Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Robert Bates

This contract is not perfect by any means, but it gives us the ability to get our guys back to work.

Larry Fitzgerald

That's what we practiced all week, working on red-zone plays. We know we have the ability to do it.

Neil deMause

That's why you didn't see, for example, the use of amphetamines discussed by sports journalists for decades - because it was something that wasn't in the public awareness. If somebody had started writing about the fact that athletes were popping amphetamines left and right, they would have been in serious trouble, and no one would have talked to them. That would have put their ability to do the rest of their job at risk.

E. B. White

We have to take a new look at our athletic program and decide how we can best maximize our resources,

Keion Carpenter

He can be the best I've ever seen. He already has the athletic intangibles. If he can get the smarts of Peyton Manning, the swagger of Joe Montana, you put all that in one pot, and I'm going to put my money on my guy every time.

Wayne Clough

He brings a unique combination of enthusiasm for sports, concern for the student, experience in athletic administration, business experience and communication skills that are needed in today's complex world of intercollegiate athletics.

Kyle Whittingham

If he had not hurt his shoulder . . . you probably would have seen him as the starting stud linebacker long before now, ... He's just a guy who's a naturally athletic kid - he had 30-something interceptions in high school - and he's a playmaker.

Chris Rich

I consider this group of trainers our peers in sports medicine, ... because they are on the front line. The are always available, even when they are not working. They've got good hearts and the love doing what they do. That's why this honor was somewhat humbling, and it was a difficult speech for me. These people are all dedicated to athletic health care, and that's what I try to do in my community.

Laurie Markatos

Carroll was awesome. She's been pitching well and stepping up her game. She fits right in on the varsity level. She's tall and looks very athletic out there and when she throws the ball, she's a real presence.

Brad Todd

He's good at tying up the other guys, but we want him to open up a little more, which will make him even more of threat. He's an athletic kid, works hard in practice. We'd like to see him take it to the next level.

Mack Brown

We've given them (police) our full support from the athletic department, to the university, to the football team. At this point, no one's been charged and we're moving forward.

Jeff Houston

He was getting to the front of the rim all night on us. We saw that on the scouting report, but he's a little more athletic than what I thought.

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.