Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Rodriguez

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

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.

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.

Yasser Elguindi

If you gave oil companies a choice between the tar sands in Canada or oil in Saudi Arabia, which do you think they'd choose?

Deborah Ellis

In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.

Adam Stern

Being Canadian, we get excited about it. We take a lot of pride in wearing the Canada jersey. A lot of us were stoked for it. We have a chance to surprise some people.

Steve Butler

Canada still looks great, the fundamentals are still quite positive.

Corey Holmes

He's a veteran quarterback who's been in this situation before. He had some down times in Calgary, but he's a Grey Cup quarterback.

Kiran More

It is a important tour for us as we will be playing at World Cup venues. It is an opportunity for players to experience the conditions.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

A World Cup without Zlatan is not worth watching.

Jonny Wilkinson

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

Wallace Tan

I guess we have to win our remaining matches and come through the play-off for a top five spot and make it to the World Cup in Germany.

Sven Eriksson

I really hope, fingers crossed, there will be no injuries, because I always said England will have a great World Cup if all the players are fit.

John Fitzgerald

I have played 11 years of Davis Cup and I think once I won a fifth rubber so it doesn't come around that often. It is a special moment for Chris.

David Gill

The FA Cup is important to everyone at the club. We have a great record in it and we want to win a trophy.

Dana Quigley

I'm glad to be in the Schwab Cup lead, but its all going to come down to next week. I've held the lead for 19 weeks. I've already pledged the money to charity. I want to do the same thing as (Allen) Doyle.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength

Bo Ryan

He didn't force anything, and he gets a double-double. That's a good line for Brian. It's a good line for anybody.

Ronnie Moore

You have to force Richie to come off, but he will be okay.

Aaron Bruce

He's a force inside. You love to play with players who are that dominant.

Kim Whitney

Her reach, and well, her height, of course. She's so physical because she has this mentality and force of just wanting to win. That's important to go on to the next level.

Michael May

Holiday '99 will force a shake-out about who can and who can't stand alone.

John Knight

We told them this is gut-check time. It's who wants it more. It's going to be sheer force of will.

Steve Spurrier

We threw one up, but we should have tackled the guy somewhere. We should have been able to run that guy down, but we couldn't do it. That was just one of the big plays in the game. Nah, 28-7 is no safe lead for us. We didn't force a punt in the second half, so it wasn't safe. They should have scored another touchdown.

Ben Wallace

I thought they were the more poised team down the stretch. I thought we maybe lined up too many threes down the stretch and tried to force the outcome instead of doing what we usually do.

Tom Goguen

Sun has a proven track record of doing this.

Betsy Beers

On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

Lorna Luft

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

William Law

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

Vinny Testaverde

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

Woody Allen

I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.

William Wilberforce

Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William J. Clinton

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

William James

Effort is a measure of a Man.