Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Knight

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

Joan Collins

I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it.

Anson Dorrance

The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival

Maureen Dowd

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

Misty May-Treanor

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.

Gisele Bundchen

My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian.

Gigi Hadid

I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die.

Gigi Hadid

I had to start boxing because I missed working on something and learning and I guess there's a little more aggression in boxing. I couldn't really get that side of me out, but I used to be able to by hitting a volleyball. That's why I started boxing.

Gigi Hadid

I still love doing that. There's nothing like being able to go back and play volleyball again with a team cause, I can have my volleyball in my New York apartment but we can't do so much there .

Elizabeth Mooney

When I'm boxing I'm strictly in the mentality of a boxer. When I'm a nurse I'm strictly in the mentality of a nurse. When I'm around the boys I'm a mom. That is truly my number one job.

Danny Garcia

Besides Scream, I liked The Purge. It stuck with me because it reminds me of boxing - you have 45 minutes to punch someone legally without consequence.

Angelo Dundee

You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.

Angelo Dundee

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

Angelo Dundee

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

Angelo Dundee

Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.

Angelo Dundee

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

Angelo Dundee

It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.

Grover Battle

We haven't played man much this year, but we know if we are going to be a successful team, we are going to have to play it. They did a good job of defending, helping each other out, boxing out when they need to.

Tom Slater

As deep as their outfield was playing there, you've got to take a shot to score there. I'd rather make an error of aggression than passivity.

Ayatollah Khamenei

We will not commit aggression towards any nations.

Hassan Rouhani

I'm not a historian. I'm a politician. What is important for us is that the countries of the region and the people grow closer to each other, and that they are able to prevent aggression and injustice.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

Siegfried Sassoon

I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

Nancy Brown

Bullying is a national problem. Middle school seems to be the time that bullying (by males) and relational aggression (by females) is at its worst and is most painful for kids. While there are programs to help curb bullying, we're hoping to help teachers build character in fourth and fifth grade students to prevent bullying in middle school.

Deng Xiaoping

China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one. If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialism, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.

Andy Roddick

My aggression out there is my weapon, ... ... I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies.

Cindy Sheehan

I don't think aggression on a country that was no threat to the United States is noble.