Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Miceli

I've been around young guys. I guess I get along in the clubhouse and with the bullpen guys. If I can help them in any kind of way, I will.

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

Sherri Coale

I've never seen an 18-year-old kid do it night in and night out regardless of the circumstance, regardless of the venue. Kids get sick, they have tests, they have distractions, they have a bad night. There are a million things that happen to freshmen along the course of the season.

Billy Donovan

I've said it all along about this team, they derive a lot pleasure from moving and passing the basketball and playing together.

Brian Hearne

We have said all along that the open cut development is the only way to secure the future of the mine.

Jim Hettinger

Converting them to new standards ... often involves a pretty stiff budget and a few surprises along the way.

Wayne Barlow

And this car was sitting along side the road. So, we went in and asked the lady behind the counter if this was one of the real Blues-mobiles. She said yes, that her and her husband owned it, and she had driven it to work that day.

Jeff Ruland

And they all need a little time on the (psychiatrist's) couch. Along with Coach.

Bill Bavasi

And we had no surplus, no one in development, to come along if we had created holes. Serious trade possibilities for pitching did not avail themselves, and we did not shop those guys.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Buell Jr

Defensively, that's one of the best defensive efforts we've had in a long time.

Adrian Benziger

Defensively Stephanie Walker had one of her best games. She made a lot of game breakaway stops and saves.

Phil Smyth

Defensively it was probably the best we've played all season.

Chris Kaman

Defensively, it was probably the best game I've played with the steals, the blocks (three) and the rebounds. I play hard, I play with a lot of energy. Some nights I don't have the energy, and you can obviously tell the nights that I don't. I just try to play hard and go after the rebounds the best I can, and they were coming to me tonight.

Scott Jones

Defensively, it was our best outing of the year. We had no errors and turned three double plays.

Larry Haylor

Defensively, it's the best group we've had since '96 or '97. Our down linemen are better and we're deeper.

Dan Watson

Defensively, I thought that was our best effort all year. When you deal with a kid like Mike Tisdale who's seven foot and can do a lot of different things, you need a total team effort. I thought our guards really got after it and we made it hard to get it into Mike. And when we did that, Matt (Buren) was there to at least contain.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Domonique Foxworth

I just have to keep working to get better. That's what I'm looking forward to. I did some good things this year, but I think I can do better, and that's my objective from this point on.

Aaron Baddeley

I just knew it was a matter of time before the putter started working a little bit. I've just been patiently waiting for this to happen. I'm excited. I'm looking forward to the weekend, especially around this golf course.

Adam Vaccari

I really am looking forward to that. I have nothing to lose. He's the three-time state champion, and he's the guy with everything riding on him. I can just go out there and wrestle.

Maria Sharapova

I played a good match, but I guess I was a little tired from yesterday. But I am happy with the way the season is shaping up and I am looking forward to playing her again.

Dave Roberts

Cam put on a nice show. We're looking forward to getting this lineup rolling.

Wayne Hudson

I never give up. I keep moving forward on everything I do.

Rick Sickmiller

I'm not trying to push forward or hold back this year. We'll go out and play one game at a time and do our best.

Marco Basten

I'm happy for Salomon for this decision. I'm looking forward to working with him.

Bobby Vinton

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Douglas Adams

You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.

Dorothy Allison

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

Donnie Wahlberg

Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.

Donnie Wahlberg

If I wanted to connect like I do now, I'd have to write 500,000 letters, get 500,000 stamps, send them out and wait for them all to come back. This stuff is instantaneous. I can see if someone is having a bad day and send them a smiley face and have an effect on them. It's fun, but it's also a very powerful thing.

Donna Tartt

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

Donald Glover

I hope people come to the shows because they feel like there's something there that I can't necessarily articulate, but it's real and it's fun.

Don Winslow

I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

Don Tapscott

Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off.

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Duke Ramey

This has been the greatest waste of human resources I've ever seen.

Alfred Adler

Life happens at the level of events, not words

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Joe Murray

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

Muriel Rukeyser

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

P. J. O'Rourke

What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

Patrick Henry

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Albert Camus

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

Albert Camus

For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

Albert Camus

We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

Amanda Palmer

There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.

Amanda Palmer

Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

Amanda Palmer

American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there's always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. If we don't allow for that no, we're not actually asking, we're either begging or demanding. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut.

Annie Lennox

When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.

Annie Lennox

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.

Annie Lennox

If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.