Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Johnson

Many have never received praise, have never achieved top grades or are not the top athletes, but who come to school with burdens each day and still do well. They may be physically challenged or have suffered abandonment or abuse by their parents, they face all sorts of real obstacles.

Ned Yost

I think that pitch counts have gotten into everybody's brain. These guys are making so much money nowadays that you're trying to protect your investment and you don't want to abuse anybody out there, especially if you've got a good arm.

Jay Stanley

I think that when you have a system that is based on such a subjective criteria, and it remains subjective no matter what the training is about, that you will inevitably have abuse and racial profiling.

Ned Yost

Pitch counts have gotten into everybody's brain. Guys make so much money now. You want to protect your investment. You don't want to abuse your pitchers.

Bertie Ahern

President Bush is very much aware of the abhorrence that the people of Ireland and of Europe felt at the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by coalition forces,

Scott Turow

I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject to such extraordinary abuse is always lurking beneath the surface for me. Certainly my experience and identity as a Jew is there.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Michael Lewis

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

Michael Lewis

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

Michael Lewis

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

Michael Lewis

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

Michael Lewis

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

Michael Lewis

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Matt Long

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Matt Diaz

I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge. It's comforting. And it's reassuring. To be part of something in this world that's constantly changing like baseball, it's awesome to have your hope anchored in something that's so stable.

Bobby Clarke

There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.

John Shuster

Now people see that competitive curling of a high caliber is athletic, not just beer parties. It takes mental and physical strength.

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet you could shoot beer out of you nose.

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose

Roberto Mancini

We fell behind on Porto's only shot on goal. We deserved to win, ... The field wasn't in great shape and there were no fans. We did well to come back.

Sonya Harris

We fell behind in the second half because we played kind of lazy.

George Foresman

We fell behind because we were soft and let (the Nets) get into their rhythm. Mentally we gave them the first half.

Chris Pronger

We fell behind 2-0 to those guys and played right into their hands.

Colleen Healy

We feel we have solved these issues and feel they are largely behind us.

Brian Noble

We felt that we needed to strengthen the squad ahead. We are getting a player who can cover all the outside back positions and who has a wealth of Super League experience behind him.

Tina Deese

We got that early lead, and that really helped Beth. She did a great job of hitting the corners, and we played great defense behind her.

Alan Trammel

We got pounded tonight, no question. Jeremy (Bonderman) was not sharp and fell behind hitters. It just wasn't his night. They got back on track and we just couldn't stop them.

Marlon Byrd

We got ourselves out tonight. That's a guy we've got to beat, especially with the guys coming behind him.

Shaun Pollock

To protect a defeat and still go down 1-0 in the series is pointless. We've got to give ourselves a chance to win.

Cal McCombs

We've got a chance to play for a conference championship and a chance to play for a winning season." ()

Trent Strickland

We've got a chance to come out and keep flying. As long as we're winning and still have this feeling, then I think we should stay airborne.

Sam Cassell

We've got a chance to be special. We've got a chance to be very, very special.

Steve Lynn

Everybody we have competing has a chance to do something. I'm excited about the group we've got.

Walt Jocketty

Everybody deserves a second chance and we're here to provide that. That doesn't mean we're going to let things slide, either.

Patricia Wright

Everyone who wanted an opportunity to speak, got a chance to speak. These are people who had an opportunity to interface with policy makers in a matter that they might not have otherwise had. They were looking at the problem of poverty from so many angles, but they were of one accord.

Bill Gates

Everyone who has been in this industry has had a chance to participate in something very exciting. It is kind of like early steam engines or factories or something. The timing was right for the people who got to do it. And that is a lucky thing for t

Brad Pearce

Every team wants to go to National Indoors, so it's an honor to have the chance to go. It will take a great effort from our guys to get there.

Bobby Frankel

I'd rather not have the 1-hole. She doesn't have too much early speed. But she's brave. She's got a decent shot. You've got to be a little lucky from the rail, luckier than if you have the outside.

Aldous Huxley

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

Doris Day

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

Dolly Parton

I'm in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they're show horses or show dogs. You've got to keep them groomed.

Dolly Parton

I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.

Dolly Parton

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Diogenes

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Dick Gregory

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.

Deion Sanders

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

Amber Heard

Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I'm 25 in the rest of the world, but I'm about 48 in actress years. I'm just around the corner from my midlife crisis.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Matt Copeland

Turnovers were the killers tonight. One minute, it's a one-point game, the next minute it's seven points.

Shannon Sharpe

We don't score 30 points a game. We don't have a receiver who can go and get you 180 yards. We don't have a quarterback who's going to throw for 350. But I'll tell you what we do have: A team that's going to the AFC Championship Game. All them big-time offenses, you know where they're at? Home watching us.

David Gallop

We don't run the game for betting. To have it regulated to suit punters would see the tail wagging the dog.

Matt Koff

We don't really have any stars. But we do have some depth. Jasmine Green and Katrina James went into the game and made some big plays for us when we needed them.

Neil Roberts

You hope that every game is not close, but in this game it doesn't happen that way. The disappointing thing is when we give up two restart goals.

Byron Scott

You hope, sooner or later, the young guys understand and get it. When you have a lead like that, you can't come out in the third quarter and think the game is over. Maybe a loss like this, when we know we should have won the game, that will do it.

Marcus Ginyard

You hear that a lot. Maybe that's just the way people see it. But you can't really be worried about that. You've just got to get out there and play the game of basketball.

Chauncey Billups

To have those nerves to make those plays at the end of a game isn't something you really can be taught. It's instinct I think.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Georg Simmel

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

Geoff Mulgan

So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.

Garrison Keillor

Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.

George Combe

Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth.

George Clooney

I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.

Gayle Forman

Her hands were freezing, just like they always were, so I warmed them, just like I always did.

Gary Gaetti

It's hard to field the ball when you have both hands around your throat.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Bella Thorne

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

Bobby Robson

Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result

Debby Ryan

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian) Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)

Max Azria

Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time - like going to a nice restaurant.

Gary Oldman

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

Ellen DeGeneres

I like sitting at outdoor restaurants; it would be nice to go someplace on the street and not worry about somebody taking my picture while I'm about to take a bite of something.

Norman Wisdom

It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.