Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Bobby Thomson

I was a raw rookie in Arizona during spring training in 1947, but I could do three things. I could run. I had a good arm. And I could hit with power.

Troy Vincent

We want them to know what it's like to be a leader, what it's like to be a team player because those things carry on in everyday life.

Bobby Thomson

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

Lorrie Fair

That doll looks more like a black man than me.

Vernon Law

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

Branch Rickey

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.

Gregory Nunn

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

Gregory Nunn

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

Michael Speck

It is a great day for artists and anyone who wants to make a living from music. The loud and clear message to anyone involved in the illegal online music business is to get out of it, get legal.

Daily Express

What more can anyone do? The BRDC want everything their way. Business life is not like that,

Pat Riley

We traded a lot, but we got back three quality players. Antoine Walker is one of the very best multi-faceted, versatile players in this game. ... He is able to handle the ball, pass it, make plays, shoot 3's and rebound the ball. There isn't anyone in this league better at doing that.

Rudi Giuliani

We're obviously extremely disappointed that we haven't been able to recover anyone alive,

S. Hughes

When he's on, he is as good as anyone we've had. Technique-wise, he's as explosive a wrestler as we've had.

Shawn Bradley

When he passes the ball back out, the refs aren't really looking at him, at how he's reestablishing his space. For a defender, it's very, very hard to get around anyone at that point--but particularly him.

Mike DeWine

What I saw with my kids was consistent with what I had been hearing, ... I looked around at local (Washington, D.C., driving) schools ... and could not find one that anyone would tell me was a great school.

Bob Hanson

What I knew of him was that he was kind of a curmudgeon, wore thick glasses and didn't take much in the way of anyone else's opinions. He was certainly a gentleman. You could tell he was raised in high society, that's how he conducted himself.

Richard Mason

With many dealers offering free cover on new vehicles, anyone who bought a new car this time last year and benefitted from a year's free insurance should beware of renewing the same policy,

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

Bristol Palin

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

Doug Stanhope

You want to help mother Earth? Try sodomy. Sodomy is eco-friendly, and abortion is green.

Dudley Nichols

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

Dr. John

Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was OK, records was cool, but when people wanted to party, they got around a piano. My mother played piano, my sister played. I've been around a lot of piano all my life.

Dr. Dre

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

Dr. Seuss

He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.

Dorothy Fields

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

Dorothy Hamill

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.

Dorothy Dunnett

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Richard Branson

Past failures unlock future successes

Robert Anthony

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

Robert A. Heinlein

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

Sophia Myles

If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.

Ron Kaufman

Never rest on past success. Create something better.

Ron Kaufman

What you did in the past is how you got to today. What you do today is how you will get to the future.

Roger Rosenblatt

Live in the past, but don't remember too much.

Sam Shepard

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.