Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Source Unknown

Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be fore sworn in the day of trial.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Adam Dunn

I've been seeing lefthanders good all year. I know my numbers stink. I think I've been overly aggressive, trying to pull everything. I'm not doing anything different -- just hitting it more.

Jason Craft

I've been saying all year long we've got some good shooters on the team and they're going to keep us in the game. We just did a good job of staying with what we do and executing.

Jason Craft

I've been saying all year long ù we've got some good shooters on the team and they're going to keep us in the game. We just did a good job of staying with what we do and executing.

David Lewis

I've been referring to it as a three-ring circus, but in a good way.

Sherry Ragan

I've been there 20 years and (morale) is as good now as it's ever been.

Preston Clark

I've been taking good at-bats lately. I've been a lot more confident.

Dan Hughes

I've been with a lot of teams, some successful and some not as successful in their records and by and large, this team competed all year. We grew in ways I hope will be helpful in 2006. We have a lot of work to do in the off-season, but we have a good beginning.

Matt McCoy

I've been waiting for 17 weeks. I've had a lot of time to watch the guys and see how they play, and hopefully I can go out there and use what I've learned. ... It's been a little frustrating, but it's also been a good learning experience." ()

Jim Reynolds

We had a great tournament run. We just ran into a better team tonight.

Ronny Jenkins

We had a great time. I love it.

Chris Schick

We had a great time - and we played well.

Larry Sandburg

We had a great season. The seniors did a great job. They are upset now but they will get over it.

Marty Reid

We had a great season. I'm very proud of my kids. I wouldn't trade them for anyone.

Leo Golembiewski

We had a great season. I am really proud of them.

Matt Johnson

We had a great season, and you can't really be that disappointed about it. But it would've been nice to win.

Roy Colsey

We had a great season, and I am still very proud of our team.

Isaiah Swann

We had a great season, and for it to just end now would be a great disappointment for everybody, especially our seniors.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Charlize Theron

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

John Green

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

David Foster Wallace

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.

David Foster Wallace

One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.

David Bailey

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.

Dave Checketts

Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

Dave Bautista

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

Dawn Fraser

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

Dawn Fraser

If you're good at it, you can win.

Dawn Fraser

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

Dawn Fraser

I've worked hard all my life.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.