Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Lopez

Anytime an athlete can play at the next level it's an absolute life-altering encounter, it really is. We've put in a lot of time and effort with Megan.

David Strow

Any gaming company with significant operations is watching this closely. Ensuring that customers are able to get here is an absolute priority.

George Carey

Any positive thing like that will absolutely create problems. But I thought it was and still is a wonderful thing.

William Goldman

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

John Martin

As far as the extent of residential housing (that should go downtown), we missed the boat in 1997. The view taken since 1997, to push forward with the extent of housing that the city has done, has been absolutely correct and it'll be proved in the long run.

E. O. Wilson

As hitters, we got dominated. This is lucky. (Clemens) absolutely shoved it down our throats. That's why you give all the credit to Kip for keeping it close.

Carl Mydans

As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent. And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished.

Graham Shear

Ashley is absolutely adamant that he will be proceeding with an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport as he remains entirely dissatisfied with the result.

Larry Miller

As far as I'm concerned, nothing has changed. One thing I always know about Jerry, he is absolutely trustworthy and always doing the best that he can.

Dan Mullen

Athletes face some of the same issues any student deals with: academics, family and personal issues, career or educational path changes. Each person has a unique set of circumstances that lead to decisions they make.

Frederich Cepeda

This is a revolutionary team. Baseball is not judged by the price of the athletes but by the heart of the people.

Edwin Moses

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Dave Peterson

We had a very encouraging effort from many of our athletes for the first outdoor meet.

Dave Kohnen

We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.

Mark Wheeler

We have a bunch of excellent athletes and I have high hopes for the boys.

Mitch Barnhart

You have to remember where you want to compete. The schools at the lower end have not had that much success. If you want to compete, you must give your coaches and athletes the resources to do it.

Thomas Brooks

We try to do that. We have a number of athletes capable (of contributing). We don't want to be one-dimensional.

Lisa Miller

Like all good high school coaches, you walk around and you pilfer athletes from other programs. I was coaching field hockey and watching her play soccer and thinking, 'This kid would be really, really good at lacrosse.' So basically I chased her around with a stick for a couple of months and talked her into playing lacrosse.

Bill Fisher

Originally we were playing most of our games sitting on our heels hoping not to make mistakes. Now the kids are really going after it, expecting to win. It's only been two games but now they know that they can go out and do the things it takes to win.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Stacey Widlitz

The Street was hoping for positive comps in Japan, and also some investors were expecting same-store sales growth in the U.S. to be 10 percent or higher.

Robert Mattson

The Street is not expecting disappointment or glorious things but ho-hum results. Things are getting incrementally better.

Bob Hammond

The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot in the present, ... But as always, you just never know.

Kaydee Smith

After about 11 months we got pregnant for the first time, and unfortunately we had a miscarriage at three months and so about a year and nine months later we got the news that we were expecting quintuplets.

George Hodgson

After a 240-point fall on the Dow, people are expecting a bounce.

Bill Griffith

Sometimes when people read Zippy they're expecting it to fall into the same formula as some other comics. That's not what I do.

H. Hunt

Sometime in the middle of the summer, we are expecting we could be approaching critical-stage drought.

Gerald Walsh

People got their money's worth. Lincoln's a good team and they're fighting for that fourth (playoff) spot. We're happy with the win.

Freddy Robinson

No one wants to go home at this point. We're fighting to keep our season alive, and we'll come with everything we've got.

Paul Robeson

Once we are joined together in the fight for peace we will have to talk to each other and tell the truth about each other. How else can peace be won?

Christopher Macgowan

Dealers will have to fight for every sale.

Chris Paul

Anything can happen. As long as we have a chance, we're going to keep fighting and keep playing.

Ronald Koeman

Anything is possible in football. Everything is open. We're going to fight until the last minute - just like we did in the first game.

Stephanie Dujarric

The secretary-general is greatly troubled by the worsening security situation in Chad, resulting from the ongoing fighting between government forces and rebel fighters.

A. Johnson

The technology and resources are there to effectively fight this. We just need to work smarter to do this.

Patrick Faure

The target is to be next year really fighting for the title.

Dave Norton

Any race I put him in he gives me 110%. There's not a race that Jim gave away this year.

Chris Rock

Aw, man, they gave 'em the Oscar on stage. Next they're gonna give the Oscars in the parking lot. It'll be like a drive-through Oscar lane. You get an Oscar and a McFlurry and keep on moving.

David Bell

As long as everything goes smoothly, he gave me every indication I'll start the season.

Dave Stephens

That play gave us a big lift going into the locker room. We were playing more like a team tonight and that is great to see.

Quentin Tarantino

That part that was in the wall, that was the bomb. I wanted a lot of wall time and Wally gave me the wall time.

Brad Buckman

That was a big shot. We really needed that. It gave us back the momentum that they had just took.

Deion Sanders

People reached out and gave millions to a cause. This is in our own backyard. We feel this pain. We just truly want to help in any way we can.

Mike Dunphy

Offensively, three runs in the first inning gave us a big advantage.

Roger Clemens

So they gave me some medication and I'm going to treat it and that's all I can tell you from there.

Jeff Ellis

O'Hara is not on the floor. That's tough for us. He's our brain.

Loren Loverde

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

Rachael Cook

The movie just had a really tough time,

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.

Tom Davies

Pretty tough to come out of there with a 'W' when you go through that.

Tom Heckert

Realistically, it would be pretty tough to get up there.

Jill Wynns

There will be tough decisions, but we have to make them.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Richard Childress

It was tough, and it's still tough. It would have been tough on anybody.