Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Christensen

We've got some really good hustlers. Becky Book is just incredible and Amber Bietz is all over the floor. We're really proud of that back row, ... We've moved Delainye and Jamie into that middle back for defense and that has been a huge plus for us.

John Parker

We have been working on spreading the scoring around. We are looking to have different people score, it makes us tougher to guard. Grace Amber is a freshman who is stepping up to help our scoring.

Courtney Harris

Mia?s a young player that will only get better. She complements Amber so well. They look for each other on the court.

Gavin Miller

I thought Natalie Hayes played good defense on Amber Hacker. She's their leading scorer. I told (Natalie) before the game, I said, 'I just got a feeling you're going to have a big night.' I thought she played good defense.

Hendrik Poinar

When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal.

Ashley McFarland

I was relaxed coming in and didn't feel any extra pressure. I don't feel any pressure with this team because Sheila (Adams) and Amber (Strong) have stepped up.

Max Hill

I look to see Fort Defiance in the hunt this year, but that will not be an easy task. Pitching should be our strength, having both Amber Hoffman and Brittany Davidson back in the starting rotation. I don't think we've fallen off any in the hitting department.

Curt Miller

Wow. Unbelievable. The last thing we said before the game was, 'who is going to be the X factor?' We don't win that game without Amber Flynn tonight.

James Sensenbrenner

The problem with the Senate Amber bill is that it doesn't do anything that isn't already being done,

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Joe Hodas

The pilot at that point decided to get it checked out.

Richard Jefferies

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

Bill Kelly

We wanted to make sure the right guy ended up with it. What he's really creative at is when he's getting checked out front he'll kind of draw you into him. And Dan's great because he looks really skinny and he doesn't take big blows. I think the officials like that.

Klaus Steinbach

We have checked with the court and were told that the earliest slot is Friday.

Laura Eimiller

We have checked this information out and feel confident that the two individuals in question are not these two terrorists.

Roger Bubb

It discourages plagiarism, because if the kids know it's going to be checked they're more likely to work a little harder instead of take the easy way out and actually try and do things properly.

Bob Kuehl

We had checked with the ESD (Educational Service District) last week, and they told us about 50 percent of the schools in the ESD were open today.

S. Hughes

I was told just before I took a timeout late in the game that I had two left, but it turns out I had only one. It was my mistake. I should have checked with a scorekeeper and not relied on someone on the bench.

Bob Watters

We realized it was light when we picked up the container. Customs checked the manifest (a cargo list) and found no detailed information in it.

Jeff Gundy

That was probably part defense and probably partly them missing shots they can make.

Jordan Leedle

We have an excellent defense. All of the goals that have been scored on us have been on free kicks and penalty kicks so nothing from the run of play. Defense is definitely what we pride ourselves on.

Chris Kirkpatrick

We have a mix of new and veteran kids on our defensive unit, and they held them to one score and 198 total yards, including only 68 passing. That was most satisfying. It's much easier to win games with defense than by trying to outscore somebody.

Mel Wilkins

We have a lot of young players, and they had some first-time jitters in CIF. I told them to start stepping up their defense in the second quarter, and they did. They need to remember that defense wins games.

Erin Lind

We need to keep playing as a team, and keep working on our defense and not make stupid fouls.

Brian Ainsworth

We couldn't come up with the key hits. And we weren't mentally prepared on defense. To win, you have to play every play, and we didn't do that today.

Matt Hasselbeck

We could have lost this game. They've got some great leadership on this team. To come in here like that and play like this, the defense was just awesome.

Ed Stephenson

We could have held them a little tighter, which is what we've done in the past. We've got to score eight or nine, and our defense has got to do the job of holding them to seven or eight.

Ron Collins

We just didn't take enough shots tonight. They played a good defense and shot very well.

Joan Rachetto

The 40 was really good from Tara. That was an excellent score for her.

Glenn Lincoln

That was the major problem in the game, and the Connolly team really hustled. They did an excellent job.

Dana Ferry

That was really a great goal. Just the way she scored the goal was impressive. She's really turned into an excellent player.

Michael Kelly

Tyler fits the Dayton mold. He's a quality student, has outstanding parental support and excellent leadership skills. He's not just a football player, but a well-rounded young man.

Steve Rives

We have a first-team all-conference player in Jeremy Richardson, a 6-7 kid who plays small forward. He gives us an excellent perimeter player. He's been at 18 or 19 a game.

Richard Giannini

We've had excellent discussions recently and our goals are the same for this football program.

Don Flanagan

We have had some inconsistency. But I do feel this is an excellent team. When they're good, they're very, very good. Last night I thought they were very, very good, and I think they can replicate that.

Nick Barnett

I would love to see Jim Bates back again. He's an excellent coach.

Kate Christensen

Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Randy Petersen

The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Malcolm Jenkins

The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Nolan Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

Brian Ellis

That was a huge play. They stole the rebound and took it from a two-point game to a five-point game just like that.

Donald Trump

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Spencer Stewart

That was a totally different team than the one we saw twice this season. They got a lot better and played a tough game.

Demond Garth

That was a stage down at Wallace State, and he played unreal.

Amy Pettibone

That which does not kill you only makes you stronger. We have played with the best. I look at the state rankings, and there aren't many that we haven't played. You've got to test your players.

Janis Pardy

We have all played together for so long. We have a lot of chemistry. We know how each other plays and can predict what they are going to do next.

Dee Brown

We could have played better. We didn't play our best, but we stuck it out and we won.

Maurice Greene

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.

Tom Woodruff

We may tweak things a little bit. When we get runners on base, we have to get them around to score. We will do what ever it takes.

Donna Martin

We had ample opportunities to score. We need to have better at-bats with runners on base.

Chris Bryant

That's been the story of our year. We just can't score runs when we need to and get runs in when we've got runners in scoring position.

Nick Johnson

It's very frustrating. We had some opportunities, and we didn't get it done. I had runners on second and third with one out. You have to find a way to get it in.

Andrew C. Bradley

Sam pitched very well for us, we just have to get some of those runners to score.

Bill Rodgers

That's fine; we runners are, after all, up for a challenge.

George Carlin

You never see a smiling runner.

Nancy Gibbs

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.