Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel Cotto

I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble family and was taught by my father to be a family man and be committed to them. I stepped into boxing following my older brothers.

Brent Williams

Knowing the passing game as well as he does, is imperative in our game plan because he has freedom to leave the box and get involved in defending the pass. He's an instinctive hitter. He doesn't miss tackles. Once he gets his hands on you, he'll get you to the ground. That's big in this game.

Oenone Wood

It bunched it up because everyone had to slow down. I got boxed out, but the final sprint is so long that it gives you a chance to recover your position. If it was shorter, I would have been like on the 15th wheel, but I was able to get back in the right position.

Lloyd Jones

He used to get in some trouble at school. But since he started boxing four months ago, he's totally turned his life around.

John Montano

He is who he is. That's THE boxer out of Mexico. Period.

Chris Kitchen

He is very good at playing the passing lanes, stopping dribble penetration and boxing out.

Pat Tarrant

He?s a guy that does everything no one sees but the coaches. He?s the guy that always boxes out, always gets on the floor - all of the intangibles. You might see he has three or four points a game but he makes so many contributions to our team in so many different ways.

Jeremy Sheffey

I think it's like when you watch a boxing match. Ever notice that the guy who lands the first couple good punches usually comes out on top?

Eddie Kramer

I think the box set represents the four top creative years of his life. It shows that growth pattern and shows behind-the-scenes little things that he was doing in creating those records and (is a) sort of wonderful window into the mind of the man who to me was the greatest guitar player of all time.

Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Larry McReynolds

He (Wallace) has fire in his eyes and wants go out a a winner.

Paul Tagliabue

He was a warrior, a neighbor and a friend ... In the eyes of many he was the greatest football player of all time.

Teller

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Yiddish Proverb

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth

William Wordsworth

Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair. . . .

Joe Girardi

He's got no fear. He could throw all of his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes this spring. He's come a long way in a short period of time.

Margarita Chaves

His pupils were dilated. I'll never forget that look in his eyes.

Jillian Robbins

I was just watching their eyes, and they were looking at who they were about to pass to. So I said, 'I've got to get this. I've got to leave it all on the floor.' My teammates had my back, so I went for it, and it worked out.

Mandy Hotchkiss

I was just totally overwhelmed. Their whole island has been totally wiped out.

William Wordsworth

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

Richard Pryor

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

William Dampier

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

Zora Neale Hurston

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

Rebecca Solnit

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

Rick Riordan

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

Samantha Barks

I grew up on a tiny little island.

Sadako Ogata

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Fisher DeBerry

Going into Washington we probably know less about this team than any,

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Vance Walberg

He's first-team all-league. I put a lot on him. He's got experience, leadership. He's just very well-balanced. He's meant a lot to this team. Without him, we'd win a lot less games.

Karel Poborsky

I do not see any reason why I should be less prepared than in a top-flight team.

Charles Coles

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

Richelle Mead

You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.

Wes Walz

He was about 90 percent sure, and I said those are numbers I want to hear.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Mike Favero

His numbers speak for themselves and he's well-deserved to be a PARADE All-American.

Anthony Fauci

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Kyle Whittingham

I don't know what his numbers were. But they weren't good.

Steve Tisch

I'd be shocked if the suggestion internally to recommend two teams ever comes up. I think the numbers are too big. I think it would be an overwhelming suggestion. Over time, possibly.

Pete Carroll

Just my game-plan folders (are saved). I have a stack of those through the years. I'm not a big memorabilia guy. My office may look cluttered, but it's not from memorabilia.

Dave Miller

He used my office to make phone calls,

David Goldberg

Lasers are very much like computers. They don't like to get bounced around. And a rental laser is in a van going from doctor's office to doctor's office every day.

Andrew Forman

We may just open our own transition office.

Charlie Leonard

He was in the office at 7 a.m. this morning.

Ryan Holmes

HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space.

Richard M. Nixon

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

Wallace Stevens

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

Warren Beatty

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.

Dwyane Wade

He was starting to turn red with the tape over his mouth. I was starting to get a little worried about him.

Brenda Bell

If we could get rid of these hurricanes and red tide, we'd be OK. We've just been killed this year with all of that.

Daron Rahlves

I'd like to be wearing the red (leader's) bib in downhill.

Rose McGowan

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

Travis Tritt

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Robin Williams

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

Walter Benjamin

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption.

Wayne Newton

When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

Robert Englund

People actually were worried that I was going to get stereotyped as a monster after Freddy, but my God, I got stereotyped as white trash for years, the best friend for years, the redneck for years, the nerd for years and let me tell you...it's better to be a monster than to be a nerd.

Derrick Coyle

The first day was very stressful for them, but now they're happy. When I walked in this morning, Thor -- the one who talks -- said 'Good morning.

Pippa Middleton

Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.

Chadwick Boseman

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling.

Nathan Frohling

We've been waiting 10 years for this moment.

Bob Williams

I think we're still waiting for that to emerge.

Mike Trapasso

I think a lot of (pollsters) are waiting to see what we do this week.

Byron Dorgan

I think this is nonnegotiable, ... You've waited too long.

Ann Gard

I was waiting for it. At that time, telegrams were so prominent.

Dr. Tsou

I have been waiting 25 years for this time.

Steve Adams

I don't know what's in it (investigative file). I'm waiting to see.

Ibrahim Gambari

He has said what he wanted and is waiting for a response.

Richard Dawkins

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.