Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Neymar

Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.

Prem Nair

We have always contested liability in this lawsuit.

Chris Hayes

We could have gone out and contested more. If we put a hand up on half of those shots, they'll miss half of them.

J. M. Roberts

I thought it was a hotly contested game. I thought our guys battled hard, played hard throughout the whole game. ... It definitely was not a 16-point game.

Sandro Bondi

There is a difference of 25,000 votes and there are 43,000 contested votes.

Mike McConachie

Having a contested race is probably a tribute to our population growth. There may be a general feeling that 16 years is long enough and is tough for chance. An elected office is not supposed to be permanent." ()

Brian Cupples

He just hit a shot. It was contested and he hit the shot. Nothing you can do. We were in what we wanted to be in. The kid made it.

Frank Haith

He had shots. But they were making sure every shot was a contested shot.

Scott Drew

He hit the big 3, a contested 3. In games like this, it comes down to who makes the big shot. He hit a big shot.

Jeff Gundy

That was probably part defense and probably partly them missing shots they can make.

Jordan Leedle

We have an excellent defense. All of the goals that have been scored on us have been on free kicks and penalty kicks so nothing from the run of play. Defense is definitely what we pride ourselves on.

Chris Kirkpatrick

We have a mix of new and veteran kids on our defensive unit, and they held them to one score and 198 total yards, including only 68 passing. That was most satisfying. It's much easier to win games with defense than by trying to outscore somebody.

Mel Wilkins

We have a lot of young players, and they had some first-time jitters in CIF. I told them to start stepping up their defense in the second quarter, and they did. They need to remember that defense wins games.

Erin Lind

We need to keep playing as a team, and keep working on our defense and not make stupid fouls.

Brian Ainsworth

We couldn't come up with the key hits. And we weren't mentally prepared on defense. To win, you have to play every play, and we didn't do that today.

Matt Hasselbeck

We could have lost this game. They've got some great leadership on this team. To come in here like that and play like this, the defense was just awesome.

Ed Stephenson

We could have held them a little tighter, which is what we've done in the past. We've got to score eight or nine, and our defense has got to do the job of holding them to seven or eight.

Ron Collins

We just didn't take enough shots tonight. They played a good defense and shot very well.

Gillian Armstrong

We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.

Romeo Crennel

That would have helped if we would've made that play. He just dropped it, it looked like to me.

Brad Kassell

That was probably the key to the victory. Every time they dropped back to pass he was getting harassed. Those guys up front dominated.

Mavis Staples

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

Peter Segal

Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about stories like that.

Mike Miller

Where we used to do 10,000 (skiers) a year, we dropped down to 7,000 last year.

Kevin Yates

I was very pleased with how we swam. A lot of swimmers dropped time and showed they could handle (the pressure of) big meets.

Lisa Whiting

I think she was dropped off but we don't know by who. Her story is really inconsistent. We are trying to get information out of her but she's shutting down.

Kyle Conrad

It dropped right on the line, just like I wanted.

Lynn Ford

The outlook is good because Texas fires start quickly and end quickly. Texas is flatter, with not much rugged terrain.

Bette Davis

I wouldnt piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire

Antoine Rivarol

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

Bertrand Russell

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'.

Dave Bailey

That was unprecedented. Nobody has ever gotten Fire Officer of the Year two times.

Tom Tylutki

That weapon was fired at least 20 times.

Matt Sylvester

We could hear Davidson down the hall partying and yelling and screaming. I think he wanted it to light a fire under us. ... The seniors just wanted to make sure this wasn't the last time we all played together, the last time this team was going to be together. And we made that point to each other.

Rick Ruffin

We just didn't play with the fire this team usually plays with ... I am a little disappointed with that.

Malala Yousafzai

A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

Yani Tseng

So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

Barbara Kerr

The ($3 billion) should be paid back, and then we talk about programs. Hit and miss is not the way it should be done.

Gwen Stefani

That was it. Suddenly you hit puberty, and it's like, you know, thrift stores! I just started deconstructing everything from thrift stores.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Joe Girardi

That was the kind of player I had to be. I had to do the little things to win, and they have to do a lot of them. They have to hit and run, they have to steal, they have to squeeze some,

Carolyn Brown

That would hit the majority of our members. Most would be in the 25 (employees-and-under) range.

John Krawczyk

That would be a big hit to the budget.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last one I hit. I want to hit one in my 50s.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last home run I hit, and I hope I hit one when I'm 50.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Tiger Woods

We need to keep playing more in Ohio. It's that simple. We don't have enough tournaments here.

Kobe Bryant

We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.

Paul Eenhoorn

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Landon Donovan

We were getting slaughtered, ... We weren't playing well at all yet we're up, two-zero. But that's soccer.

Kevin Williams

We were still playing for a title, because we were playing for second.

Colby Armstrong

Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.