Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Madden

This is a conspiracy involving chemists, coaches and certain athletes using what they developed to be 'undetectable' designer steroids to defraud their fellow competitors and the American and world public who pay to attend sporting events,

Jerry Friesen

It's really unique because not a lot of sports put people with elite athletes when they are competing.

Doug Perry

It shows how hard our athletes are willing to work under those conditions. Our kids continue to work hard and they're showing improvement.

Jeremy Bloom

It shouldn't be about winning. What's important is coming here, to a fantastic event that brings together great athletes from all over the world, and taking in the experience. That's what I hope to take from this.

Bob Davies

It?s become very competitive. There are qualifying standards and each school can only enter two athletes per event.

Clint Hurdle

It's been a little rock in our shoe. We'll work it out. We ran the bases outstanding all spring. For whatever reason we've made some mistakes on the bases. We'll get it tightened up. We've got the athletes to do it.

Kevin Nugent

It's great for our program. When you visit the Hall of Fame and see all the sports and great athletes in there, it's great that men's soccer is now in there. It will open the door for more players to get nominated.

Jim Sullivan

It's quite a split we have on boths sides, ... But they're all great athletes and we'll have some fun this year and some success.

Robin Wagner

It's probably about 80 to 90 percent. These athletes are well trained at this point. Everybody is in their best physical condition. They are well prepared. This is their moment to shine.

John Curran

As soon as they switched over, I knew it was Kristi on the ground. They said Kristi Yamaoka, and I was out the door. I didn't lock my door or anything.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

David Engle

Generally speaking, the Hispanic population is willing to pay. I don't think they're walking in the door expecting a free doctor's appointment.

Sharon Dias

By the time my husband and I got there, there were paramedics, fire and the gas company. My next door neighbor -- she was out in the ambulance already.

Burn Gorman

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Ellen DeGeneres

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan opened the door to 50-basis-point rate hikes,

Jim Messina

I think it was just the right moment, ... Kenny was open to it and wanted to embrace old friendships. The door was open.

Todd Whitaker

In my mind, the kid writing on the stall door is the least important in the school.

Gil Brandt

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

Dave Peterson

It would be great to have water from Tiber reservoir,

Reuben Droughns

It would be great to get that tradition back and get it going again,

Robert Gibbons

It would be great if we had the HOT to Massaponax,

Paul Farmer

It would be great if people would acknowledge that the state of Haiti was because of the resources we took away.

Jim Adkins

It would be great if it could stay in Pasadena. Part of the proceeds from the sign will go to LIPS, that's Ladies Into Purchasing Stock.

Fifi Camara

It would be great if I could play for New York. Whatever happens at this point, I'm not going to regret anything.

Willie Roaf

It would be great for me to be a part of Larry Johnson rushing for 2,000 yards, at this time in my career. That's something I never imagined being a part of, and that would be exciting.

Aurelio Rodriguez

It wouldn't be a shock if Portugal won because is a great team,

Richard McMillan

It would have been great to have Stephen here, ... It would have put Pittsburgh on the map. He's the one it was fashioned for.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

Erin Morgenstern

It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Mary Hart

They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

Mike Fratello

We had open shots and we didn't make the shots that we made in the first half. They got in transition and we had some turnovers.

Robert Williams

We open at 10, and she was here at 9:59.

Adam Greene

This represents a threat to an open Internet.

John Brennan

We're trying to be as open and transparent to the public as possible.

Roger Maris

We're too stupid to be open today ... come back when we're smarter.

Ransom Antoine

We just weren't making the open looks. We had enough open looks.

Pearl Norris

We thought it was a warehouse but when we opened it, the pews were still in it.

Dmitry Oleynikov

We think this is going to replace open surgery.

Mark Cooper

My players should feel embarrassed, especially the seniors.

Roy Keane

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

Paul Merson

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas'

Paul Ince

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

Kathy Griffin

I was a soccer cheerleader. It doesn't get nerdier than that. I was fired from the soccer cheerleading squad after one year, which I believe to this day is unprecedented. You have to understand, no one went to the soccer games. In fact, I believe part of my duties as a cheerleader was to bake brownies for the team.

Kristin Armstrong

I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.

Pope Francis

Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

Pope Francis

It’s like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can’t choose where they’re going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don’t like it.

Phil Neville

The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.

Mike Gray

Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.

Mike Huckabee

The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up. Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team! I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it.

Scott Hamilton

There's more to sports than just being big and strong and quick.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

Dorothy Allison

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

Donald Johanson

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

Don Yaeger

In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.

Don Zimmer

Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.

Dale Earnhardt

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

Cristie Kerr

I think LPGA players for a long time were afraid to say what's on their minds. But we're doing all the right things and there's nothing wrong with having some great personalities and rivalries and some friction. I think that's really good for the sport.

Cris Judd

From a very early age, as far back as I can remember, I always played sports.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.