Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jennings

As a staff, we are extremely pleased with the talent and ability of this year's class. There is great potential in the group and we expect them to push the level of the squad immediately.

Pat Summitt

As a great long-range shooter, she has drawn the best defender, usually the most athletic, sometimes players with a lot of size. In essence, with her ability to shoot the ball the way she can, she has become a target for every team we play.

Alec Richards

As a goalie your main job is to stop the puck. I view it as an exciting challenge every game and I try to do my part to help my team win games. I have a lot of confidence in everybody's ability in front of me, so it makes my job a lot easier.

Brian Sabean

As a GM, to get a switch-hitter who's a leadoff hitter with a lot of dimensions -- power, speed, the ability to play the outfield the way he does -- is a godsend to the organization. The opportunity was great, the timing was wonderful and he's very deserving.

John Efford

As a major energy producer, Canada has the ability, and the obligation, to be a part of this important effort,

Alan Wilson

The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families.

Thomas Bailey

The bottom line is that this transaction will dramatically change the financial profile of the company and significantly enhance investor confidence in the ability of the company to deliver future growth in its results.

Bill Lester

The building itself could function forever. The real cutting issue is the ability to generate money.

Jim Mooney

Avnet has utilized Data I/O's automated systems for some time, but this investment in these multiple systems is due to a careful trade study from which we determined Data I/O's systems represent the best match with our current and future requirements in both programming technology and capacity. Continuing to utilize these capabilities will undoubtedly prove to be a huge advantage for our customers when servicing their needs. It is also important for us to optimize Avnet's ability to support customers on a worldwide basis. Leveraging Data I/O's strong relationships with leading semiconductor companies on an international level will help us achieve that goal.

Liz Nichols

Athletics is a really important sport to us. We have to get them to the position where they can deliver medals and fulfil their potential. We can and do expect athletics to deliver more medals.

Derek Hall

Athletics has found that when on the road, the other institutions drop 'college' or change it to 'university' on their own.

Melanie Balcomb

North Carolina works their butt off, and they happen to be athletic and talented and that's a combination I think is very tough. That's why I think they have a great chance to win it. They didn't let us outwork them. We worked hard, but they did too.

Jeff Wrede

Defensively, we were very pleased with the way we played. Our defense is very athletic and we have great pursuit to the ball.

Todd Butler

Defensively, they run a four and five man front and are pretty athletic all the way around. Defense is the key this week. Our defense played real well last week. We have to have good vision and find the ball because their fakes are outstanding. We have to handle the run and stop the pass.

Scott Parker

Delta is an athletic team that we have to be ready for. We have to be fundamentally sound and get up and down the court.

Tom Woodford

Delaware's very talented. Miller can score inside and shoot the 3-pointer real well. Brown's one of the most athletic players in central Ohio. They have four players over 6-0 who play a lot of minutes.

Mike Anderson

(Delaney) could be a starter instantly, but I want him to come in and give us some energy off that bench with his quickness and his athletic ability. He was the spark. You've got to go to that bench and find somebody. You hope you've got more than one there. Maybe two or three.

Eric Swanson

Definitely, it creates a lot of work for both the athletic director and the administration.

Lynn Sadler

The breeding population there is no bigger than that of the federally endangered mountain lion of Florida - the Florida panther,

Les Poore

Our defense made them shoot not as well as they like. We're a little longer than most teams and a lot of it came down to the boards. I thought we dominated the boards and that's no secret we're a bigger team.

Paul Reid

Our defense is playing outstanding right now. They may be bigger than us, but I think we're quicker. We'll need to use our speed.

Matt Alexander

Our conference gets us ready for the tourney. We're one of the littler schools in the conference, so playing all these bigger schools helps us out even more.

Kathy Lindsey

After the first four minutes, we settled down and played very well. They're a much bigger team, so we took our chances by making them shoot more from the outside, and it worked for the most part.

Barksdale Thompson

Once we get our goals going, then we start to get rolling. We know that Jacksonville has come back from bigger leads than 2-0, but we felt like, once we took that lead into the first half, we were good to go.

Brian Long

Once we get in division (play), every day is bigger than the last day. Every game matters.

Ashley Bell

(Defense) is what we rely on. We know we're not the fastest team, we know we're not the tallest team. So with teams bigger than us, we have to get our defense together.

Randy Rice

Defense is what keeps us in games. We're just scrappy. We have to lead the state in floor burns. We don't have the biggest kids in the world. But they're athletes. They're quicker than most of the bigger post players we've played and they're quick enough to contest every shot.

Tom Malone

As a punter, you get ready to go on third down. This year, we don't even get to third down very much. It's ridiculous how good the offense is. It's crazy. Some games, I didn't even punt at all.

Howard Wolfson

As a strategist, he's as good as they come. I think of guys like him and Mike McKeon as the A-team when it comes to Republican politics in New York.

Bob Howry

As a setup guy, if people are talking to you, obviously you did something bad. Otherwise you go unheard of. I guess that is a good thing.

Brian Thornton

As a senior it hurt not being out there with my team. I would have been good for something -- maybe helping out with (J.P.) Batista.

Chairon Isenia

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

Michael Boyd

As an operating airline, Independence is as good as dead.

John Connell

As a team, we've got a lot of character. I'm very happy with that. They work hard and have a history of being good students. I feel very comfortable with this group of guys.

Jim Lee

As a gamer, I like to go up and look at people's faces and see how good of a job they did.

Derek Brown

As a framework, it's about as good as it gets.

Joe Sakic

You never know with goalies until they're NumberÊ1, but he plays a lot like Patrick.

Joe Sakic

You never know with goalies until they're Number 1, but he plays a lot like Patrick.

Nick Saban

Do we want to play him 75 plays in the game?

Gary Powers

And you shouldn't say many because it plays pretty true.

Mike Tannenbaum

We could trade up, we could trade back. We're going to see how that process plays out.

Jarrad Woliver

Bo just plays and it comes out unbelievably good.

Kevin Bartz

Brandywine probably plays us tougher than any other team in the conference. I never will underestimate Brandywine.

Deshea Townsend

B-Mac made two big plays at the end.

J. R. Martinez

Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

A. Hodge

You saw how it ended. I don't think you can say we are not able to play with them.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Helen Lee

And there was a need for an accessories store like this in the area. We saw the opportunity.

Bible Bible

And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.

John Challenger

Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it's slowed everything down, paradoxically.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Angela Kinsey

I keep my sisters on speed dial.

Francis Bacon

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

Jeff Cooper

Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.

Jeff Bridges

Life's picking up speed.

Jean-Luc Godard

The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.

Mike Anderson

I didn't feel like I had enough speed to accelerate.

Jack McKeon

What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base.

Archibald MacLeish

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

Barbara Kingsolver

When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

Busy Philipps

I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

Alan Lightman

I go live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.

Ajay Naidu

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

Jan de Bont

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

Jami Gertz

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

Bruce Dern

From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.

Brian O'Driscoll

Last summer was probably the biggest disappointment of my career, but now I have something bad with which to balance the good. I will no longer take anything for granted.

Shannon Staub

Englewood wants sidewalks. So do a lot of other people. I am not sure what happened.

Rick Comer

We were OK, but we still weren't on top of our game. I'm not sure why.

Dick LeBeau

We always know where he's going. But I'm not always sure how he's going to get there.

Ian Thomas

We're sure that they'll come to a satisfactory arrangement.

Kristy Curry

We're going to try to make sure we play our tempo.

Jonathan Schwartz

We're going to be making sure we're aligning the organization for growth.

Rachel Wacholder

Every time we're out there, I think we can win this match. They think they're going to win every time, too. ... I think now, I don't know if anyone's sure they're going to win.

Paul Bettany

There's no such thing as "for sure". That's the only sure thing I do know.

Terry Labonte

We've been talking about it and they could probably find a way to make it more confusing, but I'm not sure how.

Bob Brown

The weight of it was all on his shoulders, and he responded well.

Augusten Burroughs

If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.

Chris Farley

I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.

Donna Air

I've never deprived myself of anything. I've always thought if you need to lose weight, carry on eating what you like, just eat less. I don't agree with doing without pasta or bread, it's too harsh.

Deepak Chopra

Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy.

Andrew Weil

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

Daniel Day-Lewis

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

Mark Teixeira

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

Maria Sharapova

I don't do heavy weights at all.