Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bowden

We've got 119 I-A schools. Out of 119 of us, I'll bet you 100 are fighting an attrition battle. You've probably got 19 lucky teams. Boy, they're lucky. They've kept their offensive line healthy all year, they've kept their running backs healthy, and they're probably playing for Southern Cal and Texas.

Alan Faneca

They're trying to create seams, create that little hole, and their backs are trying to read it and hit it. That's their scheme. It goes to personnel and schemes. We counter-block a little more than some teams do. It's a personal preference.

Eric Thurston

They (the players) left it on the table and they turned their backs and when they came back to the table the trophy was gone.

Bob Baldwin

They seem to be coming in waves. When the rain comes, they're up here, and when the rain backs off, I guess they go back.

Ron Massey

They put some people in the box trying to stop our run, but I thought we did a good job staying on blocks. The backs did a good job finding the hole.

Jerome Bettis

They put me on their backs and made sure they wouldn't let me down. I played this game to win a championship. I'm a champion, and I think the last stop is here.

Norm Ornstein

It's not in the backs of their minds about Jim Wright, it's in the front of their minds, ... They see the parallel here and they want to be sure this doesn't happen.

Joel Sawyer

It's no surprise that trial lawyers in the Senate who are lining their own pockets on the backs of South Carolina's businesses would want to delay much-needed reform of a broken workers' compensation system.

Tom Feeney

It's the kind of thing that shows they're turning their backs on the things that Ronald Reagan and those who built this party care deeply about,

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Marcelo Enriquez

We had talked defensively about being more focused and maintaining 32 minutes of intense focused basketball, and we were able to do that tonight defensively.

Rick Hartzell

We will not, in this program, take a back seat to anybody. We've had the best basketball program in the state of Iowa over the last three or four years. We have nothing but plans to keep that going.

Donald Hall

In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.

Donald Glover

You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

Maria Edgeworth

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

Kathy Davis

It's a great cause and the bowling pins are just beautiful.

Dick Van Patten

I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.

Ian Jackson

Most importantly, we have more support than any handheld system has ever had that has had to compete with the Playstation brand.

Courtney Kupets

I was in a lot of pain going through the competition, so it wasn't the most enjoyable to compete in. But one thing I had was determination and I was very proud I could finish the meet.

Sthefany Thomas

I think I get the fire to compete from my mother and my father had the skills and the passion to play. I get the heart from her and he had all the skills.

A.J. Jones

It feels great knowing I'm going to play with people I know. In a couple of years, maybe next year, we should compete for a national title.

Brian Sell

It feels really good, this is my second U.S. title, especially running a fast time. It was good to see a lot of fast times from the young U.S. guys too; it shows that we're making progress and can compete on the international scene.

Anderson Hernandez

I think I've got a chance. We compete for the position, now he's hurt. Whatever they want me to do I will do.

Mark Thompson

You know if you want to win and want to compete in this competition, this is what you have to do in the finals.

Bill Gray

We expect to compete for a championship. We expect that every year.

John Gibbons

We expect to compete all year long. In saying that, we haven't done anything yet. Talk is cheap.

Jack Wilson

I guess you just keep on going out there every day.

Michael Harris

I honestly thought it was over. I didn't think I could come back, to be honest. It turned out to be a sprint to the finish. I guess that's the way I operate.

Bob Williams

I heard this big loud thump. And, I guess that's when the tree hit the house and the lights went off for two hours.

William Rice

I haven't had the rice pudding of my life today. But I guess I lost that opportunity with the end of my childhood.

Edgardo Alfonzo

I have to talk with my wife about it, but I'm 90 percent sure I need to go play, ... If I stay (with the Giants), I guess I have to play harder and work harder to recover that playing time I lost.

Mathieu Garon

I haven't talked to (Murray) yet so I guess I'll find out Wednesday and Thursday,

Steve Mitchell

I kind of feel that this is our season to shine, from the make-up of our team. I guess we'll see how well we can swim.

Justin Arthur

I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my elbow. I guess that was the passing of the torch.

Frank Wood

I'm really not sure. I've put together seven wins in a row six of them by knockout. I guess the right people were watching,

Henry Beston

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.

Henry Beston

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

Henry Beston

Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life - all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.

Henry Beston

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Henry David Thoreau

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

Henry David Thoreau

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

Brother Lawrence

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

John Wesley

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.

John Wesley

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

John Wesley

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.

John Wesley

God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the necessity we have of His grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air.

John Wesley

In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.

John Wesley

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

John Wesley

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

John Wesley

On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have. In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit.

Judy Davis

It's like you're getting ready to go to Cinderella's ball, and then, when you lose, it's like you wake up and realize you're not Cinderella.

Jim Calhoun

It's one loss. It's nothing more, nothing less. It's not going to stop us from getting ready for West Virginia.

Greg Marsden

There's a long tradition of rivalry between our two programs, and I know they'll be ready for us.

Jeff Horner

They're going to be hungry. We have to be ready for anything.

Scott Andrews

It's a tight schedule to get two units ready in six months.

Troy Walters

It's a road game, so that's what you kind of expect. It kind of got us focused, like we've got to get ready to go.

Daniel Briere

It wasn't very hard. It was just to keep the timing and make sure we're ready to go.

Tomas Vokoun

On Wednesday, every play, every minute, every shift counts, ... That's what we're trying to get ready for.

Willie Randolph

Pedro will be ready. I trust Pedro that he'll be ready to go. That's what I go by.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Jenny Slate

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

Jacqueline Carey

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

Christopher Hitchens

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Christopher Hitchens

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Gaston Bachelard

It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

Hippocrates

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

Hillary Clinton

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

Everett Dirksen

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.