Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Ganis

This is a testament to Dan Snyder's ability to run and manage an entertainment-based business. His success with the Redskins has been nothing short of phenomenal. It shows he knew what he was doing when he paid a then-record $800 million for this franchise.

Judy Shaubach

This isn't about beating Central or any other team in our league. This is about being committed, focused and mature enough to play to your ability every single inning. If we do that, the wins will take care of themselves.

Scott Allen

This is the essence of character: the will and ability to put principle into action.

Charles Wald

The weather is improving, and we're flying around the clock more, and we have the ability to service all of Kosovo, ... So we're just taking the fight to the whole area.

Larry Noble

The whole culture is based on the ability to raise funds. Most of the ones who are running for the leadership are very well-connected in this fundraising community.

Trent Duffy

The White House and the administration are cooperating with both the House and Senate. But we have also maintained the president's ability to get advice and have conversations with his top advisers that remain confidential.

James Sung

The upgrade is based on the company's demonstrated ability, as reflected in improved operating performance and capitalization, to successfully operate in the challenging New York State regional market.

Bruce Schneier

The way to fix this is we need a better ability to know where to look. It's the drinking out of the fire hose problem. Turning up the fire hose isn't going to help.

Mike Magee

This deal will allow us to expand our coverage significantly and give us the ability to share our common resources and top reporting skills.

Artis Hicks

Anytime he had a question, I helped out as quick as I could. That dude can play football. Had to make sure he stayed there.

Andrew Barrett

I think that the PC, the PC peripheral, and the semiconductor space is in a pretty big slowdown period right now, and I don't see this abating anytime before the summertime. Maybe the PC market picks up a little bit in the second quarter, but really you are looking at summer before it starts to come back.

Tatsuo Ichikawa

There was a risk he would make more hawkish comments. He reaffirmed that even if the Bank of Japan ends its easy monetary policy it probably won't be increasing interest rates anytime soon.

Abby Waner

Anytime you can score a basket at the end of the half like that -- a 3-pointer, a post move, whatever -- it's going to give your team a confidence boost.

Willette White

Anytime you have to go on the road in the CAA, it's going to be difficult. We let Old Dominion do whatever they wanted. We were a little intimidated. They were bigger and stronger and more physical. But, in terms of our recruiting efforts, it really gives us an idea in where we need to look.

David Carlson

Anytime you have the opportunity to do something (like this), you should go for it. Todd's a great guy and it's a great opportunity.

Bobby Lamb

Anytime you are ranked No. 2 in the country on the road, people are going to come out gunning for you. We were outplayed and out-coached, bottom line.

John Powell

Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. ...It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard.

Tommy Brown

Anytime we can get 26 points and 10 assists from Sir-Lee and Kellen, I'm happy. In the last two games, we haven't had but nine assists in each outing. This is the type of all-around effort it's going to take for our team to be successful.

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Don Hogan

West Georgia is very athletic, and you have to earn everything because they play great defense. We must take care of the basketball and play smart.

Don Meyer

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

Dave Brubeck

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

David Halberstam

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Andy Murray

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

Mike Barnett

It can have the same effect on the bench as a player taking it end to end on a scoring rush,

Bobby Cox

He meant everything to us. He was one of our biggest contributors here for 3 1/2 years, I can honestly say that. Still can play defense, come off the bench and hit the best pitcher in baseball. Makes no difference to him.

Billy Corgan

You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zeppelin. All you can do is rip them off.

Bob Fosse

you can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like. you can even marry harry, but mess around with ike and that's good, isn't it grand? isn't it great? isn't it swell? in fifty years or so, it's gonna change you know, but oh it's heaven now a days.

Kevin Quinn

We wanted to change the match-up in the third period.

Stuart Cohen

we wanted the vendor to own the whole issue. At this very late date, we didn't want to risk that the patch would create some profound change to the operating system.

Willie Randolph

We wanted to sweep once we took the first two. I get greedy. But it's a long season. We've played for a month, but I don't think we done anything yet. And one more victory wasn't going to change that.

Tom Schrader

We've had a really nice run. I think we need to see a little pullback before we go higher. There's not going to be much in the next two days to change that. Jobless claims tomorrow won't be a market mover. I think we'll probably see a little profit taking the rest of the week.

Jim Buckmaster

We've had requests for a long time to make a change like this. New York, and particularly Manhattan, is, in our experience, completely unique.

Tom Schrader

We've got a big rally in tech going and it's a nice change of pace.

Mike Hidde

We'll have to have a lot of confidence that he will be fine to risk him playing. Whether he plays or not, our game plan doesn't change a lot.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.