Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Steve Kragthorpe

The bottom line is turnovers, and we did a great job of securing turnovers. We got the ball back with 2:20 left, and I challenged our team to get the first down and to stay on the field. And they did.

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Connie Higgins

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Jeff Bridges

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

Larry Brown

As I told the team, maybe we'll walk the ball up the rest of the year and call a play every time, so the other team can't score 120 points and shoot 57%.

Mike Wilkinson

A smart defense can usually tell what you are trying to do, but they can't really foretell what we are going to do. Coach gives us a set way to do our runs, but he tells us at a certain point on the field we have to be creative. It definitely gives us a degree of freedom. I love being able to take the ball and try to open something up.

Walt Harris

That position, that's a challenge here at Stanford, to come up with legitimate runners that can make people miss, run people over and break long runs. We decided to give him a look and he did a representative job. I don't think you can say he's the only back who's going to play or even that he'll carry the ball most. He's earned the starting job because of his work ethic and responsiveness on the practice field.

Bud Lachel

Competition is a good thing to have, but you have to keep everybody happy.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Chuck D.

It was a huge step forward for our program and our school for the type of competition we're in.

Todd Bertuzzi

I sincerely hope Steve Moore continues to progress and is back in competition soon,

Julie Withington

They also have year-round swimmers, and they give us some good competition. We expect to have another good meet.

Steve Olson

We have a pretty good shot at doing well at the regional on Saturday. We've wrestled strong competition all season, and that helps this time of the season. Realistically, I would like to think we can get eight or nine guys through, maybe even one or two more.

Paul Buck

We have pretty good competition between about 10 guys,

Eddy Cue

Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

Scott Johnson

Competition means the lowest price would be available.

Rekalin Sims

The bye factor is huge. You get the extra day off and you're ready to go on Friday. That's crucial for us.

Stanley B. Prusiner

It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.

Kathy Leitke

Discipline at the plate is crucial to being a good hitter. We made good adjustments as hitters this weekend.

Evan Mann

The timing of (the upgrade) makes sense given that the fourth quarter is such a crucial part of a retailer's year.

Will Dunman

If we have a first grader and they are late 50 times and they come in at 8:15 a.m., they have missed 12 and a half hours of school. As a first grader, reading is crucial for them and we've lost that time. We can hold them in at recess and do interventions, but that's not (fun for the child). We have older students that come in an hour and a half late. Do the math on that one. Plus, they are missing math first thing in the morning.

Bud Selig

Local ownership there was critical, and it was crucial to Carl Lindner. The one overriding goal we had was to have local ownership.

Jeff Haile

That was crucial for us and that was a crucial shot for them to miss. It's a hustle play, a heady play. She knew what was on the line, she had to hustle to get back and she did.

Annika Sorenstam

That was a pretty crucial eagle. And the momentum definitely turned there.

Martin Eggleston

We need to proceed very delicately. Sixty days is not a long time to make crucial decisions like the decisions being made here today.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Shane Murphy

I've been saying we're a work in progress, and there's still improving to do. Hopefully we can keep getting better and get to where we want to be.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

William Henderson

This is the first time and hopefully the last time I'll have to do that.

John Gould

That's going to be hopefully a big money producer.

Ken Klee

We got a point tonight but we needed two and we know that. Hopefully we're going to start to go in the right direction. We need to.

Susan Goldstein

to get these people out of our neighborhoods and hopefully out of our state.

Randy Winn

We all know what type of player he is and what he can mean to this ballclub. Hopefully, that's a little premature and hopefully he will be able to play this season.

Source Unknown

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Bronc Platt

I've been stepped on, but that's about it, knock wood. But even that, you can feel it. You know you've been stepped on. Still, I was out there riding the next week.

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Elton Brand

At that time, it doesn't matter what he's shooting - 0-for-10, 0-for-20 - he's going to knock down a big shot for us.

Tom Pecora

We had to go to the rope-a-dope a while, kind of get ourselves back in the fight, but they didn't knock us out, and I'm proud of that.

Graham Motion

This was the perfect prep. He does well with time between races. Knock on wood, we can keep him sound.

Richard Zurek

We got the capabilities that will knock your socks off.

Rick Spring

We got some open looks, but we just couldn't knock them down.

Ray Rice

I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Jane Austen

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Steve Stifano

Essentially, if you go with a friend, you'll each be paying $9.75 for a ticket.

Joey Skaggs

You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.

Joe Schmidt

We're paying police professionals to baby-sit rich kids.

Dale Friedman

We simply have got to start paying for people to do that kind of work,

Scott Hartnell

We were paying the price but the puck wasn't going in for us. (Auld) played well.

Kelley Cradduck

We understand some don't do it intentionally, they're just not paying attention. But in the end, they end up getting stuck in the intersection.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

Joan Bonvicini

We were like playing 2 on 5 out there. I mean, really.

Jodi Manore

We won in spite of ourselves. We're not playing as well as I would like.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Darby Stanchfield

From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.

Alexander Fleming

I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.

Josh Boone

When you are a 16 seed playing a 1 seed, you've got nothing to lose.

Marc Jacobs

And when I see students now, I just don't think they are prepared to work so hard. It comes too easy.

Jeff Kelly

be prepared with what you want to say.

Rep. Arza

Be prepared to fight. They're going to come after you personally. They're going to come after you every which way.

Chris Crocker

You can't be prepared for something you haven't seen.

Ron Reier

This type of thing doesn't really surprise us, and it's not something we're not already prepared for.

Pat Frazer

What Fauquier does is nothing we weren't prepared for. But you got to do it, though.

Vin Scully

I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Paul Reid

One quarterback works from the I-formation and the other works out of the T-formation. So, right now, we have to prepare for both.

Kareem Rodriguez

The shots that usually go down weren't going down. It was one shot and out for us.

Tom Tupa

I've taken shots for it. It hasn't worked. That's disappointing.

Hines Ward

We thought we could take some shots in the air. We're an experienced team and we took our chances.

Sanja Tomasevic

Everything they told us would happen, did. They would have their big shots and their power. But we could play with them if we were patient.

Edgar Bronfman

between very long shots and very, very, very long shots.

Ronald Reagan

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Susan Estrich

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

John Wayne

I never shot nobody I didnt have to.

Helen Darling

He said we need to get more shots up. We're getting used to it.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Ronald Coleman

This was my decision. It's a tough day.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

Rihanna

It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.

Yani Tseng

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

Peter Wright

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

Louis Hinnant

In a tournament like this, you've got to get something in your system.

Inaki Saez

You don't give anything away in a tournament like this,

Michael Collins

This is the one tournament where I tell folks, this is not a sport.

Kim Clijsters

Yeah, it was (the quickest tournament I've won),

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jane Jacobs

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.