Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Haley

Jackson has overcome a lot of adversity, and had struggled with his ERA this season. To win this championship we needed someone to step up like he did. He should be the most valuable player of this series.

Bob Hartley

Just the way those guys battled all night, it's easy to say we have a desire to be in the playoffs. We faced tons of adversity (Thursday night). Read between the lines.

Kristin King

I think it's a journey that's been great. We've been tested in every single way imaginable, and I think it's going to help us in the end, battling through adversity and doing what we need to do in the end to win the game.

Drew Bledsoe

I also thought it was good for our offense to bounce back from a really horrible start. I think we showed that there is no panic in this team... can respond to adversity which is going to serve us well in the future.

Rick Carlisle

Harrison felt bad about the suspension. I thought he atoned himself in a very strong way with his play at both ends of the court. That's what you want to see, a guy respond to adversity when things aren't going well all the time.

Seneca

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity

Sidney Crosby

Going through this is a lot of adversity -- let's be honest, there is a little bit of pressure because we haven't been winning -- and if we can get through this, we'll be better for it, ... It's not an ideal situation but now we realize it's tough to win and we have to be ready every night. We have to dig deep and play determined and play desperate.

Kevin Towers

He's had to learn in the big leagues, which is tough. He's faced probably as much adversity as any young player in the game is going to face.

Leonard Perry

He's a talented kid. He personifies what our program is all about. He's tough. He plays hard. He got his degree in 31/2 years. He's completing a second major. Great kid. He keeps us going through the kind of adversity we've had.

Keke Palmer

Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith.

Kelly Rowland

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Kazuo Ishiguro

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

Katy Perry

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

John Huston

I was in such a bad position probably a couple of months ago I just decided to start playing every week. I wanted to see if I could kind of get some sort of a feel for the game back.... I've started playing a little better.

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Jozef Balej

I was in really bad pain, it was getting worse and worse every minute. I couldn't even walk so they put me in a chair. Overnight, I pretty much passed out because of the pain. They couldn't give me any morphine or anything because they didn't know what was wrong with me.

Silas Weir Mitchell

I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

Steven Klein

I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.

Ken Ham

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Michaela Dorfmeister

I was like a horse in a box before the race. Now I go home from these Olympics with two medals, and they are both gold.

Jon Heacock

I was just as surprised as everyone. You're disappointed. It hurts and bothers you. Our football family is like any family.

Matt Carle

I was joking with Chris and Brian up there, how all three of us were just glad this thing was coming to an end after all the hype in the last three months. Now they're both competing for a national championship tomorrow (today).

John Paxson

Kirk is a very big piece of this team's foundation. He is a great leader for our team both on and off the floor and I am very excited to watch him develop.

Julie Martin

Kingma is just a phenomenal player, both offensively and defensively. She really got into Dunbar in the second half and was a great leader for them.

Don Williams

Kim woke up to hearing some people screaming. We smelled some smoke and we both walked out on the balcony and saw these embers flying by.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Kevin is a big guard who can defend both positions on the perimeter, ... We liked the effort he put forth during summer league play and wanted to take a second look at him.

Lou Pucci

He's just looking for who he is. Through that, I think he ends up kind of finding that there is no answer. And that he has to learn through his own experiences that there is no one thing that is going to help him or going to fix him.

Dillon Dougherty

He's hitting 3-woods and 5-woods into the holes, and he was still hitting it on the right side of the hole and controlling it. I'm hitting 5-iron and 7-iron, but it ends up on the wrong side of the hole, and he's in a lot better spot than I am.

Jeremy Crabtree

He's gonna be something special. He's gotten dramatically better throughout his senior season. If he ends up at Miami, he's one of those guys who could play pretty quickly.

Chris Morris

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

Samantha Harvey

I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.

City Selby

I think we were doing without because we were making ends meet so to speak. We have gotten to the point where the ends are not meeting quite as well as it used to and we want to explore our options.

Manly Hall

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Justin Gray

I want to win so bad. Sometimes it ends up with me trying to force shots and trying to make something happen for us as a team. I feel like if I won't do it, nobody else will.

Brad Childress

The pain free (aspect) ends up being huge. His flexibility is better. You see him making a lot of reaching catches.

Kathie Lee Gifford

I felt no stigma whatsoever in becoming the third Mrs. Gifford.

Rekalin Sims

I was knocking down shots. I hit the offensive boards. I just played better. Sometimes you have good games, sometimes you don't. I just felt like my rhythm was a lot better.

Jacki Gemelos

I was in the air, and I felt a pop in my right knee.

Terri Johnson

I was interested in these two performers who felt they could do something quite symbiotic,

Damien Chazelle

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

Tom Purtzer

Kind of a disappointing finish. All in all, I felt like I played pretty solid.

Phil Jackson

Kobe fought his way through it tonight. It was one of those games where the numbers of shots he took was too high, but he thought he was going to get fouled and he took the shots because he felt the pressure on him.

Dick Franti

I would say it's been a learning process. We were somewhat inexperienced when we started the year. Simon Store was really the only guy back with a lot of experience, so I kind of felt there would be come growing pains and there have been.

Nancy Giles

I yearn for a time when we are more engaged. When Dr. King was alive, no matter how you felt about him and what he was saying, people were talking.

Tom Brady

I was laughing the whole practice. But he who laughs last laughs best, so those guys don't know what's in store.

Christina Lee

I was just bawling. That's when I realized this guy was for real. His heart is so pure.

Jay Alford

I was looking to them as the guys that make the plays and run around and get to the ball. So that's what I'm trying to do this year.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

Jeremy Bonderman

Kenny's a very open guy. He's not a guy who's not going to tell you stuff. He wants to make you better.

Don Bartlett

Kevin was the only guy who played well all week.

Tom Renney

Kevin was fine. I thought (the switch) was more an opportunity to wake up 18 guys and make a statement.

John Doherty

Kevin threw three picks early, but he stayed the course, ... He's our No. 1 man and he kept the rest of the guys pushing. He didn't let anything get to him.

Marcus Williams

I wouldn't say losing a guy hurts us. We're able to lose a guy and still come out with the same performance.

Chris Matthews

Jacob just wasn't himself tonight. He's been sick and so we didn't start him, but I thought he could go in the second half.

John Demming

Jack himself has been working the phone lines and speaking with shareholders this morning. People's money is safe here, there's no question about that.

John Ridley

Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.

Jeff Holland

Joe has matured. He is playing for the team instead of himself and he has been terrific.

Carolyn Howard

He did everything he could to protect himself and come back safely - it just didn't work out that way.

Tony Benshoof

He did a video of himself wishing me luck. It was pretty cool.

Roger Williams

He can't survive day after day after day without some improvement occurring. He's keeping himself alive.

Terry Wilson

He just tried to wedge himself in where there wasn't room.

Dusty Baker

He knows himself and how much he needs.

Champ Bailey

I think we're tough when we do things like that. We were responding to some things they like to do. We're active.

Mark Vitner

I think they would be responding to all the talk of outsourcing and all the talk in the headlines.

Sheila Garrard

I think they have to respond and I think they have to respond with cash.

Carlos Mesa

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

Stanley Brand

I'm not going to get into responding to these things.

Robin Williams

I'm going to go to Kennebunkport and see if they respond any quicker!

Howard Schultz

There's tension here, and I'm just trying to respond in a responsible way,

Pat Summitt

It'll be interesting to see how we respond after a tough loss.

David Aus

It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all year.

Michael Culver

I wrote: Vicki and Michael, stronger than fire.

Susan McGrath

Katherine has always been a very strong player. She was all over the place today.

Rusty Agte

Her voice is much stronger than it was, and getting better each day.

Chris Mack

He's a linebacker with the basketball. He's so doggone strong for a guard.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Bob Wagner

He's a strong commit. He visited BYU the first week of January.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,