Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Bobby Frasor

Coach Williams from Day 1 was always preaching how good we could be. We could surprise everyone in America, all the analysts; we could be the darlings of America.

Kristen Blaha

Coach Byrne always comments that I'm like a coach out there. I love to help the underclassmen. I'll help them out by yelling things out. The coach will give instructions and sometimes because they're young, still they'll forget what to do. I'll just yell out reminders and stuff like that.

Jeff Parker

Coach Briggs does a great job, and his kids are tough,

Tyler Hansbrough

Coach Bess is a hard worker. He made me a hard worker and has a lot to do with who I am.

Solomon Jones

Coach always tells us we have to find a way. It's what we have to do, instead of thinking what we could do if we had this player or this player. Nobody expects us to win any games from here on out, so we just have to plan on a lot of upsets.

Andre Heard

Coach always says you have to keep fighting until the game is over, if you are up 20 or down 20. We have to play hard every minute we are on the court.

Lee Humphrey

Coach always does a great job of instilling confidence in me.

Mark LaBarbera

Coach Adams has a first-hand understanding of our football tradition and a wonderful vision for what is possible going forward. There have been a lot of positives within the football program over the past seven months and we are looking forward to seeing these play out as success on the field.

Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts.

Bob Holthus

I'm very happy with the draw. If Lawyer Ron could win this, he'd be one of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby. It's your lifelong dream.

Amanda Miller

Our girls do a good job of keeping a team down, ... Volleyball is very much a momentum game, so it's important not to let a team back in the game.

Jim Young

Our girls are very intelligent and they study hard for their exams. We were out of our routine early. Southeast played well and we were not sharp.

Teresa Lamb

Overall, the girls showed tremendous growth and teamwork.

Natalie du Toit

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

Tucker Max

I don't even pursue girls anymore. I mean, I could obviously still pursue girls. It's not like I can't. But I don't have to pursue girls anymore. Girls come to me.

Malala Yousafzai

We must tell girls their voices are important.

Katherine Johnson

We're really young, so there's a lot of room for growth. If these girls stay together, and work together during the off-season they will grow as a team.

Marcus Thames

That's what I work for every year. It'll be a great feeling.

Sean McMahon

Zach had a great race for us as he mixed in with some of the top runners in the state.

Tommy Lasorda

You wait till you see that Dominican team. You wait till you see Puerto Rico. You wait till you see Venezuela. . . . Matsui is a great player. The Japanese team needs him.

Thomas More

Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.

Ken Johnson

You really hope that he's OK. He's a great player and you never want to see a player get hurt like that.

Mike Dunne

You're a great neighbor and we all know what you're doing, and we know you're going to do this with care,

Tim Duncan

Beno has been playing great for us. With Nick out right now, Beno is getting a lot of minutes and he has really responded well.

Phil Colicchio

We wanted to take away their penetration. Our big guys did a great job of meeting their guards in the lane.

Tino Martinez

We all think it shouldn't be, because he's done such a great job here.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Dusty Baker

At this point, it's hard to imagine him not pitching forever.

Terri Lemos

(Diver) Ryan Jones qualified for State in El Dorado last weekend. So Cody is working hard so he can qualify for State.

Rob Sanderson

DirecTV is having a hard time getting compensated appropriately for what they've delivered,

Mark Greenberg

Could they be a little more aggressive? Yes. Should they be a lot more aggressive? It's hard to say.

Patty Griffin

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

Paul Arden

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.

Steve Buscemi

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it's very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.

Robert Allenby

Towels are the worst. They're hard to sign and the strings get stuck on the pen. Then the next one you sign is smudged.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Charles Peabody

It's a really high price and not many people are willing to pay that, so I think Lehman is the more obvious,

Anna Netrebko

As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.

Alice Walker

Resistance is the secret of joy!

May Sarton

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

Philip James Bailey

Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.

Philip James Bailey

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

Peter B. Lewis

The joy of juxtaposition is endless.

Penn Jillette

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

Paulo Coelho

Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.

Paulo Coelho

Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.

Paulo Coelho

In dire times you can lose joy, but you can't lose hope. Hope is your guide.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Desmond Tutu

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

Sebastian Faulks

My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.

Michael Sheen

A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.'

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You’re a slave? (Eleni) I was. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have come here. (Acheron) Take your cloak off and sit, Acheron. You’ve done nothing to apologize for. I admire you all the more for stopping to help us. It’s nothing for a nobleman to do so, yet they seldom bother to help those less fortunate. For a freedman to speak up in defense of another takes great courage and character. What you did is all the more noble and kind, and I would be honored to have you sit at my table with us. (Acheron)

Michael Beschloss

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

Michael O'Leary

Are we going to say sorry for our lack of customer service? Absolutely not.

Maureen Johnson

I followed your footsteps," he said, in answer to the unspoken question. "Snow makes it easy." I had been tracked, like a bear. "Sorry to make you go to all that trouble," I said. "I didn't have to go that far, really. You're about three streets over. You just kept going in loops." A really inept bear.

Maureen Johnson

I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.