Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Cody Provenzano

North and South, it's all these people causing drama, going over to fields and doing things. We basically just want to beat their butts.

Simon Crisford

Normally we'd think between 10 and 12 Group Ones in a year was pretty good. Group One victories are basically how we judge ourselves, as winning the best race is what we are about.

Michael Herring

After the first seven minutes, we basically played them even. There are no moral victories but I liked the fact that we didn't back down and we didn't go away.

Brian White

A fund could have the greatest track record in the world, but if the portfolio management team that posted that track record is no longer running the fund that history is basically irrelevant.

Tom Adams

After winning three out of five years, Brad Carlin, the guy who came up with this, was basically kicked out of his pool. I think that may be a hazard of this.

Kurt Barnard

The name Burlington Coat Factory is a misnomer because they carry a full line of fashion apparel, including coats in the winter. It's basically an off-price operation. You get good value there, very good value.

Ray Brown

Actually, I was starting to feel like my abilities were best suited at tackle, because I'm not as fast as I used to be. As you get older, it's a leg-strength game. I'm able to sort of trick the team and trick this league that I can play inside. That's basically what I got by with - a little guile, a little veteran savvy, and also leaning on my teammates.

Alec Baldwin

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

Julia Roberts

I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.

Steve Lacy

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

Billy Donovan

We had won 17 games, but going into tonight we were 0-0. I knew Duke had lost, but these are different guys. They are more wrapped up in trying to become a good team, to become better individually and really sacrifice for one another.

Sidney Lowe

Being 15 minutes from Duke and Carolina, that's tough. Going to the tournament five or six years is not good enough. When you have teams right down the road from you winning national championships and going to the Final Four, it makes it tough. . . . Fans want it all. I think it was time for him.

Prince Philip

You managed not to get eaten then?

William Price

We've always had a sense of humor about ourselves, ... Heck, we need it when things like 'The Dukes of Hazzard' come around.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Al Thornton

At times, we've played a 38-minute game and lost by one or two. We have to go out and play a 40-minute game.

Haim Ramon

As of Saturday, all the rules of the game change.

Jim Christian

As long as you guard in a game like this when you know your legs are tired, you can find ways to win the game.

Brandy Frazier

As long as we are improving, and each game we have something positive to work on, the record will just keep on improving.

Charlie Sheen

as long as two people are still in the game.

O. J. Simpson

As poorly as we shot statistically, to still be in the game last night was impressive. We hit the big shots.

Mike Holmgren

As I've told the team, ultimately you'll be judged by what happens and where you are at the end of the season. I understand why we are the underdogs, and there's really only one way to handle that. That's not by talking, it's by playing the game and seeing what happens.

Greg Allen

That ought to tell you something about him. In that game, he took it upon himself.

Jake Scott

That was a big win over Quincy - but after we won that game there was just silence. Tonight, it was all rockin' here.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Curt Smith

Again, we gave up a run in the first inning. That's three games in a row we gave up a run in the first. Hopefully, that won't happen (today).

Bill Belichick

Do you think we're going to win any more games playing like this? ... We can't play like this.

Doc Rivers

Do you judge me on three years of overachievement or 10 games of underachievement?

Brian Randle

Dee's a big-time player and hit some big-time shots. As someone who's been through the rigors and the ups and downs, we look for him to do that. Without him, some of these games might have been a little different.

Leno Rivera

Any way you look at it, these games are really important for all the teams teams. The winner still has a chance, and the loser goes home. We have a lot of talent on this team. We can win.

Pat Quinn

Are we going to like it? I'm not sure, ... I don't like some of the games I'm seeing now.

Skip Prosser

Are these games important? Yes. Are these heightened because we're 1-4? I suppose so.

John Brackett

April's had three good games in a row. She did a good job of getting position and sealing and it paid off.

Tom Robbins

I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.

Jason Mraz

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

John Chaney

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Sun Microsystems

If the U.S. side is willing to send an envoy here, we are willing to have consultations,

Bashir Ahmed

This is a good-will gesture, ... Today is a start and we will send a lot more aid.

Robert Scoble

I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!'

Joss Whedon

Can't stop the signal

David Gill

They're called signal lights. They are kind of provocative because they are always telling you something.

Brian Marshall

The staff told me they were going to do this. I told them it wasn't necessary.

Oliver North

The teachers that teach here could make more money. The staff could do something else.

Mark Sanchez

That's what the staff wants to do with it.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Dana Perino

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

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.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Jim Mowen

I've been walking on eggshells and trying not to badmouth any other candidates.

Melissa McCarthy

I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s, so I look forward to all of that.

Virginia Jackson

I've been trying to get it done for a long time.

Jimmy Rollins

I understood that he was trying to get to third,

Robby Wine

That's what they're trying to do right now, show that it is worldwide.

Steve Sullivan

You're always trying to improve. When you see everyone else around you bettering themselves, you want to do the same thing.

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.

Aziz Ansari

No one's trying to get with jugglers.

Lydia M. Child

The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.

J. William Fulbright

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

Libba Bray

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Chelsea Handler

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.