Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Steve Kragthorpe

The bottom line is turnovers, and we did a great job of securing turnovers. We got the ball back with 2:20 left, and I challenged our team to get the first down and to stay on the field. And they did.

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Connie Higgins

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Jeff Bridges

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

Shawn Stenger

Rain isn't our deal, but we came out and it didn't bother us. We moved the ball around pretty well in the first half.

Rob Elkins

Rachel took the ball as far as she could and fired it over to Bianca. She played the ball very well with her left foot.

John Wicks

Rachel is doing a real good job taking care of the ball for us. And she gives us toughness at the point guard position and gets the ball where it needs to be.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

Marc Chouinard

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

Ron Hill

a very good example of a company that cares deeply about their community.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Julius Peppers

People think they really know, but they really don't have a clue what they're talking about, ... I could really care less about who's complaining about me not having sacks.

Allan Miller

People feel like this is a place they can take their stuff and it will be cared for.

Robert Morrison

Often times when people discuss rural health care they focus on rural poverty, ... When you look at Asheboro, we're not like that. We have to view ourselves as part of a metropolitan area.

S. Walker

Ashton's just a workhorse. To have one touchdown on offense, one on defense and one on special teams really says a lot.

Doug Wojcik

As a team, we play defense well and our kids listen. Memphis did a poor job at the free throw line (26-of-41) and that really kept us in the game.

Michael Lambert

As a human being I was incensed. As a defense attorney, I was incensed.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Ed Sennett

Our defense took them out of it. It looked like their kids were a little tired. They played three pretty hard games in a row. We put the defense on them, got ahead, and when you're tired, it's hard to come back.

Jack Siedlecki

Our defense stood up each time we turned it over.

Doug Palow

Our defense shut down just about everything tonight.

Brian Shepard

Our defense pretty much held them every drive.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

DeShawn Stevenson

So we've got to go out there and play every game like it's a playoff game and play together like we're doing. We're doing a good job.

Billy Donovan

Self-inflicted wounds. All just self-inflicted. We contributed to them getting back in the game with our mental errors.

Charlie Kemppainen

Ryan has had a very good season. He could always shoot, but he's improved his overall game a lot.

Doc Rivers

Ryan has been great for us and he's just a terror on the backboard. Not only did we need his glass work but we needed his quickness. Without Ryan Gomes, we don't win this game tonight.

Mike Ruddock

Ryan is not looking great for the New Zealand game,

Andy Robinson

Rugby is a physical game and sometimes it erupts but we are not condoning it and it's disappointing,

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.

Jose Cortez

Once the snap is good and the hold is good, it's all me. Now I've just got to put them through.

Stephen Rea

Actors, the good actors, always want to talk about what they're doing, always want to give other people space to do what they're doing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Bob Richardson

We can no longer tolerate handling prisoners in public hallways and restrooms for safety and security reasons,

Tim Padgett

We've had numerous trees and power lines down, numerous homes that are damaged, and we are still handling emergencies.

Jaren Jackson

We talked about containment and handling ourselves on the boards.

Rick Barnes

Right now, if there's any one thing I can change, it's handling the basketball. Sixteen turnovers at this time of year just kills you.

Jay Dillon

People were very upset but were handling it well.

Jim Haslett

I got a nice e-mail from Tom Coughlin . 'Thinking of you.' How about that? He said he thought I was doing a nice job handling things. I'll tell you what I wrote him back.

Mike Strong

We just did a nice job handling their pressure.

Gregg Langbehn

His two-out RBI was a big run for us. It seems like he's handling all the pressure pretty well. He's holding his own.

Peter Jackson

We take as much inspiration from what he's doing and how he's handling it as he takes from the club.

Jerry Rucker

Defensively our intensity level picked up. They went through a spell of about 25 possessions from midway through the second to about mid-third quarter where they only scored six points.

Sthefany Thomas

That's why you can never lay back. You can't play to the other team; you have to play with your own intensity that your team always plays with.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

John Lazicki

We've seen this team this year with the same level of intensity that they had, but we just couldn't match it tonight.

Kenny Carter

You have to have intensity for 32 minutes. It didn't happen.

Dan Dersam

We just turned cold, and we couldn't make anything. We were trying to live on the jump shot, and we lost our intensity on defense.

Mario Chalmers

We just tried to match the intensity they were bringing.

R. Ingram

We weren't really playing with a lot of energy, we told ourselves we have to pick up our intensity and pressure the ball.

Tim Wise

We haven't played with the intensity on that end that we need. That's where we'll put our emphasis.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Benjamin Bratt

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Ricky Skaggs

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Romeo Miller

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Ravi Moss

Getting the bye would make things a lot easier. That's what we're playing for right now.

David Duval

Frankly, I'm playing well enough to win tournaments.

Nathan Brookwood

As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Sergey Brin

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

Anne Robinson

I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Manny Pacquiao

If he wants a rematch, I will give him a rematch. There should be a third fight.

Paul Duca

It's the third time I've done it. It doesn't feel weird any more.

Jack Roush

This is the third time this week you've tried to get my goat,

Dusty Baker

It was a tough day to be a third baseman.