Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Nelson

I was, like, now my competition is to beat this.

Trent Dilfer

kind words after football games when they beat us up. That meant the world to me.

David Rehr

Knowing we're not at full strength, that's one plus of where we're at. Even the people we have on the floor aren't healthy, so as the year goes on hopefully we're going to get better. We're not up to full strength yet, and to beat a tough Lee College team in our first two matches, it will be fun to see what happens later.

David Barnes

Kevin would have to wait at least six months to get a British title shot but if he beats Okine it will fast-track him to a British title shot sooner and jump him up to 15th place in the world title ratings.

Jerry Warren

I would think if we can beat Norris City (Tuesday night), I think we can get one of the top four seeds. Benton will be one of the strongest teams in the complex. They beat (Hamilton County), we split with (Hamilton County), and our other two losses are to Marion and Carbondale. I think we're one of the top six teams no matter what.

Nathan Henderson

Jake had a great game for us. He was in the zone out there and gave us a tremendous effort. We're going to be hard to beat any time he pitches like that.

Cip Sanchez

Jacki beat us by herself. There's no one like Jacki. She plays a different game every time. There's no defense for her. The best thing you can do is let her score and not let the other players score. You've got to be mentally strong to play a team like St. Mary's. They're very disciplined.

Tom Brandt

I would say this week the emotions are really building. Lakeville North is a team we have our sites on. We beat Lakeville as a team last time (in going to state). We want to see if we can get there and catch them off guard.

Jon Escamilla

I wrestled him twice before (this season) and he beat me so this was revenge for me. I knew I could beat him.

Max Mosley

The FIA very much hopes that all the teams and manufacturers competing in this year's championship will also enter for 2008.

Darrin Walter

The kids are competing to be on the varsity squad.

George Husack

The Gaels are riding a good streak of matches and competing well. They have a crafty team of players and it's going to be tough to play them in Moraga.

Carol Peschel

These girls have continued to persevere and improve despite some injuries. Nikki was competing in the all-around. Now she may be on one event for the end of the season.

Reese Butler

It's not even just a waste of money -- they're actually competing with us! They're hurting an existing, successful effort, and for what?

Darryl Anderson

The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining some success while we're there.

Mark Sontag

After that, we weren't competing for overall. But lots of teams with top overalls didn't have the scores we were competing with.

Dean Oestreich

It's no longer about a single dominant player providing biotech tools to the marketplace. We are competing head to head.

Steve Carpenter

It's real surprising because I know they were a high competing team and they were ranked nationally.

Don Mattingly

I think it helps to be away for a while. You're ready to come back. You make the choice, you want to do it. You're not doing it because you have to. As soon as you start getting into the competition of the season, it comes right back to you.

Chad Latch

He's handled himself well. He's had some big matches this year, and I think the competition he's had throughout the year has set him up and prepared him for the state tournament.

Kyle Shewfelt

We supported each other the whole way and, as the competition went on, we knew we were going to win.

Dennis Piron

What you love about her is her competitiveness, her fire and her spirit. More importantly is her unselfishness. She wants to be part of the team and do her thing.

Stacey Clausing

I think that the competition this year is the strongest it has been since I have been here. There are a lot of strong teams that have a lot of depth.

Kathy Wilburn

It isn't fun to lose when you haven't lost in 11 years. This shows the high quality of competition in our conference.

David Olson

I think that is very harmful to the nature of our democratic politics because, not unlike the market, competition politically is a healthy sign of a well-functioning democracy,

Brian Urquhart

It is hardly a process at all. It is more like a lottery. It has become a rather squalid competition with no set procedure, shrouded in Big Power secrecy. They don't even interview the candidates.

Toba Beta

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Nick Sullivan

Joseph's strength is his personal love of style. He's an inspiration to ordinary guys. Style isn't about good looks or money; it's about how you put things together.

Brad Johnson

Jon is a very good coach,'' Tice said.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

John McCullough

Guys can relate to it because every guy they want to play in the NBA, and they can relate it and they think maybe I can help them." ()

Skyler Green

Guys are trying to get back to normal as much as possible. It's getting better, but it's not quite there yet.

Ron Gardenhire

Guys are trying. Guys are out there playing. You've also got to score some runs, too. Our starters haven't been getting it done. Our offense has to pick them up.

Scott White

Guys are sore. It's very, very demanding. But he's really challenging us to play through it.

Al Horford

Guys are sagging so much in the lane, especially this team. They want you to shoot three's. You can't leave a guy like Lee Humphrey wide open like that and try to sag off, and we made them pay tonight.

Robert Esche

Guys are putting the onus on themselves to get this right. It was an ugly win.

Justin Leonard

Guys are little more relaxed here, ... You don't have the media buildup. The intensity is there, but for whatever reason the pressure is different. This event, you don't think about it until you get here. With the Ryder Cup, six months out people start talking about this and that. The next thing you know is we're all white-knuckled.

Brian Baird

The first year in the Junior Olympics was just wonderful,

Patrick Mouratoglou

As world junior champion, he has already experienced pressure. And he also has maturity, confidence, experience.

Perry Patella

This has been home. Our sophomores and juniors probably won't play here again.

Rob Carter

The second one and third one were important to me, but for completely different reasons. It was very important my junior and senior years to prove it wasn't a fluke.

Chad Logan

We really have a lot of experience. Our juniors saw considerable time last year and look to start as seniors.

Jimmy Garoppolo

I started playing quarterback my junior year of high school.

Kevin Zachek

Overall it's been a surprise, so far. We went 2-1 at a Clovis tournament with some players out of position, junior varsity players who have stepped up and most of our pitching still playing basketball.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Taizo Nishimuro

It is necessary to raise the level of screening for start-up firms when they are to be listed.

Henry Mason

He's done some things that get your attention. Just like any young guy, you're looking for a level of consistency. That's what we're trying to get out of these 15 (spring practices). We're going to keep him in there and we're going to see what he can do.

Russ Knocke

There are no plans to raise the threat level at this time. These are rumors.

Peter Lai

Hutchison has risen more than HK$10 this week so at this level it will see some profit taking.

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Jordan Zuppe

We made up our minds we weren't going to lose again.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

Jim Haslett

If you look at tape in the NFL, the teams that lose are the ones that do those things,

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Brian Peterson

In the state finals, you win your match first and then you go for the pin. You don't put yourself at risk to lose the match just for a team title.

Daniel Gibson

I'm the kind of player, if I'm 1 for 55, I always think 56 is going in. I never lose my confidence.

Garth Ancier

I'll be more specific. The show will lose $16 million this season. . . . At least to us, that's a big number.

Freddy Ferrer

I may win or lose this election, but I'll speak for those who can't speak for themselves and I will be heard,

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Don Kardong

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Andy Murray

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Cindy Klassen

The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver.

Shaun White

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Jeff Buttle

If we can make it through the Olympics without any scandals, we'll be all right.

Shaun White

I didn't understand how big a thing the Olympics are until I showed up here.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

Terri Swaney

They had a phenomenal season. There's no reason they shouldn't feel proud of themselves.

Steve Ziemba

It's surreal right now. This is a phenomenal time of my life. I didn't think we would win. I just thought we would get in the top five.

Flip Saunders

They're a different team with Tracy. He was phenomenal tonight.

Dan Scanlon

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

Joe Davis

He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.

Jim Mattox

He's been there 30 years, he doesn't have to prove anything to anybody,

Michelle Monaghan

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Richelle Mead

How do you prove we exist? Maybe we don't.

Zachary Quinto

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.

Antonin Scalia

If you want to prove a contractual relationship with the United States, then the only relevant relationship is that as a spy.

Hisayasu Nagata

In the end, I could not prove the authenticity of the information.

Julie Brown

I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.

Turkish Proverb

If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Alison Goldfrapp

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Peter Liguori

I know you get second-guessed in this business, but I'd rather be second-guessed for the right reasons.

Rita Clifton

It was one idea which was rather relentlessly executed,

Kevin Spacey

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Tracy Egeland

I just think we did little things right. As a result, we were able to score some goals.

Al Dyer

The first one is always tough. And the score doesn't tell it this time. That was a tough game.

Josh Betts

It made it not look as bad, I guess, ... I think if we had a little more time, we could have had a better outcome, or better score at least.

Paul Kariya

All series long we were in the box, can't score from there.

Grantland Rice

I am the servant of my score.

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.

Michael Pyle

Sometimes we come out and don't score a lot right away, but we don't get down. We know we'll be all right.

Maria Sharapova

The score doesn't say much about the match,

Fred Couples

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

Mike Dunne

I'm just concerned. No one's really stepping forward. It's a public-safety issue.

Mike Stratton

They were stepping in it and stepping on it.

Gray Eklund

It's going to be bittersweet stepping out on the field.

Justin Hayes

It's going to be like stepping on a rake.

Lane Larive

They are stepping up to the plate. We need to work with their aggressiveness and get-ting into live action.

Sandra Bullock

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

Walter Winchell

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Barry Bonds

I only throw a stone if there's a stone thrown at me. As long as there's not a stone thrown at me, you won't get one thrown back.

Louis MacNeice

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Muddy Waters

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Lenny Bruce

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

Lenny Bruce

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

Ouida

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

George Ade

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Bianca Lawson

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.