Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carroll Dawson

After a decade of starring in this league, Dikembe established himself as one of the league's top reserves last season. Deke gives us rebounding and defense off the bench and he also serves as a personal mentor to Yao Ming. He is a valuable contributor as well as a great teammate.

Malcolm Deans

It was a lack of defensive intensity. But I would like to praise the intensity of the bench in the fourth quarter, they had desire.

Pat Casey

This is the best conference in the nation from top to bottom without question. It is a great benchmark to have that we are not happy that we didn't sweep Arizona. That is the way we feel about ourselves. As a club, we thought we should have swept.

Phil Edmonston

The way to fight is just simply send a registered letter or an e-mail (to GM). If your vehicle is not reasonably durable and has a mechanical defect, any judge on any bench -- small claims up to the Supreme Court of Canada -- can make that company pay.

Flip Saunders

The way this team is built, our bench guys are meant to play together in clusters with our main group. When you put all five guys on the floor, they're not as effective as when three of those guys play with a couple of starters.

Chris Clarke

We really had to work her in and out. Michelle Dirks did a great job, got a few rebounds, hit her free throws, a few shots ... Our bench hadn't scored any points in the tournament so far and we challenged those kids today ... They're a huge reason we won this game.

Eddie House

Bernie called me to his office and told me they were making a trade for Kareem. At that point, I didn't want to sit on the bench for an expansion team. It ended up working out.

Steven Wieting

Benchmark revisions could completely recast underlying data, in which case January forecasts won't be useful.

Mike Gurley

Wes is under the microscope more than any of our guys because we seem to play as he plays. I thought he gave us complete focus in the finals. Even when he got in foul trouble, he came to the bench and kept his focus.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Anthony Schlegel

I've talked to guys who are going to start tailgating at 8 o'clock in the morning. I said, 'Wow, I hope you make it to the game.'

Tyler Palko

I've tried to spend as much time with those guys as possible to find out their likes and dislikes. Are they a put-your-arm-around-them type of guy or do you need to get on their tails or do you just need to talk to them? Hopefully, I'll find that out pretty quick here.

Dave Rose

I've seen wild things happen. I kept telling the guys that.

Dierks Bentley

I've still got the boat, but if I'm in Nashville, I'm usually racking up hotel bills. We'll have 20 to 21-day runs on the road, and I'll just be in town for a day or two, ... But that's what it's about for me. I'm playing music because I love it. The guys on the road with me, they love the music.

Bobby Jones

I've read about guys having these types of years. We all read about it. You just don't think it will happen to you.

Boris Zhukov

I've practiced that Russian voice since I was a kid. I've always done imitations of people's voices. I used to do imitations of some of the other guys like Greg Valentine in the locker room.

Mark Jones

I've played with those guys over the summer at individual tournaments. I see them everywhere.

Clint Hurdle

It would be like guys talking about cars. Rebuilding a carburetor is nothing for them. For me, that's an impossibility, it's not going to happen unless I take it somewhere. But for a hitter those are terms that are pretty commonplace.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Jane Austen

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Steve Stifano

Essentially, if you go with a friend, you'll each be paying $9.75 for a ticket.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.

Joey Skaggs

You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.

Joe Schmidt

We're paying police professionals to baby-sit rich kids.

Dale Friedman

We simply have got to start paying for people to do that kind of work,

Scott Hartnell

We were paying the price but the puck wasn't going in for us. (Auld) played well.

Brett Hull

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

Brett Hull

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

Brett Favre

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

Babe Ruth

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't understand shopping, it doesn't make any sense to me. As guys, we decide we want something and then we go out and buy it. Women go to the store having no idea what they're going to buy, or what they're even doing, it's like a whole different sport. It's like going to a football game to maybe watch a game. I don't get it.

Ashton Eaton

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Arthur Ashe

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

Arthur Ashe

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Erinn Hayes

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.

Erik Estrada

I like to watch the Fox News Network. I like 'Nightline.' I like to watch 'The Sopranos,' of course. That is one of my favorite shows. 'Entourage' is another one. I like 'The Shield.'

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Dennis Quaid

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

Bono

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Ben Katchor

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

Dave Rowntree

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Sergei Lavrov

Everything will be watched during the New Year's.

Donal Logue

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."