Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Souness

Ramage was feeling his calf on one leg and his Achilles on the other leg. He had a difficult 45 minutes and that's unfortunately where they got their breakthrough from.

Rick Carlisle

The situation with his hip is very positive, ... He has a lingering Achilles (tendon) problem from last year. He has been taking treatment on it the last couple of months. I think his timetable to play at 100 percent is going to be a little further down the line.

Kelly Holmes

Round the bend my achilles was too bad so there was no point in fighting any more

P. James

They are a highly compelling sector, but their Achilles heal is they're largely dependent on the Bell companies. Line growth is what we look at. And the strike raises another yellow flag in minds of investors.

Tyler Haynes

We had a very hard time keeping them off of the offensive boards. It's been an Achilles heel of ours all year long and it came back in the state tournament. It obviously hurt us.

Keith Richard

If we shoot the ball well, we go from good to pretty good. That's kind of been our achilles heel all year, is the offensive end. If we make shots, we are a pretty good basketball team.

Paul Jewell

I think everyone is fit, Pollitt felt some pain in his achilles yesterday but I think he will be OK, so it looks like we've got a full complement.

Chrissy Rainer

That Achilles injury was devastating. I'd worked so hard in the fall.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MYRMIDON, n. A follower of Achilles --particularly when he didn't lead.

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.

Mike McCue

As an entrepreneur, in many ways it's like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges - scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things.

Bob Vetere

As a human, to just buy him a dirty old tennis ball is just not enough, even though he doesn't care. I feel better because I've given him something more than just a tennis 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.

Curt Schilling

The bottom line is that ball should not have hit him. You've got to be able to get out of the way of that pitch.

Scott Kinsaul

The Burt girl is a great ball player. She can shoot the three, she can drive and she can dish off. She is a complete player.

Ned Yost

The bullpen just struggled. They hit the ball hard and they found the holes.

Dusty Baker

The bullpen hasn't gone the way we scripted. Guys were going two innings and you can't use them the next day. They told me Aardsma was throwing the heck out of the ball in Triple-A.

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Jerry Graybeal

Reaching 500 games is a great accomplishment. That's a lot of games for any coach. She's a great example of stability in our women's basketball program and it has translated to success on the floor. Carla has been a great representative of Weber State as a player and coach for more than 25 years.

Patrick Beilein

People think of West Virginia in a whole different way now. They know, if you're going to play West Virginia -- football or basketball -- you better be ready.

Farris Lowery

Our team surprised me a great deal this season, and of course, I love when that happens. It was great to see all those girls develop into really good basketball players.

Jason Hanson

Our defense has played OK. If we would play better offensively, that would help our defense. Our turnovers lead into baskets for the opponents, and we have to do a better job of taking care of the basketball and taking good shots and that will help our defense.

Perry Patterson

People said in high school that I was a good passer in basketball because of football,

Leonard Perry

People talk about his improvement, but he was good when he got there. He has a high basketball I.Q. I don't think there's a better guy in the country that finishes around the hoop. He's extremely valuable to (Utah State's) offense.

Gail Goestenkors

People that aren't typically women's basketball fans, if they just tune in for a little bit and see them play, they'll come back for more.

Eddy Curry

people can start looking at me as a basketball player and not a patient.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Marc Guggenheim

As always, we start off with asking, 'What's a good episode?' We don't think about timing, and we don't think about logistics. We just think about what would be good.

J. J. Abrams

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

David Johansen

Arthur, be a good Latter-day Saint, do your job, and everything will be fine.

Stan Kroenke

Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he's a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can't judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time.

Mark Johnson

The Buckeyes lose all their linebackers to graduation. So there is a good opportunity for me there.

John Purtteman

The big thing now is there were a lot of good pieces in place, and now it's keeping them on board. Tom did a great job.

Tom Izzo

The Big Ten's going to miss Dee Brown. He's good for this league. He doesn't talk it, he walks it.

Donald Rumsfeld

A very smart weapon, a good weapon might work 85 to 90 percent of the time. The rest of the time it doesn't work right. Now that's a very good percentage, ... But it means that there is one out of 10 that is not going to do what it was intended to do.

Mark Grudzielanek

The way he works is phenomenal. Between him, (Mark) Mulder and (Matt) Morris, they get up there and throw it and it shows. We're not on our heels ever.

Gregg Moskowitz

Frankly, we question the timing of this announcement on the heels of one of the largest mergers in the history of software,

Melissa Gregory

If he wants to go hunting with his BB gun, I am right there wearing my high heels and reading my magazines. If I am getting my nails done, he's right there reading a magazine about cars.

Catherine Young

I thought we kept them off their heels a little bit.

Gil Dufour

The heel is high and the toe is pointed.

Beyonce Knowles

My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

Mike Wilton

They were the way we thought they would be. They had us on our heels all night.

Donna Cyrus

They're businesswomen and they have to wear heels so they want to understand how to look better in them and feel confident.

Melvin Scott

Yeah, a big hump. The talk about the Tar Heels is that we can't win on the road.

Ben Smith

As a young kid, she was an offensive whiz-bang.

Brian Hill

That's just our nemesis with this team. We can't seem to keep them off the offensive boards.

Gary Ernst

You have to respect every player. Each player has his own offensive identity.

Courteney Cox

I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.

Bill Self

If we didn't make those outside shots today, it would have been an ugly offensive game. You have got to make shots when teams do that.

J. C. Ryle

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

Eminem

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

Eminem

I find you offensive for finding me offensive

Tom Brady

Hey, Warren why are you dogging my offensive linemen,

Christina Dahl

Defensively, our shooting wasn't very great. We stepped it up defensively and we were able to stop them.

Bob Scott

Sometimes we have to tell her to shoot more. She's a very unselfish player.

Erica Hallman

It was time to shoot and I shot it. Bonnie just told me to be more aggressive, and fortunately it went in.

Tom Curle

You shoot 58-percent, you're going to win some games.

Ricky Marshall

I don't think it will be that tough. Getting the timing down and shooting touch back will be the hardest, but if I shoot around enough I'll be OK. I may be behind, but not way behind.

Joe Sanchez

He's like a horse. You'd have to shoot him.

Lucy Johnson

I think they're doing as much as they can b/c they're not just going to just stand there while someone shoots somebody or stabs somebody and do nothing about it. They can't be at the same place at one time.

Lindsay Williams

I was just shooting to get it off of my foot.

Zoe Kravitz

This might surprise you, but I do feel like I have, because the shooting of all these films was spread out, for the most part. They just happen to be coming out at the same time.