Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Campbell

I've beaten him -- that gives me an extra edge.

Roger Federer

This is how it will be in every match at the Open. I'm ready for the pressure, ... It's a good feeling that I have. The players, I know them all, I've beaten them all.

Josh Miley

That's just extra motivation for me. I want to prove the coaches wrong. I've beaten a couple kids who were ranked in the Brakeman, but I like the underdog role anyway. There is less pressure this way.

Alton Merkerson

As strange as it sounds, Roy wasn't motivated for those two fights. Roy is either self-motivated or he's not motivated at all. For those fights, he was bored. He was tired of pleasing other people. The second Tarver fight; he figured he'd beaten Tarver the first time when he was weak and had trouble making weight so now it would be easy. I didn't get what I should have gotten out of him in camp. And with Glen Johnson, it was the same thing. You can't make a fighter train if he doesn't want to. He might come to the gym but he won't work right while he's there.

Ben Braun

We felt if we had beaten UCLA, we would have won this thing (the regular-season title). So it's probably fitting that we're playing. I just hope we get our legs back.

Alan Edmondson

We haven't beaten these guys in a while, certainly not here. I'm told they've won 20-something straight games.

Billy Wagner

We haven't beaten them since I've been here, and they got to the second round since I left. I'm probably no good to anybody.

Stephen Collins

We haven't beaten them in at least four years and that could've had something to do with it. We came out sluggish in the first 20 minutes and were lucky it was only a 1-0 game. They had quite a few quality shots and many more shots than we did.

Ben Davis

We haven't beaten them in a long time. We need to beat them,

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

John Ortberg

The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it's worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.

Wally Walker

The Sonics & Storm family, including our players, coaches, staff and owners, recognizes the importance of aiding the massive relief effort, ... We welcome the community in joining us to support this important cause, both now and into the future.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Thames could be thought of as England's longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are in the collection of the Museum of London, whose 30-year relationship with London mudlarks is both committed and highly regulated.

Chip Dickinson

The thing I like most out of our girls in both games is ... the girls didn't get down. Their maturity level between last year and this year is a phenomenal difference.

Ken Pace

The thing I liked is that whenever there was a scramble for the ball, our guys were standing straight and their guys were wobbling a little. This was a very tough defensive game by both sides. I think we wore them down a little.

Stan Cliburn

I've always said that early in the season when it's cold it's important to score first. Pitching and defense are the name of the game, and we had both today.

Marcus Conigliaro

Now it's win or go home. If you can't get up for something like this, you don't deserve to play the game. This (earning an at-large bid) will give us a spark and get us playing hard again.

Jaromir Jagr

Sometimes, things are very bad, but you keep fighting. I'm happy for him. He deserves it.

Jake Fisher

A little too much celebrating? Well, you deserve it, girlfriend. Get ready for raves. Everyone I talked to said the Pelican Park Parade of Homes has set the standard. You outdid yourself, Pinky.

Tim Williams

We did not deserve to be treated like this after all the work we did,

Ron Wilson

We deserved what we got in the second period.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Brian Goodman

When you make five errors, you don't deserve to win.

Lloyd Carr

We had a great drive and some things happened there at the end. I have to see it on film. I think our players deserve better.

Mike Haley

We will be presenting the truth about homosexuality. Those who struggle with same-sex attraction, or who have a gay friend or loved one, deserve to hear our message. There are people who are unsatisfied living as a gay or lesbian, and Love Won Out will show them that there is hope for change.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Kerry Stokes

I love Perth. It is my home, and no matter where I am in the world, Perth is where my heart is.

Jane Austen

I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.

Jamie McMurray

It was really special for Bass Pro Shops to take Tracker off the side and put Joplin, Missouri on there. They have helped me a lot this past week with putting together ways to raise money to help rebuild Joplin. It's my hometown. It was heartbreaking to see the tornado and see all the people that lost their homes and the ones that lost their lives. It is really special that Johnny let us put that on there. Hopefully we made some people proud tonight.

Jamie Bamber

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

P. J. Harvey

There is a problem with (work) encroaching on home life, if the individual does not manage it and set the boundaries,

Ayn Rand

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

Benjamin Bratt

I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

Al Yankovic

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

Jane Addams

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Bob Dylan

You say you've lost your faith But that's not where it's at You have no faith to lose and you know it

Ani Difranco

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

Sam Houston

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Thomas Jefferson

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

Stephen King

...practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable...

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

John Parsons

Even though he never said anything; you could just tell,

Ted Turner

I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

Hillary Clinton

I think it is appropriate when you look at the test that you have to meet to be commander-in-chief for Americans to be thoughtful about, you know, who has the experience and the approach that is best likely to work.

Emily Saliers

Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

Jack Nicholson

You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

Harold Russell

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Honore de Balzac

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Tom Lehrer

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Robert Burns

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Laura Linney

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

John Piper

God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.