Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rich McKay

The misses are hard to recover from. And the pressure on the player is tremendous. Typically, a player drafted No.1, 2 or 3 is on that team because they weren't very good. Now, everybody is labeling that player as the savior. He's just a rookie. That's not fair.

Matt Hughes

Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.

Dan Bartlett

You hit panic mode if you don't like the first draft at all.

John Stuper

There?s not a player in our league that you can give me in place of (Sawyer). He?d be my first draft pick out of this league.

Mahmoud Othman

but the question is, would this draft satisfy the Sunni Arabs' demands.

Mike Shanahan

We'd sure take him. He's the type of guy you love because he handles himself with so much class. When you have a guy who does that as a rookie being drafted as high as he was, it speaks volumes for the future.

Jim Knowles

We hope he gets drafted on the first day. It's great for us and the Ivy League in general.

Bobby Johnson

He was exactly right. He bettered us, he bettered his draft position and had a lot of fun doing it.

Tommy Williams

I don't know what they're talking about. A draft is just a draft until it's adopted.

Pat Brisson

Savior is a big word. No one's a savior of the league at this point.

Tom Hicks

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

Riley Wallace

We're 1-0 in the league and we're starting a new season now. You're in league play and that's what really counts.

Liz McCarrell

We wanted to come out and start league play strong. We wanted to show what we could do in league. And I think we did that, at least in the first half.

Nick Kroll

Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Jeff Olson

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

Brian Kilrea

He's their Danny. I think he's been a top goaltender in this league for years,

Nate Robinson

He played like he has been in the league for 10 years.

Mike Maroth

I've been getting a lot of runs. They've been scoring a lot of runs for me. They picked me up several times,

Jonathan Stamp

Bruno (Heller) deliberately picked out stuff which is shocking, arresting, surprising,

Paul Adams

The race is too tight to pick a winner.

Chris Devine

We were really down losing. This will pick us up.

James Rubin

making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Sgt. Helmer

If you are going to be truant, don't want to do it down here because you are going to get picked up.

Dennis Perry

He's smart. He has picked up everything really well,

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Boris Spassky

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

Cameron Sinclair

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Jamie Redknapp

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,