Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Madden

This is a conspiracy involving chemists, coaches and certain athletes using what they developed to be 'undetectable' designer steroids to defraud their fellow competitors and the American and world public who pay to attend sporting events,

Jim Yeamans

It's certainly not making things any easier. It's heartbreaking for the athletes and the university and I'm just greatly saddened by the news.

Bobby Brockman

It's difficult to really take an athlete and make him into a soccer player in 10 practices.

Dick Enberg

There wasn't a great living athlete or legend who wasn't on the show. I met every one of my heroes.

Abby Wambach

The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Jonathan Eunice

She teetered really, really, really close to just being disrespected everywhere. But so did Lou Gerstner in his early days at IBM. If she's successful, it's a new model.

Jim Fleming

She was very close to hitting that one. She was feeling it at that point.

Dana Bruton

She was really close to all the kids. She was in the gym on Monday. She was a great kid and such a hard worker. She was always the first one in the gym. She was really smart and ran my scout team. She was just an incredible person. We're really going to miss her.

Jim Gonder

Obviously, they are two teams relatively close in distance and they are a good rivalry for us. Hopefully, we'll put a good product out there and have a good game. These are two good teams.

Ken Holland

Obviously, the sooner the better. But if it means we have to wait to get Pavel in our lineup I'll wait. At this stage of the game I don't think it's going to have any impact as to our eventual roster. We're not going to be able to go out and find a player that's close to Pavel. If you look at the open market, there's lots of players out there that we think could be third- or fourth-line players in the NHL. But he's (Datsyuk) a top six forward.

Jamie Pinkerton

Obviously, Sunday is our day. We picked up some hitting after a slow start and we had timely hitting. This team is young. They are learning how to win and win close games.

Sidney Crosby

Nothing close to the extent of what he was saying, let's put it that way.

Rocco Mediate

Phil is right there, he's close. Tiger is always close -- as long as he's upright, Tiger's close.

Tim Barrera

It is a great opportunity for our players to compete in what should be a fun tournament. Each school will have two teams and play four games each and the winners of the two brackets will play for the tournament championship. Everyone will get a lot of playing time and it is a great way to start off the spring.

Darius Kasparaitis

We want to show that we can compete with the good teams and we can be there and we're (in this position) not by accident. I think tonight's game proved it, that we can play at a high level.

Tom Harkin

US farmers should not have to compete with foreign governments in international markets.

Steve Burdick

When the dust settles, we'll take a look and see how we fared. I think our project could compete well.

Bobby Bowden

We will keep the same goals and those are to win the ACC and compete for a national championship.

Jim Barker

We are excited to get Miguel under contract and look forward to seeing him compete at training camp.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Charles Bukowski

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

Timothy Simons

I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

Debby Ryan

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

Tony Fabrizio

The fractures were always there. The difference was the White House was always able to hold them in line because of perceived power, ... After Tuesday's election, it's 'Why are we following these guys? They're taking us off the cliff.'

Rob Schelling

That's the difference between a good and great player, and those guys are great players. When you can do that on your own, when other teams know about you and they're keying on you and you can still score, that shows what type of player they are.

Matt Watson

It makes a huge difference in the service we can offer. We can say it's a 15-minute drive time and we pay a premium to say that.

Charles Caleb

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.

Al Groh

They're kind of back to that old Florida State, NASCAR offense. 'Gentlemen, start your engines.' They run four of them down the field as fast as they can run, he (Weatherford) throws it up, and one of them makes a play.

Bobby Kielty

It was one of those things -- when it got to be 2-0, I wanted to see a fastball and get a hack on it.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Aaron Nida

Lee has been working hard this year. Hopefully he can improve and get some places.

Tommy Aldridge

Lee doesn't really have a go-to player now. They might have a hard time matching up. They'll probably have to spread their scoring around.

Deirdre O'Kane

Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way.

Erik Hoolahan

Scotty's a heck of a player. He works hard. He is the stereotypical Sewickley hockey player. He does what I ask. His legs never stop. He never takes a shift off. Every shift is going to be as hard as the last one. That's what I need from every one of these guys.

Wayne Newton

Several months ago, he went through some real hard times, ... He was depressed, angry, he wouldn't get out of bed.

Chris Alliott

Sentiment is likely to be hit hard ... Investors were disappointed by the warning in October, as it was one of the first operators to lower expectations. This second hit to expectations is only likely to raise more questions.

Gil Brandt

So hard to tell when you're looking at a player. You just don't know the competition.

Clint Barmes

So it didn't really surprise me a lot, ... that he's thrown that hard off the mound.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Mike Holt

I hope tonight meant a lot to him, to show him that we love him.

Age Hareide

I hope to meet a team that resembles (European qualifier opponent) Hungary.

Michelle Grabner

I hope to make the process of producing my take of the Biennial a transparent and interesting one for artists.

Bruce Hillis

I hope they sign the resolution. I think this could turn out to be a real important piece of legislation.

Robert Hazlett

I hope they're successful, but the odds are long.

Saxby Chambliss

The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Colin Hanks

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

Ted Knight

It's easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you've got the stock market beat. / But the man worthwhile, / Is the man who can smile, / When his shorts are too tight in the seat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Sean O'Casey

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

Larry David

I've always loathed rich people, so I've become who I've loathed, which makes it doubly difficult, if you can follow me.

Lady Gregory

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

John Cusack

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.