Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bowden

We've got 119 I-A schools. Out of 119 of us, I'll bet you 100 are fighting an attrition battle. You've probably got 19 lucky teams. Boy, they're lucky. They've kept their offensive line healthy all year, they've kept their running backs healthy, and they're probably playing for Southern Cal and Texas.

Robert Redford

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

David Harris

People who you call friends turn their backs on you,

Yossi Beilin

But it doesn't mean if, God forbid, this opportunity is missed that we have to turn our backs to each other and say, 'Alas, there's no peace between us,'

The Vikings

He's just a very natural runner, ... He doesn't have Bennett's breakaway speed, but few backs do. We know this much: He's the most physically talented running back on the roster. He just doesn't have Michael's speed. But if he can come in here and handle the load, he's got a pretty shot to be our No. 1 back this season.

Gregg Williams

He's one of those rare backs that has the patience, speed and power-the whole package-put together. We're going to have to do a good job of tackling and swarming the ball carrier because he's not a guy that's easy to bring down in one-on-one situations.

Jerry Allen

He's one of those backs that can go the distance on any play. You may hit him six times in a row in the backfield, but on that seventh time he can score.

Jerry Allen

He's one of those backs that can go the distance on any play, ... You may hit him six times in a row in the backfield, but on that seventh time he can score.

Ben Roethlisberger

My job is to lead this team, ... We knew it was going to be a battle and a challenge. We made some mistakes, but we had each other's backs when we need to have it and pulled through.

Ayn Rand

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Atticus Shaffer

My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

Kip Pulliam

We'd get up six or seven, and they would come right back and cut it to three. They hit three-pointers. They hit free throws. They're just tough to stop.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Tom Griffin

When you reach out for help and it's just not there, it's like signing a death sentence. The more they cut beds, they are killing people on the streets.

Aristotle Onassis

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

Dave Obey

I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

Scott Simmons

Don't try to be cute. Maintain your focus--you're hunting for a job, not reliving your past.

Stuart Cohen

E-mail is the primary source of viruses. So cutting off e-mail before midnight seems prudent.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Craig Sherman

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Kurt Faust

The opponent we're playing this week is the one in the mirror. We need to focus on ourselves and get better.

Al Rauch

We think it might make sense for them to try and focus on what they do well, which is Phase III testing and marketing,

Dan Hammerschmidt

We just turned it off. I didn't need to see it. You learn from your mistakes and focus on the future.

Cartier Martin

We just told him to focus and to not feel any pressure out there. We said, 'There's no pressure on you. Just go out there and shoot it like normal, and it will fall.

Scott Skiles

We just talked about it with the guys; we want to move up. That's what we'll keep our focus on now.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Max Cleland

Deployments have increased some 300 percent, and the military has been decreased by a third: Hello, good morning -- you can't keep that up forever, ... Sooner or later you're going to get people stressed out, spread too thin around the world, and they just won't put up with it anymore.

John Feehery

Denny is good at picking up the pieces. He is a very soothing influence. At the end of the day, I think people will be looking to Denny for leadership.

Bill Walsh

Dennis Green is as good as they get,

Randy Martin

DeMorius had a good night and Markie had some good, tough runs on second effort.

Thomas Carlyle

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

Jeb Bush

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

Carlos Gracida

Once we got to overtime, we were going to win. Luckily, I was hitting my penalty shots well.

Stephen Ames

Anything can happen. Especially where he's hitting the ball.

Mark O'Connor

The music is addictive, ... When it's going well, you feel like you're hitting home runs all night.

Stan Hyman

The scouts who have been looking at (Shore) for three years have been waiting for this, he's been hitting all his spots recently. This is his third promising showing in a row.

Vince Carter

I've been close. So it was fun. With Jason hitting the shots, I said, 'Jason, I need one more.' He said, 'I got you.' But I wound up getting it from RJ. Even better.

Rob Cosby

I've been kind of slow hitting this spring but today I feel great.

Phil Nevin

You should have been here, I was hitting fourth,

Jimmy Just

We knew Buckner was a big key. We were hoping to pressure him and wear him down. I think we did. Our kids did a nice job putting pressure on them and hitting some nice shots late in the third quarter.

Pat Hurst

I saw after nine holes (Creamer) was 6 up. She's our rookie, and she was unbelievable.

Carlton Fisk

I'm a six-handicap but those two holes scare me every time,

Seve Ballesteros

I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I hole it.

Stuart Appleby

You can't run away from the pack if you aren't running away from it. Running away would be six shots up with six holes to play. That would be pretty much a run away. There is a lot of golf, 25% of the tournament still left out there.

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Brian Kilrea

He's their Danny. I think he's been a top goaltender in this league for years,

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

P. G. Wodehouse

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

Hjalmar Branting

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be

Hjalmar Branting

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

Gordon Ramsay

When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.

Jim Palmer

The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

Dan Quisenberry

When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.

Carlos Lee

I've been very patient at the plate. I'm trying to see a lot of pitches and wait for the right one.

Billy Carter

We did over 200 adjustments, ... My patients really responded.

Ron Gardenhire

He's just rushing. He's not being patient enough.

Garry McPeek

We have to be patient and take what they give us.

Austin O'Malley

If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.

Thomas a Kempis

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.

Louisa May Alcott

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Stephanie Zimbalist

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Brad Williams

Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.

Rachel Weisz

In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.

Soren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

Scott Young

I was sitting over there and all of a sudden bam, bam, bam.

Ice Cube

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. You have to get it out in the open. You have to talk about it.

John Gardner

We just can't sit back and do nothing.

Mr Howard

Wilson, you are his horse, so I think you can sit down.

Cindy Murphy

If I want to sit in smoking, I should have the right to sit in smoking. And if you want to sit in non, you have right to sit in non.

Barbara Jordan

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Bob Dole

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

Aldous Huxley

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

Susan Sarandon

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

Ron Fournier

Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

Rumi

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

Tom Peters

Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes.

Tom Peters

Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.