Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bud Lachel

Competition is a good thing to have, but you have to keep everybody happy.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Mike May

The thing about winter sports that will always restrict participation and competition opportunities is weather. It's tough to go snow skiing in San Diego. Another problem is that there are only so many places you can do some of these things.

Brad Adgate

The Olympics are one of the top television events.

John Connell

The most significant implication of these findings will be in housing and destination services. Volume increases will mean greater demand and competition for housing and will thus drive market costs higher.

Steve Hill

Once we've rebuilt that we plan to enter it for competition with one of the students driving it. They're sorting out their own insurance.

Troy Bell

Once you get to the hub, you may find the schedules being a little reduced and at 4.5 down nationally, there's going to be more competition to get that seat.

Mahesh Bhatt

Sometimes, in the face of fierce competition, actors were tempted to sign more films than they could cope with.

Mark Cooper

Telecommunications has now gone from a regulated monopoly to an unregulated duopoly with just two major players. Consumers know that is not enough competition to lower their prices and drive innovation.

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Margaret Turnbull

If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

Mark Smith

Wiltshire remains one of the safety places to live in the country.

Sandra Oh

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

Felicity Huffman

I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.

Jason Kubel

No problems at all to report. It hasn't been sore in a long time.

Michael Boyd

Delta's problem is not labour, it's debt. Until they can restructure their debt, they are in big trouble.

Benjamin Raich

I've always been strong in slalom. This season I've had some trouble finishing, but that wasn't a problem today.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Kurt Woerner

These weren't short-term problems. Some of those violations must have been there for years.

Bernie Ecclestone

I understand now that there may be some problems with that.

Christopher Williams

I understand they had a problem yesterday, a student problem, ... I talked with Matthews and he said everything was under control.

Pat Duffy

This isn't a problem of one district. It's a problem of many districts.

Jeff Berliner

The upside to the disk problem was that we recovered the old system to the SAN.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Sherdrick Bonner

San Jose was the only team willing to give him a shot.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Taron Egerton

I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

Tom Araya

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

Shelley Morrison

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Norman Foster

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

Randy Cretors

If we don't play San Benito, I'd probably get fired.

Robert Scoble

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

Paul Jensen

Rain, sleet, snow or strike, we'll get to work.

Boris Pasternak

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

Jerry Moore

We could treat it like a snow day and have just the drive-through open.

Lori Worley

We had a really warm winter, and then we get snow the first day of spring.

Chris Proulx

There's no snow and it's not -20 C, so it's actually pretty cool.

Confucius

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Daniel Woodrell

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

Alfred Hitchcock

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Richard Strauss

He'd be better off shoveling snow.

Brett Hull

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

Brett Hull

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

Brett Favre

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

Brett Favre

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

Babe Ruth

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't understand shopping, it doesn't make any sense to me. As guys, we decide we want something and then we go out and buy it. Women go to the store having no idea what they're going to buy, or what they're even doing, it's like a whole different sport. It's like going to a football game to maybe watch a game. I don't get it.

Ashton Eaton

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Arthur Ashe

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

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.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Alan Trammel

That typifies how, when things aren't going well, how tough it can be.

Gavin Dickey

This is big for us. This is a tough place to play.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Rich Davis

Britt made a tough play. It would have been tough to get around it.

Ronald Coleman

This was my decision. It's a tough day.

Steve Barrow

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

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

e. e. cummings

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

Alexander Pope

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

Dick Pound

I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

Anne Sexton

The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.

Czeslaw Milosz

A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

D. H. Lawrence

The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought, Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt.

Confucius

It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.

Confucius

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.