Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

Billy Donovan

I've said it all along about this team, they derive a lot pleasure from moving and passing the basketball and playing together.

George Steinbrenner

Billy Connors was just great. He brought Jaret Wright along great, was patient and he stuck to him with great success.

Mark Ross

Black River Falls has good singles players. But we're a little farther along with our doubles teams.

Blake Lively

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

Benjamin Booker

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.'

Nick Swisher

We've had this stretch before, and we've bounced right back. The difference is, there's a lot more riding right now. We've just got to dig deep, keep plugging along and see what happens.

Joe Tiller

As the season went along and losses began to mount, we began to examine everything. We probably made the change out of frustration more than anything else. We just weren't executing the offense. We felt like we were leaving too many plays on the field.

Ernest Thompson Seton

At night we reached the Indian village of Pelican Portage, and landed by climbing over huge blocks of ice that were piled along the shore.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Rich Williams

Everyone wants to do the first one. You do it right the first time, runners will keep on coming back.

Lynn Franco

As the economic ramifications of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the coming weeks and months, and the number of layoffs continues to rise, the economy faces tougher times ahead. While consumers have managed to keep the U.S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon may no longer be the case.

Fabrice Santoro

At one point, it's great that it's coming so late. I've been playing since I was 16, and when your first quarterfinal arrives at 33, it's a long time.

Marty Simmons

At that point, you could just see the life coming back into our bodies.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Peter Moody

We've got some work to do, ... but we'll go back and do that and get ready for the next one.

Hubert Astier

We have to plant new ones for the next centuries.

Jessie Evans

We have to live for today. We can't worry about next year.

Pat Metheny

If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

Larry Phillips

We'll work on it. We're going to try to get our numbers back up next semester.

Andy Reid

We will know a lot more in the next 48 hours.

Sidney Crosby

We want to use that as momentum. It's important to keep that going as we prepare for our next game.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Alex Chilton

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

Alex Chilton

Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.

Alex Flinn

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.

Alex Ferguson

I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.