Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Corso

I think it's good. I love that kind of adversity, you know? Adversity and distractions only make us tougher.

Flip Saunders

I think the one thing that people underestimate is that when there's adversity and they become challenged they rise up to the occasion. They love those types of situations. That's why this team is built for the playoffs.

John Tortorella

We talked about this as an organization before we started the season. We felt there were going to be some bumps and quite a bit of adversity coming through, and we've seen it. But it's a learning experience. We are going to have to learn to deal with it. We are going to have to have a better second half, and I believe we will.

Bryan Shelton

We've got to respond. Championship teams are defined not so much on how they win, but how they deal with adversity and losses. This will be a good test for this team after we were beat up at Baylor on Thursday.

Will Rogers

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

William Ralph Inge

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

William C. Bryant

Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

William Butler Yeats

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

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.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Hal Lanier

Jorge did a great job of reading it. He took off as soon as Sullivan released the ball. That's what you have to do when you steal home, you have to go on the release of the catcher.

Jay Alford

I was looking to them as the guys that make the plays and run around and get to the ball. So that's what I'm trying to do this year.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

John Doherty

Kevin threw three picks early, but he stayed the course, ... He's our No. 1 man and he kept the rest of the guys pushing. He didn't let anything get to him.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

DeShaun Foster

Just like those two guys were different kinds of backs, we got the same thing here,'' Skipper says.

W. Hull

Half the goalies in the league can't handle the puck anyway, so it will do their team a service to keep those guys in there.

Pat Riley

Half of the guys were asking, 'What is this about? This is just about a hoop game, right?' I said, 'No, no it's not. You'll find out. It's a lot more than that. I would recommend the NBA show it to all of its young players. These Texas Western guys paved the way, and a lot of these guys don't even know it.

Greg Behrendt

We were raised to pursue women... Most of the guys I know enjoy the pursuit. But that doesn't mean women should be wallflowers.

Tony Stewart

For most part, the rule of thumb is pretty much you're going to race guys hard the last quarter of the race and for sure the last run of the day. You're still going to give and take until that last pit stop.

Carolyn Peck

We made some adjustments at halftime and our team really picked up the intensity.

George Karl

All I know at halftime is he told us he couldn't go.

Bill Pilgeram

They got momentum right away and I really thought our mindset hurt us. We were all of sudden playing not to lose. At halftime we said we need to turn that around and try to be the aggressor.

Kevin Englund

They got all the boards. We just said at halftime we have to stop letting them get those offensive boards. We plan on making it to Saturday's (title) game.

Stephen Wren

I told them at halftime to play like it was 0-0. Keep putting the pressure on them, keep taking the shots.

Kelly Packard

I told them at halftime that offensively I was only unhappy with one thing, and that was that 8.3 percent shooting from the 3. Those are shots that we normally make. So I said there was only one thing to do: keep pulling the trigger.

Don Trentham

I told them at halftime it will come, we just had to patient.

Kevin Schultz

I told (the team) at halftime that, if they wanted to win this game, they would have to find a way to stop those two. But no matter what we did, we couldn't stop them.

Jeff Smith

At halftime we picked up the intensity and took it to them for most of the second half.

Adam Brown

He was able to overcome everything. He's an inspiration to me and to others.

Charles Clark

I think we will be able to overcome these issues,

Jay Cutler

In the past, I don't think we had enough talent to overcome those mistakes. Now, I do.

Jonathan Spira

The first thing is whether people can overcome their own preconceived notions. Do you need to see people to know they are working?

Nancy O'Dell

You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

Kendall Simmons

It's one of those things where I want to spread the word, let them know that you can be in the same position I'm in. You're going to have hurdles, but if you work hard, you can overcome them.

Lindy Ruff

That part has got to better. They've had some tough times. We've been able to overcome some of those times. Right now, we haven't been able to, but we got to be able to support them better at times like this too. That's it for me, thanks.

Ken Sparks

And then professionally, at 6-foot, he wasn't supposed to be big enough to play in the NFL. But he's always worked to overcome his problems.

Noam Chomsky

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!

Lynda Carter

Having them go to these premieres with me and tell me that they are proud of me is pretty cool.

Tom Gorman

We're proud of what happened. It was important for the community.

Manson Hill

We're proud of our players. We outplayed them in the second half, and we had a shot to win it.

Brian Smith

We're proud of Levi. He's one of 11 state finalists at Bellingham.

Kevin Ellis

We're proud of everything Raynham is and stands for. That's why it's worth it.

Greg Zipadelli

What I'm proudest of this season is how we've battled throughout every weekend,

John Torchetti

I was just proud of our whole team. This is a team win if I have ever seen one. From the goalie out, we competed.

Rick Barnes

He had to step back and look at a lot of things. I'm proud of him, because he took a tough situation and got the most out of it.

Rex Ryan

I can't tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.

Mitch Mitchell

It is a big one. We have to win it to be in the playoffs.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Trent Strickland

We've got to play with a hunger. We've got to want a win and we've got to get a win.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Lindsay Davenport

I want to win this again, and as long as I can keep going I have a chance.

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.