Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

Joe Thompson

As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

Rhonda Rompola

Our slow start in the first half hurt us. We dug ourselves a hole against a very, very good team.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Ryan Crawford

Our entire front row is (6-foot-2 or taller), and we put up a huge block against everybody. Most of the time when we block right, they're not going to be able to get it over with authority. It's going to be a roll shot or a tip to the corner. You've got to have guys back there who are on the same page and ready to get the ball back to the setter.

Tim Corbin

Offensively, I was pleased with way we've swung the bats the last two days. Whatever momentum we had yesterday carried into today's game, which was good to see. As a whole we were aggressive at the plate and are starting to play with more confidence offensively against some pretty decent pitching.

Willie Lager

Of the seven spots you play, we drew matches against the No. 1 seed four times. It's just the way the computer did it. But our kids played as good as they can play.

Jay Graham

Offensively, I thought we had one of our better games. Scoring four goals against Padua is impressive. ... We were brilliant offensively, but I thought our play in the defensive zone was sub-par for our standards.

Sara Schopper

Offense was the hard part against them. They are just so big. They wouldn't give us the 3-point shot, and that forced us to go inside where they have so much size. It came down to an inside game and we struggled.

Matthew Wagner

Our current thinking is around our IT distribution channel and direct. However, that's not to say we're ruling out deep partnerships with operators, which are key to making these products work, and we may collaborate on innovative approaches that leverage our respective strengths.

Joe Wilcox

Do you do things to enable your partners, or do you do things to compete with them? Microsoft's approach is to do the latter.

Robert LeBlanc

Customers will approach messaging from multiple perspectives. It depends on whether you come from the application or network perspective.

Koji Suzuki

Crude today is pushed up by gasoline. Gasoline prices in New York are higher as we approach the driving season, and because of concern that supplies may be limited because of issues with the new specification.

Rick Mason

And the way they approach it, in this very refined but scary manner, I think is what sets them apart.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.

Eryn Witcher

EPA believes its cap-and-trade rule is the best approach to protect public health by reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants while maintaining fuel diversity and energy security,

Joe Moore

Dr. Floyd continues to approach this as a campus matter.

Andriy Shevchenko

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

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.

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.

Tim Ford

Our defense played awfully well. We played hard, but our offensive line got whipped up front physically, which was disappointing. Our defense was the key. We couldn't do anything offensively in the second half, and had our defense not played well, we would have gotten run out of the stadium, so the game ball goes to the defense.

Robby Reasonover

Offensively, we did a good job of getting the ball inside. We made some plays in the second half, and our girls hit their free throws.

Thomas Brooks

Offensively, we can move the ball when we want to, and whenever we have to. I would like to see us execute better and be more consistent. If we want to play with the people in our district, we have to be consistent. We're not there yet.

David Ryan

Offensively, we came out not flat, but we weren't moving the ball like we did in the second half,

Brad Podevels

Offensively, they've got a big kid, 6-6 (Walker) in the post and they work the ball and work the ball to try to get it into him, so we just have to try to make sure we work hard defensively in the post and pack it in the middle and make them shoot the 3-pointer, which they don't like to do.

Ron Rood

Offensively, they're an excellent team. They throw the ball really well and try to mix it up. They're more of a spread (offense) team than most of the teams we play.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Geir Braathen

The size of this year's ozone hole is approaching an all-time high, but it will probably not break any records.

Jim Ellis

Temperature will make or break you, and it broke us this year. This is the worst I have seen it for the hot water.

Michael Huff

Sometimes he'd break into the open field, he'd try to give you a move and try to make you look bad, so it got intense. But if we hit Vince, we probably wouldn't play that Saturday. So we had to back off. Stay away.

Austin Corson

Sometimes I would race in two races, get a one race break and get back on for the next race. After that third race I would collapse when I got off my sled.

Peter McTeague

pretty confident the market is going to break to the upside. I think the data is going to be pretty friendly this week.

Larry Brown

Same old, same old - we can't guard anybody. We don't do a good job of getting back. They had 33 points on the break and could have had 100.

Madeleine Stowe

Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.

Finn Abrahamsen

He probably just collapsed and never got up.

Jimmy Rollins

This is definitely what you play for. Everybody knows it's football season, but when you have a race like this, it's hard to turn around from it.

Jim Smith

This is definitely what we anticipated all along. It just took a little longer than we expected. We're elated that the commissioners saw the wisdom of the entire plan and voted accordingly.

Jeff Gordon

This is definitely the smoothest that I've ever seen this place. I'm still not sure what the race is going to be like, but I think it's going to be good because the track is just really, really fast right now.

Daniel Wilson

This is definitely the right time to get started.

E. O. Wilson

This is definitely the most talented, smartest and mature team I've been on since I've been here.

Daron Rahlves

This is hard to swallow. It's not the way I wanted it to end. If you win a gold medal at the Olympics it doesn't matter what else you've done. I definitely wanted to walk away from here on top.

Tony Stewart

This is one of those days, I don't want it to end, ... I don't want to see the sun set. It's definitely the greatest day of my life, professionally and personally up to this point.

Laren Poole

That's what Saturday is about. It's a big step, but it's definitely the beginning.

Al Wilson

You've just got to keep him guessing and hopefully we can do that. It's going to be a tough task for us but it's something we're definitely looking forward to, though.

Dennis Prager

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

African Proverb

To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria

Kenny Miller

We are very happy with the start to our home campaign, but we have a lot of work to do and get better as a team.

Taisen Deshimaru

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Jeff Horner

Last year, we were kind of just happy to be going. We were one of the last teams announced, we weren't even sure if we were going. This year, we knew we were in, and we were one of the first teams announced.

Stacy Gemeinhardt

She threw well. We got down and got behind, but she kept going out there and threw her game. I was really happy with her.

Sean Callahan

Nobody saw it coming. We saw a happy kid, right up to the day of it.

Jean Ingelow

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

Ricky Williams

I didn't know so many people would come up to me and give me a hug and tell me they were happy to have me back, ... ..... I'm just here to work.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your 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

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.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Cameron Diaz

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.

Vandana Shiva

If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."

Derrick Brooks

We wanted to stop Willis McGahee. If he's able to run the football, then that takes a lot of pressure off a young quarterback.

Roger Ortmeier

We just jumped on them right from the start. We put the pressure on them, which was good.

Allen Iverson

I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.

Tony Parker

The pressure is there, ... Especially when you're trying to win the championship.

Richard M. Nixon

One thing, Ron, old boy. We won't have to have any more press conferences, and we won't even have to tell them that either!

Brian Cashman

I don't know how much more pressure there can be. Whatever it's going to be, it'll be.

J. K. Rowling

There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.

John Pavlik

I don't think there was any pressure from another country.

Richard Scrushy

This is a lie, ... They are using the press to put their spin on things.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Theresa Carroll

All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.

David Blunkett

I've had a guide dog since 1969. Not the same one, of course: I've had five.

Bill Smith

It's always been in the air, since the day it opened.

Jim Richards

We really struggled offensively and lacked the timely hit,

Larry Brown

I'm sure I've been 0-3 a lot, ... And most of my teams have struggled early.

Peter Zoppi

We struggled offensively. We didn't make enough contact. We couldn't deliver.