Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Bouton

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Tracy Austin

Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.

Tony Oliva

They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here.

Juan Marichal

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Thomas Hearns

I'm going to fight again because this wasn't a fight.

Thomas Hearns

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

Greg Anderson

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

Javier Solana

Once these conditions are fulfilled, the European Union will stand ready to continue to support the Palestinian economic development and democratic state building.

George Morris

These conditions are life-threatening and dangerous to the horses and the riders.

Bill Green

It was a horrible time. Dirt drifted up and covered barbed-wire fences. Conditions were much worse than they are today because we have learned a lot about soil conservation in 70 years.

Ryler DeHeart

The seeding and conditions don't matter. We're going to go in there and dominate.

Fernando Alonso

So far we have shown we are strong in all conditions on all tracks.

Salim Altaf

No one can predict the weather. It is difficult in such weather conditions to prepare the exact type of pitch you want for a Test.

Janica Kostelic

I was really surprised...but this is one of the nicest slopes for slalom and it seems the more difficult the conditions the better I do.

Daniela Hantuchova

I was really struggling with the wind today. I couldn't really figure out which way it was blowing. The conditions were very tough and Vera just dealt with it much better.

Anders Paerson

She mastered skiing before we went all out on the downhill track. And she never takes any risks in training. If the conditions are bad, like poor visibility, she'll just stop ski practice.

Jeremy Teela

Other courses there's a lot of rest, you can work hard and rest, work hard and rest. And if you don't have as good a physiology, you can get away with the techniques of speed and power. But this kind of course, the guys who are genetically gifted ...

Charles Curtis

A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing.

John McCarthy

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

Andrew Magee

This is one of the top-five golf courses on the PGA Tour already after just one practice round,

Terry Jones

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Ariana Richards

Oh, yes - being interested in acting never changes. Acting is in your blood, and of course I'll always be interested in it.

Todd Nelson

I have been looking at that course for years; it just fits into the program so well.

Fred Couples

I can't imagine the course playing any easier.

Mike Hayes

The most important role is they send golfers out at the right time so there's the appropriate spacing on the golf course.

Jane Seymour

Golf is like acting in that both require concentration and relaxation at the same time. In acting, you can't push emotion. You have to let it rise from you naturally. Same thing in golf. You have to have a plan and a focus; but then you need to just let it happen and enjoy the smooth movement of the swing.

Bruce Forsyth

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

Dennis Quaid

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

Brian Weiss

Golf is like smoking, I have been trying to quit for years.

Brian Weiss

I was on in two.... then again on four...

Ben Hogan

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

Ben Hogan

I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

Ben Hogan

Good golf begins with a good grip.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

Schoolboy Q

The more harder you work, the less you're out spending your money.

Paula Creamer

Annika's at the place I want to be. I think that's helping me. I have to work harder than her. I have to get stronger than her.

George Foster

Anything that's on the lower end of the pay scale would probably be harder to fill.

Don Cole

The situation is making it harder for our officers to do their jobs.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Dick Bartholdi

Some people thought we were going to lie down and lose 15-0. But our kids don't do that. I'm biased, but I think our kids work harder than anybody.

Kameron Loe

Pretty shaky on my part in the fielding. But my fielders really picked me up. I made it a lot harder on myself.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Thomas Levet

A win is a win but playing in the Open is something else.

Steven Bell

As long as they keep shoving this down our throats... they'll never be greeted with open arms.

David Wu

Dell is going to open down significantly tomorrow, more than 10 percent,

Dan Shechtman

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

Al Johnson

I've never seen a project with this much open space and tree density.

Brenda Smith

The right tools can really open up Scripture to you.

Nasser Judeh

This is not an open door. We can't just let people in because they are at the border.

Dean Acosta

That's not the way we operate here at NASA. We promote openness and we speak with the facts.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Chad Greenway

Don't put this on the refs. They played better than us. That's what should be written in the papers.

Chris Masoner

We wanted this one going home. We played them well.

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Lefty Grove

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.