Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

Joe Thompson

As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

Rhonda Rompola

Our slow start in the first half hurt us. We dug ourselves a hole against a very, very good team.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Ryan Crawford

Our entire front row is (6-foot-2 or taller), and we put up a huge block against everybody. Most of the time when we block right, they're not going to be able to get it over with authority. It's going to be a roll shot or a tip to the corner. You've got to have guys back there who are on the same page and ready to get the ball back to the setter.

Chris Braier

People say basketball is not a contact sport, but I think you could tell tonight it is a contact sport. I enjoy playing against him. He's a heck of a competitor; a great athlete, a great player. He's definitely the heart and soul of their team.

Lin Laursen

People put us on such a pedestal, and that makes it tough when everybody's gunning for you. It was like it was us against the world and we didn't get it done. We didn't show up until the last 10 minutes, and it cost us.

John Murtha

People are unhappy about it, Republicans and Democrats. They all realize that the Iraqis aren't going to do any fighting until we decide that they're going to take over. As soon as the elections are over and the constitution is ratified, you're going to find American forces drawn down. The public's against it. The military's overextended. There's no place else to go.

Sukbir Khanijoh

People are strongly against the government's selling of state enterprises.

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.

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.

Tim Ford

Our defense played awfully well. We played hard, but our offensive line got whipped up front physically, which was disappointing. Our defense was the key. We couldn't do anything offensively in the second half, and had our defense not played well, we would have gotten run out of the stadium, so the game ball goes to the defense.

Mike White

Our defense has played well, but we've got to put the ball in the end zone. We moved the ball well tonight, but we'd get so far and then make a silly mistake. We are a little down after the loss, but our seniors won't let us drop as a team.

Doug Kilby

Our defense did an outstanding job. In the second half we played ball control.

Vince Strine

Our defense did a good job of keeping the ball for our offense. We just had a hard time finishing. We're young, but I feel like we're getting better at those things.

Sid Sweet

Our defense and our team intensity stood out. However, we need to work on our ball management, and we had 3 girls foul out.

Rick Stockstill

As far as the class, I'm not one to stand up here and talk about this guy and that guy and say, 'We beat this team or we beat that team on a player.' That's just not my style. We are excited about this class. I think the big thing in it is what I have said since I've been here, which is I want to surround myself with winners.

Mo Johnston

D.C. was the better team. There's no way I'm going to stand up here and make excuses when we got beat 4-1.

Curt Miller

Despite our two wins, we felt like we were outplayed both games. They had us beat last year both games and let us slip through.

Jim Calhoun

A No. 16 seed is going to beat a No. 1. The gap is closing.

John Beilein

Any team that can beat Pittsburgh can beat anyone.

James Blake

Any of the top 100 guys in the world can beat any of the top 10 guys on a given day,

Colin Johnston

The second one was a lot harder. He (Sim) used to beat me all the time when we were little.

Joe Girardi

The solo (homer) doesn't kill you in the second inning. It's the home run in the third that really hurts. Howard beat him today.

Christopher Reed

The subject pulled the man from his car and beat him,

John Johnson

As for going on the show, I would not have minded one bit to meet him face to face and look him in the eye, ... But I feel the deck is stacked on that one and the show is Dr. Phil, not Jerry Springer. The title is ?Falsely Accused,? not?Guilty as Sin.?

Rand Paul

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

Jim Furyk

Our team tends to be a little more loose, ... We have a little bit more fun during the Presidents Cup.

Michael A. Stackpole

People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

Darren Clarke

Do you want to see guys wearing khakis and white shirts? Or do you want to see somebody a little bit different? There's more to us than just playing golf. I think it brightens it up and makes it a bit of fun.

Simon Grayson

Dean has been a great professional for the month he has been here but he'd been out of football a bit too long to make the step up for us.

Ben Ainslie

Day one was a bit of a disaster and to come back and win a gold after that was just unbelievable. I'm just so happy I was able to turn it around.

Steve Spurrier

Coaches go out with a little bit of strut in their step instead of hanging their heads down if they get clobbered.

Gary Neville

Coley deserves a great reception. The United fans will respect a great player for this club who scored a bagful of goals. There's bound to be a bit of banter, but Coley played in the European Cup final and the fans won't forget that.

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

Jimmy Rollins

This is definitely what you play for. Everybody knows it's football season, but when you have a race like this, it's hard to turn around from it.

Jim Smith

This is definitely what we anticipated all along. It just took a little longer than we expected. We're elated that the commissioners saw the wisdom of the entire plan and voted accordingly.

Jeff Gordon

This is definitely the smoothest that I've ever seen this place. I'm still not sure what the race is going to be like, but I think it's going to be good because the track is just really, really fast right now.

Daniel Wilson

This is definitely the right time to get started.

Michael McGuire

This is definitely the result of market demand.

E. O. Wilson

This is definitely the most talented, smartest and mature team I've been on since I've been here.

Daron Rahlves

This is hard to swallow. It's not the way I wanted it to end. If you win a gold medal at the Olympics it doesn't matter what else you've done. I definitely wanted to walk away from here on top.

Dave Miller

This is not the end. It's going to different next time. I don't know what's going to happen, but it's going to definitely be different. We're going to play better.

Carlos Casteneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you

Jane Bryant

Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing.

Jerry Palm

Tennessee is dropping like a rock. It's looking like whichever team ends up with the higher seed (UNC or Tennessee) will end up in Greensboro with Duke.

Charles Carroll

What we made them do was re-mark it regular and drop the price down to regular price,

Sedrick Ellis

We have heard a lot about losing Shaun and Mike, but I don't think there will be any drop off at all.

Sarah Miller

Dropping people off, picking them up, practice, school.

Granth Sahib

You are the Ocean of Water, and I am Your fish. Your Name is the drop of water, and I am a thirsty sparrow-hawk.

Bob Black

We give them extra-special service whenever they have an accident. We drop what we are doing to get them back on the street as soon as possible.

Robert Brown

Though Rome's gross yoke / Drops off, no more to be endured, / Her teaching is not so obscured / By errors and perversities, / That no truth shines athwart the lies.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

H. Hunt

I've talked to quite a few other people who would like to come. We're possibly looking to expand.

Tim Curry

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

Suanne Sines

I've walked the halls and met for a few minutes with the treasurer. Nobody really objects as much as they don't get it. They look at me like 'What is she doing?' because it's out of the box.

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

Steve Lowery

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Richard Sullivan

This is the first time we have been able to predict such a huge improvement in long-term survival,

Jonathon Shockey

This (win) is a huge confidence-builder for us.

Curtis Strange

When it first was played in 1987, it was a huge deal.

Terry Ryan

Last year we won 83 games, which was a huge disappointment for us. Eight, nine years ago I would have been thrilled to win 83. That's no longer the case.

Luke Salme

That was a huge win for us. Docherty was scared to death, but he knocked them down.

Todd Whetsel

That was a huge win for our team. You don't want to have to be in that play-in game. Even if you win, you're playing Stratford in the first round and you don't want to see them in the first round.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Demetri Martin

There is no I in Team, unless you count the vertical part of the T.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Bob DuPuy

I'd like to have a vote on it at the November [owners'] meetings. There's no reason why we can't announce who we intend to sell the team to in conjunction with signing the lease. But it's very important that we sign a lease contemplated by the stadium agreement. We continue to negotiate and hope that this will quickly be resolved.

Bode Miller

My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Bob Mayer

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

Barbara Deming

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Baltasar Gracian

Leave your luck while still winning.

Boris Becker

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Bobby Fischer

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.