Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

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.

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.

Elaine Youngs

Rachel was first on my list. I'm so happy it's happened this way. I'm having so much fun and I'm probably playing the best volleyball of my career. Rachel has a lot to do with that.

Jason Williams

Probably when I was 8 or 9, because I knew I was the best player in the league, but that's about the last time. I always felt like we could win, because if I didn't feel we could win, what the use playing? But realistically, no, this is the first time.

Melvin Johnson

Probably what we are best known for is our quality work and getting turn around so fast.

Marshall Wittman

Privatization is at best in hibernation, and at worst awaiting a second Bush term, if there is one. But it's just not going to happen during 2002, which is an election year, and while we may be recovering from a recession, or still in one.

Ray Tanner

Probably the best case for him would be (out) six to eight weeks. If he does have to have surgery, then he'll be gone for the rest of the year and possibly next year.

Glenn Wilson

Probably, that was the best start in the last month by any of our starting eight pitchers. To hold a team like that, with the kind of offense they have, to three runs - it's outstanding.

John Ensign

We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Bill Buford

Her travel writing was characterized by a high moral purpose and an overwhelming sense of justice. What distinguishes her journalism is her eloquent outrage and commitment to fair play.

Neil Callaway

I think the commitment that Shock made to come back makes him a special type person. A lot of people would have bolted, but he hung in here with us, and we're grateful for that.

Peter Ragone

Today he informed the mayor that he is going to take on that role. The man should be lauded for his commitment to the city.

William J. Clinton

The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.

Richard Schickel

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

Robert Rauschenberg

I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.

Robert M. Hutchins

America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

Minnie Driver

Sometimes, if it feels right to do something, you have to do it no matter what others think.

Corey Koskie

It was a long time. It feels good to be back here.

Ariana Grande

When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

Delta Goodrem

I'm still human - I can't not feel.

Jim Furyk

We helped each other and there's a lot of emotions, so a half-point kind of feels like a disappointment,

Chris Davis

We help a lot of people out, ... It feels good inside to know that you're making a difference.

Chris DiMarco

We hung in there. We grinded one out and got a half a point, ... That feels like a win, being 2 down with four to go.

Pascal Dupuis

You have to score goals on the power play. It feels great. It's one of those nights where everything went in.

Jeff Petersen

You look around at Ogden, and ... there is a renaissance here. And it's not just the leaders, but the people of Ogden are working to turn this place back to its glory days. Downtown, it just feels right.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Ben E. King

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

Phil Garner

We've struggled so much in getting the runner in from third with less than two outs, so it obviously felt good doing that. I think it took the pressure off everybody. Might have led to the three-run homer, too.

Abby Wambach

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

Gary Majewski

We've been in a rut the last few weeks, but every once in a while we have a game where we don't make mistakes and guys get the hits. It felt like it did in the first half.

Kevin VandeStreek

We really felt that he and Conigliaro were really good players. We knew everything went through Werner in the post and we tried to double-team him from the back and get there on the catch.

Queen Latifah

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

Cary Thompson

She ran our offense all year. She was a real floor leader for us.

Terry Boe

Michelle has to take the front seat tonight. She led our team up and down the floor tonight.

Karl Hobbs

His status is at the point where he's getting up and down the floor a little bit. And we're hoping that he'll be able to play on Thursday.

Doc Rivers

He's been great. He's been in a zone on the floor, off the floor with teammates. He's just been in a zone all the way around.

John Washington

The floor plan has expanded about 30 feet,

Stephen Braveman

The floor is a nice place to be when you're trying to be quiet and have intimacy. You can't hit your head on anything, and you have more space to spread out.

Billy Donovan

They like to go up and down the floor and we like to go up and down the floor. The team that executes that phase better is the team that will win the game.

Kristi LaFleur

A lot of people have thought we weren't going to make it all year long. So the girls psychologically wanted to go out on our home floor and prove them wrong.

Akeem Wright

They are going to be tough to beat. They have a good guard in Richard Roby, and they have a lot of guys who can spread the floor and shoot the three.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Bryce Harper

D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.

Ariah Fasana

Dayton put on a very good tournament and they wrestled very well to win.

Tom Harkin

Compassionate conservatism is like trying to heat up an old house with warm thoughts. It might make you feel good but it doesn't stop you from freezing,

John Shelby

(Cobb) was throwing three pitches for strikes, so I went up there sitting on the change-up. I just hoped he would throw it and he did and I made good contact.

Rand Pecknold

Colgate has some good hockey players and did a great job tonight.

H. Judd

People go, 'What the heck is this guy?

Alan Trammell

You would like to hold them off as long as possible and to be honest, we did that. Congratulations to the White Sox. They've had a heck of a year.

Cale Yarborough

one of the hottest races I've ever been in. This is a heck of a way to make a living.

David Smith

I don't know if I have a shot in heck in doing it, but I'm going to give it a try.

Rusty Wallace

I'd rather win one, ... It would sound a heck of a lot better.

Mark Richt

West Virginia did a heck of a job jumping on us. The only consolation is we didn't lay down and die.

Joe Gibbs

Patrick stepped in there and did a heck of a job. And I don't know if you can say enough about Santana.

Maurice Cheeks

It was a heck of a shot, ... Once again, it was our rebounding that put us in a hole.

Phyllis Diller

My timing is so precise a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Brian Kilrea

He's their Danny. I think he's been a top goaltender in this league for years,

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

P. G. Wodehouse

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

Len Deighton

Whatever path you take, there is a league of bad road.

Pete Rose

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

Ralph Cudworth

He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of God in him. Holiness is no solitary, neglected thing; it hath stronger confederacies, greater alliances, than sin and wickedness. It is in league with God and the universe; the whole creation smiles upon it; there is something of God in it, and therefore it must needs be a victorious and triumphant thing.

Jimmy Fallon

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

Joe Bastianich

The general manager is kind of like the step into darkness when you reach the top of the league. As GM, you're responsible for everything, including the maitre d's and the sommeliers - all these people who have their own agendas. But you probably make less than the maitre d' and have a lot more work and a lot more headaches.

Charles Terry

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

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Carlos Rogers

If we played in real life, that's what would happen.

Dave Gahan

I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas, but you don't do much with them.

Scott Skiles

I was really proud of the guys. We played really hard. We were active. And we played really solid defense, and we got out with a win.

Bill Self

If we'd played man, he would have had 25 points.

Matt Riley

If we play like we played today for the rest of the season, we're going to go far.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Steve Nash

I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.

Sonny Vaccaro

There's Brandon Jennings. The NBA told him to go to college for a year, and he said, "Screw that. I'll go to Europe and make a million bucks and then come back." And he's proven to be a pretty damn good player. He's done as much for the game as Michael [Jordan] by forging a different route.

Steve Kerr

I'm just thrilled for so many people. Our players, mostly, but the people in our organization - Rick Welts, Joe Lacob and Peter Guber and the whole group. It's just a phenomenal group of people. I think as a coach you just appreciate kind of the big picture a little bit more.

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

Mike Hathaway

I'd say right now there are seven teams (that could win it).

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for 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.

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,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

Adelaide Anne Procter

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Boris Becker

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Barack Obama

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

Anthony Calvillo

Each win from now on is going to be so important,

John Margaritis

We didn't know if we were going to win or lose. But we were not scared, and we did not play scared.