Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jordan

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing tosacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, inthe end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individualgoals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullestis that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accoladeswill take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork andintelligence win championships.

Vito Fossella

The United States has a responsibility to help our new allies achieve democracy and become full partners in a range of international affairs.

Lou DiBella

What a wonderful guy this was. And I've never met anybody so proud or so grateful to achieve his dream. If there's any solace to be taken in this, it's that he died doing what he loved. He died a champion.

Sarmad Zok

We will use the new money we hope to raise to help us to achieve our strategy of acquiring luxury hotels and resorts in high growth markets in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Jean Todt

We will try to do a better job by trying to do the best as possible, as we always did but that simply, we did not achieve in 2005.

Dylan Moran

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Zack Space

I am looking forward to working with Congressman Hobson and Vorys Advisors to help Ohio businesses and organizations achieve their goals and objectives.

Vin Lananna

We are concentrating on one meet at a time. We have some tough races in the next five weeks, and we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves. The enthusiasm on this team is outstanding, and if the coaches and athletes can continue that positive attitude for the rest of the season, I'm confident that we will achieve success as individuals and as a team.

Bob Davies

We are committed to making the tough but necessary decisions to ensure the future viability of GreenMan and continue to evaluate all viable alternatives to achieve this objective with our primary focus on our southeastern operations,

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Kate Saunders

The strongest comments are from the Chinese scientists. This is not at all surprising. . . . Chinese protests against high-profile visits of the Dalai Lama are routine wherever he travels.

Anthony Johnson

After backing him up for two years I know him pretty well. I feel pretty good about my success against him the last two years, but now it's the playoffs.

M. J. Rose

The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.

Dave Rose

The most pleasing thing about this win is how many of our guys stepped up and contributed, and did it against the best team in our league, a very, very good team.

Randy Sanders

The most important thing is confidence. It's hard. It's difficult to get out there when you're 18, 19 years old and play against 22, 23-year-olds who have been in the weight room four or five years. They've been shaving since you've been in middle school. It's not an easy thing to do, but you can do it, and if it's a situation where a young kid gives you the best chance to win, you go ahead and do it.

Bill Belichick

Adam, which was your best kick -- the one in the Snow Bowl or the one against Tennessee?

Stan Conte

Actually, we were 10th in the league in days missed. And while that is unacceptable -- traditionally we've been among the best -- the reality was, in our division, we were competing against teams more injured than we were.

Kenny Brooks

Actually, we?re pretty familiar with their personnel. They?re senior-loaded. They have four seniors, I think, who start or play a lot, who we were able to play against twice. We?re pretty familiar with them. Amanda Butler was the associate head coach when we had those two games. They do a lot of things that are similar, with a few twists.

Shreya Ghoshal

If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.

Ryan Gosling

I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.

Adam Rayner

To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.

David Perkinson

We are very fortunate that many of the same people behind the success of the first version of the game have returned for the sequel.

Thomas Evans

This one was more nerve-wracking than last year, because I'm retiring from diving after nine years. I was only behind by five points (to Harmon), but I knew my last dives were real strong.

Andy Mangin

This one was for him. We miss him being around. I'm used to him sitting behind the bench for every game.

Ted Kennedy

This one has a lot of horsepower and a lot of firepower behind it in terms of the membership that are in support of it.

Kelly Robinson

We think our hitting came a long way. Our pitching took a back seat. I guess we just have to work on pitching. We've got a solid defense behind them.

Bill Bradford

There have been a lot of people behind the scenes working on dinners, staging flowers and flags. They're also having trees come in, they're going to have a tree representing each campus, and then there's going to be a grove somewhere on the campus where the trees will be planted.

Bruce Arena

I think you can't overreact from one game, the Norway game, and ignore the Canada game. You judge players over time, not over a game. As he continues to move forward we'll have a better feel for the direction he's headed. Obviously, he's getting better. From my perspective, I need to see if he's developing into a guy who should be a player on the World Cup roster and can help us win a game.

Richard Sands

They've done a very good job in Canada of changing as consumer trends and demands have changed.

Alex Neve

For far too many years Canada has been timid and reluctant to put human rights squarely on the table in meetings with the Chinese government, scared that pushing too hard on human rights might detract from trade and investment prospects.

Neal Katyal

It's not that the States will be forced to recognize marriages from Canada in the United States, but they'll be under increasing pressure in any number of circumstances -- child custody and property being the two most obvious -- to recognize those marriages,

Peter Murphy

It's not worth it to me. I wouldn't come to Canada at all.

Bill Graham

It's a disaster for Canada, for free trade and Canadian industry.

Vinny Lecavalier

People are always ready to play Team Canada. It's been like that for a long time, but every tournament we seem to deal with it pretty well.

Kevin Finn

Our growth is coming from the North Sea, and in Western Canada and the Gulf of Mexico and West Africa. We don't have that next major growth piece identified in Yemen at this point in time.

John Rooney

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Xue Donghua

I think they're under a lot of pressure from the media and from America. They're trying to put a heavy and quick charge on her.

Bill Boynton

I think there's a feeling that with the discontinuation of the commercial charge next month there will be greater interest from the commercial community.

Michel Platini

Jean could become a very good national coach, ... I don't know about Laurent Blanc's qualifications as a coach. I'm not sure that he has the qualifications to take charge of the national side.

Francis Wollenzien

Jane is in charge of the front end of the business.

D. James

I saw him about to take a charge and I just jumped straight up. It's tough when it happens like that, but what do you do?.

Karl Rove

People have raised an issue about security. That is entirely appropriate. But upon examination, it's not the company that's in charge of security, it's the United States' government that's in charge of security.

Avery Johnson

Some of our players have made fun of our charge drill. But when you see them taking more charges in the game, it doesn't seem so silly.

Paul Schurick

That charge is ridiculous -- that there is a philosophical conversion here. To suggest anything other than that is, in fact, election-year politics.

Maira Kalman

My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.

Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

John Noble

I was a very lucky actor.

Mariah Carey

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

Peter Rosenfeld

We do everything we can to stand by suppliers who are financially challenged.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Joseph Addison

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

Jose Saramago

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

Kerry Washington

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

Hector Hugh Munro

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Malcolm Muggeridge

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

Mahatma Gandhi

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Stevie Wonder

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Theodore Roosevelt

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt

Work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing worth having comes easy.