Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Bannister

I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

Roger Bannister

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

Roger Bannister

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.

Roger Bannister

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

Torii Hunter

Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow.

Richard Fox

Robin is an exceptional athlete and for him to win Australia's first gold medal at an Olympic or world championship has given the program a huge boost.

Jennifer Carpenter

I prepared for this role like an athlete would, so that I could do anything, physically or mentally that Scott wanted me to do, and be able to go wherever he tried to take me,

Eddie Drummond

I like the kids to see me in person. It is one thing when you see an athlete on TV say 'stay in school and do the right things' and it's another when you get to hear them say it in person.

Willis McGahee

I'm pretty sure it would work pretty good. He's a great athlete and I'm sure he can do anything on either side of the ball. Most definitely, he's dangerous wherever he's at.

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

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.

Sam Cassell

Elton has always played consistently, but now we're winning basketball games and people are finally taking notice.

Lindsay Bowen

Everybody thinks Liz is really serious. But she can be really silly, too. She just knows when to do that. And this is a time for business. We have a lot more basketball left.

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.

Larry Kostelac

To be honest, they are a great basketball team, they are one of the most talented in the state. We played them tough the first time, we just have to take next step. We're just excited to be playing Saturday.

Angela Davis

The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

Anne Roiphe

When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

D. H. Lawrence

Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

D. H. Lawrence

The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

Constance Baker Motley

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

Constance Baker Motley

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

Constance Baker Motley

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Clarence Darrow

Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.

Danny Pino

I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation board. We talk about where the university is strategically and the evolution of programs for the near and distant future.

Terri Mitchell

Obviously, we never step on the court thinking we're going to lose. But if the game is going the other way we need to find ways to get better.

William Cooper

Obviously, we're watching that closely, ... But you have to remember, once the ticket is written, the motorist has to go to court or pay the fine right away, so it takes a little while to move through the system. We are very hopeful that the revenue will go up.

David Thompson

I think the work I'm doing now is far greater than anything I did on the court at N.C. State.

David Sobel

It is appropriate for the federal court to independently decide which documents should be withheld and which should be disclosed.

Nathaniel Persily

I think there is some sense by the court that it's time to stop the madness.

Avery Johnson

I thought we were a little more physical with them. We seemed like we were apologizing for being on the court in the first half.

Bill Bozue

Jill has a good court sense and knew we had to attack. We liked being in position to hold for the last shot. It's sure better then being on defense in that situation. Our four seniors worked hard for this.

George Felos

Terri is in a persistent vegetative state and the court found as such, ... There are no treatments or therapies that can help her and the judge's ruling supports that position.

Robert Gerard

The allegations printed in the report are just that. They are not facts and they were never admitted, nor tested in any court, nor found by any court to be true.

Butch Harmon

The thing I like is he's open-minded. He works hard to get better at the things he's not good at. Other than putting there's nothing impressive about his game, but he does nothing badly.

Mick Jagger

The thing about the NFL is they run a good show. Occasionally they make a mistake but they have been quick to rectify it.

James Bay

The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.

Mark Tauscher

The thing I've noticed is that he's just even-keeled, ... To be a good offensive lineman in this league, you have to be that way. His personality is low key, but he's very confident.

Randy Edsall

I've never been in this situation before, ... But hopefully the kids that get the opportunity to get in and play will do a good job.

Pokey Reese

I've never done anything like that before. The game's probably going to be pretty good after all the stuff they did in there. It's going to be so real.

Mike Rumbolz

I've made a living from the industry since I was 14 years old. It's been very good to me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I've met with the president several times in the past. We've worked together, and we have a good working relationship, ... ... We would have appreciated it if he had done his fundraising after Nov. 8.

Lee Freedman

I've always suspected he had good staying potential.

Ron Jirsa

Once you solve something, the next thing you see might be tougher. The second half, when we didn't push it up the floor, that hurt us. You want to make them move. When they get back and it's 5-on-5, it's tougher.

Demi Lovato

If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.

Marsha Sharp

We got a little fatigued on the boards, and they started hurting us right there.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

The axe is fifteen pounds. You have to make sure you don't hurt or hit someone. And hit the beats, because they have five cameras. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.

Adele

Sometimes it lasts in love, But sometimes it hurts instead.

Adele

I won't let you close enough to hurt me.

Adam Savage

I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

Adam Savage

If I haven't had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I've already done on this show, this isn't gonna hurt much more.

Adam Savage

We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

John Wooden

Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.

Mary Kay Ash

Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.

Ma Huateng

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

Erin Hunter

It was his cunning, this confidence and farsightedness in dealing with his own Clan, that made Crookedstar one of the strongest leaders the Clans have ever seen.

Justin Dentmon

I think he's being more of a leader and showing everyone that he can lead this team.

Jacques Delors

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Melissa Fleming

This should (in) no way be seen as an endorsement.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Laura Bush

but we'll see if it's true once we get to New Orleans.

Ellen G. White

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.