Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beau Brown

My assistant coach kept telling to me take it to the goal and get fouled. I just had to slow down and concentrate and start knocking my free throws down.

Pat Alexander

Sid will be the first to tell you he had nothing to do with all those wins. He'll say it was the assistants and he'll say it was the players, but the truth is, we all have excelled because of him. We strive to win because of him.

Tom Izzo

I was proud of my team, staff and assistant coaches, it was a heck of a job. They were a good basketball team and put more pressure on us than Wisconsin. Our shooting and rebounding was very good, and it helps when we only turn the ball over three times in the second half.

Ryan Bishop

I think they have one of the best offensive lines I've seen. I'm telling one of my assistants in the second quarter, you take those guys to University of Utah or BYU and they're as good as some of those guys. They move their feet, they block. They're very good.

Tyrone Johnson

I'd done it before. It's a heavy load, and I was a lot more hands on when I first took over. But I was very relieved when (James and Christ) were able to take over - I'm pretty much their assistant now. We've got two of the best coaches in the state right there. What they've done is nothing short of miraculous.

Rajeev Diddy

I liked what I saw and was lucky enough to get a job as an assistant doctor at the Essen University Medical College.

Lee Walker

The guys competed well. We scored 100 points and I don't think a Midland High team's done that since 1999 or before that. I'm proud of our kids. Each year we've made progress and our track program's come along. Our assistant coaches have done a great job.

Davy Zinke

You can't take it home with you. When my son was wrestling, we never talked about it at the dinner table. You do it in the practice room where it matters. Kenny's a good assistant coach. It can work for you if you do it right.

Jennifer Granholm

The effort to rebuild after Katrina will require labor, goods and services that Michigan companies can provide, ... Our network of assistant centers will help companies make connections they need to win a share of the business.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Elaine Youngs

Rachel was first on my list. I'm so happy it's happened this way. I'm having so much fun and I'm probably playing the best volleyball of my career. Rachel has a lot to do with that.

Jason Williams

Probably when I was 8 or 9, because I knew I was the best player in the league, but that's about the last time. I always felt like we could win, because if I didn't feel we could win, what the use playing? But realistically, no, this is the first time.

Melvin Johnson

Probably what we are best known for is our quality work and getting turn around so fast.

Marshall Wittman

Privatization is at best in hibernation, and at worst awaiting a second Bush term, if there is one. But it's just not going to happen during 2002, which is an election year, and while we may be recovering from a recession, or still in one.

Ray Tanner

Probably the best case for him would be (out) six to eight weeks. If he does have to have surgery, then he'll be gone for the rest of the year and possibly next year.

Glenn Wilson

Probably, that was the best start in the last month by any of our starting eight pitchers. To hold a team like that, with the kind of offense they have, to three runs - it's outstanding.

Mark Slough

Sammy is excited to be back and I think they're excited to have him back.

Skip Prosser

That's for you guys to talk about. We're excited about who we have back.

Scott Gaffney

You're excited for the first two weeks then after a while it gets old.

David Perno

We've taken a tough road. We were swept at home, but rebounded to take 2-of-3 at Mississippi State. We are excited about this team.

Bob Sanders

We were excited to see the guys from the top take it to another level and get a guy that can really help us.

Max Venker

We were excited to play on a big pitch and we're a team that passes it around well. We knew we would tire them out.

H. Hart

We were excited that we could get in on the ground floor, ... Two golf courses, two clubhouses and everything that goes with them -- I haven't seen it done like this anywhere.

Paul Byrd

We were excited for (Wedge). Guys were talking about it.

John Hawe

We were excited for the field to be finished. It's nice to have it right in the shadow of Helena High. It should make things a lot simpler.

Gianluca Vialli

You should take your time and do it now and again, like watching football

Brett Favre

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Charles Kelley

I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

Bobby Robson

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Bobby Charlton

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

Edward Abbey

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

Bart Starr

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

Mark Rose

(Douglas is a young football team. They're going to throw everything they've got at you.

Joe Schwarz

Don't get me wrong, ... I was on the football team. I didn't play much.

John Spear

Ray's a good friend of mine, but maybe this is political payback?

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Aristotle

Friendship is communion.

Peter Schmitt

We have accomplished a lot together, And we are friends.

Confucius

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Sophocles

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Steven Tyler

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

Miguel de Cervantes

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

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.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Jane Austen

One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Tom Coughlin

No way were we going to lose at home on this date, for this great city, ... There was no way.

Mr Howard

Now it was always ridiculous and it's done great harm to a product and it's done great harm to the consumer,

Robert Davis

Now I'm worried. That worries me a great deal.

Randy Jackson

No matter how great your pitcher is, things are going to happen and you're going to have to back her up.

Ron Beard

Jimmy was in the groove. He looked unstoppable.

Charles Evans Hughes

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

Alexander Pope

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Jill Lepore

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

B. F. Skinner

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

Jayne Anne Phillips

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

Herb Alpert

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

Jeff Sessions

I would like to think that we are on a move that could be like [Ronald] Reagan. Reagan appealed to the average working American: their patriotism, their love of country, the belief in their schools and their communities and their loyalty to the military and police, and the things that create stability and a good life.

Hugo Black

Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Shane Coursen

We now know that it's not only a threat to smart phones. All these regular phones that support J2ME are vulnerable and can become a major target.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Steve Bruce

The disappointing thing is the situation is now out of our hands. But I still think there are some major twists left.

Liu Xiaobo

The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

Peter Pollak

The major trend is globalization. A new world order is rapidly emerging.

Dave Mason

The major thing that made us do it was thinking forward. It's a necessary responsibility to put together a will.

Timm Bechter

There needs to be rationalization in this industry. No one vendor has a major share.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

Rastislav Spirko

We don't have any more time for some losses. We know where we are. We want to get to the national tournament and play here.

Sam Rainsy

This shows that the spirit of national reconciliation and national unity have prevailed.

Henry Paulson

Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest.

Dennis Moore

We don't need that on the national level.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Alexander Calder

The next step in sculpture is motion.

Aldous Huxley

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Aldous Huxley

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

Aldous Huxley

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

Mickey Mala

At no point were we in the game. They were undermanned and I don't know if that contributed to us thinking we could just show up and win, but we did not show up in any phase of the game.

Eoin Colfer

Chaos reigned, and the survivalists eagerly unwrapped the kidskin from their crossbows. Phase one of Opal's plan was complete.

Joseph Barbera

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Carlos Rogers

If we played in real life, that's what would happen.

Dave Gahan

I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas, but you don't do much with them.

Scott Skiles

I was really proud of the guys. We played really hard. We were active. And we played really solid defense, and we got out with a win.

Bill Self

If we'd played man, he would have had 25 points.

Matt Riley

If we play like we played today for the rest of the season, we're going to go far.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Sherilyn Fenn

The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

Tionne Watkins

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

Mike Tyson

I am not a role model.

Max von Sydow

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Billie Jean King

Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

Diane Ackerman

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Mitch Kapor

E-mail is a victim of its own success.

Dale Carnegie

If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Donald Rumsfeld

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Dan Colen

Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

Anna Pavlova

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Alphonsus Liguori

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

David Platt

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

Confucius

Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

Alice Hoffman

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

Alice Hoffman

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

Alice Duer Miller

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

Alan Zweibel

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

Amanda Hocking

Yeah, you're probably right," I admitted and slowly pulled myself out from underneath the covers. "You know, I really wish you'd catch onto the fact that I'm always right.