Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zach Schade

The thing that got me interested was helping the people who need help -- the athletic achievement is kind of secondary to the actual fundraising.

Troy Aikman

I've made no bones about it, that if this would happen, it would be the greatest individual athletic achievement of my life. When I think of all the great players who have played, to be considered one of the players that helped define the game itself, it is a humbling experience.

Dave Barrett

I wanted to do something, along with some other guys, because it is the 20th anniversary. It is a great accomplishment and we were proud to be a part of it.

David Turek

Advances at the upper reaches of high performance computing such as these often find powerful applications in the broad spectrum of government, industrial and commercial arenas. IBM 's close working relationship with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has resulted in another significant achievement with the potential to improve the lives of people everywhere.

Kofi Annan

Notwithstanding the embargo, Cuba's achievements in social development are impressive given the size of its gross domestic product per capita, ... As the human development index of the United Nations makes clear year after year, Cuba should be the envy of many other nations ostensibly far richer.

Dave Redden

Scoring 44 points in this big of a meet is a nice accomplishment. We did a lot of things well today.

Kofi Annan

The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.

Chris Phillips

It would be a good achievement for us. If we won (the trophy), it would just be something else that we could take into the playoffs with us, but the more important thing for us is to be playing well.

Victor Hobson

It would give us something to hold onto. We can't say, 'Wow, if we do this, we'll make the playoffs,' but to be a top-10 defense, that's no small accomplishment at all.

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Diana Taurasi

The bottom line is we've got good basketball players so we make good basketball decisions and play really good basketball and we just got to keep that same focus and intensity,

Allen Iverson

As long as you leave everything out on the basketball court, you can go into the locker room and feel good about yourself and that's important..............

Taquan Dean

Real college basketball begins. Now it's 'get after it.' The teams we played were great, but now the teams we're playing are much tougher. We have to be ready.

Steve McFall

Raven and Michelle are growing up big-time right now. They're finding out what big-time basketball is all about. They didn't go away. They kept fighting.

Jerry Graybeal

Reaching 500 games is a great accomplishment. That's a lot of games for any coach. She's a great example of stability in our women's basketball program and it has translated to success on the floor. Carla has been a great representative of Weber State as a player and coach for more than 25 years.

Chris Kelly

Ray's having an excellent senior year. He does everything we ask. He runs the point or he plays (shooting) guard. He's a good perimeter shooter, and he rebounds well. He's just an excellent all-around basketball player.

Steve Holmes

Ray's basketball IQ has gotten better and better with each passing season.

Megan Mahoney

Personally, I haven't been playing that intense basketball for a while. Iceland was good competition, but it wasn't that intense. It was a good first day.

R. Robinson

The burden of this crisis cannot be borne by workers and retirees alone.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Hooman Majd

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

Harry Shearer

The music was born on the pianos of the front parlor of the brothels.

Bhagavad Gita

Adhering to this view these lost souls, with small intellect and cruel deeds, are born as enemies for the destruction of the world.

Rig Veda

The one in whose control are horses, cows, villages, all chariots; the one who has caused to be born the sun, the dawn; the one who is the waters' leader, he, O people, is Indra.

Susan Stewart

The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.

Robin Marantz Henig

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Charles Dickens

Some people . . . may be Rooshans, and others may be Prooshans; they are born so, and will please themselves. Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Dean Foster

Even though we had less rest time because we had to play the second game, I still thought we performed with a lot of energy. They've earned some rest, so I guess I won't make them run home from here (Michigan City).

Led Zeppelin

Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away.

Mike Purcell

We want to play Mitchell. They have been the measuring stick of where you need to be with your team. We've earned this and we're going to enjoy it. Now, we need to get our kids prepared in just a few days.

Dan McCarney

There's no question he's one of the top recruiters on my staff. He's earned this.

Tim Phillips

The top 10 ladies last year earned more from Wimbledon than the top 10 men did.

John Chavis

Obviously I think enough of (Mayo) to be a starter. That's what we've done, and he's earned that. I feel good about him playing.

Jay Wright

Now that we've got a good thing going here, I'm happier that it worked out that way. Everyone feels they earned it. You kind of know who your friends are. There was plenty of time for people to show whether they were loyal to the program or not.

Steve Hutchinson

Frankly, we get sick of hearing it. You'd think we'd earned respect. All we can do is keep winning.

Tiger Woods

I enjoy tournaments where if you shoot a round in the 60s, you've earned it and you're going to move up the board. I'm 1-under par and I'm in 10th. That's pretty good.

Wilma Askinas

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

Jeff Jones

Evan loves it. He enjoys riding the horses, and it has given him so much confidence. It makes him think and use different muscles.

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If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea... does that mean that one enjoys it?

Dick LeBeau

He's similar to those guys in that he has good size and speed and can really run, yet he can blitz, too. I think he enjoys playing in our system, just like they did.

Joe Torre

I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility. Bernie, obviously I think he enjoys being here. It's the only place he's ever been. I think he's ? I don't want to say got used to it but I think he understood this year with his reduced role that maybe this is where he should be concentrating.

Ross Baker

He enjoys very strong support there. His problem is with swing voters.

Geno Auriemma

It's kind of bittersweet, you know? I'm happy for her, and I'm happy she's at a place she enjoys being at, but you hate to see them in that situation.

Al Thornton

At times, we've played a 38-minute game and lost by one or two. We have to go out and play a 40-minute game.

Haim Ramon

As of Saturday, all the rules of the game change.

Jim Christian

As long as you guard in a game like this when you know your legs are tired, you can find ways to win the game.

Brandy Frazier

As long as we are improving, and each game we have something positive to work on, the record will just keep on improving.

Charlie Sheen

as long as two people are still in the game.

O. J. Simpson

As poorly as we shot statistically, to still be in the game last night was impressive. We hit the big shots.

Mike Holmgren

As I've told the team, ultimately you'll be judged by what happens and where you are at the end of the season. I understand why we are the underdogs, and there's really only one way to handle that. That's not by talking, it's by playing the game and seeing what happens.

Greg Allen

That ought to tell you something about him. In that game, he took it upon himself.

Jake Scott

That was a big win over Quincy - but after we won that game there was just silence. Tonight, it was all rockin' here.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

O. J. Simpson

Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Chris Dyer

Back then, youth issues were not very visible even in the nationwide organizations. Youth had consistently not been a priority in any of the Pride celebrations and we thought, here's a great way to help.

Don Shula

As long as they stay healthy, I think they've got a great shot at it.

Benjamin Franklin

A small leak can sink a great ship.

Mark Melton

A sloppy win is a lot better than playing great and losing.

John Wozniak

A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.

Robert Brooks

That park is great for trails and hiking. I don't really see home sites in that park.

Roger Federer

Rafael played a great match, it was tough to lose.

Jay Melton

I've been here 16 years so I've known him most of his life. Every year I see him in the gym and the first place I ever saw him was in a gym. He is always in a gym and always has been.

Svetlana khorkina

I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!

Shawn Johnson

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

Shawn Johnson

I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!

Shawn Johnson

I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.

Nolan Gerard Funk

I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.

Markus Zusak

You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany

Gigi Hadid

Bella [Hadid] is also very naturally gifted in beauty so she can also go whenever she wants to go to the gym.

Jake Short

I do tumbling and flips; there's a gym I go to for that.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Nancy Cartwright

Ralph won't "morph" if you squeeze him hard enough

Paul Sutton

Probably the most relevant thing I can say to the truth of the story has to do with how hard it was to get her to tell her story. She was a reluctant witness the whole time.

Kevin Allison

Probably 1-3 of them who may be able to run at the varsity level this season. It's hard to tell with new runners because they get injured so often.

Judith Guest

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

Kevin Zachek

Our seniors have been playing hard and now we are starting to see our younger players step up and produce. We have moved people around to get a strong hitting lineup without sacrificing our defense. I think the players are getting comfortable with that.

Furman Bisher

People say he's hard on the younger pitchers, but he should be. He's different, but he's a winner.

James Marsh

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

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Joe Balogh

This was something we worked to get. It was important for us.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Art McMaster

We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.