Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liz Nichols

Athletics is a really important sport to us. We have to get them to the position where they can deliver medals and fulfil their potential. We can and do expect athletics to deliver more medals.

Mike Bellotti

Dennis is by far the better athlete. Brady has a gamesmanship, a sense of poise, that it's hard to not want to have him in there sometimes. They do a nice job, a great job, of supporting each other, providing a spark for the team, and bringing some different things to the table.

Greg Kaatz

Sam's just a great athlete, and a competitor. We're not sure how much we're really going to use him on the mound, but he wanted a chance to get some innings and got it done.

Mike Turpin

The season wasn't as fun as I thought it would be. There are a lot of things in athletics that make coaching difficult.

Alec Gunn

Brian is an all-around athlete. He can really haul. He's one of those guys that you've just got to let them stay in the game and get their rhythm, and he did that, I think.

Craig Frederick

Corey's not a real great athlete. But he's a pretty good wrestler.

Liz McColgan

The fact that the meetings are in Birmingham is unfortunate but I know how important it is for Scottish Athletics to be represented at that level. I'm very confident that things are now going in the right direction in Scotland. There are exciting times ahead." ()

Terri Risch

She was very raw as a volleyball player. She's an athlete, and she can do whatever she wants. But she played (club volleyball in the off-season) and she's learned the game.

Maria Rooth

I am so proud of this team and to be in the gold medal game. This team has a big heart. We played our hearts out. It is awesome.

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Robert Long

I wanted something for this boutique that would reflect Manhattan, New York, which is my favorite place on the planet, ... Allure's boutique is really something different. It is fashion-forward. It brings things up to date, because the New York fashions are traditionally years ahead.

Vance Law

These were two big wins for us and it brings us closer to .500. Our younger players are coming through for us in big ways and we've had some outstanding pitching from our starters.

Brady Quinn

The way he handles quarterbacks is much more intense, a much more hands-on kind of approach, and you see the intensity not only that he brings to practice, but that he brings with the quarterbacks,

Michael Hayes

This is a nice event because it brings people together. It's radiant. You feel real Christian values.

Dave Pauli

That's what keeps us going. Every one of them brings a tear to your eyes and makes these sleepless nights worth it.

Emmett Shear

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Julian Tavarez

Every time I look at the tape -- at how skinny and how little I was -- it brings back those memories, ... I played with some great guys that year in Cleveland. It's kind of tough to put it away.

Source Unknown

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Lorenzo Fertitta

We wanted something memorable, and I think Sting helps give us a memorable opening night.

Mike Rogers

At the end of the day, we're going to have a better system that helps people in need.

Ben Howland

We have a student who helps out with the video -- he tore his ACL the other day. That's how it's been.

Zach Woods

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

Justin Huber

Levi's been more of the outside guy; I'm more of the inside game. That helps us out a lot. It helps keep each of us rested and ready to go.

Chris Campbell

If ten people get some information out of it, and it helps one person, then it makes the whole night.

Gary Keith

If this thing passes it helps Rick Perry.

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Kevin Donovan

Pick up the phone and make the call, ... You may have the one piece of information that helps us solve this case.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Carl Zimmer

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

Alan Dershowitz

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Ashton Eaton

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Arthur Ashe

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think most of my lessons come from sports. That's why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it's where you learn about discipline. It's where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can't make it, you can.

Ayrton Senna

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

Brian Boitano

As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.

Brad Faxon

The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

Jane Curtin

I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz its helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if youre just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.

Jamie Foxx

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Cam Newton

The way I represent my individuality is by mixing classic pieces - like sports jackets - with little, unexpected additions.

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.

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.

Brian Tracy

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Jamie Dimon

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

Bruce Henderson

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

Edmund Hillary

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Britney Spears

Success is sometimes harder than failure, because when you are successful, people expect so much more out of you.

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.

George C. Williams

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

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.