Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

Billy Donovan

I've said it all along about this team, they derive a lot pleasure from moving and passing the basketball and playing together.

George Steinbrenner

Billy Connors was just great. He brought Jaret Wright along great, was patient and he stuck to him with great success.

Mark Ross

Black River Falls has good singles players. But we're a little farther along with our doubles teams.

Blake Lively

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

Benjamin Booker

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.'

Nick Swisher

We've had this stretch before, and we've bounced right back. The difference is, there's a lot more riding right now. We've just got to dig deep, keep plugging along and see what happens.

Joe Tiller

As the season went along and losses began to mount, we began to examine everything. We probably made the change out of frustration more than anything else. We just weren't executing the offense. We felt like we were leaving too many plays on the field.

Ernest Thompson Seton

At night we reached the Indian village of Pelican Portage, and landed by climbing over huge blocks of ice that were piled along the shore.

Roger Thompson

Is it worth it? Ultimately that's a question the public has to determine. I don't think there's anyone in the Northwest who doesn't want to save the salmon. As a public utility, we take our environmental stewardship very seriously.

Robert Taylor

I've been working pretty solidly for a long time: Not that anyone would notice, you know what I mean? It's been my goal to work as much as possible, and be as unknown as possible.

John Terry

It would be great for him to win it in consecutive seasons after doing so well at Porto. We've got a long way to go but we've got a chance. If anyone can do it, it's our manager.

Jody Ault

They all have the best focus of anyone I have seen. They know what they have to work on without me having to tell them. They remember every shot they take.

Robert Vaden

This is a talented team and we can't leave anyone open. We need to make it tough for them to guard us, and then do the best we can on slowing them down.

Robert Zubrin

This is the first time that anyone has done experiments on higher life in martian-like environment,

Darryl Sutter

You want 10 out of 16 points (against a divisional rival) -- don't ask for much more. Anyone who asks for more really doesn't understand the whole concept. These teams are all so close.

Jackson Brown

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems It would be easier sometimes to change the past

Granth Sahib

Entering the Sanctuary of the Supreme Lord God, how could anyone feel grief any longer?

Terry Goodson

I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.

Hunter Hall

I just hope we make their weeks or their days or their months.

Sandra Navarro

His days of dictatorship are over. Justice will now prevail.

John Whisenant

The doctors OK'd her to start practice two days ago. She was limited. She's very rusty, missing easy shots and it's frustrating her because she's lost her sharpness. How quickly she gets it back, we don't know.

Brian Butch

It shouldn't have been that hard. We practiced four days (against) it. We've seen it. We played them once before with it. It was a lack of execution.

Tasnim Aslam

This is the second incident in about 10 days time. It remains our responsibility to protect our people from outside intrusion. These women, these children, they are important. They are our people.

Kurt Ruth

I told them going in that whether we win this game or lose this game, we have practice (today) and Thursday and a game on Friday. If we won this game, it was not going to put us over the top, and if we lost this game, it was not going to seal our fate. In our league, if you let one loss go into another, then you're in trouble. Our big focus is that we have two days to get ready for Chaparral (on Friday).

Harlan Coben

I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.

Mike Keane

Three days off is a lot, it was enough.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Dave Palmquist

All that matters is that we are in a championship for the fourth time in five years. It is amazing.

Joe Girardi

It's possible we could take more than five starters.

Ang Lee

It's been five years since the last time I stood here. But in my mind, I've never left the independent spirit.

Dave Perry

It truly was a team effort. I thought we had a shot at top five and the guys all year were telling me they were going to be top three and get a trophy. And they did it. That's the legacy these seniors will leave.

Pat McDonald

It was good to those new guys step up and get a goal. I thought we got off to a great start. We always talk about how important the first five minutes of a period are and we had a very good first five minutes tonight.

Markku Uusipaavalniemi

It means a lot. Already now we have had over one million people watching curling (in Finland), which is pretty good from five million, so in a final, it will be great.

Matt Coleman

We had a positive season. Two years ago, this program had won once in five seasons. We've put 15 (wins) and 12 together now in back-to-back seasons.

Glenn McAninch

We had a period in the first half where we had four or five situations like that, and that makes us dangerous.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Matthew Gervais

(Research) is so meaningful and rewarding at this point I'm willing to withhold assumptions on where I'll end up. Maybe I'll find God. Maybe I'll find out science isn't for me. Maybe I'll go sit on a mountain and meditate. The ride will be worth it.

O. Henry

I'm not taking it very seriously. Maybe I'm naive, but surely there's going to be gas, it's just what you have to pay for it.

Simon Gagne

I haven't had much success with shootouts so I was a little nervous. Maybe next time will be a little smoother.

Kendyl Jacox

I really miss my grill. If I had my smoker right now, I'd smoke anything, maybe even squirrel. If you haven't had smoked meat, you haven't had meat.

Claire Foy

If I was working nine to five, acting would be my hobby... I always feel like maybe I should do an Open University degree. But I'm never going to.

Doug Risebrough

In hindsight, probably more time would have been better. Maybe making sure everyone starts on the same night or relatively close.

Waris Ahluwalia

I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.

M. Hopper

And palm trees. I missed those. Maybe I'll do palm trees next.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Theaster Gates

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

Longchenpa

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Edward Tufte

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

John Lothrop Motley

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

Phil Lumpkin

This is what you practice for. You could say we work at conditioning pretty hard.

Alan Watts

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Bob Ross

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

Brandon Goldman

When I was little I didn't like going to practice so much. Now, that is the only thing I want to do is go to practice and train.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.