Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emilio Butragueno

It's true I spoke with him after the game and it's true that he was unhappy about not playing, ... As a former footballer myself that is something I understand completely and that is all I can say about the matter.

Craig Johnston

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

Ryan Giggs

Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.

Jamie Redknapp

He is better than just making a nuisance of himself. That's unfair, because he is a genuinely good footballer

Charlie Adam

I want to be a footballer - and that means playing on a Saturday afternoon.

Abbey Clancy

Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

Michael Owen

The players are stunned because this is the worst thing that can happen to a footballer in his career. There will be scars for life.

Jean Nidetch

All you need is one person in a group to be honest, and then slowly, very slowly, everyone else starts telling the truth. That's why our lecturers must be former members of Weight Watchers. They must have lost weight our way.

Joe Pistone

They say we're playing in a former minor league stadium that has short dimensions. With our pitching and hitting, that's a plus for us.

Frank Thompson

The number of former Anaconda workers has really thinned out in recent years,

Skip Snow

They are pets or descendants of former pets. They don't occur naturally here.

David Woodward

There were some strained relationships between the former leadership of the shelter and some members of the commission,

Chris Squire

I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.

Mary Jo White

As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.

David Hoffman

As a former naval captain, having the vice president out is a big honor for Doug.

Jose Rizal

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Tim Short

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

Mike Pomerenke

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

Arne Glimcher

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Mike Vogel

They're very quiet. You can tell that there's something that they're about to do. They have the track walks before the race. They go and do their thing, and not a word is spoken between any of them. They're just staring at the track.

Matthew Cooper

Before I spoke to Mr. Rove I didn't know about Wilson having a wife. And he was the one who suggested to me that she worked at the agency,

Stephen Hess

Besides, he's already spoken extensively about the hurricanes.

Warren Cowan

I spoke with him yesterday and he's doing great. He should be out in a day or two.

Florentino Perez

I spoke to him and he was very philosophical about what had happened.

Annie Besant

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

Roy Makaay

I have already spoken to him about Bayern.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

Arthur Rimbaud

True life is elsewhere

Arnold Bennett

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

Cher Lloyd

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Carolyn Porco

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charles Lamb

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.

Bernard Kouchner

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

Agnetha Faltskog

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Charles M. Schulz

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

Byron Katie

I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.

Eliza Haywood

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

Bill Gates

Learn from your unhappy customers.

Bob Seger

I've never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They've been really good by me.

C. S. Lewis

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

Baltasar Gracian

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.