Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Corso

I think it's good. I love that kind of adversity, you know? Adversity and distractions only make us tougher.

Flip Saunders

I think the one thing that people underestimate is that when there's adversity and they become challenged they rise up to the occasion. They love those types of situations. That's why this team is built for the playoffs.

John Tortorella

We talked about this as an organization before we started the season. We felt there were going to be some bumps and quite a bit of adversity coming through, and we've seen it. But it's a learning experience. We are going to have to learn to deal with it. We are going to have to have a better second half, and I believe we will.

Bryan Shelton

We've got to respond. Championship teams are defined not so much on how they win, but how they deal with adversity and losses. This will be a good test for this team after we were beat up at Baylor on Thursday.

Samuel Smiles

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Samuel Richardson

The unhappy never want enemies.

Wayne Graham

Everybody can have a bad game, and we did. These guys have all proven that they can handle adversity. We're in the midst of a little adversity.

Robert Falcon Scott

Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.

Walt Frazier

Building discipline, earning respect and overcoming adversity are all parts of a winning game plan. If you don't have a game plan, where are you going? When I'm talking about a game plan, I'm talking about how you go about being the best player you can be and how you go about being successful in life.

Michael Friedman

I was inspired by the brilliant minds of the doctors treating me. I had always considered becoming a doctor. Now I know what specialty I want to go into.

Henry Harteveldt

I would not rule out Boeing becoming partners with one of the winning bidders and getting in through the back door.

John Niven

I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.

Brian Idalski

Katy has really stepped up as a leader. As a sophomore, to be that much of a leader is something. She is on her way to becoming something special.

Rosemary Haefner

Job growth is expected to continue for the healthcare sector in 2006, driving an extraordinary labor demand. As a result, the search for qualified workers is becoming increasingly competitive with the shortage of registered nurses, physical and respiratory therapists, radiology technicians and other positions.

Jane Kennedy

He just refuses to obey the laws. It is becoming ridiculous. It's an eyesore and it's also bringing our tax values down.

Malorie Blackman

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

Richard DeKaser

It is a little concerning. The implication here is that over-valuation is becoming more prevalent. There is no disputing that price increases are far outstripping income gains,

John Bunting

I think the improvement stems from more experience in our scheme. Also our players are becoming more mature and we have an eight-man rotation in our defensive front four. That has really helped. We also have more depth at linebacker and in the secondary.

Swami Sivananda

Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.

Andy Cerroni

Jake Wagner had one of his better games for us on Thursday. He's beginning to gain more and more confidence with each game.

Leon Panetta

Just when we should be getting ready for the 21st century, our education system is beginning to fall down in terms of preparing our students for that future.

Caroline Williams

I think in the very beginning we all were really pushing the ball, and Dee was doing a really good job of hitting the open person, whether it was me or Tina. We were all just seeing each other really well and running the floor.

Neal Cotts

I think in our case it's come together pretty well. I think Ozzie instilled that from the beginning in spring training, that we're going to be together six months and make the best out of it.

Jim Morrison

He just took over in overtime. He willed them to the win. I can't be disappointed with our effort, we are getting better. At the beginning of the season we were losing games by 50 points and now we're are competing with one of the best teams in the state.

John Snow

I think it's clearly beginning to show signs of a strong recovery, and a recovery that's accelerating, ... Late Edition.

Fran Cohen

I think it's beginning to sink in. More and more faculty are reporting plagiarism.

Mike Duncan

I thought we really battled and never gave up. If we didn't dig ourselves a hole at the beginning it may have been a whole different ballgame.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Joe Archuleta

Jake did a good job for us on the mound and really did a good job keeping their offense shutdown.

Linton Johnson

Keeping our riders loyal and happy pays dividends.

Tori Rosenthal

Just seeing how some of those people lived and how little they had and how happy they are. It put in perspective what's important in life.

Frances Rodman

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Jeff Hawkins

I swear my heart stopped. I was so happy when he was able to come back.

Don Neise

Greg battled to get out of trouble. In the sixth inning, he got out of a bases-loaded jam. We're just happy to get out of here with a win.

Jenny Taylor

Greer is just scrappy. They get after it. They may be small, but they play big. My kids play big, too, and I'm happy with the way they played and the way they've played all season.

Bill Gates

Happy Valentine's Day. My other invitation was to go quail hunting with Dick Cheney.

Phil Savage

Happy New Year. I've really got nothing to say.

John Keats

Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters; / Enough their simple loveliness for me.

Marc Morial

I think the important message today is that an ordinary person -- a quiet, humble person -- can ignite a movement,

Rachael Scoggin

Humble is tied for first place, and I think we played them a pretty quality game.

Tommy Moore

He was kind, considerate and a very humble person, but he was a lion in politics.

Wale

Riding in another drop, ain't talking Enterprise They try to see me, get diabetes from humble pie

Upton Sinclair

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?

Ronald Reagan

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Wendell Berry

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

Mike James

I'm probably one of the must humble people you'll ever meet.

Greg Davis

I'm very humbled to be the recipient of this award.

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Yoandy Garlobo

We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .

Trevor Doughty

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

Larry Eustachy

We made the plays down the stretch. I thought it was the most mentally tough we played down the stretch all year.

Rachel Hall

He teaches me to become mentally prepared and tells me to work hard.

Gloria Arroyo

All of us are mentally and physically exhausted,

Craig Bierko

A lot of actors I had worked with seemed mentally unbalanced. It's only a matter of time before I go nuts myself.

Al Roberts

They didn't do anything we hadn't seen. We are philosophically sound, but we're not physically ready. We're not mentally ready. We're not spiritually ready. We're not athletically ready.

Giancarlo Fisichella

It is really tough. Physically, mentally I feel all right. It is a tough race, but it will be the same for everyone.

Jay Pandolfo

He has his problems, just like everyone else has problems. I think he always overcame them.

Brian Shipley

It wasn't pretty, but we did what we had to do to win. We took it one pitch at a time and overcame adversity.

Walter Gardner

I don't think we questioned anything. Every team has a rough spot during the season -- we just had it during most of the season. And we overcame all of it.

Keira Knightley

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

Kofi Annan

Guatemala is going through the most promising period of its recent history,

Rick Vernon

Going back to the '60's, we're one of the only schools that plays them year in and year out. When you play somebody for that period of time you're going to have that rivalry.

Ariel Sharon

I thought we could reach a period of respite before a cease-fire, ... But this is a war situation we are experiencing now and negotiations for a cease-fire will take place under fire.

Edmund Phelps

I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Richard Pennington

He eluded us for a long period of time,

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Dave Allison

In the third period we were a totally different team, but we can't wait on our effort.

Dave Pirner

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

Lindsay Davenport

I was just able to eke out the second set, and the third set I just played a lot better and she started to make a lot more unforced errors.

David Duncan

Kirby was 8 of 15 from the field. That's pretty good. She played well.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing.

David Cash

I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.

Tiger Woods

I think I played really well - even though I had three bogeys, I think 10 birdies usually offsets that.

Leonard Little

It can't do nothing but get better now. We've played the worst that we can play.

Stephen Jackson

He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game.

Myron Rolle

He just told me not to put any undue pressure on myself. He said if I just relaxed and played my game, the big plays would come.

Brenda Ellis

King's is a tough team. We're going to have to come out and give it everything we've got.

Mark Grudzielanek

Just try not to think about it. It's a tough situation. You don't wish it on anybody.

Barry Alvarez

He's a tough little guy. He's only 175 pounds, but he's a tough guy.

Glenn Mason

He's good, he's durable, he's tough and he's smart. I'm going to try to get him another year of eligibility.

Pete Domenici

I think it's going to be very tough for them,

Ai Sugiyama

I think it's going to be a tough match,

Dawn Fraser

It is going to be a very tough series,

Avery Johnson

We thought we had it won in regulation. Carmelo made a tough shot. If we had to do it all over again, we probably would have fouled.

John Silvia

I think it's way overdue for this administration to get tough on spending,