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.

Winston Churchill

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

Rufus Jones

If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

Jonathan Swift

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

Napoleon Hill

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

Harvey Mackay

I have never yet met a successful person who hasn't had to overcome either a little or a lot of adversity in his or her life. If life there is a lot of lumps and bumps... a lot of throttling up and a lot of throttling down.

Epicurus

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Jim Caldwell

The great thing about it is that this team is a great reflection of its head coach, they emulate him to a 'T' in certain respects. Especially when there's some adversity and this is a very tough time.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Jerome Jenkins

He played on a fairly good team last year.

Dr. Levy

I think that a lot of physicians really see drug testing as a fairly simple lab test when, in fact, it is not at all.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

George Michael

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.

Bill Engvall

I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can watch movies and listen to music. And my Gameboy. That's a good time-killer.

Ricky Stokes

We were not as physical in the first half as we needed to be. We got out to a fairly good start, but didn't play well in the final 10 minutes.

Edward Lincoln

So there's a different group of people managing the Japan relationship.

Bill Cowher

I've been waiting a long time to do this. This is yours, man. This is special group of coaches, a special group of players and I was a small part.

Shelia Smith

This is the first time we have ever reached the second round here. This is a different group than what we've had in the past, but we still seemed a little nervous today.

Lao Tzu

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

Jason Muzzatti

This group is a little better than the Devils.

R. Inge

You would think the overall market should be stronger, but the reason it isn't is because the heavier weight groups (financial services) are weighing down the market.

Ira Zuckerman

You're one person and I could have a group of loans that will go to that bank.

Michael Emerson

We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.

Jeff Tedford

I don't think you can stop them. You just really hope to slow them down a little bit, ... ... When you get a group together that has played together like these guys have, it's unbelievable to watch.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Craig Counsell

There are plenty of guys who have this, who are playing through it. There is no reason I can't be another one of them.

Frank Haith

We're playing better. When you're in a tournament like this, the more you win, the more guys realize they're playing for something.

Martin Milner

You can't do a serious show about two guys in their 60s trying to find their route.

Aaron Cook

We've got 25 guys who aren't worried about history, just playing hard. We've got 25 guys who have learned some lessons the hard way.

Mike Shanahan

We'll keep all three of those guys out, ... But they should be able to go next week.

John Lawhon

Every team is different. These guys want to do something a little more than the last.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Mike Getkin

We did a lot of the little things to get the win. It was a total team effort.

Dwyane Wade

We have enough on this team to win games. We just have to go out and do it.

Mats Sundin

We got an experienced team this time around.