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.

Peter Boal

The big thing about the season is the festival. I'm excited because it's going to include many parts of the community, for example Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater.

Kirk Ferentz

Ball security and pass protection -- two things we really needed last year -- he gave us.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Connie Higgins

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

Sammy Teel

Ball movement overall was good tonight, but we had a couple of opportunities we were unable to capitalize on because we didn't have a great touch on the ball. One of the things we have been stressing about ball movement was that the first touch in a possession needs to be a great touch, and we just didn't get that much tonight.

Jim Furyk

Ball just didn't go in the hole as well as it could have on the back side. And on the front side, I got the ball in the hole super. It was flip-flopped yesterday.

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.

Joe Barcellos

Defensively, Ryan and Greg did a great job on their big guys.

Thomas Kelly

Defensively, I thought we played outstanding. We had our chances, they had their chances, it was just a great game.

Debbie Casto

Defensively I thought we did a great job the whole game.

Mike Leach

Defensively, I think this is the most impressive group of guys able to respond to play after play. Overall, they did a great job making big plays and working well together.

B. F. Skinner

Defensively as a team, they just did a great job.

Craig Patrick

Definitely, in John's case. It's very special to get these kind of people ? not just great players, but great people in the locker room.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Kyle Whittingham

Quarterback is a position where everybody's got to know who The Guy is.

Denny Green

There will be times where you reinforce your thought process. A lot of times, you need a reminder because it could come up in the draft. It always does, you look and say, 'Are we sure this guy isn't better than that guy?' You say no, this is why this guy is rated higher than that guy.

F. Schumacher

The script was about 100 pages. I mean, we could have padded it if we wanted to. But I don't think that would make a better movie... .I mean, it's a guy in a phone booth.

Joanne McLeod

I've tended to hang in there with the guy because he doesn't have a big support system and I think support systems are very big in life.

Anthony Schlegel

I've talked to guys who are going to start tailgating at 8 o'clock in the morning. I said, 'Wow, I hope you make it to the game.'

Darin Erstad

I've watched it so many times and I've rerun it in my head. I just made a decision. It's instinct. As I round third, I see that the cutoff guy has the ball, so I look at home and the first thing I see is Johnny's legs. And I see the plate between his legs. In your mind you see that and you think, I just want to meet him.

Tyler Palko

I've tried to spend as much time with those guys as possible to find out their likes and dislikes. Are they a put-your-arm-around-them type of guy or do you need to get on their tails or do you just need to talk to them? Hopefully, I'll find that out pretty quick here.

Dave Rose

I've seen wild things happen. I kept telling the guys that.

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.

Barbara Stanwyck

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

Art Linkletter

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes

Uli Hoeness

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

Sarah Olson

We're playing better as a team. This was more respectable than the first time we saw them.

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.

John Muckler

You had to get rid of the other stuff before he started playing well.

Robert Monaco

Women are playing more, and playing more intensely,

John Harris

This was pretty timely because we are getting toward the end of the year and I had not been playing very well,

Kris Doorey

We could be better than 18-11 at this point, but we could be worse. We have been playing pretty well lately.

Matt Moore

We're going to be on a high, our first away game, playing a big-time school like Louisville. We'll be ready. It's going to be loud, and things aren't going to go our way sometimes; we're just going to have to battle.

Bible Bible

And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.

Anne Robinson

They are always so pleased with themselves aren't they? I've never taken to them. What are they for?

John Lloyd

We are very, very pleased with progress so far.

Bob Wynne

We are very pleased with the Commission's decision.

Steve Burd

We are very pleased with our 2005 results.

Dick Parsons

We are very pleased to have reached an understanding with Mr. Icahn.

Gary Muto

We're very pleased. We wouldn't be rolling out if we weren't pleased with our results.

Susan Tolchin

We're very pleased that the sirens worked this time.

John Dunning

We feel like there's a lot of things happening. We've been pleased with what we've seen.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Kenneth Blackwell

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.