Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Rex Walters

You can't build a program in one year or in four years. I want to be here for the long term.

Dan Pifer

We wanted to come in and run the football and establish the run and build off that, and we did that early, and I think that set the tone. We're pretty happy offensively. We knew we would be pretty good. We just had to get caught up, get reps for another week, and we thought we'd be OK.

Chris Fox

We wanted to build up momentum throughout the season. For a lot of people on the team, probably half the team, this is their last meet. This is what we shoot for, to do well in this meet.

Fernando Pisani

We wanted to build some momentum going into the playoffs. We did that tonight.

Don Bugbee

We wanted to build on whatever we could get this year and we kind of exceeded our early expectations. Now that we're here we'll continue to compete and play hard.

Bruce Bochy

We wanted to build on that win. We didn't want to get shut out 1-0 after that big win Saturday.

Jamie Iannone

We wanted to build a shopping experience toward convenience-oriented buyers who wanted to buy new items and make the purchases really quickly.

Alex Schott

We wanted to be able to build an infrastructure; we wanted to be able to make this a permanent industry here. So, when the hurricane did hit, it was important to realize that this is a very mobile industry.

Alan Nicholl

Twenty-some shots is a tremendous game, offensively. For them not to score a goal, you have to hand it back to our kids; they put up such a great defensive effort.

Zenon Konopka

We didn't play well enough defensively. We're a pretty good defensive hockey club, and when you give up five goals it's tough to win games.

Mark Elston

We had some really positive things. The offensive line did very well. The defensive line, when we were lined up correctly, played extremely well.

Zach Randolph

We buckled down in the fourth. We made big shots and got some key defensive stops.

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Cindy Fushimi

A big part of our success was we had all the kids in the lineup perform. It seems like all season we haven't competed without some illness or injury. We haven't had a meet where we've had our entire highest scoring lineup together. It was nice to finally have everyone at the same place at the same time.

Demond Garth

They played us a zone the entire game and it took us a few quarters to get used to that.

Ignacio Bunye

They (Piston) are not the entire transport sector. This group is really traditional demonstrators. With or without e-VAT (expanded value-added tax), they hold rallies.

Steve Hook

They never quit. They played hard the entire time.

Chuck Fales

They gave him the holes to go through. It wasn't just one person. The entire line was great.

Melanie Boeglin

They have 8,000 fans screaming the entire game. We were confident, but we watched them three other times in the tournament come back from behind. So we knew they were going to make a run on us ? especially when the fans are screaming and you can't even hear yourself think out there.

Christine McVie

This configuration of Fleetwood Mac's been together 10 years, and it's taken us entire years to make a single record.

Neil MacDonald

This entire market space is under massive convergence pressure. Be prepared for vendor flux and licensing changes.

Reggie Evans

If you do your normal routine, you tend just to focus on that. You're not really thinking about (the test).

Pete Carroll

It has never been a focus of our program to look at the end of the rainbow kind of thing.

Rod Barnes

I think our kids are working hard. My focus is to make sure we move forward and get better.

Mike Commodore

I think our focus is very good on the road. We don't have any distractions. We stick to our systems, we keep it simple. I think that's why. Maybe it's something else, I don't know, but when it comes right down to it, it's our focus.

David Ortiz

I just try to shut everything down and just focus on what I want to do at the plate in those situations. Most of the time I try to not do too much because I get in trouble when I try to do too much. It happens to everybody.

Lindsay McCargar

I just don't think our focus was there (on the game).

Cindy Sheehan

I put myself out there, and I'm willing to take it. But I think the focus has been on the messenger and not the message.

Charlie Bell

By keeping our focus on our customers, McDonald's competitive position is strengthening, ... McDonald's U.S. performance for the month and quarter was particularly impressive considering the hurricanes and heavy rains.

Larry Silverstein

Clearly, there are some issues that need to be resolved. But for today, my focus, like that of all New Yorkers, is on getting the Freedom Tower underway.

Amanda Miller

Our girls do a good job of keeping a team down, ... Volleyball is very much a momentum game, so it's important not to let a team back in the game.

Jim Young

Our girls are very intelligent and they study hard for their exams. We were out of our routine early. Southeast played well and we were not sharp.

Teresa Lamb

Overall, the girls showed tremendous growth and teamwork.

Natalie du Toit

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

Tucker Max

I don't even pursue girls anymore. I mean, I could obviously still pursue girls. It's not like I can't. But I don't have to pursue girls anymore. Girls come to me.

Malala Yousafzai

We must tell girls their voices are important.

Katherine Johnson

We're really young, so there's a lot of room for growth. If these girls stay together, and work together during the off-season they will grow as a team.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

Philip Mote

In the last year or so, this has really taken off like a freight train without brakes.

Danny Sullivan

In the last year and a half, (A9) hasn't skyrocketed in popularity.

Eric Skrum

In the last two years, we're seeing more and more communities saying, 'We just don't want to use the technology.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

Renzo Rosso

In New York, I wear dark denim most of the time.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Adepero Oduye

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

Anna Torv

I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

Andrew Niccol

Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.

Ann Coulter

According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California have already been forced to close because of unpaid bills by illegal aliens.

Ellen DeGeneres

Above all, I strive to be the best I can - to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.