Famous Quotes & Sayings

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Nick Saban

We certainly created some adversity for ourselves to overcome out there, ... but I was really pleased with how we responded time in and time out. Nobody's ever happy with penalties. Nobody's ever happy with turnovers. But I think it's most important to establish how you respond to that stuff when it happens in the game.

Francis Ford Coppola

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Francis Bacon

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity

Phil Smith

One of the things we've been after the guys about is the killer instinct and not letting adversity get them down.

Jeremy Bloom

My whole mentality was similar to the Tiger Woods approach. I had a lot of opportunities to jump in training and competition. I focused only on improving these skills. Adversity and racing gave me confidence to get through it.

Charles Studd

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Carl von Clausewitz

Battles decide everything.

Ben Harper

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

Sun Tzu

A battle avoided cannot be lost.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Battles are lost or won in 15 minites

Mike Boles

Friday is going to be a battle but we're going to show up.

Damon Hewitt

If we can't win the battle in court, we'll find every voter we can touch and make sure they have every piece of information needed to participate.

Sergei Gonchar

If we can somehow fix this problem, it's going to keep us in the games. The game is going to be closer, and we're going to have a better chance in the third period. It's so hard to come back when you're down two goals, and we put ourselves in the position of having to battle back. It's hard to do.

Tim Williams

If we could just run him up or see him, we could say we know where he's at, we know he's there. We could start with a battle plan.

John Gall

I've seen enough lineup cards in my life to know that if you're not on it, you're not playing, ... I walked over there probably a little quicker than I usually do to check out the lineup card.

Dennis Ross

These cards have not exactly given Syria a very strong hand, ... The more the regime has tried to play the cards, the weaker they've become.

Frank Thomas

I send him a list of the cards I need.

Butch Kinerney

This is a tremendous undertaking to try to get debit cards out with $2,000 on them to thousands of people. We've got plenty on hand, and we've got some more on order to make sure that everybody who is in the shelter down there that needs a card gets a card.

John Lyly

Cupid and my Campaspe played / At cards for kisses, Cupid paid.

Neil Roberts

You have to play with the cards you're dealt.

Adam Carolla

I am not a good cue card reader.

Randy Schekman

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

Renata Adler

Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

Joe Torre

He had to have butterflies tonight. There's no question. But I thought he dealt with it really well.

Todd Bertuzzi

You know what, I've discussed all of this. I've dealt with a lot of it back in Vancouver. That's something I don't want and I don't need to drag over here for this tournament.

David Yalof

There are issues we have never dealt with before,

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Jeffrey Lurie

We wanted this tribute to be a lasting one.

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Chris Sullivan

I started passing people (in the last mile) and was able to stay up in the top 25.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Linda Sherry

Even if you lose, the message will start to be heard.

Andy Stanley

Environments are the messages before the message.

Johnny Depp

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

Christopher Klaus

If we in the U.S. can't protect ourselves, what message does that send to the rest of the world?

Brett Favre

I called back probably 30 minutes after I got that message and got Scott's voice mail.

Al Gore

He wants to start this on a message of prayer and healing,

Virginia Satir

The message sent is not always the message received.

William Thomas Stead

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Jack Rio

He said he'd be back. That's a tough man.

Felipe Alou

That could make it tough on him. It's a possibility.

Dan Snyder

That was a tough day. We had ups and downs, but we worked it out.

Tommy Lee

We need to regroup. It's been a tough road.

Bill Self

I was very disappointed in our toughness. We were not very tough tonight.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Michael Owen Bruce

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!