Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Loria

You talk about last year, but in the end, last year wasn't all that good for us. We decided two years ago we had to take a good look at this team after the World Series. We added a little bit to it. But there was a strong feeling in the organization that we might have to rebuild this team. We finally bit the bullet and doing it is part of the whole process.

Don Crawford

The profile of the people we serve are families that are having trouble making ends meet. There are also senior citizens who are living on fixed incomes who come in and some have the added stress of caring for young grandchildren.

Pete Liptrap

Both are quality kids and they fit well with the rest of our guys. That's the first thing. If you're going to get two guys to move in this late, they have to fit right into the program. They both stepped right in and that's been no problem. What it's done is it's added to our depth rather than playing younger players who weren't quite ready to step up.

H. Hunt

Besides the Tour's importance in sport, the historical world events that unfolded with the very country in which Ruth wore this uniform which initiated the involvement of the United States into World War II with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, only added to the desirability of this piece.

David Cross

We knew Eric could be an excellent player and he is proving that this year, ... He really has added to the excellent play from the rest of the team this season.

Chris Byrd

(Toney) was the headlining fight coming in, ... We just got added to the card. I guess they did not want to change it. It does not matter. ? I am just boxing. As long as the check clears, I do not care if I was the first fight coming out.

Page Thompson

The reason that we've done better is because of the programming we've added over the course of a year.

Tim Morris

Various confinement changes, what is needed depending on what the dog is doing kind of thing. We've added some stuff about receiving and responding to an infraction, we've had a lot of people get rid of the citation, they don't respond to it, so that's going to be moved to a criminal citation.

Scott Smith

We will ask that he serve the 10 to life and the five to 18 after that sentence. And then he would be eligible for parole. We wanted to have the additional time added to the sentence he already served.

Jeff Foster

That's no excuse. Young and athletic is a positive for them, but then there's young and inexperienced for them. If we're not as athletic as them, we have to beat them with experience; and obviously we didn't do that.

Marc Ganis

That myth has been broken long ago, ... Everyone who follows the Olympics knows commercialism and corporate sponsorship is as much a part of the Olympics at this point as athletic competition. It is simply aesthetics, it is simply a veneer.

Tommy Tuberville

You've just got to do your best and don't look back. I never do. I think it made Auburn a better place. Not just football, the entire campus. I hated going through something like that, but after it's all said and done, it was maybe the best thing to ever happen to me, our coaches, this football program, and this athletic program. I don't think there's any doubt that people can look and say that Auburn is better than it was a couple of years ago.

Kyle Wright

You see a lot of great tight ends come out of here because we use the tight end a lot. I think you can look for the same this year, especially with Greg. Big, strong, fast and athletic tight end. Definitely going to be a great target for me, especially when I get in trouble.

Steve Bilsky

During the search ..I had the opportunity to interview some outstanding candidates that reinforced my belief that Penn is a special university with a great basketball legacy. I heard from scores of university presidents, athletic directors and basketball coaches, and the unanimous opinion is that Glen is a person of integrity, sincerity and uncommon coaching acumen. It?s a pleasure to welcome him to the Penn athletics family.

Bela Karolyi

What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.

Lisa Norris

We currently have three former students at Bethel College who are on the Dean's List. We have six or seven students who are in the military and two students who just recently received athletic scholarships.

Kim Gervasoni

Boise State is an extremely hard-working team. They're the hardest working team I think we've played. They're not overly big, but they're athletic and just work really hard. The key is matching their intensity because they're going to come out hard and play hard, that's a given. They do a lot of things well. We have to be ready to play and we have to be sharp and we have to match their intensity.

David Hansen

Both athletic directors and the conference commissioner started talking about the situation beginning on Monday, ... Once the hurricane was predicted to possibly impact the Houston area, we started looking at certain contingency plans.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Mike Bossy

I'm always extremely honored to be applauded the way I am when I get back here and have any kind of liaison with the fans. I'm humbled by it.

Shanna Briggs

I felt like we started out extremely flat. And we didn't do some things well defensively that we wanted to, and that's when they went on their run.

J. Taylor

Hiroshi is an extremely technical player with his passing and dribbling, ... He'll be a good player for us.

Jay Foreman

He stepped up big for us. They had put a lot of good shots on goal. He was solid in net. His reflexes are good and he is extremely athletic. He showed me a lot stepping in a tough spot like that.

Mike Woodson

He played extremely well. He didn't play like a rookie.

Tom Saltzstein

He's got a huge upside and he's only going to get stronger. At 6-9, 200 pounds, he's extremely, extremely athletic.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Arthur Koestler

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.

Jane Austen

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

Mark Stout

We've got a good flow of resumes, and we want that to continue. We want to get good folks interested in working for Nissan to put their resumes online.

Pat Jones

We had a good flow on offense. A lot of different people stepped up. We didn't have to rely on Lindsay to do it all for us.

Doc Scheppler

We turned it over too many times. Our offensive flow was off. We're just not with it.

Pat Cleland

We mixed up our defenses a little better and I substituted a little earlier, which helped our legs. I thought we had better flow offensively, too.

Andy Grove

In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical ordains it.

Andrew Mason

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

Alexander Pope

The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

Barbara Walters

You should be glad you're doing features; (they're) happy, glad (stories).

Patrick Warburton

Even right now, I'm glad to be working.

Rob Potter

Every step you make is just a bonus. We're just glad to be here.

John Hoag

Every year, we do a Santa run and Bobby's always very glad to see us. We all know him personally.

Anna Akhmatova

That was when the ones who smiled Were the dead, glad to be at rest.

Anna Nicole Smith

I am just so happy and thrilled and I am so glad Mr. Hefner chose me.

Lauri Hakala

Let's just say I'm glad that I stayed and nothing this year is the same as last.

Mark Morrison

Were glad to have them here in Childersburg.

David Saliba

We're glad to be in the finals. That was one of our goals. But we're not glad just to be in the final. We want to win. We've always been that way.

Humberto Moreira

The 65 trapped people remain inside the mine.

Scott Pruett

He just dived on the inside and used me to stop.

Randy Moore

I thought we executed in every aspect, inside and out. We had a total package and made this happen.

Jimmy Howard

It was a rebound off the inside of my leg, and York was in a nice spot. The puck went right on his stick.

Olusegun Obasanjo

I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

Franco Tito

We're not really sure how many people were trapped inside. I talked with three survivors and they told me there could be 50 to 70 people inside when the tunnel collapsed.

William McDonough

We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

Shel Silverstein

There Is A Voice Inside Of YouThat Whispers All Day Long,"I Feel That This Is Right For Me,I Know That This Is Wrong."No Teacher, Preacher, Parent, FriendOr Wise Man Can DecideWhat's Right For You- Just Listen ToThe Voice That Speaks Inside.

Raymond Carver

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

Cristie Kerr

She's 16 now, so young, but she's matured quite a bit,

Dennis Alejo

When you're getting mature the responsibility you have

Jimmy Smith

He's what makes this offense go. When he's back there, we're at another level.

Matt Kiefer

That zone really threw us for a loop. We didn't run our offense like we should. Then Horner just went off. He was on fire. There's nothing we could do.

S. Walker

Michael's getting his offense better. He went through a stretch where he wasn't shooting it much. We told him you've got to start shooting more, scoring more.

John Gibbons

We have been swinging it well. I like the way our offense is built.

Tom Grippa

I thought our offense would do more, and we didn't. They shocked us with their offense, and once we got behind, we weren't ready to come from behind.

Bob Marquardt

We struggled to get into our offense a little bit.

Clay Jordan

We worked on this offense all summer with Tony Jones, but he went out with an injury,

Tim Healy

The reason they scored so much was because our offense was so horrific. We're better than.

Brian Jennings

There are rules to the (business) game, just like a successful offense in our game.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Frank Rijkaard

This was a big result for the players and the club.

Chuck Daly

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Alice Cooper

Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.

Laura Merritt

We shut them down and another one pops up.

Danny Boyle

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

Christian Maraker

They all feel great. This one is special in its own way.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Ani Difranco

My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.

Deepak Chopra

Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

Sylvia Earle

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

Roger Zelazny

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

Susan Butcher

I was very aware that I was a woman and that the Iditarod was a big thing for women, but I didn't want to be given any special treatment. I just wanted to be viewed as a musher.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I want to be great, something special.

Tilda Swinton

The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.