Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Gruden

He's a real quick study. He's a bright guy. He's a very talented athlete. He's big. He's fast. . . . Alex Smith has a real bright future here.

Marc Crawford

I thought Alex did things well with the puck, saw pucks well and fought to keep position. And he found some pucks in scrambles and he fought off screens where he made himself big.

Matt Hasselbeck

I'm not worried at all about Shaun because like we've all seen, Shaun Alexander plays his best games in the spotlight. When games are the biggest he seems to play his best. And we've never played a game this big.

Doug Kilby

The corner kick right before half was nice and the minute Alex hit that corner, I said that's a great ball. Ben went hard and it was a super head - you couldn't have a better corner to a head. That's real soccer. It just went boom.

Paul Thomson

You could always see that Alex was going to be in music, ... He never understands that question, 'What would you be if you weren't a musician?'

Ali Fabbro

Alex is the MVP of the team. We pulled Alex back (to defense) because obviously she's the quickest player we have out there.

Matt Thurmond

Alex had a great round. He came out and played really solid the whole day. It was not a great round for us as a team, but it was definitely a step in the right direction.

George McPhee

Alex exercised his right to opt out of the Russian contract this past summer and signed with the Capitals. We are confident that the court will uphold Alex's contractual status and decision.

Ginny Redington

Alexander Woollcott did say she (Parker) would be Mrs. Benchley if there wasn't one already. We played that up for the show. You do things you feel could possibly have been true but having not been there, we don't really know.

Larry Brown

I thought with this young team he was vital for us, ... I wouldn't have enjoyed watching him play handicapped as he is.

John Reed

I thoroughly enjoyed my years at the newspaper. It was a fantastic, wonderful experience, and I had the opportunity to work with some really excellent people. I leave with a heavy heart.

Lisa Kelly

We've been through a lot together. We always had fun. We were just a group of friends who enjoyed doing things together.

Henry Ian Cusick

I was a theater actor back in the U.K., and you knew the whole play, so you could plot your storyline and character. And then I did 'Lost' and didn't know, and it was kind of frustrating, but I enjoyed it.

Billy Donovan

I think it was a great experience for our players. Obviously, it's hard to prepare for the White House on such short notice, but I think they enjoyed themselves on the trip.

Aaron Boone

Underrated by who? I think he's an underrated player, period. I've just enjoyed playing with him and getting to see first hand how good he is.

Wladimir Klitschko

I can fight 12 rounds, no problem, as you can see. I enjoyed the fight.

Bob Bowlsby

He has exactly the kind of fierce competitive spirit that we're looking for. I think he's exactly the right guy to put Iowa back on the traditional pedestal that we've enjoyed over so many years.

John Mara

Paul will be remembered as one of the greatest commissioners in the history of professional sports. When Paul succeeded Pete Rozelle as commissioner, he had big shoes to fill, as everybody was quick to remind him. In his own style, he went about the task of filling those shoes, and the results speak for themselves. During his tenure, the National Football League has enjoyed unparalleled popularity, prosperity and labor peace, thanks largely to Paul Tagliabue.

Mary Walker

It gives our workforce a great opportunity to expand their knowledge within the normal working environment.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Viola Spolin

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Wangari Maathai

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

Peter Kelley

In the near-term though, converting from gas-powered to electric-powered doesn't do anything for the environment...at this moment, you're still polluting.

James Winchester

If you think this is a tough environment, the fire hose is going to be on full stream in the third quarter.

Robert Lutts

If you think there's going be a hurricane issue this season, oil services (are the way to go). If you throw another hurricane into that environment it's just going to get even better.

Jon Brandt

In a complicated Washington environment, it seemed prudent to hire an expert.

Henry Burris

If you aren't mentally tough and you go back into an environment like that, you're dead.

Mary Shapiro

I don't know whether they will say yes or no since there are all sorts of administrative, financial and legal issues.

Randy Sharp

I think no question this will have a financial impact on American Girl.

Timothy Smith

The financial office still has the power to request financial information from these organizations so we're still not running the risk of giving money to financially unstable organizations.

Oliver Friedrichs

The general trend is that attackers aren't concentrating on 'far and wide,' worms, but on financial gain.

David Stern

It's our preference, our strong preference, to have the Blazers in Portland, in Oregon, playing at the Rose Garden and being able to be a financial success.

Kathleen Smith

It's important to have a product that investors like. That is a real positive they have going for them. Their financial statements also look good.

Kevin Clark

It'll have a meaningful impact on our financial projections going forward,

Jim Easton

It's discouraging for softball, ... This may be painful for me and my company. But I think it would have been worse if I'd voted to have someone with a financial interest in softball voting for it.

Michael Fluker

I wanted to make my life better, and to do that I had to gain a solid understanding of financial principles.

Paul Gascoigne

Kevin has done a tremendous job here and now it's a matter of trying to work together and move the team forward. We want to give the supporters something to look forward to and get them in the Football League.

Dirk Koetter

Keegan Herring has been outstanding, but he is making the jump from high school football to the largest stage in college. I just think it is much better for us to have Randy help transition Keegan in as well.

Scott Schmitz

Joe is just a hard-nosed football player. He loves the game.

Josh Aciukewicz

He just kept pushing me around. At times, it seemed more like a football game.

Damon Allen

He is the heartbeat of this football team and possibly the heartbeat of this city.

Rob Ciarlo

He likes to show off his guns. He?s a good kid. He played football and he?s trying to be more of a leader.

Jim Duncan

He's a good player for us, ... He's not a huge bulky linebacker, but just a good wrestler-type of a football player.

Tom Coughlin

He's a football guy, ... He's always around the office. He's always looking at tape. He's always grabbing guys and talking football.

Joe Theismann

For me, Monday night still is the big night for football in the NFL. It's the last football game of the week and it's a showcase for all the players.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Thomas Needham

He seems to be a very highly regarded young man.

Bob Trezise

It is a highly unique and 21st century-like company, like the type that we'd like to inspire here in the Lansing area. They can go other places in the country.

Steven Galson

This is a very highly innovative product that will improve the quality of life for millions of Americans with diabetes.

Alan Ackerman

The world is looking for lower interest rates. Clearly, the psychology world-wide remains highly nervous.

Gina Uccelli

The interview process is complete. We had some highly qualified candidates. We hope to make an announcement within the week.

Masayoshi Okamoto

The market will highly likely keep the 16,500 level.

Alan Ackerman

The market remains highly selective. People have to pick their spots,

Brian Monahan

The market is highly competitive. It's not like you get 20 applications for every job. We went looking ourselves and recruited someone.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

Joni Pitkanen

The first period we weren't ready, that's for sure.

Leroy Shafer

You couldn't program better weather for a three-week period than we've had this year.

Tom Cross

This is just the start of a period of strong growth.

Cindy Sheehan

It's remarkable that in a 27- day period Crawford has stood for something other than war. It has stood for peace.

David Cutcliffe

That's probably the one position that has stayed the same the most over that period of time.

Brad Boyes

It's inexcusable, the way the third period went. You can't sit back like that. ... Tonight we sat back and took penalties.

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Morgan Freeman

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

Julia Child

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Phyllis Diller

I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate.

Dave Chappelle

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

John Powell

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

David Ishii

Really? I don't remember. Seventeen under? That's pretty good.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

Kim Devlin

Well that's seven more votes than we expected.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Ryan Tedder

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Virginia Foxx

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union and we know how successful that was.

Wayne Dyer

If you think peaceful thoughts, you'll feel peaceful emotions, and that's what you'll bring to every life situation. If you're attached to being right or absolutely need something in order to be at peace or successful, you'll live a life of striving yet never arriving.

Vendela Kirsebom

Im so lucky, Ive been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.

Rod Blagojevich

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

Alexandra Adornetto

As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Warren Miller

Never eat in a restaurant that has a bowling trophy on the cash register.

Dennis Bergkamp

I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies?

Glenn Beck

What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Woodrow Wilson

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

Woody Allen

I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.

Woody Allen

You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.

William J. Clinton

If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.

Will Ferrell

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!