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.

Steve Edmiston

Real early in the ball game, I thought we did a real good job of establishing the inside. We'd go through spurts throughout the course of the game where we had a chance to use the big guys.

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.

Tony Dixon

Rafael is a great player. I think with both of us in there that we can really confuse defenses. They're not going to know where the ball is going. That's something that can work fairly well.

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.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

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.

Ryan Smyth

A few guys are going good, right now.

M. Wolfe

A few games before the tournament, we weren't playing that hard. We weren't giving our best.

Greg Nossaman

A few fouls, a few injuries, we played a lot of kids. We played 14 kids and 12 of them scored.

Aaron Rowand

After playing 14 innings, when my head finally hits that pillow, I don't think I'm going to have any trouble sleeping tonight.

Andy White

I slept in today until about 12. I had finals (scheduled), but I hadn't studied for any of them, and I was really tired, so I took a break.

Nancy Evans

This is the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle which will let us get the most prized piece of information about a star, that is, its mass.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Linda Kilpatrick

We're just too inconsistent right now. We're not ready for the playoffs. We're not playing like we should be in the playoffs. Our players need to do a little self-analyzing before our final three games.

Charles Bukowski

The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

Stan Devereux

We are waiting for those final 10,000 votes to be counted. Then we'll see if a recount is necessary.

Kenny Smith

We were one game away from being in the final four. I thought our kids played with intensity and heart, and they never gave up.

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.

Pat Summitt

Normally we open in a zone. We opened in a man I wanted us to come out and pressure, have good energy.

Gayle King

No show can be 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' including 'The Gayle King Show.' I think she's very good but I think I'm very good too. I think we have different skill sets... but I don't think that I could do what she does and never have.

Scott Ashley

Normally, people think that because I play for a private school, and we play other private schools, that the play is not as good and so that's why my stats are what they are.

Tom Cail

A very nice guy, very nice. Oswaldo had a lot of friends in here after he started meeting all of us.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. ... Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Frank Maguire

The take-away from the meeting is we're on the right track,

Kansas City

After a disappointing January, we are meeting our expectations.

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

Art Hogan

The rhetoric from the meeting will be the most important catalyst,

David Akin

This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations.

Michael Vaughan

This is so special to come to the palace, meeting the queen here and being here with all the rest of the boys.

Don Cassidy

You don't have to be 75 to use a rolling wire basket.

Cameron Bennerman

This is 2006. We're just trying to keep this thing rolling while we're here.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Linda Bannister

Things look bleak. It's unclear when things are going to start to look better.

Ron Ward

This is a terrific opportunity, and I can't wait to really start contributing.

John Silvia

This is a surprisingly strong start of the year.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Jeff Kish

This is not how I wanted to start the New Year.