Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Jurich

We've said it from day one, that if this arena was going to cut into anything at the university then we weren't in favor of it. We reluctantly went downtown to be a team player and to be on the river to go in accordance with the task force and to be a full partner.

Shane Battier

They have always had one of the most talented teams in the league, and they're starting to put it all together now. You can't turn the ball over 19 times in Arco Arena and give up 20 offensive rebounds and expect to win. We shot the ball well, but made all of the other mental mistakes.

Christos Cotsakos

This exceptionally strong start reaffirms our goal to become the leader in the arena of all-electronic personal financial services,

Chuck Howell

This arena fits with everything we are trying to do. You can put 4,000 people in here and the atmosphere is great. That's something you don't get in the Pepsi Center and I think that's an important point.

George Shinn

It's not just about if the arena is in playing condition. Will there be any fans? I don't know how many fans will come back, or how quickly they'll come back. I'm convinced New Orleans will rebuild. I can see maybe even being stronger. But how long it's going to take, I'm not going to touch that. This option was just a cushion, just to make sure if it got to this point.

George Shinn

It's not just the arena (being) in playing condition, but will there be any fans there. I don't know how many will come back, how quickly they'll come back. I'm convinced New Orleans will rebuild. With the dollars that the federal government is putting in, I can see it rebuilding and even being stronger. But how long is it going to take? This option (for a possible second year in Oklahoma City) was just a cushion just to make sure if it got to that point.

Mike Keenan

For me, coming to the arena now, it's something that I look forward to.

David Pickard

It's the excitement of walking into a big arena and playing in front of a big crowd. It's going to be a different atmosphere.

Danton Barto

You don't see that very often. Defensively, we came out the way we wanted. To hold them in the 20s is unheard in arena football.

Bob Horn

In the end, the evidence that was presented really convinced the jury to the standard that we were set to.

Kobe Bryant

We are on a journey, and to put on a show like this for the fans here in L.A. is truly something special. I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an older, young man.

Bobby Jenks

It was like silence, and then the next pitch, 5,000 fans were yelling all at once.

Jimmie Johnson

My fans are always extremely loyal.

Emilia Clarke

I love my Spanish fans!

Lance Armstrong

The latter part of the year with the rumor, that was a nightmare. Fortunately, sports fans see through it.

Dane Looker

A lot of times, the preseason gets discredited by the fans and media. It helps so much to get that momentum going into the season.

Kaleb Toth

They embarrassed us in front of our fans and that's not something we take lightly.

Trot Nixon

We fed off our fans and we fed off each other.

Lea Thompson

I enjoy learning about the new technologies. I enjoy getting to know the new fans and dealing with them on their turf.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Alexander Hamilton

The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is, that the state governments will finally sap the foundations of the Union.

Alexander Hamilton

Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would leave the existence of the Union entirely at their mercy . . . . It is to little purpose to say that a neglect or omission of this kind [not letting the feds have elections], would be unlikely to take place. The constitutional possibility of the thing, without an equivalent for the risk, is an unanswerable objection.

Alexander Hamilton

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

Alexander Hamilton

The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and the powers you give it will never affect your security.

Alexander Hamilton

Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge all the principles that must preserve the limits of free constitutions.

Alexander Hamilton

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people ... turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the Government ... Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.

Alexander Hamilton

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

Tyler Murovich

Playing there would give me a lot of opportunities.

Gary Waters

Playing Princeton is like pulling teeth. It's been that way for a long time.

Lindy Ruff

Playing our own end, we've been flat-out sloppy.

Malcolm Deans

Playing on the road, I was very tickled.

Jack Leggett

I really like the way we're playing right now.

Elena Dementieva

I have never seen her playing that well.

Sheila E.

I like being in the back. I've done that for so many years, I'm really comfortable doing it. I don't like the solo thing as much as I like playing drums behind someone.

Eddy Curry

It's part of the whole process, I think. At this point, I can't see myself playing for any team but Chicago. But it's pretty much out of my hands.

Odalis Perez

It's competition, real competition. You're playing for something. It wasn't like playing in spring training.

Terry Gray

We thought this was going to be a rebuilding year.

Chuck Mulloy

all we know for sure is that the investigation is continuing.

Jim Manley

Not sure if we can get it done this week.

Vicki Phillips

I want to make sure we do all we can to make sure the wetlands are preserved,

Ann Marshall

I want to make sure I have one of these.

Gerald Myers

The N.C.A.A. wanted to make sure that they had to be qualified, and they couldn't be recruited.

Ron Haskins

It should be something that we need to be watching carefully. You just need to make sure it's being done fairly.

Steve Scott

It's mystifying; it's disappointing. I'm not sure where to go from here.

Patricia McKinney

That really put me on my toes, put me on my toes to make sure that I did.

Don Schmidt

It's nice. I'm not so sure it's worth the money.

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.

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.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Donald Evans

Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest growth over the last 12 months we've seen in 20 years.

Donald Johanson

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

Donald Judd

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.