Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Shaw

Once you've played in the NHL, I think you get a little misunderstood sometimes. These guys, with the salaries involved now and the way they get treated, people can lose perspective that these guys are human, too. Unfortunately, the job they've chosen, you don't get to have a bad day. It helps that I played in this league; it gives you a legitimacy right away ... But I don't know if there's that much advantage to it.

John Sweeney

Employers are all too eager to exploit workers. This is no time to make that easier. What a double tragedy it would be to allow the destruction of Hurricane Katrina to depress living standards even further. Taking advantage of a national tragedy to get rid of a protection for workers the corporate backers of the White House have long wanted to remove is nothing less than profiteering.

Kevin Snavely

Elmwood is big and physical. Elmwood will take advantage of your mistakes and not let scoring opportunities pass by. We must take care of the football and take advantage of our own opportunities to put points on the board.

Thierry Lacraz

Earnings growth is still improving and Europe has the advantage to be late relative to the US economic cycle.

Gary Stevens

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Randall McCracken

Each individual on the team has things they need to work on. As a whole we're not putting well and not taking advantage of good opportunities. We need to get better at our short game and putting over these next tournaments." ()

Tom Osborne

Each individual may decide if it is an advantage to be in a plan, ... It is a voluntary program.

Vince Carter

Each division game counts. You never know you, might end up with a tie and you want the tiebreaker. You want the advantage when it comes to playoff positioning. For us, it important to win every game, of course, but it's even more important to win every division game.

Jane Jones

Each business owner wanting to take advantage of the program must get three contractor quotes. From there we will meet with the owner and design group to select a contractor for the project.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

John Johnson

This game will help. I lost my dad. I lost my 9-year-old niece.

Bobby Engram

This game will be different from our first playoff game; it would be ridiculous to say anything different. But at the same time, you have to find a way to come out and try to make plays in the game.

Steve Simmons

This game will be a good measuring stick for us.

Gary Forrest

This game we hung in there, we fought, ... They gave it all they had.

Pete Fenson

This game was why we were here, you know?

Drew Bledsoe

This game was very, very important for us, not only to win it but to win it the way that we did.

Jae Seo

This game was very important to my team, ... because this was a game that could start us off to the playoffs.

Peja Stojakovic

This game was very important for us with the playoff seeding. The last game is going to be important, too.

David Eger

I've always said there are a handful of stars out here, but there are also 70 or so very good players who could always win. If you're good enough to play out here, you're good enough to win.

Dusty Baker

I've always said it's harder to get a good leadoff man than anything,

Frances Jones

I've always wanted to volunteer to do something significant. Today's a very good time for me to do it.

Vinny Castilla

I've always (wanted) to play in San Diego. It's a great city, and I have a lot of friends there. I always hit good in San Diego, too.

Mike Trgovac

I've always thought that if you do a good job people will notice you. I don't self promote myself or all that.

Michael Redhill

I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.

Lovie Smith

I've always liked him. I think he'll be a very good player in the league someday.

Robyn Hitchcock

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

Warren Fields

I've always been good with numbers and good at getting numbers to where people could understand them. I never thought I would make a good (certified public accountant) though.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Stephen McCausland

In order to get an individual profile, you have to register.

Ellen Glasgow

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

Dusty Baker

We sent him out to see if he can find more consistency. One time he's real good, the next time bad.

Brian Johnson

We actually have turned work away on ethanol. Right now, we have a workload that takes us out to next summer . . . and that's just with ethanol.

Taquan Dean

It's not for me, it's for years to come. This is a springboard for next year.

Rick Parry

It's not a no or a yes - there has been plenty of speculation and we will see next week. It's always encouraging when a player says he wants to come to Liverpool.

Gail Bronson

Everyone recognizes that wireless platforms are the next rev (step) of the Internet.

Bob Cook

Students will be as safe as ever and once again, this is just for one week. Next week we will be back to normal.

Dan Wiener

These three-year numbers that are going to be popping up in the media, and in advertisements over the next week or two, are going to be astounding.

John LeClair

I want to play again. I have another year on my contract, and we'll take it from there. As of (Wednesday) I'm planning on playing next year.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Allan Ray

We had a chance to see a lot of different styles of play and you had to adapt to the different style each team plays. That?s going to help us come tournament time because the game in the Pac-10 is different from the Big East and we know how to adapt to the different styles. I?m glad I had that opportunity.

Alicia Sacramone

I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.

Alberto Fujimori

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

Alexander Fleming

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

Alex Ferguson

When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration

Douglas MacArthur

Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.

Doug Collins

The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Amos Lee

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

Anna Howard Shaw

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

Cullen Hightower

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

Conrad Hilton

The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck

Conrad Aiken

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

Corita Kent

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

Daniel Yankelovich

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Andre Maurois

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.