Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Buckman

Any given day any player on this team can shoot the ball. Daniel did it (Saturday) against Baylor and then did it again tonight.

Mike Grier

As badly as it is, it's effective what he does out there. He draws penalties. He gets under the other team's skin. So I think we are all aware of how he plays the game. It's just something you have to deal with when you play against him.

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

David Wilder

The burns were horrible, but she appeared to be doing OK. Her age was against her.

John Radsan

The Bush administration did not seek a broad debate on whether commander-in-chief powers can trump international conventions and domestic statutes in our struggle against terrorism. They could have separated the big question from classified details to operations and had an open debate. Instead, an inner circle of lawyers and advisers worked around the dissenters in the administration and one-upped each other with extreme arguments.

Morgan Ensberg

The Brewers are always tough on us, ... For whatever reason, we just don't show up to games against the Brewers. These series are vitally important. We have got to play them better.

Mark Graham

The big thing for me right now is to get organized. Tryouts are Monday and I probably know four or five of the kids' names. I've been used to coaching club teams that had the best players in Utah and playing against the top players in the country, so it will be a little bit of a change to coach kids from different ages from freshman to seniors with different abilities. I'm excited about it.

Ian Bridge

A very tough game against a decent Jamaican side that played very well today.

Joe Papin

A very good series for us against a quality team. They're ranked 10th in the state and to get two wins is very important for us at this stage in the season.

Kay Yow

North Carolina put on a clinic in the first half. I was disappointed in the way we played defensively. We played them much better in the first two games.

Kristin Runger

North Carolina is not exempt from the problems of the rest of the nation. A lot of people are scared of Part D -- they don't know if it's going to help them or hurt them.

Dan Hesse

North Carolina is an important market to us. It is our second-largest state with 1.5 million customers. Florida is the largest with 7.5 million customers.

Richard Burr

North Carolina has great representation in this administration. There are very talented people who have a lot to contribute,

Corey Brewer

Defensively, I think South Carolina is a very good comparison. But you really can't compare this team to anybody.

Tom Dubin

These new operations are not likely to create enough jobs to replace the labor-intensive jobs being lost to offshore production. But the recent trend has been a slowing of the manufacturing job losses in North Carolina compared with the 1995 to 2003 time period.

Joel Sawyer

The South Carolina Code of Laws says if a South Carolina serviceman or woman dies in the line of duty, the flags will be flown at half-staff on the day of the funeral.

Jim Leavitt

The one thing I'm proud about our football team is we battled. You've got to give credit obviously to North Carolina State's defense. They did a great job.

Tom Greene

Schmidt's team runs at 100 mph. He teaches team concept, and they play just like that. They make the extra pass like a North Carolina or a Duke. They execute the offense so well.

Rene Portland

We had so many walks. I haven't seen that many walks since I coached a grade school team when I started coaching.

Brad Barton

He's quite a young man and in all of my years, I've never coached a better point guard.

Eileen Givens

It felt like home being back at my alma mater and where I coached for so long. I really wanted this one, and it helps keep that winning streak going.

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,

Del Harris

Everybody says he didn't win a championship as a coach, but look at everybody who's in the Hall who doesn't have a ring. My key point is that none of the teams he's coached were good enough to win the whole thing. But did he get the most out of them that you could? Yes.

Bill Chavis

That's the fastest time of any runner I've ever coached down in Danville.

Bill Parcells

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

Elizabeth Mackay

Technology has kind of stalled out here, we've got some potholes developing in that former leadership area.

Peter Culshaw

We've been in the planning stages on a number of things for some time. We will now be very focused on developing the TOD (transit-oriented development) sites.

Dan Hawkins

Boise State has always has a great program and great tradition. We've just been able to keep developing it. . . . It's been a continual rise that way.

Mike Reed

You hate to have a rough stretch late in the season but that is part of developing a program. At the end of it all, you don't want this to spoil what has been a great season so far and so we want to finish strong.

Randy Edsall

Because of the number of people we lost - we had to spend time doing some different things in terms of developing leadership and getting guys to understand what it's going to take to play at the level that we want to play at, ... A lot of the guys haven't had the opportunity to play at that level.

H. Hart

I feel like he is developing a different technique and I wish I had a little more time with him. He has great potential this year and he is developing quickly. I am working with him on a new style of diving and his technique when he goes off the diving board.

Michel Therrien

He's young. He just turned 21 three months ago. Yes, we want him to make the key save at the right time, and he's doing that most of the time. There are going to be games when he's not able to make it, but that's part of developing young kids. If you don't put him out there, he's not going to get that experience.

Tyrone Willingham

He's one of the truly great members of the organization and a real representative of the game because he is focused not just on football, but on developing people the right way.

Mike Corfield

My feeling is that it is a project that is progressing and developing successfully.

H. Auden

Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.

Jose Theodore

People talk a lot about Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh showed tonight they're really a good team. They have so many skilled players, it's scary to face them.

Fernando Ferrer

Oh, he went into the valley to do battle, and all the smart money was on Goliath. And, then, who had to face 'em?

Moises Alou

Anything can happen in the playoffs, especially when you face good pitching,

Armon Johnson

After a while, I think we got a hand in his face and cooled him down a little. But he's a great player. It's tough to stop a shooter when he gets hot like that.

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

C.C. Sabathia

Some people may not know us. But I guarantee you that in clubhouses around the league, they know who we are. We don't have to see our faces on TV every night. As long as we're playing in October.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Ted Shaw

Quite a few of the men I've recommended for release have failed, and I've had to face that.

Michael Bennet

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

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Adam Houdeshell

The second half, we played well and kept the lead the whole time. It was a good game for our seniors to go out on.

Peter Budaj

The strategy is always the same; you have to stop the puck. We played shootouts in the AHL. You're already in the game and you're already calm, so it's not too bad.

Andy Murray

The story of the hockey game was the second period. I thought we wore ourselves out killing penalties.

Larry Fitzgerald

The smaller guys like Steve and Santana have really established that there's a place in this game for guys like that, guys who really run after the catch.

Bud Childers

The staff joked that we ought to move the game to Northwestern High School because we seem to play better on the road.

Chris Redfield

The tempo of the game wasn't in our favor.

Neil Callaway

(D.J.) being patient and being the kind of person that wanted to be at Georgia says more for his leadership and the kind of person he is than anything he's done or said on the field. He didn't want to just do something on a whim. He wanted to do things for the right reasons.

Alec Baldwin

I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

D.J. Shockley

I hope people look at Georgia and say they have the guy who can lead them there, ... I hope when they speak about quarterbacks in this league and around the country, they mention me.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Joe Barcellos

Defensively, Ryan and Greg did a great job on their big guys.

Thomas Kelly

Defensively, I thought we played outstanding. We had our chances, they had their chances, it was just a great game.

Debbie Casto

Defensively I thought we did a great job the whole game.

Mike Leach

Defensively, I think this is the most impressive group of guys able to respond to play after play. Overall, they did a great job making big plays and working well together.

B. F. Skinner

Defensively as a team, they just did a great job.

Craig Patrick

Definitely, in John's case. It's very special to get these kind of people ? not just great players, but great people in the locker room.

John Conyers

This is not a new and improved Patriot Act.

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

Tim Brown

Currituck is much improved from when we saw a little over a month ago.

Kristi Clemens

We have drastically improved port and cargo security since 9/11.

Gary Green

With Jacques, you know they'll be well-coached. As long as Roberto plays well, they should be a significantly improved team.

Lance Manning

We improved as the scrimmage went on. In the later part, we played a lot better.

Lisa Randall

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

John Shepherd

But we're still supportive of our 'skins'. We've improved their platform as well as our own.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Barbara Stanwyck

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

Art Linkletter

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes

Steve Nash

You replay and you rethink. The mistakes really hurt.

Daniel Alfredsson

I don't know if (the Bolts) wanted it more. We just made too many mistakes and we know we've got to play better as a team.

Ned Yost

He's as tough as they come. He doesn't make mistakes.

Dave Loos

I thought we were going to win. ... We made some mistakes but we played awfully hard.

Bill Gray

We made too many mistakes on special teams, ... That can't happen. We pride ourselves on special teams at Samford. So we've got to get that fixed.

Pavol Demitra

We made too many mistakes, it was everybody. We look like we are so nervous, like we don't want to play.

John Gibbons

He wasn't real sharp. But they have a good-hitting club. They make you pay if you make mistakes and that's what it was.

Ray Rivera

He made that one mistake. What can you do?

Jorge Rodriguez

I'm no angel. I make mistakes like every other human, but I try to do what's right.

Jose Manuel Barroso

I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.

Al Michaels

It would be a nice way for this whole run to end with the first overtime Super Bowl.

Jonathan Simon

It would be nice if I could come back to Auburn. It would be nice to give back.

Ann Beattie

It was very much a surprise. It's very nice when someone takes notice.

Ryan Giggs

The rivalry between the two teams is massive, so it's always nice to play them and even nicer to win.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Glenys Bakker

We're gunning for that. It would be nice to end the season with another win.

Carey Mulligan

I'm not great at having my picture taken and I don't enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it's nice to have a reunion.

Ron Gardenhire

We've talked about it. He says he'd like to do more. That would be nice to see.

Todd Devereaux

North is very strong. We played with them for about 25 minutes.

Michael Griffith

North Dakota's is sort of a different pace.

Tahar Rahim

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

Leah Devlin

We use this work every day in North Carolina. All of these investments are not one-time. They require a sustained commitment.

Dominic Pacyga

First of all, this is a North Side town. You don't get a lot of respect on the South Side.

Brent Edison

We've had some version of the software from a third party vendor since 1999. We've been working on it for a long time and in the meantime, North Dakotans have had to pay time after time after time.

Ian Paisley

It was amazing that I was ever elected.

Condoleezza Rice

The northwest is very different from what I could have imagined.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Charles R. Swindoll

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

David Wright

This one's on my shoulders. Those were tough plays to make, but these are the big leagues.

David Martin

We had plenty of opportunities, we just didn't make the plays when we had our chances.

Lance Berkman

We've got a logjam out there. We'll see how that plays out. It's an interesting situation.

Mike O'Connell

We're going to wait and see how it plays out,

Bronco Mendenhall

I give TCU credit, they made the plays to win.

Bob Stoops

He's the best. You can say all you want about him. He makes the plays that matter, and you see it every week.

Terry Teachout

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

Bret Bielema

Obviously, you've seen him make plays out there. He's going to make some for them (opponents), unfortunately. We're trying to get those out of his system.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Strobe Talbott

These are tough issues, ... It's a work in progress.

Ayn Rand

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Cam Newton

You cannot make progress with excuses.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Derrick Bell

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

Daniel H. Pink

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

Booker T. Washington

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Graeme Smith

Today will go a long way for me confidence-wise.

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.

Ashton Irwin

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

Ronald Coleman

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

Steve Barrow

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

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Donald Trump

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once.

Alicia Keys

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.