Famous Quotes & Sayings

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Nick Saban

We certainly created some adversity for ourselves to overcome out there, ... but I was really pleased with how we responded time in and time out. Nobody's ever happy with penalties. Nobody's ever happy with turnovers. But I think it's most important to establish how you respond to that stuff when it happens in the game.

Chris Duhon

We were able to execute on the offensive end. We know this team is going to (have to) overcome a lot of adversity throughout the year, and we showed that tonight.

James E. Faust

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

James E. Faust

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

James E. Faust

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Gao Xingjian

Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

What a testing of character adversity is.

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Jeff Chown

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

Jose Guillen

This is a pitchers' ballpark. Everybody knows that here. It's not in my mind anymore. I'm just here to play baseball -- that's what I'm going to do. Some of these guys are worried about it. That's not by business.

Babe Ruth

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Babe Ruth

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Jim Stoyle

We're happy to be 6-5. We've turned the corner. The thing is, we were 2-5 at one time (after having) lost four in a row and were frustrated. We were searching for some identity. The kids turned it around. That's what is unique about baseball that you can't do with basketball. You have to do get after it the next day.

Bob DuPuy

We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the Mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Montreal Expos to Washington. Because we believe in the future of Baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month.

Brian Regan

My parents didn't know what to do with me. They got me into Little League Baseball, I played out in right field, cause I stunk.

Bradley Whitford

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

John Carr

The thing I'm most proud of tonight is our defensive play. I thought our defensive guys came out and played with some intensity and enthusiasm.

Bill Wagner

The thing I'm most proud of is that after they took the one-point lead, we made plays down the stretch. In the three games we've lost, we had a lead and then the other team came back and we did not respond.

Chad Cluver

The thing I'm happy about is that he bounced back from that early game. It was a tough game for him, and he came back and played very, very well.

Arthur Hamlin

The thing I am most proud of is what we accomplished my senior year. We had lost 11 seniors and everybody was saying we weren't going to have anything. But we came back and made it all the way to the finals.

Warren White

The thing about this team is that the scoring can come from anywhere. All of the kids that came in played well. Somebody has to pick it up. We can play an inside or an outside game, it just depends on what the defense tries to stop.

Mike Denault

The thing about that is, if you go back and look at most of his shots, most of his points came off lay-ups. He was getting in the passing lanes, anticipating passes and his teammates were pretty generous giving him the ball.

Gareth Davis

The simple fact is the vast majority of professional sport clubs have some sort of level of debt.

Kim Schoemer

South Brunswick should have a good club this season. They have their No. 1 pitcher back, and this game should be a good starting point for us. I think they'll be one of the top teams in the division this year.

Gus Cooper

We tried to figure out how we were going to pay for it, ... The Dunedin Country Club Foundation has come up with $15,000, which will go toward the bridge. That leaves $71,000. So how do you fund that?

Robert Palmer

I've got to the point where I just get on with it and the content of what I put on the records is determined from what I learn from the audience, from what works live, from what I want to hear when I go to a club or what I'd like to play when I get home.

Walter Bugno

Now that we have ascertained Pierre is staying with the club we look forward to putting together a team to defend the A-League title.

Bill Stoneman

Now you've got Arte, who owns the club and is the guy you're dealing with,

John Blake

Given the Jockey Club charges, as I understood them, this decision is extremely severe,

Greg Wilfahrt

Getting someone to do your dirty work for you is very popular. This club has really become like a support group for fibbers.

Reggie Jackson

For your club to win, ... you have to pull the chain, and the rest of your club has to be right behind. That's what the special ones do.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Bryce Harper

D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.

Joey Tribbiani

Colby had a good game, and that was big for him,

Joe Cunningham

Cody, he's the type of guy, no matter what, he's going to work his rear end off. He wanted to get off to a good start and might have been trying a little too hard.

Brian Divelbliss

Devin does a good job communicating and Joey is really fast, really quick. Kyle is just a good presence in the goal. We have options and we're starting all three to see what they can do. They're all good.

David Steele

Development and good conservation planning are not mutually exclusive.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Elizabeth Blackwell

She played fast-pitch in the spring, and she wasn't going to play slow-pitch,

Martina Hingis

If I play the tennis I played three years ago I would not survive. I know that.

Shawntae Spencer

B.Y. played like he was 23 out there,

Sergei Lavrov

Germany has traditionally played a very constructive role regarding E.U. ties with Russia and the West as a whole with Russia.

Scott Monarch

I didn't think we played well, but I thought we did what it took to win.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

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.

Albert Einstein

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

Albert Einstein

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Jack Rio

He said he'd be back. That's a tough man.

Tommy Lee

We need to regroup. It's been a tough road.

Ryan Herrs

I think having Tommy back makes us a much tougher team.

Jim Beattie

I think it would be very tough for him to come back in an Oriole uniform.

LeBron James

I thought I was in the right position. It was a tough call.