Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Williams

I think it really opened the door for black athletes at the time.

Steve Shephard

It came down to those last two athletes to do their job the best they could and both Stephanie and Meredith really came through in the clutch.

Denny Green

He'll be one of the best athletes they've got there. He can dunk a ball any way you want to dunk it. Absolutely. He's got exceptional speed, exceptional jumping ability. He'll be a regular gym rat.

Kevin Meyer

He knows we need to get him involved more. He is one of our best athletes and we need to find ways to keep him out on the field.

Hilton Armstrong

There are so many athletes on this team. But everybody gives up a little bit to make the team better.

Van Allen

Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.

Nick Hill

Having this kind of technology available to athletes and coaches helps give us that necessary edge that you need to win on the world stage.

Pat Griffin

For men, the stereotypical image has been that gay men are not competitive, not tough enough. It's important for people to see that these stereotypes are not true. Women athletes who come out become instant heroes, because lesbians want strong heroes.

Chad Nightingale

He's as down to earth as they come. You don't always see that in upper-echelon athletes like him. The kid has been raised right.

Chip Sodemann

Just making the conference tournament is huge for us. The MIAA has a lot of pride, history and tradition in its programs.

Dale Brown

It can't be taken for granted. No other Louisiana school has gone to it. Only six Southeastern Conference schools have made it.

Jim Thompson

It always feels good to win a conference match away from home. The girls played well on a golf course that we had not played well on before.

Mel Blasi

Golf is a funny game; anything can happen. Our conference is strong and well-balanced. There are no guarantees.

Michael White

He said I might be tied for the Big West Conference record for injuries.

Scott Maddox

I thought we responded well to our first conference loss. We knew a fast start was important and the guys did exactly what we needed by jumping them early.

Barry Hinson

I think the conference race is already done. I think Wichita State is going to win the race. I think what everybody else is trying to do is to get the highest seed they can get for the tournament, or finish as the runner-up.

Mike Loyd

Whatever happens this year, we won't be able to use inexperience as an excuse. Most of our guys have been there and done it before. It may take us a little while to hit our stride, but I fully expect us to contend for the conference championship.

Brent Erickson

The purpose of the conference is to highlight the emerging field of industrial biotechnology, which is being used to convert agricultural wastes to renewable energy and to make many types of manufacturing processes more environmentally sustainable.

Jose Vidro

He'll be all right. This team goes as far as he goes. It's early and we still have a lot of confidence in him.

Joe Thornton

He let a couple of floaters in the second and then he got his confidence in the third and that was the difference, ... Eddie just really stoned us in the third period.

Robert Ferguson

He knows what I can do; I know what I can do. I've made plays in this league for five years now, I've made a lot of them for him, so confidence was never an issue as far as him having confidence in me. And I never lacked any confidence in myself.

Kyle Coston

Greg (Burgers) and I understood that everyone on the team had to have confidence in each other. We needed that to make a perfect circle. Something that Greg and I wanted was for everyone to feel comfortable and confident with who they were and what they did on this team. We learned that everyone on this team was going to come up big for each other.

Nobuaki Kurisu

Greenspan's cut was a wonderful thing. It has instilled Tokyo investors with a greater confidence the U.S. economy and markets will recover.

Fabian Nunez

has no confidence (in Mexico) and doesn't treat it like a modern democracy.

Clinton Portis

Guys were playing for each other, laying it on the line, and everybody was just fighting. The confidence is really up.

Kurt Warner

Guys hang on every word because they just feel the confidence that comes from him: 'This is what we're going to do, this is how we're going to win. They can pretty much take what he says to the bank.

Casey Silver

Hannah just picked up the game last year and she is very quick, ... Ellie is playing with more confidence and has been a pleasant surprise.

Guillermo Diaz

It hurts, you know? At the end, we just didn't execute what we wanted to. They kept playing. They kept fighting. They're a good team, but it's disappointing, because we had the lead for most of the game.

E. O. Wilson

We just have to get it done no matter how long we're out there. Big plays can kill you, man. That's why you have to execute on every down. You do all that work, and then they hit a big play on you. That can't be how we do things.

Robert McCullum

I thought the last 3 or 4 minutes there in the first half is when things kind of got away. We had four or five consecutive possessions where we didn't execute well." ()

Rich Irr

I think it's the same every year. You have to play well, you have to execute on all fronts come the playoffs. I don't think it's any harder because you're trying to repeat or do it for the first time. You have to play well.

Rod Thorn

Lawrence has a track record here. Nobody works harder. He has terrific game plans. We just need to execute our plans better and play better. Lawrence can't go out and play for guys.

Bret Reedy

I just think offensively the whole night we weren't in sync. We took quick shots, we took long shots and we didn't execute defensively.

Paul Rybak

They were pretty hot to start the third quarter. They really execute well. They know what they want to do, and they go about it like a good team does.

Tasmin Mitchell

They were playing really good defense, and they were really moving in the zone, playing physical in the zone. We couldn't execute like we wanted to.

Randy Moore

They'll go all out, but they need to execute to be a successful team.

Ron Hutchins

John is a very pleasing young man to have. He's very focused on what he does. You'll see him moving up.

S. Walker

It all seems to be focused on him (Rodriguez).

Larry Hoff

Her scoring numbers are actually a little down from last year. Part of it is because we have other players who can score, but the main reason is that Jessi has focused on getting her teammates more involved.

Vince Borg

We are focused on the integration of Placer Dome's assets, people and projects.

Pilar Sanchez

I think a lot of young girls have a hard time being focused and motivated. I want them to see in me a woman that's driven, and help them be the same.

Mack Brown

It has been a very good week of practice ... the most focused I've seen them because they can't wait until Saturday. They know it is going to be a great test.

Jason Taylor

It has been a little edgy. We are more focused and realize that we have a lot of things that need to be corrected.

Eddie Jordan

I think this is the time of year for a veteran to step up -- guys who have been in the playoffs like he has, guys who are dedicated. So he's focused in more, and he knows that each shot means a whole lot now. It's that time of the year for those types of guys.

Shawn Boggs

I think that she is very focused on the task at hand and really wants to make her mark in her senior season.

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.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Alan Greenspan

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

Joker Phillips

Keenan played as big a hand in this as anybody. They are good friends. He's going to live with Keenan. They are going to run routes together. He's all in now, and that's what we want.

Michael Colucci

Keegan always worked hard on the field, treated me and his other teammates with respect. He's a good guy who made a mistake.

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.

Tori Rosenthal

Just seeing how some of those people lived and how little they had and how happy they are. It put in perspective what's important in life.

Frances Rodman

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Jeff Hawkins

I swear my heart stopped. I was so happy when he was able to come back.

Jenny Taylor

Greer is just scrappy. They get after it. They may be small, but they play big. My kids play big, too, and I'm happy with the way they played and the way they've played all season.

Phil Savage

Happy New Year. I've really got nothing to say.

John Keats

Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters; / Enough their simple loveliness for me.

William Shakespeare

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Go not, happy day,/ From the shining fields,/ Go not, happy day,/ Till the maiden yields.

Ray Elliott

He said if he was going to go down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird's jersey, ... We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be.

Howard Fineman

I think in the end, we were fair. He was riding a wave that overtook him. I don't think that was our fault.

Joey Graham

I'm not going to be nervous, it's just like riding a bike,

Craig Kelly

Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.

Brene Brown

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

e. e. cummings

All in green went my love riding

Andy Xie

The government's riding a tiger and they are scared of getting off.

Mary Ford

We've been riding by houses. We know what they're asking, but we don't know what we're getting.

William Whewell

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

Will Wright

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

Wayne Dyer

Every obstacle is a test.

Rod Lurie

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.

Barbara Ehrenreich

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Leila Aboulela

Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr

Madeleine L'Engle

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

John F. Kennedy

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.