Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Weiland

Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.

Chris Huffman

As far as the radio stuff ... it still blows me away that this would happen to us. We'll all say without hesitating that we aren't rock stars, we aren't anybody special. We are just normal goofy ordinary people that get to do this for a living.

Tom Izzo

As far as my confidence in the team, as crazy as it sounds, I still think we have a chance to win our last two games. If we do that, I think we go into the Big Ten Tournament on a high and have every bit a chance to win as anybody else.

Richard Maloney

As anybody in the United States is aware, the skyrocketing costs of health care are at crisis proportions. The union has been very reluctant to pay any of that.

Charles Adams

As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.

Curt Schilling

The bottom line is that the ball should not have hit him. You've got to be able to get out of the way of that pitch. I threw a ball in and jammed him the pitch before. I threw in a couple of times during his first at-bat. That's just the way it goes. I'm not trying to hit anybody in the head. Everybody I have been on the field with knows I play the game the way it's supposed to be played.

Jeremy Affeldt

The bottom line is I blew it. It was a routine double play. I can't look anybody in the eye right now. It was an embarrassment.

Gary Sheffield

The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?

Dale Mays

The boys were just 15, 16 years old, cutting up when we walked into the room. It got a little quieter when they saw us. Then James said something and gave them a look, and that's all it took. Everybody got quiet. I never knew anybody who was as respected by his peers. He didn't demand respect. He commanded it. The great ones have that. They have a presence.

Bud Lachel

Competition is a good thing to have, but you have to keep everybody happy.

Kevin Roe

Competition continues to be intense in wireless. This is yet another example of that.

John Rowland

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

Dan Glickman

Despite increasing competition for consumers' time and entertainment dollars, theater-going remains a satisfying constant in people's lives.

Rick Meckler

The story you'll start to see people talk about as rates go up around the world is, what type of competition will there be for stocks.

Mark Cooper

The simple fact of the matter is that competition is good for consumers.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Adam Scott

The teams are named, and we're ready to go. It's going to be some good competition. I'd like to get my hands on the trophy and look forward to the Sunday night celebration. We did a pretty good job celebrating last time, and we didn't even win the thing.

Polly Schulze

The team is very excited to get on the road and test themselves in a competitive atmosphere. This is our first competition of the season and in light of the fact that we have the most experienced and most talented team to date, we are pretty fired up!

Paul Elliott

As a team, I think we're right where want to be (entering the conference schedule). I'm happy with our effort so far.

Kevin Stallings

As I told them right after the game last night, we won our first two conference games last year, then we proceeded to lose four of six. Our response to that game is more important than the game itself.

Joe Sakic

Our conference is so tight, and the play is tight, we are watching the scoreboard every night. Tonight is just one game, and we are in first for a day. We just will hope to continue it.

Jamie Dixon

Our conference has prepared us better than any other conference since I've been around the Big East. I'm not surprised how it has played out because of how many good teams there are here.

Brian Barber

Southmont is a conference rival, and it's a senior-dominated team. We know they're going to come after us. We're going to have to win three games to win it, so we have to go the long route.

Bill Fennelly

It would be a phenomenal upset for us to go real deep in this tournament. The conference tournaments were created to make money and give teams hope. The Big 12 can make the money, and we'll have the hope.

Derek Dougan

The way he pitched tonight he's looking really good. He's definitely going to be a factor in this conference season.

Joe Dumars

That's what we all have to live with, because we've set a very high standard here. We've been at least to the conference finals three straight years and we've been a 50-win team four years in a row.

Avery Johnson

We hope we're back, as like any Western Conference team that's going to playoffs. But we've got too much work to do.

Sammy Morris

Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just wanted to say something, and the team was able to respect that.

Laura Harper

Definitely, I don't think the respect is there for our team.

Jim Calhoun

Any team that's won 20 games, we're going to have respect for.

Ryoji Noyori

The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs.

Jonathan Todd

Spanish authorities need to respect the Commission's competence.

Mark Ryan

I understand and respect his position, and I respectfully disagree,

Frank Johnson

I seen it as him being my friend, showing respect for me so I can know what's going on.

Sandra Langley

That's great, isn't it? I told them all that it's time to step up and show (the league) another side of you. I don't think they respect you.

Ron Sisler

You respect the program, you respect their accomplishments.

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Alan Trammel

Really, I'm OK. I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.

Mia Wasikowska

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

Rick Clausen

The most important thing is understanding your role,

Terry Turner

There's always been the understanding that a (tax break) could come into play.

Jim Roddey

I understand the manufacturers don't want the supplier network, and I can understand why.

Princess Diana

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will ever know yourself.

Peter Dale

I understand why they did what they did,

Bob Beauprez

I understand what you're against, but I don't know what you're for.