Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Harris

I was looking for a ball away the entire at-bat. I fouled a couple off, pitches that I could have hit. He kept living out there and left me one up that I could handle.

Buck Showalter

Kevin had a great spring. He started off slow, having a nagging injury, but he is starting to swing the bat well. He is seeing the ball well and centers the ball so well. Kevin is so strong that the ball has a lot of carry. He can just power the ball out of here.

Matthew Stevens

Ken played fantastic and didn't miss more than five or six balls all the way through.

Greg Robinson

K.J. (Smith)'s had a very good camp. He had a good spring ball and I like him there (at middle linebacker). I think it's a good position for him.

Jim Rosborough

Kirk needs to understand this is going to be a whole lot more physical. They bang you, they push you. It's a whole new ball of wax.

Bill Doba

Kids don't care. Whoever can take them down the field and score and help them win ball games, that's who they will follow. In talking to one of our players, they said, 'Coach, this ain't no church league.' We're trying to win ball games, and whoever can get the job done and do the best job is who this team will follow.

Matthew King

I wouldn't say I hit the ball well but I scrambled well and putted well and hit some good shots on the back nine and took my chances there, ... I'm feeling good. I would like to feel more comfortable with my tee-to-green game, but it is a nice problem to have.

Phil Garner

I wouldn't say he pitched poorly, I'd say that they did a good job of putting the ball in play. They are a good hitting team. They're going to get some hits on you.

Sean Miller

I would use the word alarming. We're a team that practices very well and hard, and we pass the ball well, and we've shown we can rebound. Through nine games, we all have to take a hard look at what we need to do to shore that up. If we could shore that up, we'd have a terrific team.

Darren Kalina

Going unbeaten (in the league) for a second straight year is a big deal to the coaching staff and the kids. I don't know if it's ever been done before, and we're trying to make it happen.

Mike Miello

He's a leader, not just in statistics, but a true leader on our football team. He leads by example. He's not a rah-rah guy. He's got a real sense of maturity about him. He leads and people follow. He's the kind of kid that makes coaching worthwhile. That's how we all feel about him, and he's having a great year on top of it, individually.

E. B. White

He's definitely auditioning for a head coaching job, maybe not here but he's going to get a head coaching job. He's a great coach, a players' coach and he's going to give it his all. He played the game and played it well.

Sean Brady

I don't have a good coaching voice, that's for sure.

Kevin Stallings

I don't get too worked up, but coaching in an SEC game and watching your son play in a big game are pretty comparable (on the nerves). But I want him to do well, that's for sure.

Patrick Beverley

I'd like to thank my teammates, my mother and the coaching staff. I couldn't have done this without them. It was a hard decision and I had to go with my heart.

Tommy Bowden

I don't know of anybody. I know he doesn't, and he's been coaching 50-something years.

Adam Kless

He doesn't have much coaching experience, but he's going to be a great coach. He knows a lot about football and relates well with kids.

Roger Ailes

I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that I haven't seen something like that before.

Max Mosley

The FIA very much hopes that all the teams and manufacturers competing in this year's championship will also enter for 2008.

Darrin Walter

The kids are competing to be on the varsity squad.

George Husack

The Gaels are riding a good streak of matches and competing well. They have a crafty team of players and it's going to be tough to play them in Moraga.

Carol Peschel

These girls have continued to persevere and improve despite some injuries. Nikki was competing in the all-around. Now she may be on one event for the end of the season.

Reese Butler

It's not even just a waste of money -- they're actually competing with us! They're hurting an existing, successful effort, and for what?

Darryl Anderson

The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining some success while we're there.

Mark Sontag

After that, we weren't competing for overall. But lots of teams with top overalls didn't have the scores we were competing with.

Dean Oestreich

It's no longer about a single dominant player providing biotech tools to the marketplace. We are competing head to head.

Steve Carpenter

It's real surprising because I know they were a high competing team and they were ranked nationally.

Paul Doughty

Knowing that I have these younger girls who are playing and getting better every game is encouraging.

David Ward

Jacob pitched a really good game for us today. He was throwing pretty hard. If he can keep pitching like that, we'll be in good shape.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Joel Allen

Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Champ Bailey

John, he knows everything, he studies the game very hard and he'll knock you out.

Clint Hurdle

I talked to Todd (on Sunday) night after the game and left another message for him (Monday) morning. He told me he might not make it on this road trip and laughed.

Mo Rocca

It addresses a life-long concern, the risk of someone ruining your game. I just don't want you, 50 years down the road, to have your game killed by some guy with a shinier walker.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Jason Venable

Joel did a really good job stepping in. It was a good outing. They got after it and really played.

George Steinbrenner

Joe is a good man. I wish him luck and hope he does well.

John Greene

For many years, the Taft name in Ohio has been greatly respected. The Tafts were men of sober and conservative temperament. They were somewhat seen as stodgy, but they were men of principle and integrity.

Tom Rath

The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.

Simon Newcomb

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.

Andrew Walker

Luke's been an outstanding editor-in-chief. Throughout the year, he's always been greatly supportive to me.

Larry King

If asked, I would be greatly honored to stay on,

Pierre Lafontaine

One of the things that will be greatly missed is Mike's leadership within the national swim team,

Jack Quinn

That would greatly surprise me. I can't image that happening, ... Meet The Press.

Jimmy Smits

John was a true pillar of a man, he set the stage for kindness and generosity. His humor and smile were infectious, he will be greatly missed.

Tiffani Bruce

For the most part, verifying eligibility has greatly improved.

Marc Morial

I think the important message today is that an ordinary person -- a quiet, humble person -- can ignite a movement,

Ronald Reagan

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Wendell Berry

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

Mike James

I'm probably one of the must humble people you'll ever meet.

Greg Davis

I'm very humbled to be the recipient of this award.

Joseph Addison

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Joseph Addison

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Jose Mujica

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live,

Kay Bailey Hutchison

I do think women generally are more humble.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Barbara Ward

Just to know what the kids were talking about in school was more meaningful than anything I could write in a parent newsletter,

Mike Pardon

I actually thought our kids battled well. South just has so many weapons. They?d go on spurts here and spurts there. They?re so tall and so skilled. It was too much for us.

Shelton Quarles

He couldn't be home, that's why he always had his kids around.

City High

He didn't have to run. A lot of kids wouldn't have,

Steve Collins

He just plays the game. You've got to love kids like that.

Ronald Reagan

We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.

Ronald Reagan

Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them.

Ronald Reagan

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Ronald Reagan

The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.

Rudyard Kipling

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

Natasha Trethewey

I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that time, I never knew anything about the presence of black soldiers on the island. And so, for me, this was a way of trying to tell another history, a lost or a forgotten or a little-known history about these black soldiers who played an important part in American history.” Trethewey said. Coincidentally, she was born “exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Ron Matthews

I've just spoken with Rohan on the phone. He had just returned from a memorial service.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Edward Cooke

He was poking the screen with it, over and over until he ripped it. But he didn't say anything about it, and then he actually incorporated it into his explanation of the next slide.

Dylan Carr

He was good, but I'll be back next year.

Charlie Lewis

He was really on us that next morning, ... We didn't start that day.

Dave Blaney

I don't know where I'm going to be at next year. That's all I know,

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Jimmy Newman

When he's not playing polo or sleeping, he is concentrating on getting well-mounted and staying well-mounted.

Tony Bethel

When he (Simmons) is playing at his best, we win.

Brad Wilkerson

We've got to realize what we're playing for. Now's the time to want it.

Bill Guerin

We've got to keep playing for our lives.

Jeremy Trueblood

I thought we had a better team this year. But that was before we started playing the game, I guess. But they were a better team than they were two years ago -- a lot better.

Ryan Ghere

I thought that made them start playing harder.

Grady Sizemore

I think we got the team that can do it. We just got to keep playing the way we are. We're right where we wanted to be, and now it's up to us.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

Brian Marshall

The staff told me they were going to do this. I told them it wasn't necessary.

Oliver North

The teachers that teach here could make more money. The staff could do something else.

Mark Sanchez

That's what the staff wants to do with it.

Dusty Baker

We have a support staff here I think that can make a difference.

William Whewell

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

Will Wright

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

Wayne Dyer

Every obstacle is a test.

Rod Lurie

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.

Barbara Ehrenreich

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Leila Aboulela

Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr

Madeleine L'Engle

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

John F. Kennedy

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.