Famous Quotes & Sayings

Corby Maurer

We had a little stretch there with the 100 hurdles, the 100-meter dash and the four-by-two where we made a good push in the track meet. Those kind of things spread throughout your team and then they all want to start competing a little better. There's a little momentum involved in track, too. Not everybody realizes that.

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.

Terry Grant

They want me to play running back. Wherever you go, you've got to work to be the best. Competition is good.

Lily Collins

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

Laurence J. Peter

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

Marc Benioff

You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.

Lee Kuan Yew

India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

John D. Rockefeller

Competition is a sin.

Karl Rove

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Paul Davies

An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Steven Soderbergh

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

Uli Hoeness

I hope the manager and the team can overcome all of this. It is not easy to go into a game after spending so much time with legal prosecutors.

Matt Watson

It's an easy way to make a quick getaway from the school environment.

R. Robinson

They got a lot of easy baskets in the first half shooting (near) 50 percent to our 20 percent. We just didn't play at the same intensity as we do when we play state schools.

Paul Chryst

They've got a good defense. It's not going to be an easy game at all.

Rich Conover

They didn't give us any easy looks. They got to the line, they got to the basket. Maybe fatigue and the combination of Hartford executing a game plan kind of stopped us in our tracks.

Neil Walker

The year after the Olympics, that's when everybody is supposed to take it easy and not take it so serious. That wasn't the case. It was real fast.

Max Kurz

They are easy subjects, very cooperative. They seem to enjoy being studied.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Andrew Lo

If you rank the top 50 one-day moves in the S&P 500, a fair number of those happened within the last five or 10 years. That tells you that we're in a different, riskier market now.

Bart Thompson

It has been the last four years that the winner of this tournament has gone on to win the state championship. Let's hope we can make that five years in a row.

Barry Mann

I had already about five or six songs written just for myself, but I never thought I'd end up being a songwriter.

Tony Russa

I know it sounds like bull, but I don't care. If you get in, you've got as good a shot as anybody, five games or seven games. It's that kind of a tournament.

Tom Arnold

I predict it will be a long night at the Farber house if they lose. This is the first game in five years I've been to without working.

Ron Johnson

I'm pleased the way guys have handled it mentally. At this level there can be a lot of agendas. I feel very comfortable with five games left with what we've accomplished.

M. Wolfe

I'm pretty happy to get out of here only losing five points after that heat race.

Joe Trippi

I moved here to get away from this stuff. For the first four or five years it was pretty peaceful, and then Cheney and Rumsfeld showed up.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Albert Pujols

In my heart and mind, I know I can hit anybody. I'm always relaxed. It's hard to explain. It's like playing with my kids. It feels natural.

Donald Miller

There are about 360,000 churches in America, so we could mentor a million kids within a short period of time if everyone signed on, which, of course, is a pipedream, but we're going to reach toward that.

Dusty Springfield

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

Dolph Lundgren

First the movie, the actual playing of the role and trying to deliver what everybody wanted. Then, when the film came out, there was instant fame. I was just a kid from Sweden, I didn't know what was going on.

Dolph Lundgren

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

Dolly Parton

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Dax Shepard

From 18 to 29 I was a heavy smoker, heavy drinker, drug addict, terrible eater and philanderer. The past eight years, since I got sober, have honestly been about trying to peel back each of those habits, to get back to the 12-year-old kid inside who was tremendously excited about life.

Chuck D.

There's people who feel that, Well, if I could profit off of sellin' sex to an eleven-year-old kid that comes through some kind of virtual portal, then I'm not really doin' it in actuality. I'm just kind of co-signing or fostering it, 'cause it can't be attached to me. I'm like, Yes it can, 'cause people are livin' through their avatar.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Theaster Gates

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

Longchenpa

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Sharon Salzberg

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Joseph Joubert

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

John C. Maxwell

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

James Otis

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.