Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

Sherri Coale

I've never seen an 18-year-old kid do it night in and night out regardless of the circumstance, regardless of the venue. Kids get sick, they have tests, they have distractions, they have a bad night. There are a million things that happen to freshmen along the course of the season.

Billy Donovan

I've said it all along about this team, they derive a lot pleasure from moving and passing the basketball and playing together.

Keith Johnson

During the week, the pig races and petting zoo, along with the magician, were all crowd pleasers.

Jack Straw

Each is overwhelmingly Muslim and each, in their separate ways, is crucial to whether the world can be bound together, or fractured along deep political and theological divides,

Katsutoshi Inadome

Due to uncertainty over interest rates, along with the bull-run on the stock market, institutional investors are hesitant to buy debt paper actively.

Bill Cowher

Duce probably had his best day of work, but will still be questionable. Jerome is coming along quite well.

Larry Mowry

(Dr. William Gray) is saying that the chance of a major hurricane strike along the east coast is at 64 percent this year. An average season calls for only a 31 percent chance of a strike in this area. So, he has upped the chance of a major hurricane hitting the east coast.

Joan Johnson

Each village and area along the Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive has its own charms, historic sites, and delicious foods,

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Norman Cook

The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you sort of spreading the word in different cities.

Daniel Horowitz

You scream, you cry. But I just basically sat with her, and I just told her, 'I love you, and you're beautiful,'

Bobby Shelton

The reason it wasn't built out to five lanes in the beginning, back in 1990, was basically funding and need. There's probably no need at this point for five lanes in each direction. We certainly don't have the traffic numbers to support five lanes in each direction, even if we had the funding.

Bob Taylor

SCRAP has been successful, basically because it gives residents the convenience of getting their materials recycled at a school nearby. They don't have to go a long way.

Richard Rodgers

Basically the road has been done with only the friction course to be laid.

Michael Moskowitz

Basically there are 25,000 registered voters in the district, about 4,000 will vote in this election, and whoever gets 2,000 votes will win. Can someone who's been on TV get 2,000 votes? We'll see. Am I worried? No.

Paul Netzer

Basketball is a game of runs. We made our own run and basically stopped them on defense. We kept their shots to a minimum. We just pretty much had the will and desire to get the offensive and defensive boards.

Debra Teufel

Basically what you're saying is Sumner and or Harvey County could be left out because of the political process in Topeka. That is supposed to be for the people by the people. Our people have said they want this project.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Kevin English

Competing in this event is going to raise his confidence level. He got to see what he needs to do to get past some of the best talent in the state. There are no easy matches once you get here.

Zabian Dowdell

Coach is an emotional guy and he lets emotions get the best of him at times.

Bobby Bennett

Coal mining is probably one of the best jobs you can get around here.

John Bennett

Coaches are role models. They have to be. That's the way all are. For the kids outside of the classroom, they are role models. Everybody makes mistakes. We're not here to be judged. I wish him the best of luck. I know he will land on his feet.

Sarah Lowe

Coach always tells us it's not necessarily the team with the best players but the best team that wins. I think tonight you saw that. We don't have McDonald's All-Americans. We don't have All-Americans.

Allan Schweyer

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Matt Russell

Colin made the best save of the game. He's the reason we got the momentum going in our favor early in the game.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Trent Hunter

Special teams are what usually win games. We were working hard on both sides of that.

Jimmy Just

The way both teams played you would have hated to see either team lose. It was just a fantastic game. Both teams gave it all they had and that's what it's all about.

Bob Gainey

The way both teams are going, that's why you saw the game that we saw. It was important game and it could have effect the outcome of the season.

Eddie Wong

These are the two major sources of global liquidity. If both of them reverse, it is not going to be good for the global equity market, but it is too early to say that we are at the turning point.

Tim Crowder

The rings have been pretty popular. I brought both of mine and all of the kids have wanted to look at them. Hopefully they can help inspire them to reach for their dreams.

Gary Wadler

This is a work in progress. It has to be monitored - both its details and the implementation of the details.

Jerry York

This is a well deserved honor for Chris. He has always been a tenacious defender, but this season he gained a great deal of poise and has showed the offensive flair that made him an impact player at both ends of the ice.

Simon Perry

This is a significant loss to Microsoft, both in their reputation as well as the damage that it could cause them with their future product getting out into the wrong hands.

Bobby Rahal

You have 20-22 really strong cars and the quality of the drivers is awfully good.

Ken Wasmer

The performance of all five Cobalt SS Supercharged cars this weekend, from three independent teams, gives us reason to be proud.

Brad Jones

That shows you what kind of team we can be if we come out and play hard from the get-go. I think we shot 29 percent, we had a lot of turnovers but we still had a chance to win the game at the end. That shows what we can be if we just put a solid game together.

John Bradley

That's hard starting your first game flying. You've got all of the distractions, and a lot of rookies haven't had a chance to fly out to a game and experience something like that. This is the time the veterans are going to have to step up, especially the first away game.

Frank Solich

That one was tough on us. Once that pitch gets executed, you hope to have the chance for a big play. But it didn't and it got us in a big hole.

Bill Fetters

That game didn't mean anything to us, other than it's just nice to get the win wherever you're at. Playing doubleheaders just gives you a chance to do some other things.

Rick Stansbury

You've got zero chance if you spot somebody 20 and have to fight back in the second half. I thought our kids fought back and responded, but you can't get down 20 points and come back on a roll.

Chip Ambres

You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. You get a chance to do it and are actually doing it. You see they are just like you, that they put their pants on one leg at a time.

Timmy Bailey

You take it one day at a time (and) you thank God for what you have that day. Now I have a chance to do something I love.

Joe Glenn

You take a chance on hoping that the kids will practice fundamentals in tackling.

Cathy Nonas

You're not going to be able to find one thing that is going to be the be-all and end-all in obesity in kids. I don't think any one thing is going to have a strong effect, but if we don't start to do some of these things now, we don't have a chance in hell of reducing obesity.

Bobby Labonte

When I quit driving it one day, I want to see 25 guys in line wanting to drive it because it must be a great car. You want people to want to drive the car. That would be better than any money you could get to have that feeling.

Ralph Alvarez

A merger of flavors and spices has spilled over into fast food.

George Philpott

They were fast girls, and there were a lot of them, but with a swim here or a swim there, we probably could have moved up a few spots in the standings.

Justin Dombrowski

This happened so fast that firefighters just had to stop the fire without having time to evacuate.

Paul Quesnel

They're still moving sugar off the port so we're keeping our fingers crossed. All parties involved are working together to get the sugar off the port, however not as fast as we would have hoped.

Amy Sanders

They started out so fast but once we switched to a zone, they slowed down and we started to pick it up. Even though we don't use a lot of players, I think we're in pretty good shape and we don't slow down the whole game.

Tom Butler

They're about as big, fast and strong as Porum, ... Going in, we thought our two toughest opponents would come in Week 1 and 2.

Clint Robinson

It's tough to come here and win all three rounds in steer wrestling, so that was pretty neat. I have a real good horse, and when they are short scores it makes for fast times.

John Prescott

It's not moving as fast as we'd hoped it would,

James Cook

It's not how long your legs are; it's how fast you pick them up and put them down that counts.

Champ Bailey

I prepare myself to play every week, regardless of the pain or whatever, ... I don't prepare for the week after. What's in front of me is what I've got.

F. Schumacher

It has been too long ago. Too much time ago. To be on front row and be so competitive is a nice surprise, particularly if you can imagine what happened last year.

Anton LaVey

I tend to clam up with a tape recorder in front of me-I hesitate for prudent reasons, so I don't say as much.

Richard Hamilton

I think my goal was just to come out and have fun. Don't worry about playing in front of friends and family. Just do what got us there - playing together.

Miguel Cotto

I just think about the fight and what can happen. In the ring, It's my time to shine in front of everyone.

Pavol Demitra

I just tried to put it on the net. I got some open space and I just tried to shoot it as hard as I could. We got good traffic in front of the net and I don't think he saw the puck. It was a lucky bounce.

Jeanne Phillips

I just don't have a gully in front of my house to take it away. I'm more optimistic this will work than my neighbors (are optimistic).

Louis Post

I realize the most important part is still in front of me, ... If we go out and win a World Series, people aren't going to remember I hit .270. They'll remember we won. That's the goal.

Hale Irwin

I played as well on the front nine as I've played in many, many years. I should have gotten more than 3 under par out of it. Then I got frustrated on the second nine and shot 1 over. This was one of those rounds that could have been really, really low, but I couldn't make any putts.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

Daniel Ewing

I'm pretty excited. It's a happy moment for myself and my family.

Tom Borrelli

I'm just happy for him, especially after the MAC Tournament. He bounced back well.

Greg Robbins

I'm just really happy about the way the program has expanded from what it was,

Bobby Bowden

I'm just kind of happy to be here, to be honest with you.

David Bridges

I'm just happy to go and show people what we do in Shreveport,

Lil Jon

I'm just happy to be honored as someone who's making music.

Nick Saban

I'm just happy that we could make this state proud, ... We got tired at the end of the game, but we played from the heart.

Jay Cutler

I met with pretty much all the teams that are probably looking to take a quarterback, and some that weren't looking to take a quarterback. I ran well. I threw well. But I was happy to get out of there.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Russ McKenzie

Brandon is the picture of hard work and perseverance. Most kids would have quit in his first two years, with the beatings he took in the room. But he didn't.

John Peterson

We had a really hard time shooting today. We just couldn't get them to fall.

Stew Morrill

We had a hard time with La. Tech and trying to rebound the ball. We were able to stay with them on the boards.

Dusty Baker

We had a hard time holding up our end of the bargain.

Curt Fredrickson

We had a hard time getting the big hit when we needed it. Overall, I was very pleased with our pitching and our defense.

Mike Marshall

We had a hard time getting any rhythm. We made a lot of mistakes and we could not get anything going.

Mary LeBlanc

We had a hard life, but we stuck together. We worked together.

Will Blalock

We wanted to take his 3-ball out of the equation. In the second half, he woke up and really played hard for them. That's why they got the win.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!