Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Rubin

I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.

Sophia Myles

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

Tony Campolo

We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.

Toby Jones

Jennifer [Lawrence] is amazingly grounded in the midst of all this to do. It must be unnerving and hard to relate to the amount of attention she generates.

T Bone Burnett

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

Tom Robbins

Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

Steve Albini

You can't help noticing an amazing ass. Pretty naked ladies will always get my attention. Revealingly dressed good-looking women will always get my attention, at least for a moment.

Shawn Johnson

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

Seth Godin

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Albert Pujols

I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

Albert Pujols

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

Douglas MacArthur

Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Doug Flutie

I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore.

Don Larsen

I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game.

Don Mattingly

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

Don Mattingly

Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.

Don Baylor

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Masahiko Harada

I finally called it quits and it's good that I felt very comfortable with my last jumps. I was moved by the chants of my name. It was indeed all the fan support that kept me moving on with my career until today.

Tom Brands

I can't express how happy I am that my former coach, Dan Gable, has decided to join my staff at Iowa. He's been with me every step of the way during my career and this will be no different. There's no one in the world who's better at working with wrestlers and I'm glad he's on board.

Vivian Myrtetus

He's trying to erase 30 years as a career liberal.

Dave Calloway

He's starting to feel that senior year, season, and career coming to an end.

Sean Bailey

He's throwing some great passes, but his leadership is so big. It's probably more important than his passing. He's been so patient throughout his career here. He's given so much to the University of Georgia. You want to give extra for him. You want to make big plays for him. This is his time. This is his one year in the spotlight.

Jeff Bower

He's such a good player. We need to get a little more meat on him. He needs to improve his strength and weight this summer. But he's got solid feet and knows what he's doing. .. Before his career is over, he's going to be an all-conference player for us.

Hines Ward

He's still the 37 I know. He may have lost a step or something but he'll still end your career if he gets a chance.

Chip Berry

He's just a driven kid. He's just made tremendous strides throughout his career because he wanted it.

Jane Greer

Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.

Chris Probyn

This was a disappointing number relative to expectations and certainly consistent with the idea that consumer spending is going to be a much smaller contributor to economic growth in the fourth quarter.

Stephen Vaughan

We are trying to make space in our squad by releasing or paying up the contracts of certain players, but it is an extremely difficult exercise at this time of the season.

Mel Stephens

We're very pleased the financing was well-received. Just a few weeks ago, there were some concerns raised and speculation that certain companies couldn't raise financing.

Kevin Boyd

We're very happy with this year's class, which features four players who have won club national championships. We were specifically targeting certain positions and people, and we met our expectations. We've gotten to the point where I'm so happy with the talent and depth on our team and where we are at that we are now looking at trying to replace a player that leaves. Before we were trying to up the total level of our talent, but now, we're reloading. This class not only has players who will contest for playing time immediately, but it also prepares us for when other people will graduate.

Thomas Breuer

Very often the use of tools is triggered by certain needs and it seems that gorillas have only little needs to use tools in the wild.

Eric Warfield

You don't know if you should take everything out of your locker or do it the way you've been doing it ? leave certain things in your locker expecting to come back. Nobody knows who's going to be here, player-wise or coaching-wise.

Gary Sheffield

You got to do the right thing, you've got to live a certain way and do the right things that's required. If you're not doing it, you can't expect to be working for somebody. So they did what they had to do, and his situation I'm sure got to him and hopefully he can overcome it.

Mike Stoops

You go through processes and there are no shortcuts from year to year. Certain things have to happen. We are close.

Carlos Emmons

You get used to wearing a certain number. It's something you are known by. You don't want to change it because it seems you don't even look right in another number. Your number is always worth something.

David Page

Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes.

Toni Sacconaghi

Since he took over, the stock has gone up 25 percent, so clearly the market...appears to be expecting material cost-cutting, of which I would presume a significant ingredient would be work force reduction.

Maggie Mermin

Physically, she is doing beautifully. Emotionally, as well as can be expected. She gets frustrated at times, but she recognizes everyone. You can see a lot of expression in her eyes and face. She can point to pictures and words when she wants to communicate. She clearly wants to communicate. She just can't get the words out.

Bart Melek

Recent oil and fuel inventory trends are clearly demonstrating that the oil industry is no longer in crisis mode and that energy prices are likely to continue to soften.

Dipen Sanghavi

Reliance Industries has clearly led the rise today, and investors are confident because of the fund flows into the market.

Stephen Greene

Our research shows that event information consistently ranks as one of the top three requests by visitors to our Web site. People clearly want to know all their options as they map out their vacation plans.

John Skipper

Our research and the ratings clearly suggest that a daily show may have been too much.

Scott Paluch

Parse and Thomas are clearly as good of a one-two combination as there is throughout the country. But on the other side of the ice we have a pretty good combination of our own.

Richard Petersen

Part of the weakness has to do with global IT demand. This is a moderately negative signal about the tech spending outlook. But it's clearly more than just IBM.

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.

Fernando Torres

The players really like the idea of having a permanent home where the team can feel comfortable, get more support from the fans and where our opponents will feel uncomfortable,

John Podhoretz

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Walter Kirn

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.