Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Siegel

The Achilles heel of academics is their status anxiety. The only way to attack them is with mockery.

Kyle Martinez

It definitely is motivation. It's the reason you want to play your favorite sports and continue on to the next level. You have to stay on top of your academics to play for a Division 1 college. You have to maintain a 3.0 or higher if you want to continue to play.

Harris Smriko

I stopped (attending) IMG because it was overwhelming and I wanted to concentrate on academics more. Playing for Lakewood Ranch was one of the best experiences I've ever had. We had a great team and a great coach and went to the region semifinal.

Bob Cimmino

Jonathan is a very bright kid, and he is very conscious about his academics as well as his relationship with the youth in the community. He knows what it takes to be good on and off the court, and this award is tribute to his hard work.

Jim Tonte

I'm still a firm believer that if you have a quality kid and he wants to wrestle in college, you can get him in school and get help whether it's financial aid, Pell grants or college scholarships. It obviously helps if you're a good student, because you can get some other finances through academics as well.

Brianna Davis

I study a lot. I pay attention to my homework. My parents have pushed academics all my life. When I get home, I do my homework before I do anything else.

Patricia Kennedy

While academics certainly are the most important aspect of school, it's important that we create a well-rounded educational experience.

Andrea Valadez

Plus, I've had six surgeries and I have one more to go with my arm. They had to put a plate and screws in last time. My body can't really handle it anymore. And academics need to take priority.

Tom Moore

I have a high regard for the academics at Delaware, and the history of athletic success speaks for itself.

Robbie Lawler

The past is the past. I'm just here looking to compete and no matter who it's against, I go in to fight hard and do what I have to do.

William Graham Sumner

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.

Liz Nash

That was a good win. We've been working toward this. For us to be able to compete with these big public schools that train year-round ... I'm real proud of the girls.

Jim Scheer

We have an exceptional team preparing to compete in these Games. We feel that this is, without question, the most accomplished team and perhaps the strongest team we have placed on the field of play in a Winter Olympic Games.

Bobby Perry

We have a lot to lose. We're here to compete for a championship. We're not looking at the seeds. We're looking at the opportunity to move on to the next round.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. Rankings aren't what we can decide. Winning these is the only way we can impress these people. We need to win the Big East now. There is no next year. We knew we (could) compete at this level since the beginning.

Judy Shaubach

We can't hang our heads and tomorrow the sun will come up and we will still be in first place. We proved that last inning that we can compete but just need to get it going earlier.

Andrej Lemanis

We have to view it as positively as possible or we won't be in the right frame of mind to compete on the court.

Rick Ruffin

We just didn't show up to play. Defensively, this was our worst outing of the year. We didn't compete at all.

Virginia Postrel

Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God's purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and planned in advance.

Jeff Schuster

The Patriot can end up cannibalizing or competing with vehicles in the Jeep lineup and not provide the incremental volume that they hope it does.

Pedro Marquez

That was three freshmen and a sophomore. Zach showed a lot of speed in his 100 leg of the relay, so he looks like he'll be a good competitor in the 100 for us, and could be competing for a top three spot in the long jump.

Jeff Collins

We have an 8-year-old doing gymnastics, and we have a gentleman competing in swimming who is 90 years old.

Brad Smith

We can settle this lawsuit tomorrow. We can get back to ... competing in the marketplace.

Mark Zuckerberg

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

Vance Arnold

Tim did a great job of competing and hitting his spots. He's one of those kids, you tell him what you need him to do and he comes through.

Peter Mancuso

We've got so many cross currents competing right now, and we're in this trading range. And I think we're gonna have this volatile trading range for a while.

Joe Burke

We continue to see a rising demand for custom home and large-scale remodeling in Loudoun. We won't be competing with residential developers, however. Our goal is to help existing homeowners improve upon what they already have.

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Wesley Ruggles

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Harry Reid

The amendments were being offered by people who didn't want the bill.

Nigel Turner

We were stuck in the 1970s in terms of our offering to our customers.

Lou Styles

We've got some offers here in town, ... Our feelers are out.

Rick Wagoner

We have to offer products people want to buy, not have to buy,

Michelle Clark

We're very satisfied. We're very pleased to be able to offer this service.

Ronnie Spector

Today, they're just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone.

Dan Beck

We're willing to make adjustments, but those adjustments would have to be within the value package of our offer.

Brian Snitker

I thought he had the whole package going.

James Allen

We are reaffirming what is our policy. This is a standard package of incentives.

Chad Reed

We're just not putting it together. The speed is decent, and the package is there. We've just got to put it together for the weekend.

Robert Genuario

We've got a lot of work to do. Frankly, I think you have to scrap the appropriations package if you're going to do tax cuts. ... It just doesn't work.

Al Jarreau

I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.

Ann Boeckman

When a product reaches the point of spoilage, there will be other signs that will be evidenced - for example, odor, slime formation and a bulging package - so the product will not smell or look right.

Mario Martinez

Where are my packages because I want to know, I got the receipts, and I can prove to them that I haven't received my packages.

Dinsha Patel

Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.

Cindy Moore

We are scaling it back. It's going to go off but not on the scale of $20,000.

David Suzuki

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

Ginni Rometty

We're about to scale something now that couldn't have been scaled before.

Anne Hathaway

On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.

Ann Voskamp

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Geoffrey West

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.

Julie Sanders

We had to scale back down to about 30 interns this year.

Reid Hoffman

Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

Cal Jillson

For most voters, schools are the No. 1 issue,

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Randy Copeland

Sir, two of those schools aren't even under our jurisdiction.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

John Koskinen

A third of the schools are still working to get those systems done.

Kevin McKenzie

All my experiences with Lonoke schools have been great.

Mark Zupan

Students from his schools come out with real-world seasoning.

Justin McNaull

It's all over the map. Here in the D.C. area, schools don't get out until Thursday, making for a very short travel period.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.