Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chloe Sevigny

I don't swim! That's like athletic.

Jill Williams

the positive learning atmosphere and very good support of the athletic program that Kirkwood offers.

Dave Anderson

The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.

Steve Smithwick

We are probably the most athletic and strongest team. Being that we are so athletic, we expect to go all the way.

Chris Vermeer

We are a very athletic team and we're going to try to maximize our opportunities with our athleticism.

David Roach

We strive to do what is best for our student-athletes so they can succeed in the classroom and on the playing field. Athletics done the right way can mean so much to a university, like it has here at Colgate for many, many years.

Skip Bertman

We stand ready and willing to serve the Sugar Bowl. We'll offer them all our athletic facilities.

Nick Woodman

If I walk up to a can of Red Bull, I'm thinking about Formula One; I'm thinking about incredible athletic performances. And it helps me choose that can over something else to either side of it.

Levi Jones

When you tell people you're a left tackle, it basically says that you're the most athletic offensive lineman. To hold that position down, it's a sense of pride. You can get away with having a guard who's not as good. You can't get away with having a bad left tackle.

Gary Owens

We want to throw high percentage stuff this year, but it's like I told Gary the other day, if we call a pass and it's not there, pull the ball down and run with it and we'll come back and call another play. We just don't want him trying to force things and make mistakes.

John Talbot

Wayne brings with him a wealth of experience and a fine reputation and I am confident that he will make a powerful contribution to English National Ballet and to the British dance world.

Limas Sweed

We always believe. That's something coach Brown talks about a lot. You always come out and believe in each other. We told the defense, 'We get the ball back, we're going to make things happen, we're going to make plays and that's exactly what we did.

Howard Davidowitz

The performance of the company over the last few years has been very erratic. It's also a smaller player. It was time for Milstein to take it easy and make a gigantic pot of money and turn the ball over to someone else.

Marty Schottenheimer

The point I've made very clear to him, and I made very clear to you: You will not play quarterback or any other position that possesses the ball for me. You have to take care of the ball because it's the difference between winning games in this league.

Linda Kilpatrick

The point guard is very solid. She handles the ball strong, runs the offense well and can hit the open shot.

Bob Ferguson

We've always been known as a option team. But we've been able to pass the ball the past couple of games and get ourselves out of some trouble. We hit some big third downs and some long passes and it was good for us.

M. Thompson

We started to go inside. We were in the bonus and double bonus early. We figured let's establish things in the post. We have two good posts and we got them the ball and let them go to work.

Ron Reed

We started to get loosened up there in the second half and that really made the game different. The kids shared the ball well, and they had fun. They were just a great group of kids.

Al Kaline

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

Al McGuire

Live in the moment that you are in.

Al McGuire

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

Al McGuire

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

Al McGuire

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

Al McGuire

You better have great practices.

Al McGuire

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

Al McGuire

When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

Al McGuire

I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.

Curtis Sanford

It was a tape-to-tape pass, right there on the doorstep. I just couldn't get over there quick enough.

Catherine Fisher

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

David Ayer

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

Van Coleman

The staff that he hires is going to have a lot to do with how quick the transition is.

Richard Martin

The thing we had a lot of requests for is American flags. Everyone wants those. We're out of them now but we're trying to get more as quickly as possible.

Jay Rockefeller

This is not a story with a quick ending.

Bobby Knight

Competitive drills enhance quickness.

Marjorie Brody

Don't tiptoe. Everyone sees you. Just get set up quickly and quietly and get ready to be part of the meeting.

Charles Dickens

He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Charles Stanley

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

Alain Vigneault

Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Sue Olds

Our API scores give us the idea that we're on the right path.

Josh Beckett

Right now it's going to come down to whoever scores more runs, because the starters aren't going to be out there as long,

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Chris Nelson

That's the way we've been all year. Every time someone scores on us, we score right back.

Ichiro Suzuki

In a tournament like this one, it's important to be the team that scores first.

Mitchell Davis

We started out well, and we made them take shots that we wanted them to. But Trinity's very good. And we just couldn't make any shots.

Scott Wilson

We struggled offensively all night. The shots just rolled off the rim.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

Mariusz Czerkawski

We have to get more traffic, simple plays, with more pucks on the net. Simple shots can work sometimes.

Dick Davey

We're making shots and that's something that we haven't been able to do this year.

Mark Richard

We're getting closer. At least we didn't give up 52 shots this time.

Mark Slonaker

They got 14 more shots because of our turnovers. They scored off our turnovers.

Mike Adras

They get a lot more shots because of their defense.

Alan Nicholl

They had taken 20 shots but they hadn't scored so we were right in it.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Jeff Perreault

The ref made the right call, but it was a tough call.

John Mulcahy

As we thought about it, we thought it was kind of a tough deal: now they have them, now they don't.

Randy Coleman

It's kind of been a tough day in McDowell County.

Michael Schwartz

It's kind of a tough question. The marketplace for this type of collectible is very volatile.

Jamont Gordon

It's just real tough on the road. We got to take it to another level.

Rocky Hager

It's even tougher when you watch the tape. We had our chances. We made some plays.

Jim Epperly

It's a tough place to go and win.

Rod Barnes

They tried to trap him, make things tough on him.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.