Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Roper

That's why they call it a draw. It's somewhat random. There are some things you can't control, and like we're always telling the kids, you have focus on what you can control ... There are 16 quality teams down there, and we're one of them.

Angela Ruggiero

That's women's hockey. Some refs think that if somebody falls down, you've got to call it. Part of that is the talent differences, because things look different to the refs when two teams are playing at two different speeds. Hopefully they're not doing that when we play Canada.

Steve Spurrier

That's just the way they do it in the NFL, ... But the rule in college is what they call slightly new. That's what they call it, slightly new.

Ed Swanson

That's maturity and focus. When a team makes a run at us, I don't want to have to call a timeout. We should have the maturity to fight through it.

Kit Williams

A liquor-by-the-drink permit tells the state you are a restaurant. I think it's inconsistent to call yourself a restaurant at the state level and tell the city that you're a bar.

Shaun Alexander

A little wake-up call for all of us.

Mark Savoia

The MIT was a wake-up call for him. He just keeps getting better and better.

John Rogers

You're what I would call a commodity, a trained law enforcement officer.

Rick White

You're probably not going to call him to you if he's surrounded by hens.

John Barrymore

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Jeff Rawls

When I lost my job as a firefighter, it was because I was fighting for what I thought was right. I didn't know to keep my mouth shut and they shot the messenger.

Derek Smith

We're at a fork in the road. You have a choice. You can go out and fight or you can lay down.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Gary Johnson

We haven't given up with that customer. We will fight back to win that socket.

Ray Willis

We haven't done anything, and we're going to fight it.

Ziaur Rahman

We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.

Mark LaNeve

We know it?s not going to be easy, and that?s why we?re going to fight for every sale.

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

John Snow

We will take the ball, ... It's our turn to run with it.

Douglas Adams

The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

Douglas Adams

[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something — but flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground.

Donald Knuth

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

Donald Knuth

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler

Dale Murphy

I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

Craig Newmark

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Drew Gooden

I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.

Drew Gooden

I was never a guy who came into a new situation on a team being vocal right away. I kind of monitored the situation, observed the situation and then found my role throughout that process.

Drew Gooden

My main focus, whenever I put on a new uniform, was just to provide energy. ... There was one thing I knew I could never mess up, and that was going hard. That's what I really kind of relied on to get me through the transition period between two teams.

Drew Gooden

I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff.

Douglas Gresham

I have a great deal of respect for Mark Gordon’s work and am confident that together we can bring the beauty and magical delight that Narnia engenders in the hearts of those who read the books to the screen in ‘The Silver Chair.’ I am very much looking forward to diving once more into Narnia, this time with Mark Gordon and his team.

Andy Kennedy

People realize that we're certainly faced with an abnormal amount of adversity. The Cincinnati faithful is still going through a healing process with what transpired with Coach Huggins in the fall. But over the 20 games they've seen this team, I think they appreciate the fact that this team continues to fight, even though they're not always happy with the result.

Andy Hertzfeld

But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.