Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Isaac Brock

I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'

Carolyn Beck

We can't ignore somebody who's obviously breaking the law.

David Gallop

We can't have a situation where clubs can take a gamble breaking the rules, knowing that all they need to do is write a check to pay a fine at the end of the season. There has to be a stronger disincentive.

Raymond Bonner

I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.

Orlando Bloom

I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.

Richard Suttmeier

We've left ourselves without support as we're breaking to new lows for the year,

Dale Decker

Use vibration with caution. If you see you're getting any breaking of rock, you've got to back off.

Shingo Takatsu

My breaking ball, I didn't have command of it. I threw a fastball and he really wasn't timid at all.

Lincoln Steffens

Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.

Wesley Clark

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

David Wenham

People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.

Phil Garner

That was a surprise. We haven't seen that from Oswalt. He struggled with his command and just didn't look comfortable in that first inning. This is very much uncharacteristic of the way he's pitched.

Harry Reid

We need to hear honesty, humility from the Commander in Chief, not swagger from the campaigner in chief.

Mary Antin

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.

Antony Sher

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

John Reid

While we take what happened seriously, and I stand by everything that our commander on the spot did, don't let's take one incident like that and try to pretend that it reflects the whole of even the Iraqi police force,

Cindy Sheehan

Who do you want as YOUR Commander in Chief?

Dan Callahan

I thought his velocity would increase dramatically in college. But that didn't happen. We didn't see dramatic change. He's throwing 79-82 mph. But he has excellent command of four pitches.

A.J. Burnett

Wherever they want me to throw 90 pitches I'm up for it.

Willie Randolph

Listen, when he pitches if I don't see what I like to see I'm not going to be totally patient. You go by your track record.

Shawn Chacon

I still made pitches when I had to.

Lou Piniella

He's a lot responsible for the way we've played. To me, he's pitching with a lot more confidence. You can see it out there. But that's what winning does for you. You get aggressive, you make better pitches and you make better choices.

Jim Tracy

When he's right, he's throwing quality pitches down there.

Ken Howe

We swung at a lot of first pitches and got outs. It minimized what he had to do for work on the mound. My hat's off to him.

Bobby Cox

He was just dynamite. Had all three pitches working.

Jeff Blauser

He could throw two pitches for strikes pretty much whenever he wanted. When you can do that, you'll be pretty effective.

Bobby Howard

He just started to get his pitches up. I thought he pitched well enough to win.

Van Coleman

He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.

Bret Boone

I'm not like Ichiro. I don't polish my glove every day,

Jonathan Todd

We will look at the Polish response carefully.

George Black

We think we've got a system that will work and we'll try to get it as polished as we can.

Alice Cooper

I promise every time I walk down this street I will polish that little star,

John Fitzgibbons

This has taken a little polish off the apple, but it's still an apple.

Eric S. Raymond

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

Art Briles

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas, tough, unselfish, not spoiled ... he's a can't-miss guy, in my opinion.

Gerald Temples

I was sick of that. Our secondary didn't play very well.

Nicholas DiNubile

I would say a brace should be a secondary consideration,

Tom Zbikowski

We are a little uneasy but the secondary will make plays. After we get settled in you will see that we make plays.

Nancy Keller

We now have a new tool we can use to find secondary metabolites that are of pharmaceutical interest.

Francis Gaskins

This is just a warm-up for a big secondary (offering). If they were serious about selling, they'd sell more than 6 percent.

Mick Jagger

I'm very much against the secondary ticket market. I don't know anyone who isn't.

Don Miguel Ruiz

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

Jacques Rossouw

These are secondary analyses and are exploratory to some extent.

Russian Proverb

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away

Ashley Lewie

When Ari throws a pitch, I know where it is going to go.

Carroll Ballard

It throws me in the toilet. I'm going to have a lot of trouble getting another picture.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Dave Odom

I know (Kinsey) would have been here. It's one of those things: He wasn't here on time, so he doesn't start. That throws Renaldo back in there.