Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Rodrick

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

Mike Harper

I thought Armstrong pitched the ball real well. She pitched the ball hard, and she hit her spots with different pitches.

Gerard Bisceglia

Lance Armstrong is one of the most tested athletes in the history of sport and he has come up clean every single time. This kind of years-ago testing of a single sample with new technology is completely without credibility.

Dick Pound

There is a direct link between Armstrong and a positive test that he signed.

Will Kitchen

I remember one time (Ozark assistant) coach (Kevin) Armstrong was going to take me to a tryout for a coach at a college in Iowa and I spent the entire weekend partying. I was just feeling dead and terrible and called him up and cancelled the trip. I just think back to how stupid I was to take away all of those chances I had.

Hein Verbruggen

I have to say this is not pleasant but, for the moment, it only involves Lance Armstrong and France.

George Stephanopoulos

I'm not saying that spending on wars and terrorism is a bad thing,'' Armstrong said in an interview on ABC's

Manolo Saiz

The return of Armstrong is a manner very sporting to confront the situation they've created for him. It seems to me 100 percent correct and I encourage him to return, because he's a great champion and it's logical that he does it.

Mitch Stoller

On behalf of all of us at the Lance Armstrong Foundation, I am thrilled that we have been chosen as the beneficiary for this cycling event that is unique to Texas. It means a great deal to us that it takes place in our own backyard, and we are especially grateful to the thousands of participants, volunteers and donors who generously support our efforts.

Mike Sullivan

I think it is terrific. I'm so happy for him because he has worked so hard to get himself back into a condition where he can compete at this level. That is a testament to the type of guy that he is. We are ecstatic that he is participating in our camp.

Brandie Hoskins

I always expect our play to stay at the same level or to get better. I never expect anything else because in practice we have players that are good and compete hard. It makes stuff a lot easier knowing that you can have somebody come in for you and compete the same way you do.

Jeremy Tate

He knows now he can compete with anyone.

Erick Jensen

He is the most technical wrestler on our team and should definitely compete for the state title.

Donnie McGrath

Half that team is NBA. It's tough to compete with a team like that for 40 minutes.

Chris Douthit

Hannah has been our most consistent runner. Our girls, two through eight, have been shifting around in their finishes. If they can all go out and run as strongly as they can, they can compete with the top teams.

Michael Caddell

There are so many inconsistencies between their data and their conclusions you have to question either their competence or their integrity.

Keyon Dooling

He's a guy that you have to play big against. Everybody in the West was trying to compete with the Lakers, because they were the dynasty. But now, you see a more free-flowing offense out there.

Ellen Gerton

Her motivation and drive to compete and win are pretty outstanding.

Walt Harris

I think as the game wore on, Davis started seeing that they were in it and they got stronger and stronger. And the pressure on our team got stronger and stronger and we weren't able to deal with it.

Mark Rozell

I think Tom Davis is about as safe as an incumbent can be these days. Davis strikes a pretty good middle ground for his constituents.

Tony Quinn

He was larger than life, not a Gray Davis or Pete Wilson, who were technicians. He said, 'I am Arnold. I can move mountains.' But then he didn't deliver?. He delivered midgets when he promised giants.

Michael Turner

He had only generous words for Ray Davis and Koshiba.

Mark Shapiro

Our original plan in the off-season was to slate the No. 5 spot in the rotation for a younger player (Jason Davis or Fausto Carmona) and to spend money to upgrade elsewhere. When we were unable to get some other things done, we saw an opportunity to improve the team by signing Jason. The young guys still could end up playing a role for us in 2006.

Pat Knight

I love the Indiana kids to death, but I have no feeling toward Mike Davis at all. I try not to watch them at all.

Tom Izzo

I look at the stats and kind of see a different game than I watched. I didn't really like the game I watched, to be honest with you. But the stats say we did some things well. And I was very proud of Maurice Ager and Paul Davis at halftime. They vowed we'd be better defensively in the second half, and we were.

Billy Andrade

I really like what Davis (Love) did to the course, and it's now more like a Pinehurst course, ... Before it was more like a northern course, but I think now after he opened it up, it just suits my eye a little better.

Florin Segarceanu

In Davis Cup, you always get some surprises, like the one you had last year with Croatia. Thinking that we are also a Balkan country, maybe we can follow those guys.

Bradlee Pelt

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

Philip Purcell

John and I have never disagreed about the businesses.

John Gartland

John always has a vision, with great, broad-stroked kinds of goals.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

John Edward

John Kerry has what it takes ... to be president of the United States,

Michael Meehan

John Kerry has a record in the military that he's running on, not from. Everything the U.S. Navy sent to Sen. Kerry, we'll post on the Web site.

Nicholas Burns

John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.

Pete Carroll

John is talking to everybody, all the time. That's the way he handles his business. He's got a marvelous spirit.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Matthew Glotzbach

We're in the first inning of an extra-innings game. By no means are we at the point where search is perfect.

Ralph Norris

We've got to look at ways and means of being more competitive. We operate in a market.

Roy Oswalt

To get 20 is great, but to get to the playoffs means more.

Ed Howat

I think that number is staggering. It means a lot to have a rate that high.

Tim Winship

I think it's pretty much inarguable that the value of frequent-flyer miles is on the decline.

James Logan

I'd just say make sure you go 10 miles per hour, then 40.

Torii Hunter

He was throwing gas. He was throwing 96, 97 miles an hour.

William Least Heat-Moon

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

James Osborne

I ran about 60 miles a week over the summer and I'm putting in about 50 miles a week now. So when I start tapering toward the end season it should be interesting.

Tom Taylor

I pushed him a little through one of the miles to get him back on pace and the next mile he totally went out the back door,

Alex Ferguson

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

Mark Campbell

You couldn't keep him still. He was going 90 miles an hour.

Kevin Collins

You've been doing the same 100-plus miles per week that I used to do. You're not going to have the speed for 5Ks with that kind of training.

Margaret Spellings

I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,

Ian Mckellen

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Ruth Rendell

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Liam Hemsworth

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Daisy Ridley

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.