Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Jackson

They almost made me get up and walk out of the building in the third quarter. They got it righted and played good defense to get back in the game. I knew that Kobe would find a way out there to help us win.

Corey Dillon

They almost burnt me with a Marlboro or something. They threw hot coffee on my leg. Or maybe it was hot chocolate. It was hot, though. It burnt my leg a little bit. It's not a big issue.

Kevin Boyer

The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top.

M. Thompson

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

R. Inge

The way he's been pitching lately, we almost feel obligated to go out there and get him some runs. Confidence is the key in baseball. When you feel confident, you're going to put up good numbers.

Jeff Johnson

The waterline was almost at the top of the basement when they began dewatering. I am amazed at how fast they've been able to remove so much water. I didn't expect this much progress for months. Amazing.

Ken Tower

These are things that people can be nervous about and, yes, they're concerns. But let's face it: the world has trouble almost every day. It's probably not a major factor for our market.

Jeremy Friesen

The rift, if not civil war, within the Liberal party also presents an almost Herculean task for any new leader.

John Pratt

The richest man in the world got wealthy even though his company sells almost nothing tangible.

Bobby Robson

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Morris Chestnut

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen.

Michael Beasley

We had a lot of football players on the team then. Once we got out of football mode we started making strides.

Trevor Phillips

Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE.

Sandra Bernhard

Barbara Bush has her finger on the pulse of America. Im so glad shes back and more compassionate than ever, ... Thats right, of course people just sat around New Orleans, boring, uninspired, soulless New Orleans, and dreamed of someday relocating to the Astrodome. Oh, dear Lord, if only I could leave my unhappy existence and head on up to wonderful Houston and live with my friends side by side in a spacious football stadium, my life would be so much richer and complete.

Wayne Wonder

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.

Wayne Rooney

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

Wayne Rooney

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

Trevor Brooking

I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing. You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.

I. Stone

Honestly, it's kind of a fog. We were in shock for a while.

Alexander Hamilton

If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of permanent blessings to the community. If on the contrary,... the Constitution is slighted, or explained away, upon every frivolous pretext, the future of government will be feeble, distracted and arbitrary. The rights of the subjects will be the sport of every party vicissitude. There will be no settled rule of conduct, but everything will fluctuate with the alternate prevalency of contending factions.

Adolf Galland

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.

Alexander Ludwig

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

Alexander Pope

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

Alex Trebek

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

Debi Thomas

Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports.

Drew Bledsoe

Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

Drew Bledsoe

That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.

Drew Bledsoe

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.