Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Bobby Frasor

Coach Williams from Day 1 was always preaching how good we could be. We could surprise everyone in America, all the analysts; we could be the darlings of America.

Mike Flowers

Earlier in the year, (Greenfield head) Coach (Rob Salter) gave me the role of being the dominator on the court and one of the leaders of the team. Being that, you can't ever lose your composure.

Jim Rutherford

Erik has performed well for the Hurricanes and we are happy to have him signed, ... He led his team in Germany to the league championship last season and also performed well for coach Laviolette at the World Championships.

Winston Moss

Evaluations, off-season projects, we'll probably start on that next week sometime. Coach McCarthy gave us a timetable of starting next Monday at 1 o'clock - we'll be all football.

Ebenezer Ekuban

Especially for a half. I'm not a coach, but we still need to go out there, stay focused and keep doing what we've been doing. To take off two weeks and have to play a playoff game is going to be hard, so I foresee the starters playing maybe a half and then getting some of the young guys in.

Jim Mastro

During the spring and summer, that is when you compile your list of who you are going to be looking at come fall. You talk to coaches and find out whatever you can and by the time I come back in late spring, I will have whittled a list of 50 down to maybe 30 names. By the time we get to fall, each coach probably knows about 80 percent of the guys they are recruiting that year.

Steve Fisher

Brandon is a guy, when he's good, he's really good. He has had a few games where he has been the flip of that and really struggled. Fortunately for us, that was a long time ago. He has a way of scoring points quickly and can do so before an opposing coach really understands, 'Hey, he's got 10 straight points off us.' (Heath) is a better player this year. He is playing like we hoped he would play.

Greg Brochetti

Branford did an excellent job in the second half. Their coach and kids are to be commended in the way they stuck to their game plan.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Roger Butler

The minute I interviewed him I knew we had the man, but we didn't have any evidence.

Carolyn Scott

To me this was a formality....We knew he was guilty. And I just want people to know the devastation it has been to our family.

Derek Smith

We knew we were supposed to do this. This is no surprise to us.

Paul Olson

We knew it was going to increase, but we had no idea it was going to double. Sellers are getting a little more anxious.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Sam Mendes

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

Rosa Parks

I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.

Ron Perlman

I had an opportunity to be in Frank's [Sinatra] circle, but I couldn't take advantage of it because I couldn't get over how awed I was by him. It was so uncomfortable for me because he meant so much to me, but I just couldn't be myself, so I fled rather than having those great nights hanging out.

Susan Rice

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Steve Jobs

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

Steve Case

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities...

Sri Chinmoy

An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

Sri Chinmoy

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?

Nicolas Sarkozy

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

Alan Rickman

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Al Pacino

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

Al Madrigal

My primary responsibility is to be funny,

Ronald Knox

A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Dalton Trumbo

Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Daryl Gates

No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

Clarence Thomas

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

Colin Farrell

Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.