Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Bryan Pata

Coaches say the only way teams will start passing deep is if we're up by 21. Otherwise, they'll run, the ball, run the ball, then throw a quick slant.

Adam Haluska

Coaches have been doing a great job keeping my confidence level up. We've been coming in a lot at night putting extra shots in. That's been the turnaround in my game, in my shooting touch.

Al Groh

coaches don't. You can't win games without the ball. You understand that, you take it and you just move on.

Mike Rippee

Coaches can get a little skewed about wanting their kids to get bigger, stronger and faster. It's important you tell your kids to do it the right way.

Mark Gaynor

Coaches and players can sense when members want them and when they don't. We felt wanted here.

Dick Jauron

Coaches and players are pretty exhausted by this point, but you never look forward to it. You work so hard, and it seems like it goes so quickly and that last practice is on you, and you want it to keep going. You like being around a team. You like being part of a team.

Kevin Boothe

Coaches and others said I might have a chance, if I put in the work.

Jonathan Spira

After 15 years, there is simply no excuse to not having this kind of technology available.

Eddy Curry

Sometimes they will look away from me. When I do get the ball, I try to make something happen so they don't have an excuse not to throw me the ball.

P. Herbert

I sort of fell in with the wrong crowd. Things started getting twisted, and instead of facing my drug problem, I made excuses and justified getting away with it because I was maintaining a job and family.

Justin Smith

This game is over with, and we've got to move on. It really doesn't mean anything. There's no excuses, but we knew we were going to play next week. It's win or go home now.

Jason Ritter

I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.

Paul Davis

To be honest, I don't really think so. Everyone is tired this time of year. We can't make the excuse of being tired.

Robert Vasquez

When you need an excuse any excuse will do.

Ray Allen

Tonight I was just off. I can't make any excuse. I just didn't make shots.

Raheem Askia

There is no such thing as excuses, there are only 'reasons why'.

Dana Reeve

And then he said, 'I think I can make that happen on my own,' and he did. He literally commanded his finger to move, and it did.

Ed Kowalczyk

I used to shoot the middle finger at everyone and tell them I'm a punk rocker from York, Pennsylvania,

Bill Connors

You pretty much just waltzed right to the front, you put your finger down or they scanned your iris and within a millisecond your own picture comes up and identifies you and you go through.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Julie Sanders

Everything is right here at your finger tips.

Pam Saylor

To see those fingers just going, as a parent, you know ... he accomplished that on his own. When he made up his mind, trying to find his place (in the world), he wouldn't give up.

Sarah Brady

every rogue with an itchy trigger finger in Florida.

Richard Thompson

Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things sometimes. The fingers of your imagination aren't quite as hidebound as your real fingers.

Larry Coker

I don't think we have slipped talent-wise. I think we're talented enough to play with anybody. But I do sense our guys are not happy, not satisfied, and they shouldn't be, with last season. There really was some embarrassment there for all of us. No doubt, there is a sense of urgency. We need to go out with excitement, with hunger, every week. We had that at times last season, but not all the time. I guess you could point the finger at me, but we did not play with consistency.

John Calipari

The thing about young guys is they don't think they will lose. They haven't been through it yet.

John Salley

The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.

Chris Richards

The thing about our guys is they don't need the money.

Mike Hargrove

the thing sat up and hissed at us, with those nasty teeth showing. We had guys running out of its way.

Lawyer Milloy

I've lined up next to many safeties. I've lined up next to at least 10 different safeties in my career. It's something that's not coachable. It's just two guys that just kind of get it.

Jeff Cirillo

I've never been to the playoffs and I'm running out of time. I know that I need to rely on those guys out there to try and make it to the playoffs.

Andy Santerre

I've learned that it's all about people, which I kind of knew that anyway. It's about treating guys right and getting the work out of them.

Mike Trout

I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I'd be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I'd hit a chopper that wouldn't even reach the shortstop, and I'd get a hit out of it. The guys would be all over me, but a hit's a hit. I'll take 3,000 of 'em.

Brandon Williams

I've always been a big sports fan, and when I'm hanging out with my friends we always talk about sports, so I thought, why not put it on the air? It's just two guys who are very strongly opinionated about their ideas and we talk about it.

Will Kemp

As an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Rachel Lawson

The thing about our sport is you have to turn around and it's a new game. You can't live in the past, you have to learn from your mistakes and keep moving.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Jaleesa Ross

Practices. We've been conditioning all season preparing for this.

Buddy Bell

We're going about it, quite frankly, that Zack is not going to be here in time to get ready for the rotation. We pretty much are preparing for the worst right now. That could change. I don't think it will.

Catherine Deneuve

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Charles Darwin

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Brendon Burchard

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Todd Helton

Better be. That's the reason we put up with this year.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George Andrews

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

Roy Halladay

We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible,

George R. R. Martin

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Cindy Sheehan

We have to stop it as soon as possible.

George Herbert

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Mahmoud Abbas

The most important step after the withdrawal will be how we protect, rebuild.

Mickael Pietrus

It was tough for us tonight and we're really going to try to step up on Wednesday and try to get a W before the break. It's very important to get a win on Wednesday.

Bill Worsham

This is a really significant and unexpected step in our development.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Janet Napolitano

This is a step in the right direction, but we really need more resources.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Mike Sillinger

He always makes the right shot, the right move. He's a talented young player.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

John Dryden

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm

David Mitchell

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.

Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Jane Austen

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Janis Ian

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

Damon Lindelof

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Elizabeth Scott

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

Bob Dole

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;