Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Danielle Pletka

Katrina has changed many things but I don't think it will change Iraq policy. There is almost no elasticity in that policy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Jeff Banks

It almost got away from us. But we didn't give up just because we were behind. That's the best part.

Alex Rodriguez

It almost feels like we're in their shoes.

Mark Sweeney

He can throw a good one. He almost took my head off today. I didn't know where it was going. But in a game? He'd get killed. It's one thing to play catch. It's another thing to pitch.

Bill Belichick

He kind of knows the right thing to do without being told. He just knows how to get open and he has a good understanding of passing game concepts. He knows where the other receivers are. He understands where he needs to be, and when there are traffic problems, he almost always does the right thing to clear that traffic up.

Ernie Els

He just goes out and goes about his business. So I think Phil, almost more than Tiger, has got more Masters in him, maybe.

Ross Stitt

He just didn't handle the track at Hobart but I knew after he worked on Monday morning he was at his peak for this race. In fact, I almost broke my rules and backed him.

Viswanathan Anand

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

Justin Gatlin

I knew Tyson gets out very fast, and Wallace comes on strong at the end. I had to make sure I was patient throughout the whole race. I was pawning, playing chess with the guys.

Monica Seles

It's fantastically exciting. She's so young still and she was so good. I'm a big fan of hers. She was a great No. 1 player. She was a chess player out there.

Joe Tiller

Football is a chess game. You always try to stay one move ahead.

Pete Martinez

We're going to play the most sophisticated chess game, chess match ever known to man, with a virus.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is a kind of chess.

Jack Womack

We're moving chess pieces all over the place, ... We're moving them so fast, it's hard to keep track of where everybody is.

Boris Spassky

The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.

Bobby Fischer

When I was eleven, I just got good.

Steve Ralston

Italy is a very defensive team, very well organized, they look to counter-attack. Their defense is rock solid.

Danny Ainge

He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago.

R. Inge

He just knows how to pound the zone once he gets ahead. He just lets his defense work for him. He's a smart pitcher. He knows what he's doing.

Kris Kleeman

I thought the first half defense was very good. I wish we could have scored some points there to get a lead. We missed our first 10 shots to start the game, we had good shots that we have to be able to make. We didn't make them and kept them in the game.

Dan Watkins

I thought that was the only mistake our defense made the whole game. We just didn't pick up the player in the middle.

Steve Sampson

I thought that Tyrone Marshall leaving the game was a big loss for us because I think he was holding the middle of the defense quite well for us. When he left we lost the middle of the defense.

Mitch Osborn

I thought we actually played better down there than when we played them at our own place. I thought our defense was much better. Generally everybody really played well. If you win by 18 (at Clarinda), that's a great win.

Les Miles

I thought that our defense stymied them all day, and really played extremely well,

Steve Campbell

I think we gave them more yards on penalties than they had in the first half. Our defense flies around and makes some plays, and we just need to keep that up.

Charlie Hunnam

I think we all kind of thought those would be the most fun, the fight scenes. And they were the most challenging. Physically exhausting and complicated and kind of very specific and intricate, so they just took a long time to film. I think that we all thought that we'd get to set, have a punch up and we'd get it on film and be wrapped, but it wasn't quite like that.

Andrew Wyatt

It's even exhausting for me to think about remixes because there were so many Miike Snow remixes.

Mara Wilson

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

Kerry Condon

I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

Orison Swett Marden

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

John Fairchild

I find it an exhausting experience, personally, to go to a party every night.

Jaromir Jagr

It is awfully exhausting and devastating. This is sport and sometimes it simply does not work.

Mark O'Donnell

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

Kobe Bryant

That's unthinkable. It's pretty exhausting to think about.

Thomas Davis

I'm fighting tougher fighters now. But now no one wants to fight me.

Chris Dingman

I'm not really sure what is going on. I'm challenging guys, but the big thing is fighters just aren't getting the ice time this season.

Anand Gopal

For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.

John Murray

I turned 21 on Tuesday, so this made a good present. It goes without saying that I am chuffed to bits. Some good fighters have won this in the past, including Ricky Hatton, so I will be looking to follow in their footsteps.

Nancy Gibbs

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

Joel Edgerton

A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person.

John Taylor

They tried and that is all you can ask. It's disappointing and they were disappointed, but the one thing I've always liked about this group is they are fighters and they don't quit. They didn't quit, and I was proud of that.

George Foreman

The sport needs a personality, not a fighter. We've got plenty of great fighters in the sport, but no personalities. No one is standing for anything. The last personality we had was Mike Tyson. He stood for something. It wasn't much, but he stood for something.

Joe Rodriguez

The time for the thugs and the street fighters is over in the ring.

Glenn Hoddle

Jody has played in a practice match and has improved,

Juli Inkster

I think it is very tough if you play just one match and a singles,

Greg Helstrom

He just never missed anything. It starts to wear on you after awhile, but that's what you have to do in match play wear your opponent down.

Sepp Blatter

He retired because he was the victim during a match of unacceptable physical and psychological abuse.

Mike Geffre

I thought we played well for our first time out. It's nice to play a match and see what you need to work on.

Elvis Forde

I think we match up with them well, though.

Bruce Aidells

It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak.

Emilio Butragueno

I think this is the toughest match of the draw,

Mark Jula

We matched them hoop for hoop in the third quarter. We needed a stop and then they got some breaks.

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Yoandy Garlobo

We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .

Trevor Doughty

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

Larry Eustachy

We made the plays down the stretch. I thought it was the most mentally tough we played down the stretch all year.

Rachel Hall

He teaches me to become mentally prepared and tells me to work hard.

Gloria Arroyo

All of us are mentally and physically exhausted,

Al Roberts

They didn't do anything we hadn't seen. We are philosophically sound, but we're not physically ready. We're not mentally ready. We're not spiritually ready. We're not athletically ready.

Giancarlo Fisichella

It is really tough. Physically, mentally I feel all right. It is a tough race, but it will be the same for everyone.

Elliott Sadler

This is tough. Mentally and physically, you're trying to get ready for the race and get prepared, but you don't know whether it's going to happen. The weather for tomorrow doesn't look that good, either. It's tough on everybody.

S. Hughes

I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Bob Peck

I think it is the right time for me to move on,

Emeka Okafor

I think I stepped on somebody's foot. I'm not in too much pain, but I really can't move (the ankle).

Marty Barnes

I also haven't moved anything on my desk. Nothing has been touched.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

John Woodring

He's done, so we have to move on.

Stone Gossard

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

Dan Evans

We just have to get the president to move it up on his priority list.

Tim Bennett

We talk about all three phases of the game. You have to win not only into offense or defense, but special teams. We put a lot of work into our special teams.

Andrei Kirilenko

I think we just started rushing at the end and putting up a lot of jumpers. They were getting rebounds and playing 24 seconds of offense each possession.

Tom Grippa

I thought our offense would do more, and we didn't. They shocked us with their offense, and once we got behind, we weren't ready to come from behind.

Paul Bauer

He has been the centerpiece of the offense so far. We will see how he comes out of it.

Johnnie Morton

Our offense was very sluggish out there, ... and we never had our tempo.

Jeremy Bauer

Our offense is there. We've been putting up a lot of runs so far.

Ben Roethlisberger

A lot of people said that if we had to throw the ball, we can't win. Myself, the line, the receivers, we kind of took offense to that. We've kind of proven that's not the case.

Juan Pierre

They had the timely hits, and they made the most of their opportunities and we didn't. Our offense is a lot better than it's displayed.

Chad Jilek

They (the Little Cyclones) don't put a lot of pressure on you. We just have to make sure that we're smart in our half-court offense and not just throwing shots up.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Jacques Santini

It is important for the players to relax physically and also psychologically,

Rick Newman

He was physically unable to get to the closing.

Willie Randolph

He has to feel real strong physically and throw a little bit. You don't want to play around with a hamstring.

Rich Manning

He is a very reliable defenseman who is physically gifted. He can recover and play a lot of minutes.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Willie Anderson

Physically I'm doing good. It's going to be a while before I get that game-type conditioning and get my second wind in the game.

Andrea Walker

Imogene and her staff physically make the arrangements and we put the puzzle together.

Mike Holmgren

Steve Smith, for his size, is very, very strong -- physically a strong guy, has strong hands.

Jimmy Rollins

Keep him sick all year long. I have this new virus, Ryan, I want you to try it.

David Davenport

It could have been worse had she not been sick that day, ... She didn't come to school. So she was very fortunate.

David Davenport

It could have been worse had she not been sick that day,

William Wilberforce

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy. I am healthy. I am not sick anymore,

Richelle Mead

I still couldn’t stop the sick feeling rising in my stomach. “This could be a disaster.” “How? If anyone even finds it—and it’s not just sitting under a table right now—they’ll just have a good laugh at our sappy talk. No one’s going to be like, ‘Aha! Proof of an illicit human-and-vampire affair.

Ryan Lochte

I suddenly said, 'I'm sick of losing'. After that, I trained hard and I never lost there again.

William Wordsworth

The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

Wesley Willis

Take your ass to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Dan Garofano

He said he was tired and wasn't having fun.

Kobe Bryant

I was a little tired at the end, but I was motivated.

Marshall Overley

He was tired and we thought it was too far. We're just going to have to go for it.

Richelle Mead

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

Richelle Mead

Sage," he said. "What are you wearing?" I sighed and stared down at the dress. "I know. It's red. Don't start. I'm tired of hearing about it." "Funny," he said. "I don't think I could ever get tired of looking at it.

Russell B. Long

Bring on those tired, labor-plagued, competition-weary companies and ESOP will breathe new life into them. They will find ESOP better than Geritol. It will revitalize what is wrong with capitalism. It will increase productivity. It will improve labor relations. It will promote economic justice. It will save the economic system. It will make our form of government and our concept of freedom prevail over those who don't agree with us.

Sarah MacLean

Why now? Why not wait for a man to come along and…sweep you off your feet?” She gave a short laugh. “If the man you speak of had ever planned on coming, my lord, I’m afraid he has obviously lost his way. And, at twenty-eight, I find I have grown tired of waiting.

Vincent Van Gogh

I never get tired of the blue sky.

Samuel McChord Crothers

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

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.

Estelle

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

Greg Bowers

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

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Sally Kellerman

I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!