Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shaun Pollock

To protect a defeat and still go down 1-0 in the series is pointless. We've got to give ourselves a chance to win.

Albert Pujols

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

Dan Bollinger

We've had trouble sealing the deal this season. We let our chance get away. They scored two with one hit in the first inning, and that was a (slap). We've had a lot of games like today's.

Randy Albano

We've had a really good run since 1999. I think we have a good chance to have a winning record, win our conference and win some games in the postseason.

Joan Bonvicini

We've had a difficult season. This was our chance to start over a little bit.

Marcus Knott

We've had a chance to watch some film on them and it's like we thought -- They're a pretty talented team. We're going to have our work cut out for us.

Mack Brown

We've had some great freshman backs, but none of them have responded like he has, ... He has a chance to be one of the great players to come through here.

Tom Slater

We've got a chance to win this series, and I think our kids will come out ready to go. We need to pitch well.

Jose Reyes

We've got a chance to play for a long time together. In this game you never know what's going to happen. It changes quickly. We want to stay focused and do our jobs.

Paul Ballew

We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year.

Michael Toudouze

We're finally putting San Antonio on the map. Nobody gets recruited down here because I guess we're too far south. But there's a lot of talent down here that people are finding out about now.

Peter Gallagher

I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.

Kirk Hinrich

I felt like we should have stole that game. We were right there. I see it more as a missed opportunity.

Cindy Cuthbertson

I felt like we really stepped it up a notch. I'm real proud of the kids.

Frank Catalanotto

I felt like we let him off the hook. To his credit, he settled down.

Al Horford

I felt like we had the momentum going.

Beckie Scott

I felt in a lot of ways I was racing for her today.

Greg Brunner

I felt horrible. I've been thinking about this forever. I didn't forget him. I overlooked him.

Tommy Maddox

I felt great (yesterday), really good -- just as good as (Thursday),

Dustin Almond

I felt good (Saturday), ... The line gave me time, and our receivers made plays.

Richie Sexson

I felt like I tagged him pretty good, so that's what stunned me. I think Jason knew it, too. He started walking back to the dugout. Everyone makes mistakes.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Billy Wagner

Sometimes it's good to just be thrown into the fire, Did he even know it?

Mark Johnson

Sometimes it's good being the underdogs. We don't mind that role.

Don Baylor

Sometimes it's a real good thing. But once you get it out, the next day it has to be over. Over. If it's not, if it festers, then you can't repair it.

Karen McCabe

Rubin and Doherty play really well together and have done some good things this year. They started to shadow Danielle in the second period and Jessi played even better.

Andy McDonald

Ryan did a good job getting it started. I thought we had really good puck movement on that, and it wound up not being a pretty goal, but we'll take it.

Holly Ismail

Samantha is such an unselfish player. That's what makes a good player great ù making everyone around her better.

O. Singh

I've played pretty good for the last two years. I'm just trying to win tournaments, plodding along, and here I am.

Andrew Brunette

I've played on teams where there were more (injuries). But I don't know if it was so many key players and players that were having good years.

Ron Clarke

More guys will see the field. It's kind of an audition. You want to play, you start battling.

Duane Peterson

My guys are able to overcome losing a tough game. It was a tough situation last night but they're remarkably mature and ready to move forward.

Ozzie Guillen

Now, we don't have to wait for Thome to hit home runs. Other guys are hitting them for him now.

Ken Jr.

Now that the second round is here, I think the intensity is going to pick up. Guys are a week into spring training basically, so I think it's going to be a little more exciting, a little more fun.

Mark Turgeon

Now that that's over -- it's been a long two weeks -- it's about these guys right here.

Eddie Guardado

Now, that's what I try to teach these guys in here.

Ricky Proehl

Now that I really think about it, of all the people I've known in all these years, it was those two guys that were most instrumental in my career,

John Lilly

Now, you've got guys who haven't even played a down in their junior year, and they're being ranked and they're being hammered about who they like, ... They're getting tired of it by the time their senior year rolls around.

Adam Isacson

Now you have a precedent of the United States actually helping these guys come in from the cold. There's more flexibility.

Bobby Cox

He looked like a 20-game winner today. He really did. He can't pitch any better than he did today.

Roy Keane

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Ambrose Bierce

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.

Ambrose Bierce

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

Ambrose Bierce

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

Anthony Hopkins

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

Anthony Hopkins

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Anthony Kiedis

Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.

Anthony Hopkins

I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.

Alicia Witt

My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong , You're not that strong. I don't belong here!

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Morgan Wootten

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Joey Logano

My reputation is different among different groups. You have your fans, your non-fans, your team, your crew, your family, your friends and then you have your peers. I think they're all different and each of them have their separate opinions about you.

Joey Logano

My friends and family and team know who I am, and they have my back. So I don't let someone who doesn't know me affect me.

Joey Logano

I’m really proud of my team. They have given me great cars all year long. Today, we finally got to show what kind of cars they have been giving me. We were up front, leading laps and showing how good this No. 22 Ford is. Once again today, my team showed they have my back and that will only make us better going forward.

Joey Logano

It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.

Joe Sakic

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

Joe Nemechek

There are a lot of other things I could be doing out there, but I love to race. I'm fortunate to have the opportunity, to have the team and to have the resources to be able to do this.

Joe Mauer

I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge.