Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mats Sundin

As a team, we are scoring some goals but we still have a lot of work to do. If we want to compete with Ottawa and the other top teams in our conference, we have to do better in our own end.

Todd Helton

Any win is a good win, especially on Opening Day, but this is a game where we found a way to win. If we are going to compete this year, that's the kind of game we have to win.

Andy Roddick

Now I feel I can be a contender and when I'm looking into the grand slams it feels like I can compete all the way into the second Sunday.

Lee Brown

Teams can register to compete on our Web site. We're also still taking applications from craft and vendors.

Lance Traywick

There will be some nights when we don't have the talent to match up with the team opposite us, but I fully expect our kids to compete every day.

Mike Huckabee

I've talked with (Mississippi Gov. Haley) Barbour and (Louisiana Gov. Kathleen) Blanco and told them that we are sensitive to rebuilding issues. We are not trying to compete for people, we are here to meet people's needs and help those who feel they do not have anything to go back to,

Keith Brown

I've used that excuse, our size, for the first five or six games. But I'm tired of using that excuse. We just don't compete on the boards.

Dave Hollman

I've been so pleased with the improvement of these girls. We can compete with the elite teams. They worked their tails off. These girls have come a long, long way this season. It's a testament to their character.

Mike Stevenson

It would have been highly possible that we could have finished better with those girls at Eastern. I had them compete at Texas to let them see what kind of competition they will face and they were able to face better competition than they would have seen at Eastern.

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Mark Potok

People expect that these kinds of incidents won't happen in schools and universities.

Christine Benz

People had come to expect the world of them. (They're) a little disappointed.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Derek Hagan

Once the offense gets on the field, we expect to make plays. We just didn't make any plays tonight.

Jim Boeheim

Defensively, we did a good job, as well as you could expect at this stage of the year. We really helped each other. Our inside guys did a nice job. We really didn't give them too many open looks. We were very good.

Thomas Milne

Definitely, we expect a hard-hitting, physical game from Collingwood.

Gary Pollack

A rate increase at the March meeting is a done deal. We expect the yield on the 10-year to reach 4.75 percent.

Jarrod Kerr

A rate hike is now 50-50 in May and fully priced by June.

Ahmad Fawzi

So now we have a road map. It's an important first step toward the establishment of a fully representative, broader-based, gender-sensitive, multi-ethnic government down the line.

Jennifer Granholm

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Chris McGill

Right now we have a supply picture that is fully utilized, even with record wells drilled, record rigs,

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Linda Dobbs

This is a really important opportunity for us. It's something we've talked about and had on our wish list for years. It's also a wonderful opportunity for our students to be able to perform on a fully functioning stage rather than a recital hall stage. It's important in their pre-professional training. We're all thrilled.

Anne McBride

This is an ongoing investigation, and we are fully cooperating.

Peter Coleman

This is still a significant injury, but one that with rehabilitation Troy will be able to fully recover from.

Zhao Yu

The U.S. side is fully responsible for this collision.

Carlos Acosta

The rumor mills is spreading and people are taking their kids out of school and are not going to work. The panic has already started here.

Ronnie Arnold

These allegations are disturbing. It was improper and unprofessional, but you see these things out there where kids are harmed emotionally and physically every day.

Bill Gray

I've talked with our kids about this is a new season.

Carl Douglas

I've used separation as a punishment. The kids may not realize that they care, but if you separate them, they realize, 'Hey, I miss my sibling,' and they want to share again.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Scott Preuninger

It was a long week. I think the kids are more relieved than anything. We're happy.

Tommy Thompson

It was a perfect day for golf. The kids were just about at where I thought they would be score-wise.

Misty Streitweiser

These were two young kids whose lives were just fishing.

Steve Corson

I sent her like a 10-page e-mail with warning after warning after warning. All the mothers did. The kids acknowledge it, but no matter how smart they are, they are still young and naive. They just don't think that way.

Catrina Thompson

During the first match everyone always has nerves. And even though it is going to be tough, we will be ready.

Mike Thibault

Once we made that first run, they weren't able to match it.

Marcos Baghdatis

I've played him second round, third round, quarters. Now it's the final. So every day is different. I just go into the match and play my game, just try not to make a lot of mistakes, just try to make him play. I'll try to find a solution in the match.

John Corcoran

It was the pivotal match in the whole tournament and it was a big win for them and a big win for the team.

Bob White

It was very frustrating. The talent doesn't match the attitude.

John Rittenhouse

This is states, so every match is going to be a challenge.

Holly Brown

The way we've been playing, we're going to be a tough match for them.

Annika Sorenstam

That's just match play, ... That's what makes it so exciting.

Davis III

You see that in match play, and that's why we don't do it every week. It's a little too volatile to do it every week.

Maurice Cheeks

You are not going to have too many nights where he shoots like that. We were very fortunate.

Antawn Jamison

Tonight was one of those nights when we were short-handed.

Bob Motzko

We weren't sharp tonight, but we did a lot of things well enough to find a way to win. You're not going to be sharp every night, and tonight was one of those nights that we weren't.

Rubin Salter

That was the maids' and butlers' nights off.

Jack Hunter

Collin has had plenty of nights like that.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Jeff Perreault

I kind of thought the third was going to be our period, it was just one of those nights where things didn't go our way.

Roy Williams

It was one of those nights that kind of snowballed on Dave's team.

Ross Mayfield

SAP really does the opposite of what we do.

Joe Girardi

The Yankees, usually they have one of the 25-man roster they're not sure who they're taking. We have like two that we know we're taking. It's about as opposite as it can be.

Archibald MacLeish

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

Alanis Morissette

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Daniel Handler

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

Dan Barker

Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

Edmund Burke

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Eckhart Tolle

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Elif Safak

I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Orlando Cabrera

There is a lot of talent here, a lot of talent.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Colin Powell

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

Nick Cannon

If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

Irving Berlin

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

Eminem

I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,