Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Bobby Thomson

I was a raw rookie in Arizona during spring training in 1947, but I could do three things. I could run. I had a good arm. And I could hit with power.

Dick Lane

I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname.

Cy Young

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

Carly Patterson

I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.

Franco Harris

We just did a lot of things together as a team off the field and we really shared a lot of special moments off the field just as much as on the field.

Joe Namath

You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Dennis Rodman

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

Isiah Thomas

Where we sit now, I don't think we have the luxury of the 20 teams before us. I think we are going after the best players we can get on the board.

Mark Melancon

The whole summer I was in a closing role but thinking I was going to come back as a starter. When I got here they said they weren't sure what I would do. Closing is fine with me. I have the mentality of a closer, but I would also love to get the chance to start.

Saeb Erakat

The whole situation is in a very, very critical juncture now. Something needs to happen, in terms of implementation of the road map, and the only party that can do that intervention is the United States, and I hope they will interfere immediately in order to give the road map the chance it deserves.

Shane Valdez

The whole reason we go to this tournament is to prepare for state. The top kids in every weight class go to the tournament and its a good chance to get a look at everybody.

Jim Allen

The way our government works gives the public a chance to come before us to speak their opinions, ... And they told us overwhelmingly that they do not want lodging.

Sergio Garcia

The way I was playing maybe I would have had a chance at Wentworth Club (in the HSBC World Match Play Championship) but I don't care. I'm happy here with my people and it's a wonderful feeling to come through like I did and play the last 13 holes in five under par.

Holly Vlymen

The way I'm looking at it is, you have to have a good throw, everything has to be on and we're down. Sometimes you have to take risks and be aggressive. I felt at the time that we needed to take that chance to push the run across.

Mark Bellhorn

The way I look at it, the more things you can do, the better chance you have of making a team.

Steve Bietau

These are the type of teams that we really look forward to playing because we have the opportunity to make a big mark. You don't get that chance everyday.

Rick Pitino

These are special fans. That was a great 14,000 fans - they were terrific. The NIT is a chance for some of our fans who don't have season tickets to help our team, which they did tremendously. I think our guys responded like there was a lot at stake, because there is a lot at stake.

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Petter Solberg

When it's been wet and raining and muddy, it has been our rally.

George Gissing

One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!

Jon Hamm

I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.

Lupe Fiasco

What starts in clouded minds finishes in the rain

John Cheever

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

John Cheever

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

John Cheever

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.

Cassandra Clare

... everything seemed to him a uniform shade of gray- even the people! He had been unable to believe it could rain so much in one place, and so unceasingly. The damp had seemed to come up from the floors and into his bones, so that he'd thought he would eventually sprout mold, in the manner of a tree. "You do get used to it," he said "Even if sometimes you feel as if you out to be able to be wrung out like a washrag." p 311

Mark Haddon

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Drew Brees

When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time.

Drew Barrymore

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dorothy Hamill

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Don Nelson

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential.

Dwayne Johnson

What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.