Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Holtz

We decided we couldn't (cover punts) with two sprinters, ... So we said, 'Let's get seven sprinters going off the line so we can cover them.'

Mike Singletary

Playing coverage isn't about speed. It's about technique and studying film. Jeff Ulbrich understands that. He's the ears and eyes of the defense.

Toby Miller

It's primarily to cover the debt service on the bonds. The debt service is $1.4 million a year, and this increase would provide about $1.28 million.

Kelly Moore

I'm just so ecstatic. I went to Coastal for four years, and I cheered, and I've never seen anything like this.

Mark Javens

I'm pleased with the way we played the past three or four games. We seem to be peaking at the right time.

Shawna Smith

I'm pleased four girls qualified (for state). We also had several girls seconds or hundredths of seconds from qualifying.

Nick Davis

I'm pretty upset. This is four years of my life that I've put into this program.

Jonathon Power

I'm pretty exited about it, it's been a long four years. It's been a big goal of mine to get back to the top and I wanted to prove it to myself I could do it one more time.

Tom McCraw

I'm just living with it. That's all you can do. They're going to do what they want to do, and there's nothing nobody can do about it. But I would think there would be some consideration for the guys considering the job some of them have done for the last four years.

Denham Brown

If I win a championship, I?m pleased. But If I don?t win an NCAA championship, I?m not pleased ? regardless of how well I?m doing. It is to make history out there. Two championships in four years? In this day and age, that?s unheard of.

H.K. Pradhan

I have not slept for the last three to four days.

Julie Taymor

I had spent a lot of my life in other cultures. I spent four years in Indonesia. I traveled through Japan. ... I have seen theater practiced in these ways before: mask theater, puppet theater.

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.

Scott Westerfeld

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

Richard Serra

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

Rafael Nadal

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.

Sean Bean

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

Sean Bean

I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.

Scott Bakula

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

Michael Vartan

I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot

Michael Phelps

I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.

Seth Rogen

I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.

Jesse Ventura

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

Ice Cube

I always was like, "Yo, I'm here, I might as well get what I could take."

Scott Olsen

He ran, like, 12 poles and he wasn't even fazed. He might have run more than 14. I ran my 14 and got out.

John Whittier

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ''It might have been!''

Isaac Marion

You might say that death has relaxed me.

Isaac Asimov

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

Iris Apfel

You only have one trip. You might as well enjoy it.

Deion Sanders

If I don't like what I see, I may just have to go down there and play. You never know when I might put on a uniform.

John McArdle

If he doesn't run, I might just give him a trial and then go into the Caulfield Guineas.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Christopher McDougall

If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain.

Christopher McDougall

-The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of his own.

Christopher McDougall

When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow. It's jus time and the movement and the motion.That's what love--just being a barbarian, running through the woods.

Christopher McDougall

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

Christopher McDougall

Running is the heart of what it means to be human.

Christopher McDougall

Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by," Kerouac wrote. "Trails are like that: you're floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you're struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak... just like life.

Christopher McDougall

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

Christopher McDougall

I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.