Famous Quotes & Sayings

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Nick Saban

We certainly created some adversity for ourselves to overcome out there, ... but I was really pleased with how we responded time in and time out. Nobody's ever happy with penalties. Nobody's ever happy with turnovers. But I think it's most important to establish how you respond to that stuff when it happens in the game.

Francis Ford Coppola

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Francis Bacon

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity

Phil Smith

One of the things we've been after the guys about is the killer instinct and not letting adversity get them down.

Jeremy Bloom

My whole mentality was similar to the Tiger Woods approach. I had a lot of opportunities to jump in training and competition. I focused only on improving these skills. Adversity and racing gave me confidence to get through it.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Casey Moore

Definitely! It didn't feel good (Thursday) night getting honorable mention, but that's just motivation for me.

Dwane Casey

Decision-making down the stretch is so huge. Marcus is going to be a super point guard in this league. You have to take his good with his bad.

John Vigeland

Dec. 23 and 24 were really good and Dec. 26 was huge. I'm not sure why but returns are down -- we were prepared for more returns than we received on Dec. 26 -- and sales are up.

George Goncalves

Dealers weren't that interested even though we had good indirect bidding.

John Ellinger

D.C. is a very good team that prides itself on its work ethic, ... I've already said that if you've got talent and if you work hard, they're going to win a lot of games.

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Dennis Prager

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

African Proverb

To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria

Kenny Miller

We are very happy with the start to our home campaign, but we have a lot of work to do and get better as a team.

Trent Green

We weren't really happy about it. But we did our job. We focused, and we have to be happy about that. The team took a positive approach.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ken Conboy

When will the authorities be able to reveal the barbaric perpetrators in the province? There is no happy new year in our republic this time around.

Erik Zabel

The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Bradley Morgan

The reason I kept this season going is because I've got 10 seniors who've been playing since the seventh grade,

Joe Girardi

Too many 2-0 counts. But he kept us in the game.

Jason Grilli

My wife (Danielle) is my rock and has kept me mentally strong.

Carlos Diaz

My wife and I were so protective of him because of the acquittal, ... I was always on top of him. That night, I kept looking out the door, making sure he was there.

S. Hughes

He had promised to come to us and, thankfully, he kept his word.

Joe Paterno

I looked at my watch 12:30, quarter to one. I kept saying to myself, 'When are we going to get this thing over?

H. Hart

I never stopped. I just kept on wrestling.

Charlie Worsham

I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs... the playing... those were the only things that ever really kept my attention.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Brian Idalski

This is special because it's my alma mater and being to be a part and have that success here. We didn't get here because I'm a genius. This is a players' accomplishment and a testament to the kids we've had play here.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Brad Goreski

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.

Butch Cassidy

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Busy Philipps

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Joan Bonvicini

We did everything we possibly could with what we had. These kids aren't used to losing, particularly like this.

Jamie Oliver

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Greg Aiello

We were disappointed we weren't able to work it out with him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.