Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Bouton

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Tracy Austin

Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.

Tony Oliva

They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here.

Juan Marichal

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Thomas Hearns

I'm going to fight again because this wasn't a fight.

Thomas Hearns

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

Jim Coleman

Born in Baltimore, I lived there 1 month.

Carl Hubbell

Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

Inaki Saez

Now I have to take a decision and logically that decision is going to be to continue.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Rob Andrew

Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money.

Lawyer Milloy

The way the Patriots tried to back me into a corner. It didn't show a lot on their part, ... New England tried to squeeze me with a last-minute deal, so we took a risk and went on the market.

Jane Austen

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

Jim Calhoun

When I walk down with Cousy I'm walking in as the face of New England as the face of so many people who weren't fortunate enough to get into what I got into.

Rupert Brooke

And think, this heart, all evil shed away, / A pulse in the eternal mind, no less / Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given.

Andrew Eldritch

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

Zach Galligan

I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.

Thurston Moore

I grew up in the early '70s in New England.

Michael Clarke

There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

Bob Howell

I've been around long enough to know that football only occupies a portion of what I do in life,

Herman Edwards

It would be the first time he didn't show up for one since I've been here. The one thing about Curtis Martin, if he doesn't think he can help the football team, he won't do it. If he thinks he can help the football team then he will play.

Gianluca Vialli

You should take your time and do it now and again, like watching football

Brett Favre

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

Brett Favre

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Brandon Marshall

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

Brian Urlacher

I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.

Brian Bosworth

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

Brian Bosworth

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George Andrews

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

George R. R. Martin

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Edward Callahan

We will investigate it as soon as we can get a chance,

Steve Smith

We weren't surprised by any of them. We were just surprised by so many of them. In my recollection, that's the most anomalies that's ever come up.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Jalen Rose

I wasn't surprised about being traded. I would have been surprised if it was a team that wasn't speculated in the rumors.

Maria Sharapova

I surprised myself in the first round, that's for sure.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.