Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Funk

It came down to 18 and I didn't think with the wind and those conditions that I could get home, but I hit a really good drive and a really good three-wood to get it up there. I didn't think birdie would win it, but you just never know in the Skins Game.

Stephen Ames

Having the opportunity to birdie the last three holes like I did today was good. And maybe a couple of fortunate times, like 18, a little scare on the 3-wood (drive), it ended up being way up the fairway and only a 6-iron in. It was fortunate and the nature of the game.

Lorena Ochoa

I thought to myself, this is a good start to the tournament. I didn't think it was going to be this good. I just tried to really focus and concentrate. I made birdie on the first hole and a birdie on the second hole. I was very happy about that. Then everything was easy and everything was so clear. It was a really good round.

Greg Owen

I think to come back and horseshoe out for a birdie summed up my week really. I don't know whether it was the heat or the long week, but I had just no good feelings at all. I couldn't get anything going, but hopefully I can learn from it.

Chad Campbell

I think that's key in this tournament. A lot of them, you knock it on in two...and I've been able to make birdie on most of them.

Chris DiMarco

I was just trying to hang in there and make a birdie because you never know what might happen out there with the wind swirling and the greens firm.

Fred Couples

I didn't change my stroke, but I just hit the birdie putt way too hard.

Ai Miyazato

I didn't birdie any of the par-5s and it prevented me from shooting a low score. But I think I played very patiently until the end.

Mark Calcavecchia

I can honestly say I never thought I would say that I actually win a tournament using my head. But honestly this weekend, I think I won this tournament playing smart golf, using course management and staying patient. I mean, somebody is going to have to find out when the last time somebody won a tournament making one birdie on the weekend. That may have never happened before in the history of golf, by the way.

Robby Albarado

I was just a passenger tonight. The couple times I have ridden him, he does all the work. I just guide him. I'm so appreciative of Chris and Jeff flying me into Houston to ride him. I had a fortunate trip and was able to save ground.

Chadd Little

Just to see Chris fight through the years with what was going on ... it was just something I thought that I could do.

Colleen Atwood

It actually is as fun to make men's costumes, especially if they are as good-looking as Chris Hemsworth.

Vincent Van Gogh

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.

Jon Gruden

He did some good things. Chris made some fine plays today. We just didn't get enough done.

Mayor Cartmell

He is the most prominent citizen in town. We try to recognize our citizens ... People turn out for Chris Lofton here.

Tony McCoy

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.

Walter Jones

He's a great player, man. To play in this league as long as Chris has, he's one of those guys who goes out there and gets it on each week. Just to play this game for that long is a compliment to him.

Mike Archer

Knowing what I know now, I'd still come, ... My kids were here. I wanted to be close to them.

James Blake

Knowing that I was that close to a semi or final, it makes me realize that the goal going into these Slams isn't just getting to the second week. Maybe I can get in there and win one.

Duncan Fletcher

Key has had a shoulder operation and Shah has a knee injury which didn't look too serious at first but a closer look has shown it is a far more serious.

Niels From

I wouldn't position for sharp movements -- so close to the New Year investors won't want to take massive positions. My traders say that liquidity flowing is half of a normal market.

Ron Nelson

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw him close a couple of games. We wouldn't want to throw him more than an inning, though.

Michael Schroeder

I wouldn't be buying. When we were getting yields close to 4.50, I thought they were pretty attractive.

Bob Kerrey

I would not say 'impossible,' ... But, boy, it feels awfully close to it.

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Gary LaGrange

I would say that France Road and Jourdan Road are close to being a total loss.

Brent Newman

Jake was trailing most of that race. He finished super strong and just out-touched the other two.

Teri Hatcher

I actually thought 'Desperate Housewives' finished very well. I just think there's still stories to be told. I feel like I get that from fans that they weren't done watching those people's lives.

Nancy Karl

He was about 95 percent finished when he died,

Casey Schweitzer

He didn't place and finished 3-2. He was a little disgusted, frustrated with his performance. He thought he could place.

Paul Nicholls

He's just got in there. He finished third up at Perth at the end of a long season on his last start and he might just need this.

Will Brown

I thought Hartford finished strong in the regular season. I thought Larry did a good job.

Willie Roaf

I thought about (retiring). I talked to Will and some of the guys. Then last year we finished so strong at the end of the year. It was great seeing Will come back. That helped, too.

Casey Mears

I thought about going with Newman, but Elliott Sadler (who finished fourth) gave me such a good shove, I had to stay with him.

Jessica Howe

I thought we finished better in the paint. We've been working on that all year. I think we really saw each other well on the floor. There were a lot of good assists.

Jim Gibbs

Jim was a jokester, a great guy and a private pilot. He took flying seriously, that was his passion.

Richard Branson

It already has been through the rigors of flying around the world.

Ken Hamlin

I was just pumped up. Guys were making plays. You could tell guys were flying around and really trying to get it done.

Joker Phillips

He's flying around and looking like his old self.

Kyle Wright

He is just flying by guys this spring and making plays.

Michael Jones

We can keep the helicopters flying for one week.

Richard Dawkins

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.

Sarah Brightman

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

Salman Rushdie

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

David Briggs

Greenspan sparked a reaction. I guess people like to be verbally reassured that we can get through the oil prices.

William Sullivan

Greenspan is suggesting that the recovery is going to be slow and that there are obstacles to a swift rebound.

Wayne Smith

Had results been fair, it is possible that we may have even seen a different government. The Liberals, NDP and Greens represent a majority, and together they would have held a majority of seats.

Paul Azinger

The greens for the first time, really all year, are going to be firm. That takes a little getting used to.

John Cook

The greens are receptive; it's a slaughter waiting to happen.

Sam Snead

The greens are harder than a whore's heart.

Stephen Ames

The greens are actually firmer than the fairways.

O. Singh

You can score very low here, or at least you think you can score low here. But the greens are hard to read, really tough.

Peter Tomasulo

These greens are so perfect. The hole looked big today, I guess.

Lamar Butler

Just to walk in, I kept thinking about Peyton Manning throwing all those touchdowns.

Lenora Fulani

he voiced his disagreement with me, and then kept right on going.

Daniel Gomez

He use to come here once and a while, but he was a musician and you know kept pretty much to himself.

Lee Dean

He couldn't sleep, ... He kept saying, 'What should I take? What should I bring?'

Reggie Theus

He could have played last week, but I kept him out because I wanted him to be 100 percent this week.

Frank Robinson

He kept yapping at me, and I was talking at him, and he's telling me, 'No more,' but he's still yakking at me, ... I'm trying to tell him, 'You stop talking to me if I can't talk to you.'

Brad Wilkerson

He kept us off-balance. He didn't really give up too many hard-hit balls.

Marc Suyematsu

He kept us off-balance and we were never able to string together any hits.

Joel Thompson

He kept those for a reason. He showed me those for a reason.

Umberto Eco

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Rick Danko

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

Rick James

You and I, we'll be together 'til the six is nine.

William Jennings Bryan

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Virginia Woolf

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

William Wycherley

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

William Shenstone

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

William Shatner

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

Cassie Desmone

He managed his way through a lot of tricky holes.

Jaime Winstone

I've done quite a lot of growing up in public, which has been tricky at times.

Ewan McGregor

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

Minnie Driver

Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.

Nestor Carbonell

It's tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.

e. e. cummings

(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)

Isabel Lucas

I find it tricky to make plans.

Hugh Laurie

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

Gavin Hood

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.