Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Amy Grant

The music industry has changed so much. Musically, I don't really know what it is I'm trying to do.

Yuvraj Singh

A few things have changed (since Chappell took over). The emphasis is on fitness. The intensity is the same as when John (Wright) was there, but the ideas are different under Chappell.

Edmundo Espindola

The oil companies have completely changed the terms.

Hari Kondabolu

After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.

John Hughs

After Greenspan changed the language in the statement last time, there is some apprehension about what he'll say,

J. Taylor

After five months of knowing him and the kind of kid he was, you'd never expect him to do something like this -- ever. It's changed a lot inside me, as far as trusting myself and trusting other people.

Ryan Jacob

Something has changed (with Internet investing). You don't have the craziness of a wild IPO market.

S. Walker

Ashton's just a workhorse. To have one touchdown on offense, one on defense and one on special teams really says a lot.

Doug Wojcik

As a team, we play defense well and our kids listen. Memphis did a poor job at the free throw line (26-of-41) and that really kept us in the game.

Michael Lambert

As a human being I was incensed. As a defense attorney, I was incensed.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Jim Darling

Our defense was amazing, they rose up and shut them out in the second half.

Jeremy Trill

Our defense was a little shaky at the start, but it was the first game of the year.

Heather Earls

Our defense was a definite let down. They played better defense than we did and that was the difference.

Bob Faduski

Our defense very well stymied Hamilton most of the evening and never really gave them a good shot on goal.

Jon Bolin

Randy puts more effort into his game than any player I've worked with. Sometimes he even goes a little overboard with (weightlifting).

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

David Brock

These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information.

Jane Hirshfield

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.

Rob Stutzman

that they're supporting efforts that have a long-standing positive influence on the state.

John Tortorella

That's not saying he doesn't have the ability, but he gets everything out of himself every night. And when he's not going, it's not working for him, you know the effort is going to be there.

Pete Hoffman

That's not really the effort I was looking for today. This group's been able to get up for some big games, but today they just didn't get up for it.

Toby Bickel

We've struggled the last half of the season off and on. I was pleased with our effort and our execution, for the most part.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Larry Garza

As for me, I'm single, and it hurts me 'cause he's not here and he won't be able to see his grandchildren grow up. He was always proud of his three sons finishing college, growing up and providing for themselves.

Lori Nelson

As a company, we're more focused on finishing Red Rock Resort than any of our future projects.

Tom Chicantek

Cody had a nice overall season, finishing with a 17-11 record.

Sue Besch

Emma had a flawless routine tonight and we were very proud of her finishing in second place.

P. James

We finished. and that's the thing. It's all about finishing at the end of the game. and we were able to withstand their onslaught of big plays ... we just had to make (Paul) out to be a liar.

Paul Woolpert

We're taking more individual accountability and taking more pride in stopping their man. We're getting very important stops and finishing it by grabbing rebounds.

Jean Todt

There is so much going on that I still feel the possibility of finishing much stronger at the end of the season.

Bruce Bochy

There's some pride here, ... We wanted to get that game. There's been a lot of talk about not finishing over .500. It'd be nice to play well the rest of the way.

Neil Finn

I am really looking forward to it - it's an opportunity to be a musician and not have to worry about finishing lyrics. That's a nice way to come down from touring.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Wendy Watson

Elena was very consistent. She's very mentally tough.

Jonathan Papelbon

When I was starting I would start getting mentally prepared before the game. Now, I'm getting mentally ready during the game. There really isn't that much of a difference.

Ozzie Guillen

You have to prepare yourself mentally and physically to get through a tough season. When you prepare yourself that way, you make it easier.

Greg Smith

We've recently been having problems getting mentally prepared for games. We keep starting out slow. But after halftime, it seems we always come out to play.

Sherron Collins

We just tried to stay mentally focused. They were trying to get in our heads, but we slowed it down at the end.

Rachael Ackerman

We weren't mentally prepared to play in the first half. We had our wake-up call. We haven't had many of those this season, but we showed that we could respond to it.

Michael Vaughan

This is going to be a challenging series for us playing in different conditions,

Rick Stansbury

This is a totally different team, so there is no reason to remember. This team was not part of that. That has nothing to do with us playing over there (tonight).

Michael Leighton

The way we've been playing is the way we should have been playing all year.

Austin Croshere

That's when we started doing things the right way. And that's when we started playing better as a group.

Ryan Smyth

That's what we wanted to do is come in here and get the win. We know they're right on our tail and they're playing good.

Phil Garner

That's not bad. For a younger kid, I would usually have them in the 30s right now and they would end up with 55 at-bats or so. I could end up getting him there playing him more than I really want to, but he's getting there.

Vinny Prospal

That's not the way we should be playing at this time of the year.

Mark Sweeney

That's how special he is. I don't know if you saw my ball, but it would have been out at Williamsport. I squared it up. I'm just playing on the wrong field.

Brian Graham

You're playing must-win situations with the pressure of succeeding, and there is no tomorrow,

Ayn Rand

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

Brad Feld

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Arthur C. Clarke

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Bret Easton Ellis

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

Chris Crutcher

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.

Edward Snowden

When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems.

Edgar Mitchell

The quantum fluctuations within a zero-point field can start the process that builds the process, which builds into matter, an irreversible process. We have some evidence that suggests that. We don't have a Big Bang, but we have a lot of little pops! A continuous set of little pops!

Bernie Sanders

So what I have said with regard to Boeing and GE and other multinationals that pay zero taxes, you know what we're going to do? We're going to end that loophole. They are going to pay their fair share of taxes.

Ann Coulter

From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?