Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Hadden

As far as captaincy is concerned I will be speaking to my fellow coaches when we gather for the first time on Sunday night,

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

Ron Turner

As coaches you have to be careful. If you talk too much about it, they get uptight and they play not to lose, not to make mistakes. You can't do that. They have to go out and play, yet you have to have focus. If you have that focus, usually you won't hurt yourself.

John Reid

As coaches we took that Maryville game and used it as fuel for the rest of the year,

Jim Romaniszyn

As a player, I knew that if I didn't perform I may not have a job the next day. All they did was play over films back and forth. You were being evaluated all the time. And the coaches were probably under even more pressure than the players.

Plaxico Burress

As a kid growing up, you always dreamed of playing on 'Monday Night Football,' ... This is a different situation. You've got players and coaches on their team that lost homes, have scattered family members. They definitely have a lot to come out and play for, and doing it on a Monday night stage, because of the situation, they're definitely going to be emotional.

Barry Alvarez

As I visit with some of the other coaches in leagues that have playoffs, I don't think that there's any excitement about the playoff. Sure, it's a big payoff for one game, but I think it diminishes some of the season. I think it's a let down for a team that has a great season and then puts their season on the line for a playoff game. And it all seems done for no other reason than a paycheck.

Gary Bettman

As in other instances involving players, coaches or managers, we hold all members of the NHL family to a higher standard than the general public,

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Jeff Brown

The way we started didn't surprise me. We had two mercy-rule games in two weeks. Not very competitive. So the first five minutes didn't surprise me. But I thought we got a little better as the game went on.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Gary Hall

Any time it's Westfield-Herndon, South Lakes-Herndon, it's a little more intense. I thought our guys showed some great composure.

Dwyane Wade

Another win Wednesday will make us feel great about the way we're playing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

George Peters

As a resident I'm actually happy they're doing it, I think it's going to be great for the community.

Tracy McGrady

As a team, we had great intensity to start the game. I think if we consistently do that and play the way we played in the first half and to come out in the third quarter, then we'll be all right.

Russ Borman

As a team, we played fundamentally well. Our guys did a great job.

Jim Yurwitz

As a freshman, she had a great day.

Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Joe Sakic

As a hockey player, it's great to be a part of this race.

Mike Trgovac

Definitely, I would. But until the league does something about it, they're within their rights to do what they're doing.

Pat Brisson

Savior is a big word. No one's a savior of the league at this point.

Karin Brower

The whole thing that Princeton has over a lot of teams in this league is that they've been so dominant. We need to not put them on a pedestal.

Aaron Miller

These are two very evenly matched teams. That's the way our league is.

Paul Kariya

This is a place where you can win, and I think it's what the league wants and that's what they got.

Terry Tucker

This is a tough league and we are the champions. If somebody wants it, they're going to have to come and try to take it.

Elton Brand

This isn't our fault. We're not doing anything wrong, but the league has put us in this position.

John Calipari

That's what this league is all about. The first half, the building's electric. National TV. Two teams prepared to go hard.

Derek Fisher

That's what this league is about - you have to counterpunch. And we got punched. But we punched back.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Randy Carlyle

Our expectations are that we're going to try to play an uptempo game, and our players seem to have responded positively to that.

Dottie Pepper

Other players find out if you're not doing that sort of stuff. You don't want to take the 'I'm special' attitude.

James Grant

The teams they've come up against, individually, you probably say have better players than (the Tigers),

Mary Pinkowski

Some teams have 6-3 players who play like our guards.

H. Hart

Some players ... they're better unprepared, maybe. Just go out there and wing it. That's how he is.

Daniela Hantuchova

Some players prefer to play one point after another. I prefer to take more time. There's nothing you can do about it.

Felipe Alou

Some players leaned on them. It should be a lot more relaxed.

Dave Esquer

Some players have to play and have to play well for us to be the team we want to be.

Tom Daschle

As a veteran, there is no question that I stand strongly with the troops,

Sean Avery

No question that this is a way (for the league) to do something to me,

Pete Carroll

No question it helps. I wish I had two weeks for every game.

Stephen Hess

No question about it. It is overwhelmingly the issue.

Klaus Wowereit

No question about it, it is a glitzy scene but that is also part of Berlin,

Bob Goin

The stakes are higher, ... There's no question about that.

Allen Mesch

The summer's going to be without much question very bad.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Apolo Ohno

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.

Mike Smith

We're going to be on top of that very quick.

J. Taylor

There's no better way to top it off.

Charli Turner

We want the top spot. That's our goal.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Andrew Lansley

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

Sam Nunn

Leadership must be established from the top down.