Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Labonte

A top-five finish in the 150 is a good start. It gives us something to build on for Sunday.

Shawn Purlee

We talked to our seniors about building a legacy. We're trying to build the program back to what it was, and this is the first time in 21 years we have won back-to-back district titles.

David James

We tried to train the girls smarter, and not necessarily harder, to build up to this. We knew we would be in the hunt for the title, but for us to win it is just unbelievable.

Andrew Bogut

We just need to know what it feels like to win a playoff game. Even if we don't win this series, as a young team to build for next year it's just good to get a playoff win.

Nancy Clouse

We just needed to get that first win. We needed to build some confidence, and this was a confidence-booster.

Jeff Gordon

We just want to be able to focus on our program, on our people, on what we have to do to be as strong as we can as a team to compete for wins, compete for championships, and build that together without there being too many outside distractions. If we ever say we want to go under the radar, that's what we're trying to do.

Brian Cashman

We just want him right. He's a starter, so we need to build him back up to be a starter. But today was good news for me.

Sara Antolick

We just try to build up (Smith's) confidence as much as we can. When she shoots a shot, we'll say, 'Hey, good shot.' We help out with little things like to post up bigger.

Jerrad Jeske

We were probably a minute-and-a-half out of the playoffs. That was a heartbreaker. We hope to build on that. We're right there knocking on the playoff step. They can taste it.

Mark Batty

The yield-curve flattening has certainly been challenging for banks. The winners and losers will be decided on how well they can generate revenues faster than expenses are growing.

Sam Roberts

It was a blast, and it made me a little star in my school when it happened, ... It's kind of funny and embarrassing now. I certainly don't go around telling people because it's silly, but someone who knew from before will tell a new group of friends, and I'll have to find the tape and play it again.

Brett Gallagher

It may have taken a little while for (3M and Lexmark) to sink in, ... Lexmark is certainly not a bellwether, but it was one of the stable names in the tech sector.

Jack Hoadley

It may be impossible for some consumers to find the ideal plan -- and it will certainly be time-consuming and difficult at best.

Don Buford

It's an individual thing. You have to want to do it in order to do it, No. 1. To be successful at it, you have to work at it and put in a little more effort. You have to put in some extra time. He certainly seems dedicated to doing that. There are a couple other young men who I've talked to who are that way.

Mike Williams

It's going to be looked at closely. We certainly can't do that all year long.

John Brady

It's good for us to be able to have good players like that, and good players don't develop like that unless you have good high school coaching. It certainly makes it a lot easier.

Karin Slaughter

I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.

Nancy Roman

Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Alanis Morissette

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Alan Alda

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Chin-Ning Chu

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Cher

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Matt Watson

I'm very proud of the guys. We swam very well when we could've just showed up, we showed a lot of pride.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Wayne Rooney

I just want to get in the team and show all of them what I can do. (on signing for Manchester united)

Tyrone Willingham

Years ago, when I was (at Stanford), you had maybe one or two teams -- at one time I was part of one of those teams -- you didn't have to worry about, ... Now it's not that way in the conference. A lot of the teams that were once at the bottom kind of have their games together and are making their way to the top.

Zack Greinke

I was actually hoping the Royals would pick me. It was the main team I wanted to go to. Their colors are Royal blue and that's my favorite color.?

Rick Riordan

Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other. But Nico wasn't easy to figure out.

Sam Altman

The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.

Sam Altman

... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.

Xavi

I liked the Paul Ince and Roy Keane partnership Manchester United had. They would have been my team had I moved to England.

Aaron Brooks

I'm not where I want to be, but I don't think this team is where they want to be.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.