Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Chandler

I think it can be a distraction to the player being recruited and the team, if it's something the team is not used to, ... Around Loomis, little old Loomis, it's a little crazy.

Charlie Coe

He'll be a player for us. He's a young guy, so we'll have to get him in here and see how he does. But with our situation, he'll have a shot.

Steve Hutchinson

What else is he supposed to say, 'We're going to try and lose? Every player is supposed to think his team is going to win.

Steve Shingledecker

I think it's so well deserving. From his sophomore year to his senior year, the work he put in to become an all-state player is tremendous.

Paul Mara

He was on his back and I don't even think he saw where the puck was and he took a swipe at it. That's why he is one of the premier players in the league.

Ken Hitchcock

He's a young player in his first series. He got welcomed in a big way. He'll be back.

Tim Ruskell

He is a selfless player who understands what it takes to win in this league.

Floyd Reese

He may round out into a player and end up playing for 10 years, and that could make us look pretty dumb,

Ron Atkinson

There's a little triangle - five left-footed players.

Randy Carter

He kept gambling even though he didn't need to. But he got that one.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Charles Lamb

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Artie Lange

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

Rick Majerus

I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

Rene Russo

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

Thomas Jefferson

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Michael Franzese

I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious consequences if you get in over your head.

Michael Jordan

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

Richard Paul Evans

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Ryan Hall

The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

William Zinsser

Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

Woodrow Wilson

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Woody Allen

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

William James

You can't out-perform your self-image.