Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mats Sundin

As a team, we are scoring some goals but we still have a lot of work to do. If we want to compete with Ottawa and the other top teams in our conference, we have to do better in our own end.

Lee Brown

Teams can register to compete on our Web site. We're also still taking applications from craft and vendors.

Dave Schutter

You're only as good as the competition you wrestle. If we wanted to, we could probably go undefeated every year in duals if we wanted to go find the weakest teams to compete against, but that's not our objective. Our objective is to go out and find the toughest competition to see what we're made of, and hopefully that improves us when we get down near the end.

Soren Petersen

You need scale that is just immense in order to compete in this area.

Ashley Wagner

When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.

Houston Mader

We got at each other every day in the room. It's been good to have someone to compete with.

Kermit Davis

We gave them a couple of days off, and hopefully that will help them. We're going to back off of them a little right now. We're still going to compete and work hard in practice.

John Cook

We have a better understanding of how tough it will be getting into those late rounds of the NCAA tournament, going to the next level to get to the Final Four and compete for a national championship, ... We've got a lot of wisdom.

Troy Porco

We want to get better every day. As well as we've done this year, we're still trying to get better every day. In the long term, we're trying to compete for championships. We're trying to position ourselves for a national championship.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Tony Ciriello

Boy, what a great guy he was. He went around and talked with everybody and shook their hands. He was a real treat.

Tony Stewart

Everything that I had heard about him and everybody that I talked to about him said he was a good kid and somebody that they thought had a good future. I wanted to be a part of that.

Jerome Williams

Eventually, everybody is going to have to pay their own bills.

Pete Prisco

Besides, are there really any secrets in the NFL anymore? Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

Joe Gibbs

Being what we are, human beings, the natural tendency is that when everybody brags about you, they write good things, you kind of read about it and you back off a little bit. We couldn't play with them last time.

Mike Hackett

Being a scientist, I don't want to get everybody excited and say this is all wonderful. But following two small plantings on less than half an acre, this spring we'll find a 40-acre piece and see what happens.

Juan Gutierrez

Big surprise for me because I don't know that everybody is going be here you know.

Ryan Harris

Everybody knows that we had 11 yards rushing last game. That's just unacceptable. That's nowhere near where we want to be as an offensive line. We've come a long way.

O. Henry

The thing that gets me the most was that there were so many good shots.

Tim Federle

You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.

Teddy Pendergrass

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

Robert Hoffman

Each week gets tougher and tougher. But this was very big for me because I got pinned here last year (in the final), and it?s good to come back and win where you lost before.

Chris Spillane

Every time he steps onto the ice, he gets the job done. He doesn't get a lot of ice time, but every time he does, he does a super job.

Jimmie Johnson

As the day wears on and gets into the evening, we'll try to hone in some new things and hopefully find some speed.

Romeo Crennel

As soon as that rumor gets out there and he reads it, he starts to wonder what's going on,

David Ross

When it gets down to two we'll open it up to a public hearing.

Steve Collins

There's not an offseason for a lot of these kids. It's like I told Keaton. This will be the one time he gets to rest until he's what, 22 years old. ... For some kids, it's a lot.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Chris Ault

That Virden keeps showing up. He has done a very nice job. He might be the most improved secondary guy we have got.

Charles Barkley

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

Craig Counsell

There are plenty of guys who have this, who are playing through it. There is no reason I can't be another one of them.

Frank Haith

We're playing better. When you're in a tournament like this, the more you win, the more guys realize they're playing for something.

Ricardo Patton

We have done well on that all season. We have not had to rely on one guy for our 3-point shots.

Ricky Ray

(Belli) is a guy that plays a little different out there,

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Eckhart Tolle

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Ernst Toller

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.

Stephen Jay Gould

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

Stephen Jay Gould

Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

Stephen Jay Gould

[H]istorical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).

Joyce Smith

She's shown us things we didn't know about.

Peter Sorensen

Using these extracts has been shown to work,

Stephen Hawking

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Mike Sanford

I don't think it was 10 to 12 yards. We were soft on Spencer.

George W. Bush

If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, [it] could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.

Cat Osterman

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

Frank Shorter

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Ginger Rogers

I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.

Joey Porter

I don't know how you can get a soft 1,800 yards.

Fuzzy Zoeller

You've got to have the guts to not be afraid to screw up. The guys who win are the ones who are not afraid to mess up. And that comes right from the heart.

Jennie Finch

College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.

Greg Norman

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

R. Robinson

Every day, he talked to us about being responsible,

Tom Streicher

SWAT negotiators talked to him about an hour,

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Mark Grudzielanek

We talked a lot and we had to get comfortable,

Al Horford

We always talked about how we were going to do big things.