Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Blackburn

We were tougher today in facing the adversity, knowing that it is going to come and how you deal with it. A good example was in the two doubles match and Chris Thomas pulled a muscle in his abs. He didn't quit and kept battling and that was probably one of the biggest matches today.

Clint Hurdle

We've always wanted to improve our bullpen, but until this year we weren't able to get the pieces we wanted. It's been frustrating. . . . It's not easy to spend the bulk of the game battling for a lead and then seeing it get away. . . . Now we have some depth. We have some quality arms.

Kyle Lohse

We're still out there battling and putting pressure on them.

Michael Carroll

We're still battling the image that all we do is sell pictures of howling coyotes. People don't understand that we're the good guys.

Brian Anderson

We're still battling out with New Mexico, so we're just trying to win as many games as possible and we'll see what happens at the end. But I think we have a good chance of being up there.

Ron Gardenhire

We're getting down to a few numbers where we can work it a little easier and not try to get everyone in. We want to start stretching out our players and take a good look at some of these guys that are battling each other and battling for positions on this team.

Mark Mancari

We're frustrated, but we have a lot of good leaders and good players in this room. We have to keep battling through this. What happens to us happens to other teams, too. Everyone knows you have to work hard and your luck will change.

Don Stewart

We're battling to get our revenue, we're battling to get our margin.

Joe Nieuwendyk

We're battling now. Before we were getting a little nervous as the game went on when it was tight. Now we're playing with a lot more poise with the puck. It's a sign our confidence is getting better.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I set out to be the best and I am.

Chris Barclay

We always have confidence but to have the success that we did on the ground today was a little surprising. The line provided a lot of holes and seams. We did a good job of keeping them guessing.

Gary Bettman

We always had confidence in the game and our fans,

Brian Belski

The positive consumer confidence could have been a negative.

Sung Sohn

The point is that mounting layoffs and weak consumer confidence will keep consumer spending fairly weak.

Kathleen Blanco

We are seeing a show of force. It's putting confidence back in our hearts and in the minds of our people, ... We're going to make it through.

John Danforth

We are pleased with this ruling and look forward to proceeding to the patent phase of our case. We have great confidence in our intellectual property position and are pleased with the opportunity to present our position to a jury.

Victoria Gonzales

We started the season with a little setback because we had to have two seniors move to the setter position where they haven't ever played. I know I have the hitters that I can use to run some plays and we're just now getting the confidence in the setters.

Melissa Richardson

We started the season slow, but our intensity and determination have really improved. Once we started winning some games we got our confidence back. Now we know we can do it.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Tim Short

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

Mike Pomerenke

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

Al Alvarez

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

Peter Beutel

It's a combination of petro-political fears. It's such a nervous market.

Evan Snapper

People get very nervous they won't spend the money.

David Wood

The thing that makes me the most nervous is the uncertainty.

Chris Duggan

Some smaller providers get nervous when you start talking about a rating system.

Dick Davey

Quite honestly, I was very nervous about our chances.

Roger Clemens

I've never really been nervous at all in my playoff experiences,

Nancy Bennett

It was very interesting. I wasn't as nervous as I would have been when I was young.

Holly Christensen

I should have placed it a lot better. But I was so nervous because of the adrenaline. It just shows Caitlin's commitment. She recovered for me very well.

Tom Ryan

We've battled and we've competed. It's just a question of playing seven solid innings. I still think we're pretty solid all the way around.

Scott Rolen

We've always had a tough time playing them.

Ian Mckellen

When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.

James Norton

When I was playing a psychopath in 'Happy Valley,' it was really weird.

Cheryl Cole

We're so inconsistent. That's what's scary about us, I'm sure for anybody's who's playing us, but it's also scary for me because I don't know what team we're going to be tonight.

Tony Harper

We're going to play the same way we've been playing all year.

Keegan Bradley

When it's deep into the season and you're not playing well, it's frustrating. This is when it's time to revisit some basics.

Chris Plummer

We're seeing more and more playing on it.

Dennis Brooks

We're right where we need to be. We've been playing very tough.

Phil Singer

We're in a very strong position right now. We're poised to make gains.

Richard Sichel

They are really poised to put everything together.

Darren Mathews

I've been telling them to keep poise in these games.

Bud Black

The whole year he showed that poise and composure.

Scott Rogers

We're very fortunate. We didn't play with very much poise at the end.

Scott Rogers

We were pretty fortunate; I could say lucky. If we don't play with more poise (tonight), we'll be in trouble.

Dennis Jett

She was impressive: articulate, poised and mature. I never got the idea she wielded a lot of influence.

Joe Torre

He's very intelligent, not pretty intelligent. So I think he was poised to make a decision.

Don Patterson

I think Marco is poised to have a big season.

Casey Stengel

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

Bill Bavasi

This does not signal the end for Michael.

Jay Frank

They didn't sign their name, but I wish they did. We'll look into it.

David Gill

They're called signal lights. They are kind of provocative because they are always telling you something.

Wendy Suehrstedt

It's at that time that the big signs will change.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Tommy Docherty

Personally, I am very, very sorry we have come to this. I suppose it is another sign of the times.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

French Proverb

The sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.