Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herb Grace

Kevin Lynch was huge tonight, especially on the post. He gave us a great effort and is the heart and soul of our team.

Gerald Myers

We're proud of the effort Lubbock has made in order to give (the athletes) a new start,

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Doc Rivers

I thought some guys gave good effort tonight, but some have their luggage in mind on the plane already. Turnovers and shot selection killed us.

Rob Ciarlo

He?s going to give you a good effort every time he goes out there.

Bruce Marthaller

We made too many mistakes to win the game, but the effort and the intensity were right there the whole time.

Larry Brown

We made some hustle plays that got us back. We played hard. The effort was there, and that was big.

Tim Duncan

I don't even know how he got it off, honestly. I think he shot it with his left hand. I went after his right hand, thinking he was going to float it with the time going down like that, but somehow he got it up there and it stayed up there on the rim and went in. It was just a great shot, a great effort by those guys to turn a turnover into a fast-break that quickly and get it to the rim.

Dan Fridgen

I am emotionally drained. The injuries kept on occurring ... but what an effort by our guys.

Joe Neff

I thought we'd be a fourth or fifth seed, but the way things are set up, anything in the top 10 is pretty good. We've seen a lot of these teams. I like where we're at.

Jim Noyes

I think sometimes in basketball, just like everything else, when things don't go right you want to roll over and die. But we played well today, and we want to come back tomorrow and win fifth place.

Phil Garner

Roger Clemens is pitching the fifth game right now,

Carlos Garcia

I need that first big win. I'm always fifth or sixth but never first and I hope here I can do that,

Buddy Bell

I really wanted keep Gobble out there for the fifth but this was his first start and we wanted to keep him at about 60 pitches.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I'm only in my fifth year, and we still have five games to go down the stretch, and the offensive line is just now getting healthy, ... So I'm looking forward to what we have here in the future.

Korey Kostur

I knew he finished fifth in his region, so he probably wasn't that good. He didn't look very good, but sometimes the goofier guys are the better ones.

Jerome Forneris

I'm fifth all-time, and I fit in somewhere, ... It was like, wait a minute, I'm not just an ordinary guy. I've been able to do some extraordinary things in an ordinary body, but I'm not an ordinary guy.

Colin Edwards

It?s not front row, but it?s not the fifth row.

Art Hogan

I think the dollar's recovery has a huge impact on the market, when you look at things like gold, which is getting tattooed today, ... I also think it's important psychologically, like when oil finally peaked in the mid-50's.

Jeff Gordon

He wasn't real happy with me, but we finally worked it out.

Albert Camus

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Maria Corbalan

I'm happy. I'm very happy that it's finally going to be done.

Warren Moon

I'm as happy for the guys as if I had played in the football game. I'm so relieved. This franchise has been trying for so long and to finally get there is great.

Greg Olsen

I had a minor medical problem and they said I couldn't go. It took me a year to get well and then I finally went into space. That should just let you all know that you should never give up.

Frank Thomas

I'll finally get some real work in. It will be great to see live pitching for a change.

Craig Biggio

I know he's smiling right now, ... He's overjoyed. We were so happy for him when he finally won the Stanley Cup. We couldn't wait to get through on the phone to him and congratulate him.

Sy Montgomery

I have thought for a long time that one day, if I finally got to deserve it, I would love to write about the minds of invertebrates.

Joe Moore

Knowing what they have to pay for the next four years would be a luxury for their budgeting.

Ricky Woods

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't (make up) this game. They might not have school down there for three or four weeks.

Preston Clark

He's got 'em all, four pitches. And nobody really hits him hard.

Breakfast tiffany's

Holly: It takes four seconds to get to that door... I'll give you two!

Vance Belew

I thought we were in good shape, having them in about a fourth down and 25 situation.

David Graveney

It is going to be hard to win four games in a row.

Joe Borchard

It is good timing. I had no idea four weeks ago that I'd be standing here with the opportunity I had presented to me.

Sherry Sealey

L.A. did a good job on the mound on the night. The first four innings she did a great job.

Sam Cowart

Whatever it takes to win. Because whatever we were doing the first four games, we're 1-3, it wasn't working. ... We need the help.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Ron Polk

He used to be a power pitcher, but after shoulder surgery he's had some hard luck.

Joey Cora

He didn't pitch that bad. He threw strikes, and that's the key for him. He didn't get hit hard at all. He just wasn't lucky.

Ben Braun

He can take a lot of pride knowing he is playing for a championship now as he leaves Cal. He has worked so hard over the years.

George Herman

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Sufjan Stevens

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

Danny Shafer

There are so many people who are working so hard to have so little these days. It's disturbing, because this is the most politics I've ever talked about out of 500 interviews.

David Cash

I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.

Stephen Jackson

He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game.

Jerry Slocum

He just played tremendously tonight. I'm proud of the way they all battled back tonight.

Shaquille O'Neal

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

Jeff Beeman

He's a really smooth player. I wish he played for me.

Jerry Sloan

I thought we played with a lot more purpose tonight than we did the other night.

Luke Poore

I thought we played well. They just wore us down.

Jim Ferraro

I think you?re going to see us (in the tournament). We have a lot of young girls, but they have played well together.

Derek Robey

I was disappointed yesterday with the way we played in the third quarter. We reminded them of that and told them they had to come out more determined.

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Princess Anne

I didn't like netball... I used to get wolf whistles because of my short skirts.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Mackenzie Astin

Life can only be understood backwards.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

Adam McKay

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Keith Bogans

We've got to make the shots when they double-team Yao. That's what it comes down to.

Russ Crist

We made the shots to win the game. They just had enough time to get one off.

William S. Burroughs

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.

Alan Nicholl

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

Mark Richard

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

Kareem Rodriguez

The shots that usually go down weren't going down. It was one shot and out for us.

Tom Tupa

I've taken shots for it. It hasn't worked. That's disappointing.

Hines Ward

We thought we could take some shots in the air. We're an experienced team and we took our chances.

Brenda Ellis

King's is a tough team. We're going to have to come out and give it everything we've got.

Mark Grudzielanek

Just try not to think about it. It's a tough situation. You don't wish it on anybody.

Barry Alvarez

He's a tough little guy. He's only 175 pounds, but he's a tough guy.

Pete Domenici

I think it's going to be very tough for them,

Ai Sugiyama

I think it's going to be a tough match,

Dawn Fraser

It is going to be a very tough series,

Richard Schiff

Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.

Wayne Thiebaud

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

Rick Springfield

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.