Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tomas Vokoun

For me, personally, bronze is a great result even if I'm sure that if we played better with Sweden, we would've been on the ice (Sunday).

Matt Savoie

I think we're very strong. This season has been complicated obviously because this is an Olympic year and there are injuries. But at nationals I felt even though there were mistakes throughout the field, we're definitely sending a strong team, especially with Evan, the world bronze medalist, and Johnny's skating well. I think we're in good standing going in.

Martin Brodeur

He had the bronze medal in my face all the time. And his wool jersey, because they played outside.

Shannon Kleibrink

Having had the two weeks we've had, the bronze feels like gold to us. I'm so glad we finally brought our 'A' game.

Clay Harpster

Pink marble floors four inches thick. Thirty-six solid bronze lamps. They were very gorgeous. Just the whole house was incredible.

Tomas Vokoun

Playing for the bronze was hard because losing the semi-final was very breaking. We are disappointed for what happened with Sweden but I'm happy with the medal.

Tomas Vokoun

Playing for the bronze medal is hard, very hard.

Mike Shockley

If you spill liquid bronze on the floor, it runs like water. You can't dance away from it n you have to keep going with the pour, even if it burns your boots.

Sarah Love

Canada and the United States spent the entire year leading up to the games training to play each other in the final. The fact that it isn't a Canada-U.S. final is great for the growth of women's hockey, but it's tough for the U.S. team. For them to have to switch focus from gold to playing for bronze will be a huge mental test.

Doug Reid

I would suggest that we have excellent sports organizations that have now started to take the Canada Games as a very important part of the training process. But it comes down to the athletes. Nothing more.

Alex Rodriguez

I always enjoy my stay here in Canada. It's one of those places where you just feel comfortable.

Bill Donald

Having one cow in a 12 month period, which is what it's been since they (Canada) had their last one, does not change the minimal risk standards that Canada falls under. So it should not disrupt trade in any way.

Stacey McAlpine

He's got his fair share of experience playing for Team Canada and wearing the Team Canada colors. He's proud to be a Canadian and is pretty excited about coming back to Canada.

Kirk Pengilly

He seemed to have the whole package. Canada must be proud of him.

Ezra Levant

He should be lucky we have freedom of speech in Canada because if we were in a country that didn't, he'd be in jail.

Ron Maclean

Hockey Day in Canada has become an unofficial holiday for Canadian hockey fans everywhere. It is important that we take one day to gather our friends and family together to pay tribute to our wonderful game.

John Efford

I thought Canada had a health system and gave people some time off to get their health under control,

Bruce Arena

I think you can't overreact from one game, the Norway game, and ignore the Canada game. You judge players over time, not over a game. As he continues to move forward we'll have a better feel for the direction he's headed. Obviously, he's getting better. From my perspective, I need to see if he's developing into a guy who should be a player on the World Cup roster and can help us win a game.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Mickey Loomis

I wouldn't say it's overwhelming. They understand they have a job to do. They know their families are safe. Once you know your family is safe, you go back to your business. What's overwhelming is what's going on in New Orleans, Mississippi and the entire Gulf Coast.

Billy Gillispie

Joe spent the entire halftime throwing up. He said he didn't have any energy. But he kept fighting.

Chief Murray

I think it just ruins the entire neighborhood.

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Gwyn Hacche

It can't be entirely ruled out, but it looks unlikely to me.

Edward Hammond

He wanted to comply. He wanted to talk about the whole entire incident,

Petro Poroshenko

He didn't look in my eyes the entire time he was reading his statement.

Patrick Swayze

He just dropped. And the entire responsibility of the family suddenly was on me.

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Stephen JohnsonGrove

Kids live everywhere. ... This statute is far from rational, and may in fact be counterproductive.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Joe Tiller

I would say it's the single most important factor of (a team), ... You hate to put it all on one position, but if you told me, 'OK Tiller, you're going to graduate 21 of your 22 starters. Which one don't you want graduating?' It'd be the quarterback.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move. That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move, ... That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.

Jaromir Jagr

I was lucky again, and you have to be lucky in this tournament. It was good to score because you never know what will happen in the final three minutes.

M. Wolfe

Kenny Smith and I started working on a grant after Ivan. We finally got it and now we are ready for the worst. We never lost water after Ivan, but it got close. It made me real nervous.

Bobby Perry

I wouldn't say it was a slump. It just was not a good period. I knew I could still do this. It was just a matter of time, even though I was wondering when that time was finally going to come again.

Dave Lindimore

I would typify this as under construction. Hopefully by May 2 we will have what we hope will be the final shape.

Chris Hill

Kelvin seems a lot more energized now. He finally got his legs back.

Mark Shrader

Jon has had that potential all year. He's finally started to shoot that way here at the end of the year.

Savas Kyriacou

I think it's a day that Toronto has finally lost its innocence. It was a tragic loss and tragic day.

Nick Licari

I think it made me realize that I just need to get back and just play the way that I was playing before and just work hard every shift. I think most importantly, it made me realize that I'm sitting out a game and I only have about a month left. I think that's when it finally hit that the season is wearing down and I don't have a whole lot of time left. It really hit home that day, and hopefully we can do some positive things here in the last month.

Pedro Marquez

Kevin is really focused on getting 47 feet. He's working hard toward that.

Marcus Trufant

Ken's in everybody's heart right now, ... But at the same time, we've got to focus in and make sure we get things done on the field.

Mark Hendrickson

Knowing what they can do, I was just trying to stay focused and make good pitches.

Choo Freeman

Just look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what you need to do to get better as a player.

Richard Bayer

Keep the focus on networking and contacting organisations directly.

Ron Hutchins

John is a very pleasing young man to have. He's very focused on what he does. You'll see him moving up.

Chad Hedrick

I think it really helps to stay away from that and really focus on what you are here for.

Judy Jeffrey

I think it helps focus students on being accountable for what they have to learn. It also focuses accountability back on teachers so that they are doing a good job teaching students what they need to know.

Bobby Perry

I think it goes back to our focus and being ready for the game. I think it was just focus.

Marcus Williams

I wouldn't say I was surprised. At these kind of games, Jeff always comes through ... he's a man-child out there. That's normal. That's what I see all the time.

Chris Healy

I wrote sports for the Sagebrush and even did some play-by-play for KNEV 95.5 FM, which was the first FM station to do games for Nevada.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Vince Carter

Just win as many games as possible. The overall goal is to win as many games as possible until there are no more games to be played.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Kristen Kovesdy

John is one of the reasons why I'm tough. I always look for him in the stands during games. When I see him, that's when I have one of the big second halves.

David Gold

I talk to the players before and after games and I would soon tell you if they weren't up for the fight.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Ian Thorpe

I think I should retire after the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Gail Johnson

Kelly is drop-dead gorgeous and very outgoing. On the ice, she is very determined. I think the team will make it to the end and hopefully win the gold.

Lee Smith

he was a great person..and, uh..he had a heart of gold...he never met an enemy.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Ilya Bryzgalov

He didn't win the Stanley Cup, but I hope he wins a gold medal in the Olympic Games.

George Packer

While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.

Laura Skaer

Gold prices have people snooping around where they haven't snooped for a while. No question, there's an increase and interest in exploration.

Roger Diwan

Gold prices don't go up just because jewelers need more gold, they go up because gold is an investment. The same has happened to oil.

Ronald Leung

Gold is rising too fast, but as long as silver keeps going, it's hard to say when it will come down.

Robert Gottlieb

Gold is on 24-year highs because of a recent shift in investment allocations to commodities by a wide audience.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

Kathleen Hanna

That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Howard Stern

I was just at my psychiatrist and I said, 'I just got great news: We hit the 4 million mark. And I'm angry. It should be 20 million.

John Huarte

I was just as surprised by that as I was when I won the Heisman. It's a great honor and it's nice to know that even so many years later people still remember what I did in football.

Chris Eyre

I was lucky, I had a Verizon phone and it had great service all through the storm,

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Maurice Garner

Kenyatta just had a great season for us. It might have surprised a lot of people, but not me because she has such a great work ethic.

Gus Faucher

Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half of next year,

Bill Cheney

Job growth has kind of stalled out. It's a puzzle.

Mark Zandi

I suspect this is a pause and we still see a resumption of top line growth and, ultimately, better hiring in tech.

Wayne Pace

He wants it to be profitable growth, sustainable growth and responsible growth,

Jill Dougherty

He did say that it must meet Russia's national interests and also that it should not restrict its growth and social development,

Carolina Milanesi

Growth will slow down going into the second and third quarter.

James Avery

Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here.

Will Strauss

Growth will be about 16% this year. That's good, but not spectacular. I don't see any shortages this year.

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Chris Coste

Kirby was the first name on everyone's list. That smile and that magnetic personality. He was a huge role model for so many people in that area. He was a huge influence in the way that I hit.

Bud Keene

Kelly really pushed the limits of women's riding by going huge and super technical.

Doc Scheppler

Just returning to the team was a huge lift for us.

Ben Howland

Josh Shipp was huge tonight. I mean, having not played 13 weeks, for him to do what he did tonight was just miraculous.

David Cope

I think it's a huge win on a number of fronts,

Brian Fanelli

I think it's a huge accomplishment for her.

Brian Rolston

He was awesome. Third period, he made save after save after save. It's not surprising, but it was huge to get the win for him.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Bobby Gonzalez

He just has that chip-on-the-shoulder toughness, like a riverboat gambler. He's going for it. He's got huge, huge heart. You're never out of trouble with him.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Bob Gilder

He can smell the Schwab Cup, ... and can smell being the leading money winner. And that's where he's headed.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

Mark McCormack

I was just leading out J.J. and Page, but we opened up a gap." ()

Michael Wallace

I think they needed to do it. They might as well do it now while they have a leading position.

Jeremy Shockey

He's going to be leading us to the playoffs for a lot of years to come.

Santiago Cabrera

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Robert Creeley

O love, where are you leading me now?

Vance Wilson

I actually had a 17-pitch at-bat one time. The problem with long at-bats is that you typically miss pitches you should have hit, so you can't get into a mental game.

Eric Steinbach

He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes.

Keith Butler

He just doesn't make a lot of mental errors,

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Sheldon Brown

He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.

Steve Thompson

He's got that winning mentality and we need strong characters.

Yoandy Garlobo

We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .

Trevor Doughty

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

Barry Gibb

I think vocally and mentally we've managed to stay intact, somehow.

Dwyane Wade

I was like, 'Hey, Carmelo Anthony should be playing too.' . . . I think I could have helped.

Jeff Attinella

Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation.

John Buck

Just say today's the day and keep playing hard. Hopefully, it's going to end tomorrow.

John Tortorella

It all starts with our desperation level. We're playing with desperation.

John Muckler

He wanted a little attention, he wasn't getting any with Dom around, not playing any games.

Jim Boeheim

He couldn't get playing tonight. It's as simple as that.

Jose Reyes

He is playing like the game. He is trying all the time.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

George Raft

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

Jay Weatherill

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

David Liss

I once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door.

Marguerite Young

I like Gertrude Stein, and spent two weeks with her at the University of Chicago.

Source Unknown

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

William Whipple

I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Richard Powers

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

Samuel Johnson

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

Vladimir Lenin

Every cook must learn to rule the State.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

Tony Wilson

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

Chris Liddell

I switch on and off very easily; I'm inherently lucky in that sense. I sleep well.

Ozzie Guillen

I switched my mind, ... It worked for us.

Steve Squyres

It is a big step. We've really switched gears.

Kelsey Chow

I wish I could read minds. It's a dangerous superpower, so I'd wish for it to come with a switch where I could turn it off if I wanted to. You'd learn a lot about people, that's for sure!

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off.

Daphne Guinness

Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.

Stan Heath

They switched some things, and we didn't read the switches very well. We just made an inadvertent pass.

Randy Johnson

It's not something that's like a switch on my back, like I'm the Energizer bunny, like there's a switch I can turn on and turn off,

David Koechner

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

Brenda Ellis

King's is a tough team. We're going to have to come out and give it everything we've got.

Mark Grudzielanek

Just try not to think about it. It's a tough situation. You don't wish it on anybody.

Barry Alvarez

He's a tough little guy. He's only 175 pounds, but he's a tough guy.

Glenn Mason

He's good, he's durable, he's tough and he's smart. I'm going to try to get him another year of eligibility.

Pete Domenici

I think it's going to be very tough for them,

Ai Sugiyama

I think it's going to be a tough match,

Dawn Fraser

It is going to be a very tough series,

Avery Johnson

We thought we had it won in regulation. Carmelo made a tough shot. If we had to do it all over again, we probably would have fouled.

John Silvia

I think it's way overdue for this administration to get tough on spending,

Corey Brewer

We told him to get some training wheels.

Ryan Lochte

I took my weight training to a new level.

Ryan Lochte

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.

Troy Polamalu

The barefoot component of my training is about strengthening the toes.

Sarah Steelman

I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

Sanjay Gupta

When I was training, those were some of the most indelible experiences I've ever had, in my life. It is so raw. It is so human. It is so candid.

William Hung

I have had no professional training.

Warren Cuccurullo

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.

Vladimir Kramnik

Chess is a matter of daily training.

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Rose Kennedy

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

Robert Reich

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Sanford I. Weill

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Gary Payton

He didn't like the 19 (points) and 10 (rebounds, actually 7.8) he was getting (in the playoffs). This year we'll get him back to 26 and 12 or 13, and we'll be fine.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Todd Genke

We're pretty much getting on his back. We told him going into the year that he's going to be our guy.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

William Wilberforce

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

Two Chainz

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.