Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Perry

My family is No. 1. I appreciate my family more.

Michael Crapo

I appreciate the efforts of the many state and local officials and businesses that working very hard as we speak to prevent more of these attacks and to help with recovery efforts.

Emanuel Steward

I really appreciate the fact that people have gotten together in the city of Detroit and have really supported me in this, more than I expected. People all over the world.

Michael Strahan

I'm enjoying this more than I ever have, ... I think when you're not playing, you realize that you're not going to play forever. But when you do get the chance to play again, you appreciate it that much more.

Alison Krauss

I just appreciate the clarity of her voice.

Chris Bosh

I just appreciate the battle that we had. I was trying to stop him, he was trying to stop me, and all in all it was just a great competition.

Jerome Bettis

I hope they appreciate me, because we just brought a championship home. One for the Thumb!

Don Wallace

The message is that it's not illegal for a city or county or state or even the nation to recognize its history, and we believe that's what our city seal is doing. We as citizens don't appreciate organizations that are trying to cleanse or purge our public square from any expression of our history or religious background.

Richard Cook

The international community has shown a real interest in being involved in our search, ... We appreciate their efforts and I think it shows that Mars is something that captivates everyone's imagination.

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.

John Wooden

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

John Wooden

Build shelter against a rainy day.

John Wooden

When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.

Michael Jordan

I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.

Nick Taylor

Nobody sees Granite Hills as a basketball school. But we're the real deal this year.

Scott Bauman

If this were women's NCAA basketball, this would be like going into Tennessee - there's nothing like it. We're fired up for this; when you walk out and there are 15,000 people screaming and the walk-out is like the NBA finals - hey, it this doesn't get our kids ready nothing will.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Bobby Frasor

Coach Williams from Day 1 was always preaching how good we could be. We could surprise everyone in America, all the analysts; we could be the darlings of America.

Mike Flowers

Earlier in the year, (Greenfield head) Coach (Rob Salter) gave me the role of being the dominator on the court and one of the leaders of the team. Being that, you can't ever lose your composure.

Nate Robinson

Every time Coach talks to me he says listen to the message, not how it's said. It's kinda hard to really listen to exactly what he says instead of taking it personally, trying to do everything right for him and it's not good enough. At the same time you can't look at it that way. You've got to look at it like he's trying to help you.

Marcus Ginyard

Everybody knows at that point that he's all business. We've got to make it so he doesn't need to do that anymore. We need to play off our own intensity instead of Coach having to throw things at us.

Marcus Ginyard

Everybody knows at that point he's all business. We've just got to make it where he's not doing that anymore, where we play off our own intensity and not what Coach is throwing at us.

Bob Sanders

Everybody knows and understands what Coach Dungy wants out of the defense. Once we figured it out, it was easy for us to go out and play fast, play hard.

Jason Johnson

Trammell and (pitching coach Bob) Cluck told me after the third that they were going to take me out. And I said, 'I don't want to come out.

Abby Fennessey

We were fired up. We were ready for this game. Our coach has pushed us hard in practice to get ready.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Olga Pomar

We don't think the residents of Cramer Hill should be forced out of their homes and that their homes should be taken by eminent domain. They had already selected the developer and decided on the proposal they would use before they had objectively evaluated the neighborhood and heard from the public.

Nancy Allen

Since it happened in our area, and it?s the Oxford Lions, we thought we?d step up. We decided last Thursday at our meeting. We wanted to get it out and do it quick.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

Horacio Gutierrez

Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels. We've decided to open this up so people can understand the issues.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Martha Whiting

We went into the game treating them like any other team. We prepare for every team with the same intensity, and I think that really helped us.

Matt Sylvester

We went into the game knowing we had to get this one.

Nick Rimando

We went into that game trying to win it. It was an ugly game, but a tie on the road is actually like a win for us. In the 80th minute, you're just thinking to yourself, 'A tie's not too bad.' Then you play a little conservative and get back a little more.

Nick Rimando

We went into that game trying to win it, ... It was an ugly game, but a tie on the road is actually like a win for us. In the 80th minute, you're just thinking to yourself, 'A tie's not too bad.' Then you play a little conservative and get back a little more.

Glen Drury

This will be a very tough game for us on the road.

Steve MacFarlane

What really matters is whether the other unions at Northwest will support us. And that remains to be seen. At this stage of the game it's pretty standard for everyone to remain silent and see if a strike occurs.

Kevin Bullis

We had a game plan from the start to mix things up. Unfortunately, we went through games 2 and 3 we didn't execute.

Tomas Vokoun

Twenty-two shots is usually the whole game total for us. So for us to do that in one period was great. There's no substitute for hard work and that's what we were doing out there.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Drew Barrymore

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

Drew Barrymore

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

Drew Barrymore

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Douglas MacArthur

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Donald Cargill

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

Don DeLillo

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Don DeLillo

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Todd Bradley

I feel the time is right for me to move on to another challenge.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Angie Martinez

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

John Ruskin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Alan J. Pakula

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.