Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Steve Kragthorpe

The bottom line is turnovers, and we did a great job of securing turnovers. We got the ball back with 2:20 left, and I challenged our team to get the first down and to stay on the field. And they did.

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Connie Higgins

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Jeff Bridges

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

Shawn Stenger

Rain isn't our deal, but we came out and it didn't bother us. We moved the ball around pretty well in the first half.

Rob Elkins

Rachel took the ball as far as she could and fired it over to Bianca. She played the ball very well with her left foot.

John Wicks

Rachel is doing a real good job taking care of the ball for us. And she gives us toughness at the point guard position and gets the ball where it needs to be.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Jim Leljedal

As far as we can tell at this point, those men had a right to be at that corner, they weren't breaking any laws. They had a right to have guns in their pockets and they may have been justified in returning fire.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Chris McKay

Operating in one community doesn't lend itself to a big TV buy. You get a broad reach, but it's cluttered. The challenge is breaking through...intercepting consumers where they shop or are entertained communicates that we are a local company investing to give them more TV and broadband choice.

Joe Glenn

So when I saw his pads getting down and the pads popping and him breaking tackles and him running hard into the sideline and putting his shoulder down getting 4 more, he showed me a ton. I'm excited about the way he played and the toughness he showed and his speed.

Dennis Christopher

Everybody cheats, I just didn't know.

Tina Donahue

Breaking some records would be great, but I think the end goal is nationals. Right now, that's what I'm really focused on.

Joe Gordillo

Breaking it in the middle of the season is pretty impressive. But he's so much more than just a good wrestler. He's a great leader and motivator for us. The guys started calling him Preacher Moody because he lifts everyone up in the room.

Dan Farmer

Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

Jason Simmons

The thing with Pittsburgh coming into town, whenever they give you an opportunity you have to capitalize, because they are a team that's big on turnover ratio.

Jeff Rolen

Once you see what's going on here, you just want to reach out and help them. I'm coming back. I just don't see how I couldn't. Other volunteers are saying the same thing.

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Hal McRae

You're trying to be ready for everything, and you're not ready for anything. We'd like for them to be ready for the one pitch, the fastball. That's where you start. We go from there. ... All timing comes off the fastball. You've got to be a fastball hitter first.

Ron Gardenhire

I don't think we're talking about poise here. I think we're talking about a 97 mph fastball and a curveball from hell.

Mike Timlin

I was trying to go fastball down and away. You don't want the guy to hit the ball to left field with power, and he's got some power. Dougie set up down and away. The ball was middle up, and he just tomahawked it.

Dusty Baker

He wanted the victory and knew we needed it. His fastball was moving.

Johnny Damon

He can set you up with a changeup, then throw an 88-mph fastball by you.

Brad Penny

In the first inning, I didn't have anything, ... My fastball wasn't right. Then I loosened up and threw pretty well the rest of the game.

Chris Capuano

I just kind of gave in and threw him a fastball down the middle. The second one was a slider that was supposed to be down and I just left it up.

Ramon Castro

I know him, ... He throws a fastball away and then he comes in with a slider. I was ready for a slider, and he hung one.

Ryan Howard

I just got a good pitch to hit, a fastball up in the zone, and fortunately it landed on the other side of the fence.

Chairon Isenia

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

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

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.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Jose Cortez

Once the snap is good and the hold is good, it's all me. Now I've just got to put them through.

Stephen Rea

Actors, the good actors, always want to talk about what they're doing, always want to give other people space to do what they're doing.

Chad Oberholtzer

We tried a new lineup tonight, and it looked like that might have been too soon. We switched out and we still couldn't seem to get it together.

Andie MacDowell

I was from a little rinky-dink town - to be a model... it looked like a lot of fun. I'd look at the girls, and they always looked happy.

Mike Babcock

We weren't thinking, we were just kind of going, and that was nice to see. We looked like we could move.

Joe Manganiello

I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.

Rick Adelman

I think the Spurs are going to play the same no matter who's out there. When I looked at the tape, I thought it's possible they'll send a message and (upgrade) it to a flagrant foul, but I had no idea they would suspend him.

Clay Hensley

Yeah, it looked like a strike to me,

Mark Fuhrman

Well, it looked similar to the glove at the Bundy scene.

John Gay

We played very tentatively. I told them it looked like we were tiptoeing around.

Josh Towers

I think just being who I am and the way I have always looked at things and the way I got to the big leagues, always trying to prove myself ... now it's a part of me and the only way I know how to go about my business.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Steve Robinson

That's what we want to do. We want to put some pressure on and just run, run, run.

David Eckstein

That's what we try to do, put pressure on the other pitcher.

Paul Brinkman

This puts a lot of pressure on us. It is unfortunate, but that is the way it is. It could be pretty rough for students.

Carnie Wilson

If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jamie Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Ari Graynor

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

Billie Jean King

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Mike Pearson

We've been working on putting this in place for two years.

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Mack Brown

Vince was able to throw it at will. And he threw it well.

Jeff Burton

I threw it away after the first week.

Mary Murphy

We threw so much at her when she walked in the door. I think she's pretty prepped for the undertaking.

Juran Bolden

The first time he threw at me, it was a touchdown, ... I'd go after me too.

Adam Haluska

You don't really have much time to think about it. I didn't really look at the basket. Just kind of threw it up there in desperation.

Devan Downey

We didn't come to play, we got what we deserved. We threw it all over the gym. It wasn't one person. I wasn't there mentally.

Jim Veltman

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

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

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,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.