Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Barrera

It is a great opportunity for our players to compete in what should be a fun tournament. Each school will have two teams and play four games each and the winners of the two brackets will play for the tournament championship. Everyone will get a lot of playing time and it is a great way to start off the spring.

Darius Kasparaitis

We want to show that we can compete with the good teams and we can be there and we're (in this position) not by accident. I think tonight's game proved it, that we can play at a high level.

Linda Hill

Our kids have to work doubly hard to compete with schools that require their students to take debate as a class.

Wes Miller

Our goal was to try to compete every game and then try to be there at the end of the year. We now have that chance.

Frank Schade

Over the years, to me at least, you can compete at a pretty high level with out big men. But if you don't have a point guard, it's tough.

Ken Blanchard

Our 'franchises' never talk to each other. They compete with each other and criticize each other. We've got to stop this ridiculous fighting over rituals and regulations.

Robbie Lawler

The past is the past. I'm just here looking to compete and no matter who it's against, I go in to fight hard and do what I have to do.

Brandon Flowers

You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.

Jay Marston

We want to compete for the section title and progress further than the first round of the playoffs.

Bill Gates

We need to make it easier for people to visualize information that comes from different directions,

Megan Ronhovde

It is a lot of thinking and every game we make some minor adjustments. You go man-to-man it's a little more simplistic. I think it's been a little easier for the younger girls.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

John Arbuthnot

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Libby Trickett

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

Homer Simpson

Owww look at me Marge, I'm making people Happy! I'm the magical man, from Happy Land, who lives in a gumdrop house on Lolly Pop Lane!!!!...... By the way I was being sarcastic...

Frank Rijkaard

We did the job we had to do and I'm very happy to be in the final.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Alice Hoffman

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

Anne Lamott

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

Anne Lamott

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

Anne Lamott

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

Anne Lamott

It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.

Anna Chlumsky

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

Anna Chlumsky

Kids are truthful by nature.

Andy Roddick

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Sophia Loren

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.

Rush Limbaugh

When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.

Thomas Mann

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Tony Dungy

How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.

Steve Ballmer

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.

Ron Paul

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

Sam Rayburn

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.