Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Bobby Thomson

I was a raw rookie in Arizona during spring training in 1947, but I could do three things. I could run. I had a good arm. And I could hit with power.

Kit Williams

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

Jimmy Piersall

I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.

Carl Olson

If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

Roger Clemens

I love this, this is why you get off the couch to play this game. I've been fortunate to have played in a lot of big games, but it's still exciting.

Frederick Great

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Herschel Walker

The majority of the people that I was growing up with were going off into the military. A lot of my classmates thought of going into the military.

Wilt Chamberlain

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Michael Jackson

What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use another form of identification.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Brian Dawkins

Each guy in here has to look in the mirror and ask themselves:

Megan Smith

Each class is going to ask him two questions. I think it's going to be fun.

Drayton McLane

Each year, with our players, I ask them what their goals are. I said, 'Roy, what is one of your goals?' He said, 'To own a bulldozer.' That kind of took me back a little bit. I had never heard that before.

Colin Wilson

Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask "What the hell is wrong with the projector?" and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.

Jennifer Roberts

During the 'Think Tank' we ask questions that rise from the course of the week. We talk about how Sam could be more diverse; we actually come up with different programs based on the different issues that student and faculty come up with during the think tank.

Sonakshi Sinha

I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.

Erinn Smart

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

Angelina Jolie

We'll be on our way to Pakistan in a matter of days.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Robert Cormier

It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.

Rick Gonzalez

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it - no matter what.

Robin Williams

It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.

Tiger Woods

I need to make more on the back side. I feel very good. I know I'm in condition. That's not a problem. It's a matter of execution.

Charlie Pile

I really have no idea how long this process will take, but I'm sure the matter will be expedited.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Samuel Smiles

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Robert Duvall

The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.

Robert Duvall

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Robert De Niro

A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

Valerie Harper

I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.

Valerie Harper

When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead.

Ulysses S. Grant

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.