Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Jan Egeland

The way it is now it can not continue. We need security, which we do not have. We need a government that enables us to work and does not create obstacles to our work. We need a guerrilla (force) that does not specialize in hijacking relief trucks and fighting each other and displacing new people, which has happened in the past few weeks. And we need funding.

Kevin Appleby

We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.

David Rose

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

Peter Chernin

From our perspective it created a unique and wonderful opportunity.

Jose Andres Puerta

Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept.

Jeff Bennett

I would imagine it would create some jobs.

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Kristi Toliver

As soon as it left my hand, I knew it was going in. I knew I was going to take that shot. Big-time players take big-time shots.

Billy Henning

As soon as I saw the name on the postcard I knew who it was. You could've knocked me over with a feather.

Roy Harper

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

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.

Jason Arnott

We just stayed positive with it. We knew (a comeback) was coming.

Nick Fruendt

We just had to relax and play our game. We knew we could come back and take this thing. I think we just stepped it up to another level in the second half.

Rose Hill

We weren't even sure they knew where they were, ... We knew they were trying to find them and get them out, but we had no idea it would be today.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Alice Barrett

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

Shere Hite

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Joyce Walker

Get low and shuffle. You've got to harass her.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Kim Carnes

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

Lev Grossman

It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.

Michael Wright

We want to keep prices as low as possible.

Rick Davis

We didn't have low expectations in Iowa, we had no expectations in Iowa.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Julianne Hough

Well, I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain 'Come on Over' CD and that's about it.

Brian Boyle

I moved out to give Brock an option. I had my back to the net, so I just shot it to an area.

Deb Kapp

The banners can be moved around so if you habitually travel on one street, you won't always look at the same banner.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

Tim Shea

One of the things I'm trying to do, and we all need to do, is look outside our public schools.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

Joe Torre

I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility,

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Russell Wilson

We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.

Sparky Anderson

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Slash

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

Michael Perkins

She is a versatile player, and she can do a lot of different things. She can post up as a guard, and she can shoot, too.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Bobby Robson

Practice makes permanent.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Richard Carlson

You are what you practice most.

Rumi

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

Rumi

Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status.

Tom Robbins

The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

Tom DeMarco

Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

David Bailey

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

Dave Attell

I'm not like a performer type.

Mark McNulty

Those are the type of tap-ins you like to have.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.