Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bowden

We've got 119 I-A schools. Out of 119 of us, I'll bet you 100 are fighting an attrition battle. You've probably got 19 lucky teams. Boy, they're lucky. They've kept their offensive line healthy all year, they've kept their running backs healthy, and they're probably playing for Southern Cal and Texas.

Alan Faneca

They're trying to create seams, create that little hole, and their backs are trying to read it and hit it. That's their scheme. It goes to personnel and schemes. We counter-block a little more than some teams do. It's a personal preference.

Tony Dungy

They are playing the way they played three years ago in terms of just pressuring the passer and playing a lot more man coverage. I think once those young defensive backs get in a flow in things and get a feel for how fast the ball is coming out, they are going to be even better,

Richard Pettus

I truly believe that we don't miss a beat when Derrick's in the backfield. He's very capable of doing as much as Ricardo. It's nice as a coach to have two backs of that caliber.

Fern Mallis

It's all about getting stuff on the backs of customers. That's what every fashion week is about.

Ron Zook

It's a little bit like our situation in that all three of our running backs are a little different in the way that they run, the way they attack, the power, that kind of thing, ... When you look at what they've done running the football, I think you've got to feel like they're doing something right.

Chris Mullin

It puts a smile on my face, ... excitement and trust and confidence and leadership. And as importantly, a whole lot of talent. I think he's got a unique combination of talent, skill, personality and backs it up. He does things with a certain flair. You don't have to be a basketball person to see that.

John Miech

This is the most talented group of running backs I've had during my career here. You always want a 1-2 punch at the tailback position, and we feel like we have that.

Matt Hall

They really help. We know they have our backs every time we're in here. Our students have bought in, and they like to see us play.

Hines Ward

He's still the 37 I know. He may have lost a step or something but he'll still end your career if he gets a chance.

Tim Seislove

He's our first three-time place-winner. He earned everything he's gotten. He will be proud some day when he looks back on the career he did have. He's disappointed right now.

Gerard Gallant

He's right there. He's played a long career and he's still playing well. He's had a great career. He's a great friend. It was Gretzky and Lemieux in my era and he's right there.

Greg Blache

He's one of those American success stories, and that's why I hope his career will end way at the top.

Robert Lang

He's one of the only guys who could have challenged (Wayne) Gretzky had he played long enough. Gretzky had a longer career and was fortunate to play more games than Mario. As a pure point-getter, he's right up there with Wayne.

Ashley Giles

I don't think I'll score more important runs in my career and I don't think Hoggy will hit a better extra cover drive in his career.

Jeff Lemire

I don't play video games because I know that if I ever started, I'd never be able to maintain a career again.

Lindy Ruff

I don't know if his career was going nowhere. They liked him there, but here he's been a more determined player in all three zones. He fits the way we play here, and when he plays center he's able to play in any situation.

Josh Greenberg

I didn't expect to continue my playing career after high school. I chose Yale because it was a great school academically and I didn't regret it.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Amy Sedaris

I like to just make things... If I have the TV on, I'm not just going to sit there. I want to do something with my hands; I've always got a project. Or I get a small group of people over, and I say, 'Let's make these things today.'

Amy Heckerling

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

Alan Cohen

We seized the right opportunities and were in the right place at the right time with the right group of people, and it worked out.

Ben Roethlisberger

I don't ride a sport bike. If I'm riding a sport bike and trying to do tricks, and going 200 miles down the highway, that's probably pretty stupid. But when you're riding a Harley or a chopper, and you're riding with a group of people and you're not on the highway and you're cruising, you're relaxing.

Jim Winchester

There are probably parties out there interested in pieces of Sea-Land, but not interested in taking over the whole group of businesses.

Julianne Berry

We left it all on the court. I'm proud of how they played today and all season. I wouldn't want any other team or group of players.

John Olerud

There are a lot of temptations on the road. Having a group of guys who share a similar mind-set helps you get through the season.

Alan Sorensen

(This year's) senior group of 10, even the ones that didn't start, would've played or started on a lot of other teams.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!