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

Alfred P. Sloan

Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.

Alfred P. Sloan

The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.

Alfred P. Sloan

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs

Alfred Molina

Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.

Alfred Molina

I never made conscious choices. There were times in my life that I chose the first job that came along because I was broke. I think that there were maybe a handful of times that I had a choice. In recent years, Ive had more of a choice, and its been very nice to have that choice, but most of the time, you just hope that theres another job after this one.

Ichiro Suzuki

That was embarrassing. If I'm satisfied with the way I played today, I might as well quit.

John Stack

That's the uniqueness of this story. We're in the southeastern part of the U.S., but we might as well be in a Third World country.

Tony Dungy

That's their style of play. I think Mike might be disappointed if they didn't play that way.

Robert Kirshner

That's very weird. But it's not unprecedented that weird things might be true things.

Riley Wallace

That's the road trip you have to look back on and think what might be if we got one, or both, of them. We'd be right up there.

Andy Fisher

That's the question all the parents would like to know. It's quite challenging. We're trying to find alternative placement for them for the rest of the year - what their options might be next year.

James Blake

I would like to think I might have taken something out of Andre's legs,

Empress Michiko

I would like to tell Sayako just what comes to my mind on the morning of the wedding, but like my mother before me, perhaps I too might not be able to say anything at all,

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Walter Kirn

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.