Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Frank Quattrone

We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.

Morris Almond

The 36 points, I wasn't surprised with it being an overtime game. I'm only averaging four or five boards a night so the double-double-I'll take any day.

Lou Panzanaro

That was huge. We were just getting people in the right position and we had switched defenses. But I thought switching the defense was important. They were taking some deep shots and we were hitting the boards and not letting them get second shots. I thought the rebounding was big in that quarter.

Ted Woodward

That was huge for us. We've been struggling on the offensive boards and that was, again, a big focus tonight.

Jello Biafra

We have to wipe out Bushism itself, before it wipes us out. That means showing up and voting smart in every election, big and small. I think that in many ways that, the local elections are even more important than the national elections. It's the mayors and the city councils and county comissioners and the school boards and the legislators that decide how to spend the money they fleece off of us in taxes.

Jim Boeheim

We just didn't do a good job on the boards in the first half. We did a better job in the second half.

Phil Fox

We're used to local control where local boards of education write curriculum, they determine opening and closing dates, they determine the holidays and so on.

Peter Butler

Most of the largest Continental European companies now have thirty percent or more non-domestic shareholders. This gives them a very different structure in terms of accountability than most boards are used to.

John Mackey

Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name.

Gaines Adams

It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

Barack Obama

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

Joe Neff

That was the key play right there. He's a very good defensive pitcher, a very good all-around player.

Charlie Villanueva

That was the turning point in the game. That's definitely huge. I was struggling on the offensive end and a big defensive play made up for the offence.

Lisa Bluder

That was the difference. Our defensive intensity was there in the first half and non-existent in the second half. They just about scored at will. When somebody comes into your home floor and scores 48 points (in the second half), that's an embarrassment.

Heath Eliason

That was the difference in the game, we picked up the defensive intensity in the second half.

Kevin Browne

That would be a mistake (to play), a big mistake, but like I said, if it's a necessity, I'd do it, ... It would be if there were no defensive tackles (available). That would be the reason.

Mindi Winters

That was a huge thing, the defensive intensity. But I really feel like that experience with Highland the first time has matured us in a lot of ways. One thing about our season, we've had some 'necessary' failures.

Tucker Pappas

We need to keep playing together and keep up our defensive intensity. We just have to work for our shots.

Billy Graham

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

Scott Rudin

I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker.

Pat Roberts

With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.

Rob Salter

We're very versatile, we have guys who can do a lot of different things. When you don't have the size, you've got to have guys who can do that. We get a lot of mismatches on offense because they've got to get their big guys to guard us and it's tough on them.

Tom Souder

We need to push it ourselves and make them guard us. We have a lot of different guys stepping up and contributing, and we need that to continue.

Randy Lambert

We just can't guard him (White). He's just too quick and too long. He just makes plays.

Joe Branda

You can guard them for so long. But sooner or later she'll pop out. And we lost track of her.

Jon Scheyer

I think it wore him down a little having to guard me. I was trying to run off screens a lot in the second half and just make him tired.

Jim Bauer

I thought (Marshall) was tired and I thought it would be hard for them to guard an individual. I don't think it worked too well.

Donny Burnett

We could have rebounded better today. We got out rebounded, especially on the offensive end. They had more second and third opportunities than we did first chances.

Dan Miller

I thought offensive rebounding killed us in the first half. They just pounded us on the glass.

Don Johnson

I think one of the reasons we haven't seen more of an official response to this is that the signs aren't offensive in any way,

Ryan Barnes

We can penetrate and give the offensive linemen a fight.

Jabari Levey

I feel like I could be a first day pick. This is going to be a big year for offensive linemen.

Paul Woolpert

He's a big guy. We let him get too many offensive rebounds in the second half.

Bruce Bochy

He's got some pop. Khalil is going to be an offensive shortstop. He's going to supply some power.

John Bernhardt

His offensive play was pivotal to our staying in the game.

Randy Carlisle

It all started with our offensive line, whenever you rush for that many yards, it has to start with your offensive line.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Elayne Boosler

My breakup with AT&T is final, and I'm done with Skype as the rebound guy.

Mary Klinger

We need to rebound the ball, obviously. Defensively, they are very physical.

Joe Crawford

It didn't surprise me because they saw that they were getting the rebounds and they stuck with it.

Crystal Langhorne

We have to rebound and stop their transition game. Their speed is incredible.

Don Bringle

We've got to rebound and become strong. It will take a little time to do that, but we will, and we'll survive that process.

Avery Johnson

He got some big stops and rebounds for us and stopped them from getting some rebounds and that is what he's here for.

Irv DeGraw

With the rebound in the semiconductor industry, we think it'll do pretty well.

Rahshon Clark

We let them get a lot of rebounds that we should have come up with that were real crucial.

Harry DeFrank

I was worried about the boards. They've got three strong girls, and we had to rebound with them.