Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Jenkins

Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

Andre Seymour

Our boxers need technical support and we need the technical coaches who work them to travel with the national teams. They will be of great assistance to our national teams. Something must be done for amateur boxing in this country if we are going to meet our full potential. We need international help. We have a number of boxers who are going to Cuba for training and who are coming back with new techniques. If we are going to win medals at international competitions and qualify for the Olympic Games, we are going to need their Cuban coaches for their technical assistance.

Ted Sim

Because it's a national-bound tournament, some of the vice presidents of the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association are going to be here.

Robert Littell

I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.

Daniel Solove

Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.

Dan Jenkins

You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.

Jim Crace

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

Rich Galen

It just sounds like it was amateur hour.

O. Henry

They were amateur photographers but there are some really great shots. Choosing which ones we should display was the hardest part.

Greg Norman

I would say with the technology we have today, with the equipment, if you put that in Jack Nicklaus ' hands, he'd be a superior golfer than Tiger Woods .

Ben Curtis

Here I'm not worried about the cut, I just want to go out there and play good golf and try and get in contention.

Hale Irwin

I think it's great for golf. I don't see any problem with it, if it helps our sponsor.

Brian Boucher

I think it's because as a golfer, you always feel you can get better. That's what makes golf so unique. No one ever perfects (his or her) game. There's always some part that you feel needs improvement and can't wait to work on.

Retief Goosen

There are a number of golfers who are playing great golf in their 40s.

William Howard Taft

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

Warren Buffett

People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

Samuel L. Jackson

When I'm not working, I like to play golf.

Wendy Ward

I think golfers get over-concerned about results. Enjoy the process: enjoy the opportunity to play.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

David Cash

I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.

Stephen Jackson

He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game.

Jerry Slocum

He just played tremendously tonight. I'm proud of the way they all battled back tonight.

Shaquille O'Neal

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

Jeff Beeman

He's a really smooth player. I wish he played for me.

Jerry Sloan

I thought we played with a lot more purpose tonight than we did the other night.

Luke Poore

I thought we played well. They just wore us down.

Jim Ferraro

I think you?re going to see us (in the tournament). We have a lot of young girls, but they have played well together.

Derek Robey

I was disappointed yesterday with the way we played in the third quarter. We reminded them of that and told them they had to come out more determined.

Paul Mara

He was on his back and I don't even think he saw where the puck was and he took a swipe at it. That's why he is one of the premier players in the league.

Greg Couch

I have no idea why he would say that. All the players had apartments. ... He said things we don't understand.

Gordon Smith

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all-change now, obviously.

Isiah Thomas

I'm trying to go out and get the players he wants me to go out and get. This is a player he wanted.

Jerry Jones

I'm sure you can take a lot of these players out here and find they need some surgery.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Susan Peele

These are players that have pretty much come all the way up through the program. They have all shared the same experiences here.

Lamar Hunt

The development of American players has been a big part (of MLS). Without a league, there's no inspiration or opportunity.

Bruce Arena

All in all, to get 16 players in, and getting a win, that's a positive.

Dilip Shanghvi

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

ReShard Lee

I really don't know the situation. All I can do is prepare and be ready when called on.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I had nothing in my resume to prepare me for this.

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

James Canning

It's a proposed vision for the city, and it was used as we prepared this year's budget.

Marc Jacobs

And when I see students now, I just don't think they are prepared to work so hard. It comes too easy.

Jeff Kelly

be prepared with what you want to say.

Rep. Arza

Be prepared to fight. They're going to come after you personally. They're going to come after you every which way.

Chris Crocker

You can't be prepared for something you haven't seen.