Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susie Gardner

As hard as it was to lose to Alabama it was an important step for us. Especially to come back from a huge deficit on the road.

Lee Sentell

As long as I've been in the tourism business, 30 years, people who come to the state say one thing a great deal, 'I had no idea Alabama was such a beautiful state,'

B. R. Hayden

Because of the many problems hogs create, we want to see the sportsmen in Alabama take as many hogs as they possibly can, whenever they can. I know we have some hunters who really enjoy hunting hogs and who have some well-trained dogs that can find, chase, bay, catch and hold hogs. But we really want to see the number of hogs statewide reduced drastically because they do so much destruction to the habitat.

Bobby Pierce

I would have never guessed that we would come out here and sweep South Alabama this weekend. But what a way to get us off and rolling in a new conference. We have been telling our guys all year that they are good, but it is another thing altogether to sweep a three-game series from South Alabama.

Billy Donovan

I got on them because our thought process going into the game was go inside first and then come back out. We were letting the ball sometimes go on the perimeter with the ball never touching the paint, and I think South Alabama wanted us to do that early in the game.

Michael Gorman

The American Library Association (ALA) is saddened by the tragic loss of life and widespread damage to homes and communities by Hurricane Katrina, ... Libraries are an indispensable part of their communities, providing support and resources for everyone. Dozens of libraries in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama need our assistance so they, in turn, can meet the many needs of their communities.

Jim Bennett

I was glad to have been associated with the Post-Herald during a crucial time in Alabama history, during the George Wallace era and during the push for civil rights. It was a great time to be a reporter.

Ray Tanner

We caught Alabama at a time when they were playing their best baseball. Today it was simple, pitching and hitting. They did both better than we did. My guys played hard but they weren't good enough.

Joe Smith

I think he is the best lefty in South Jersey. He is going to Wallace State, a junior college in Alabama that is consistently ranked in the top five of the country.

M. Wolfe

Our slogan is 'Money for Nothing, Checks for Free,'

Kevin Cosgrove

The one thing about Steve, he's got a tremendous motor. But he still has a ways to go as far as his checks and things like that. We're looking for the exactness in his play, and that's got to continue to develop.

Madame Stael

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened

Kirk Douglas

Because I love you, I will be checking up on you, ... You have honored me and I thank all of you.

Katherine Miller

This one looked like we needed to have it checked out,

Kasey Keller

Tonight was a reality check for us. I don't think I can express how I feel in words you guys can print.

John Dewey

There is something going on at Northeastern. We sent a technician out there and all our equipment checked out fine. Right now the customer is looking at what issues they may have.

Andrej Meszaros

This was a big opportunity for me to show the coach I can play 30 minutes if need be. My focus was to keep Jagr in check and not letting him score any goals. I think I had a pretty good game.

Alok Sinha

The probe team will also find out ways to check repeats of similar clashes in future.

Howard Marks

The state of Florida would have never required her to take her veil off if 9-11 had not occurred.

Craig Fugate

Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.

Edwidge Danticat

I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.

Bruce Pearl

Florida looks to me like they're the team to beat.

Jack Beven

There's no part of Florida that's truly hurricane-invulnerable.

Mary Wesley

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

Andre Holland

I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

Chris Metzger

We hope he goes to Florida and keeps improving. If he does that, the sky is the limit. He's really an untapped talent. When he (joined the football team) he didn't fully understand the game and its idiosyncrasies.

Jay Leno

Elections officials here in California are concerned that having 247 candidates would require a ballot so long it would be difficult to count. Today in Florida they said, 'What? You count the ballots?'

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Gerald Perry

Jason is only going to get better. His track record shows that. He's going to be fine.

Glenn Walsh

Jason has had a tremendous year. This is his second year with me, and he has really come into his own this season.

Ramon Castro

I said, 'You have Vance Wilson, you have Jason Phillips, and you have Mike Piazza. What am I going to do there?' He told me, 'Just trust me,'

Nate Robertson

It's the first time we feel we can go to someone. We had Jason Johnson last year. He wasn't necessarily the vocal leader we needed, but Kenny Rogers is that.

Kareem Rodriguez

The shots that usually go down weren't going down. It was one shot and out for us.

Hines Ward

We thought we could take some shots in the air. We're an experienced team and we took our chances.

Ryan Longwell

We had no shot of making that one. It was just out of sequence.

Sanja Tomasevic

Everything they told us would happen, did. They would have their big shots and their power. But we could play with them if we were patient.

Edgar Bronfman

between very long shots and very, very, very long shots.

Dwight Johnson

We'll have another shot at it, I think.

Ronald Reagan

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Susan Estrich

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

Greg Williams

She was really huge. We've been watching her make 3s all year in practice, but we haven't been able to get her to look for her shot in the games.