Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Joe Lobendahn

As an individual, my goal is, of course, to have more (tackles) than I had last year. I still need to get an interception -- that's one of my goals, too ... and a touchdown, too. Honestly, as a defense, you're going to see us running to the ball more, everyone just swarming the ball.

Steve Kragthorpe

The bottom line is turnovers, and we did a great job of securing turnovers. We got the ball back with 2:20 left, and I challenged our team to get the first down and to stay on the field. And they did.

Russ Moore

The boys took it pretty hard. Like any event, ball striking is key, and we haven' t got our golf swings quite where we want them yet.

Mike Wright

The boys have done a great job of finishing ball games and at no time do you ever get worried they won't.

Rodney So'oialo

The boys had to work hard considering the conditions and the fact we've only just got back from South Africa. In these conditions you've got to keep the ball in hand and try to eliminate mistakes.

Doug Peterson

The boys did a good job of keeping the ball low going into the wind. We played like the wind wasn't even blowing.

Doug Peterson

The boys did a good job of getting the ball down field.

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Sherri Carlson

As a parent, I do my best to get my kids to eat healthy foods. But then they turn on Nickelodeon and see all those enticing junk-food ads.

Jimmy Clark

As an overall football player, Chris Costello is our best player.

John Wagner

As an organization we have decided to move in a different direction and we wish Greg all the best in his future endeavors.

Dan Dougherty

As a ninth grader, over the summer, he was down in Florida working with Tiger Woods on his short game. We had never been invited to go to Florida or North Carolina for tournaments. I realize that we've got two of the best players in the United States, and I'm thankful for that.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Waisale Serevi

I've spoken to all of them and they're interested to play in Melbourne.

Source Unknown

The very first steps towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Oprah Winfrey

You said, 'I'm going to be on your show,' and I was more interested in the car. People say that to me all the time - they say, 'Hey Oprah, I just wrote a book,' or 'I'm a singer,' but you're the first person who ever made that true.

Jim Awad

You started the day with some negative influences. The market was spooked by interest rates worldwide, and there was a very mixed reaction to Texas Instruments.

Pete Boone

You never know until you interview how mutual the interest is. We think they're very interested or else they wouldn't interview.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Stephen F. Lynch

other matters have been referred to us, and we are taking a look at those matters.

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Kenny Thomas

This is a trend we been watching for a number of years. It's only a matter of time before debit overtakes credit.

Greg Paulus

You've got to win, or else you're going home. That's the No. 1 objective, and we got it. It doesn't matter if it's pretty or ugly, as long as you're surviving. That's what we need to be doing.

Juan Pierre

You see them getting picked off one by one and you know that you're going to be one of them. It's just a matter of when and where.

Brandon Cruz

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

Augusten Burroughs

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

Leigh Morris

This is going to push it up a little further.

Rob Cornett

The only way you can do better is to push each other. And it's not just teammates, it's competitors doing it for one another.

Jack Berry

As soon as they push the dirt, we can start selling that, and we will start selling that.

Matt Thissen

We want to do what we do and they want to do what they do. It may come down to who can push their will on the other one.

Ann Aguirre

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

Simon Sinek

Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

Susan Jeffers

So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.

Sherilyn Fenn

They're pushing me to do Howard. Howard's a trip. My friend made me watch the Lesbian Love Connection and I was like, Oh God, get me out of here!

Sissy Spacek

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Fred Couples

The way it looks, a winning score of two or three-under is not out of the question.

Dale Scott

To stay with Harlan you have to score points.

Will Blackmon

To me it doesn't really matter, I don't have a favorite. I like to score touchdowns. I like to stop the offense.

Michael Owen

It bothers me when I don't score.

Olli Jokinen

If it was a win and I didn't score any goals, I would be happy.

Tim Pearce

If they score more than a 6 on this screening form, then they are not going out,

Christopher Young

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

Jack Kerouac

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Jane Smith

You have to know where to look, it just takes a little practice.

Paul Tagliabue

But it really doesn't matter. If it takes 2 1/2 (months), fine. If it takes 5 1/2 (months), that's fine, too.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Barbara Pym

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

Art Buchwald

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Art Buchwald

I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

Ayrton Senna

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Ayrton Senna

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Brian Boitano

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Jamie Foxx

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Al Franken

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

Charles R. Swindoll

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.

Bill Shankly

Denis, it's you, ... Where have you been? We have been worried about you.

Jon Corzine

a little nervous, a little worried but confident.

Alicia Keys

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

Carl Krauser

I don't think we have anything to be too worried about.

James Blake

I feel like I am getting better every week. I'm not worried about my ranking, I'm just worried about getting better.

Ed Comeau

We're not worried about the history. We're not worried about the future.

David Fuhrer

We started out sluggish. But they are just cool. They had it under control. I think I worried more than they did.

Ben Broussard

But right now, all I'm worried about is right now. I just want to get to the postseason.

Geraldine McEwan

'Miss Marple' enjoys every minute of her existence and is not worried about getting old.