Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hearns

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

Bobby Thomson

I was a raw rookie in Arizona during spring training in 1947, but I could do three things. I could run. I had a good arm. And I could hit with power.

Cathy Rigby

For the parents, it is a way to be young physically and emotionally for awhile and not have to deal with the troubles of the world.

George Brett

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

Jennifer Capriati

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

James Collins

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

John Hawley

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

Michael East

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

Allen Johnson

I am as hungry now as I was when I began in the sport. If anything, I am probably a bit hungrier. It is because I know there are fewer tomorrows than yesterdays.

Trent Suzuki

I started with a guy named Magic Johnson . Through him, I started working with players like Karl Malone and Bo Kimble . I met and trained Shaquille O'Neil when he was still with the Orlando Magic.

Kevin Nealon

What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.

Alan Trammell

What a trade they made getting Nathan and Liriano and another guy that led the International League in strikeouts,

Joe Klein

What can you say -- the guy doesn't have a peer,

Erik Massey

What can't he do? Whenever we need anything, he's the guy to go to.

Louis Orr

What can I say? Our guys rose to the occasion. They stepped to the task.

Keith Jenifer

We sit around, play video games, watch TV. We might go to a local high school game. For a guy like me, it's what I needed.

Dennis Johnson

Tony Williams' legacy will be that he was the guy who turned things around,

Theo Epstein

We trust this guy's makeup. He's a guy we're very comfortable with on the mound.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Willie Randolph

I don't look at just where he's playing, it's how he handled himself. He has a lot of poise for a young player, and I like that.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Tracy Spiridakos

I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.

Richard Dawkins

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

Walter Bagehot

There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit petty expenses and charge for carriage paid? The soul ties its shoes; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous.

William Bolitho

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

E. B. White

He had a GPS (global positioning satellite tether) on his leg, so we knew where he went and there was a paper trail we could follow, ... What money we couldn't find had been turned into cash.

David Cole

He got up there and we knew something was wrong,

Rory Kinnear

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

William Brown

He may be a freshman, but he played like a senior tonight. We knew it was playoff time and we had to make the big plays.

Steve Stevens

He loved the whole 'Star Trek' thing. I don't think people knew what a terrific actor he was.

Nick Vandewalle

Robin was knocking shots away left and right. I knew she had a lot. I didn't it was that many until I looked at the stats afterward. It was impressive.

James Courtney

Rehberg suggested this man because he knew him.

Daylon McCutcheon

Part of it was we knew Ty pretty well, but part of it was it was we had an exceptional game," ()

Rick Spring

We got some open looks, but we just couldn't knock them down.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Vincent Van Gogh

... life is too short to do the whole.

Virginia Woolf

The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.

Virginia Woolf

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.