Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allison Jones

Kids can really get better quickly. Here's another thing I would like to say: Kids should never be coached by their parents, ever. They should be as natural as possible.

Cheryl Ciorra

Keith qualified at the last possible moment. It was very exciting because I've coached him since he was little.

Bill Clarke

I think it is a great experience to be able to go and represent your school and your program. I have been in a position that I coached in the North-South game, the Alabama-Mississippi game and the juniors game last season. I know what it is like to be in a game like this.

M. Wolfe

I also coached Alexander's dad (Gary). That's the first time that's happened.

Renee Fleming

He coached and prepared me for a 'Rosenkavalier' scenes program,

Steve Howey

Good corners were going with the deep guys, so we've got to hit the underneath stuff. If teams give us the deep route, Jon can hit it, but well coached teams aren't going to give that to us.

Mike Thibault

It is a great experience. The two teams I coached on the men's side were some of the most exciting moments in my coaching life. Obviously winning NBA Championships and CBA Championships and being in the WNBA Finals are all highlights. But playing and coaching for your country in a gold medal game is pretty intense.

Christine Smith

What I saw started three years ago, when I coached the varsity and the junior varsity. I have eight seniors and they know my system inside and out. They know what I want and they know how to work for it.

Don Moreland

I thought the kids did a great job after I left. I was proud of my kids. They did everything I'd coached them to do.

Jerry Gray

I talked to Marv and he pretty much gave me permission to go and seek another job somewhere else, so I have no problem with that. Would I like to be interviewed for the head coaching job? Yes. I know the players on offense and defense and I think I have their respect.

Billy Donovan

I always felt I was going to have a lot of fun coaching these guys. They've had the right attitude, and winning has been the byproduct of it.

Darren Kalina

Going unbeaten (in the league) for a second straight year is a big deal to the coaching staff and the kids. I don't know if it's ever been done before, and we're trying to make it happen.

Mike Miello

He's a leader, not just in statistics, but a true leader on our football team. He leads by example. He's not a rah-rah guy. He's got a real sense of maturity about him. He leads and people follow. He's the kind of kid that makes coaching worthwhile. That's how we all feel about him, and he's having a great year on top of it, individually.

E. B. White

He's definitely auditioning for a head coaching job, maybe not here but he's going to get a head coaching job. He's a great coach, a players' coach and he's going to give it his all. He played the game and played it well.

Mark Turgeon

His numbers in high school didn't lie. And then you start coaching the kid and he's so smart about the game. Those are the kind of kids we have to find to have a moment like this.

Troy Smith

I think it's being more comfortable within the offense, the guys starting to be comfortable with me and also the coaching staff. With more film study you're able to see more guys, not just through tunnel vision like I had early in the season.

Tom Penders

I thought we were in control of the game until we ran out of bodies. I've been coaching for 32 years, and I've never had a better defensive team than this.

John Gabriel

I thought he did a good job in Phoenix. I thought at the time he was destined to be coaching in the league for a long time.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Troy Sunderland

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Sam Sheppard

I think it's a day for American history because if we don't deal with the mistakes of the past we can't make this country a better place.

Keith Urban

I think it just means that country is a global phenomenon.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Amy Waldman

I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?

Joey Carew

Jamaica is also strong with talent, and this makes for a very competitive and exciting contest.

Bryant Young

He's a very electrifying player, an exciting player to watch, definitely. I think he could be an exciting player in this league.

Arnold Palmer

I think it's going to be exciting for me and it's going to be somewhat sentimental,

Elizabeth Vargas

I think it's exciting and great journalism for us to be out there reporting.

Lisa Hammond

I think it's an exciting opportunity for him. But as always, the timing couldn't be worse for us.

John Ellinger

I think it's huge just to get him back on the field. His leadership, his determination, his abilities, his threat of scoring goals, it's just exciting to have him back. We've missed him.

Craig Hansen

I thought about how exciting it would be. It was more than I thought -- it was very loud.

Shaun Alexander

It is going to be exciting to see us come out next year and prepare our trip to Miami.

Chris Dehring

It is going very well. We were up at midnight and it was very exciting to watch all the different markets waking up.

Jade Gribble

He is taking up some new styles. I just showed him a new offensive shot and he had three takedowns in the finals with it for six points.

Ron Averill

Having those three guys in the finals is going to nail our name to the wall pretty well.

Russ Howard

I was curling with my son (Steven) trying to get to the Brier. We had a good year, we made 12 finals and won a big bonspiel in Montreal and so things were looking good.

Anju George

I will look to make it to the finals first and will not go full pelt in the qualifying jumps.

Les Brown

We made it to the finals in football and lost. We don't want that to happen again.

Jeremy Reichert

He had to overcome the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds to get to the finals where he met the No. 1 seed.

A. Hodge

He hasnt played finals footy since he was in the Under-15s.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Robert Duvall

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

Paul Doughty

Knowing that I have these younger girls who are playing and getting better every game is encouraging.

Tom Renney

Kevin was fine. I thought it was more an opportunity to wake up 18 guys and get ourselves back in the hockey game by doing what we have to do in terms of managing the puck, and maybe give yourself to play 5-on-5 hockey or better.

Dion Phaneuf

I wouldn't pinpoint any one thing. I just have to play my game and I didn't do that for the first little bit.

David Ward

Jacob pitched a really good game for us today. He was throwing pretty hard. If he can keep pitching like that, we'll be in good shape.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Rich Kaelin

Katie really looks up to some of my seniors. But that's the nice thing about softball. It's very competitive on the field, but once the game is over most of these girls are friends.

Kenyon Martin

Just trying to get back in the groove and get my conditioning back. Keep working on my game like I have been. Work on my shot, so when I'm open, I can knock that shot down.

John Thornton

Just to see the kind of passion we played with in that game, even when things didn't go right. That's how you've got to play. And when you don't, the result will be what happened (in Kansas City) when you don't play a game like everything's on the line.

Brodie Croyle

Just to say we went out 10-2, won our last game and got it going back in the right direction, will make the rest of our lives a lot easier.

Lee Smith

he was a great person..and, uh..he had a heart of gold...he never met an enemy.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Laura Skaer

Gold prices have people snooping around where they haven't snooped for a while. No question, there's an increase and interest in exploration.

Wang Jian

Gold has never been sold at such a high price in Beijing.

John Bliss

Golden Valley is a very tough team and they always play us very tough. We're going to have to step it up.

Thomas Morgenstern

It is a dream. Two gold medals within two days.

Kimmie Meissner

I think that if I skate really well and give the performance of my lifetime ... maybe I could (win gold). I'm not going to rule it out, but I'm just trying to think about what I need to do right now.

Shirley Sippel

When he shook hands with you on a deal, his word was as a good as gold.

Mark Sutton

I think that is why the gold kiwi is very popular in the New Zealand market.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Tony Couture

Jake?s a great story. He?s played through an injury this year, had some rocky roads but he played outstanding tonight and made some great saves.

Brent DeRuyter

Jake had a great year last season as a sophomore. He should be even better this season.

Kirsty Balfour

To get a medal in a world record race is just fantastic.

Daron Rahlves

I think we should've been able to medal in every event. What Ted did was awesome. He pretty much saved our butts.

Svetlana Zhurova

He is now with my sister and I have been away for too long. So this medal is for him. For my little boy.

Michaela Dorfmeister

Today, I won the first medal for Austria. This time we are favorites.

Joey Cheek

I'm kind of stunned that I skated that fast. Obviously, I wanted to get some medals here, but I had no idea it would come together like it did.

Kristan Bromley

I'm really proud of our performances this week as a nation that doesn't even have its own track. But I'm gutted not to have got the medal and I'm getting more and more gutted the more I think about it.

Casey FitzRandolph

It's stacked. In this race, just to win a medal you've got to skate awesome.

Joe Rinaldo

It was nice to see our school up on the medal stand getting a medal this time and to get top 10 in the state. I don't think you can get much better of a season.

Magdalena Neuner

I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Virginia Woolf

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

William Gibson

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

Sarah Brightman

You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

Roald Dahl

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

Rob Bell

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

Sarah Polley

Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.

Wayne Dyer

Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now

Samuel Goldwyn

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Donnie Walsh

Reggie is the one who made our transformation to the NBA real.

Herbert Hainer

In the long term, this new 11-year partnership has the power to make the NBA and Adidas synonymous in basketball.

Gilbert Arenas

If you want to go to the NBA and you're a guard, go to Lute Olson.

Lamar Odom

The thing I love about the NBA game is that it's a playmaker's league.

Brad Byerson

I wanted to show the NBA scouts what I could do. That's my dream, to play in the NBA. That's always been my dream.

Tom Izzo

I turned down going to the NBA so I wouldn't have back-to-backs.

Chauncey Billups

It takes a while -- a long time, because we have so many different sets, options. It's not just the regular old sets that every NBA team runs. We run a lot of stuff. It's kind of complicated.

Scott Hastings

It was like winning the NBA championship or something,

Carmelo Anthony

The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

Tom Nutten

It actually works, and he obviously has no inhibition to show it. I think it has some kind of a gravitational pull, because everything does go towards him. That's why he is the center, and he is in the middle.

Jamie Campbell Bower

'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

Kate Middleton

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

Burt Stellers

I thought we rebounded harder, and defensively we were a lot more intense. They took it to us the first time. For us to come back and get a victory was obviously a positive.

John Gordon Sinclair

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Robert Wiley

I think that his performances (in the WAFL) have been outstanding and (he's come into the side) obviously to replace Phillip Matera,

Kerry Haigh

We're obviously disappointed for the spectators who were unable to see the finish. We all wanted to see a finish, obviously.

Dick Umile

I thought we played a solid game. Obviously this was an important win for us.

Mel Stottlemyre

I think it's time for somebody new. I've been here for 10 years, and they obviously want to make some changes.

Dwyane Wade

I was like, 'Hey, Carmelo Anthony should be playing too.' . . . I think I could have helped.

Jeff Attinella

Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation.

John Buck

Just say today's the day and keep playing hard. Hopefully, it's going to end tomorrow.

Jose Reyes

He is playing like the game. He is trying all the time.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Susumu Tonegawa

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Dan Auerbach

Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

Andy Roddick

Had I served the set out, who knows? ... But I let him back in and he started playing really well.

Dave Tuttle

Harland understands the technical side of 9-1-1 and how it's supposed to work.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

I think it's going to be a little different for him because he's going to play the same team so many times. But we're going to see an even better side of him because he's going to be able to adjust.

George Clooney

I think it's important to be on the right side of history.

S. Hughes

I think you're going to see some sideways consolidation throughout the summer,

Roz Chast

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

John Stevens

We're on the wrong side of being close.

Bill Ritter

We're on the Durango side of the litigation, not the Texas side.

Joe Mires

There is another whole side of her when she is playing.

Carl Jung

Mine. I'm on my side.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

Dave Orlandini

He can penetrate. He can take it to the hole. Other teams have to worry about him.

Jack Rio

I think we're right there with a clump of teams that are on the verge.

Brad Joyner

I think it was huge. (Rocky Mount) is going to be one of the better teams in the conference.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Chris Quinn

In a lot of ways, our teams are similar.

Howard Schultz

All we want is what the other two teams have already been given.

David Grant

All the teams at the sectional will be tough. We're just going to have to wrestle our best.

Richard Petty

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Richelle Mead

This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Ronaldinho

My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, and it is the one I am most proud of. Xavi chipped the ball to me, I chested it down, twisted and hit an overhead kick. It was the final goal in a 4-0 win.

Ronda Rousey

The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.

Ron Brown

To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games,

Ron Atkinson

I'm sure Bobby won't want them to be losing the match before winning it.