Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Madden

This is a conspiracy involving chemists, coaches and certain athletes using what they developed to be 'undetectable' designer steroids to defraud their fellow competitors and the American and world public who pay to attend sporting events,

Shannon Brown

A kid that has been blessed with feet like that is going to be on the field, ... It would be hard for any player to come in here midseason and get playing time on the varsity level. You would have to be a tremendous athlete and Larry is a heck of an athlete.

Jerome Bettis

The first year, you're a fish out of water; you have no idea of the offense. Year two, you know the offense, you're comfortable. Now you can see the confidence come out, so now you see an athlete look like a totally different football player because they've got confidence, they're playing with authority and they understand where they need to be. So it's not so much that they get better in terms of talent, but you can see the talent.

Tom Carr

You don?t have to choose between being an elite athlete and being a student.

Norman Mailer

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.

Norman Ralph Augustine

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

O. J. Simpson

I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks.

Jonathan Hayes

Everyone has to understand one thing: This kid's been doing this only for a week. Obviously, the drills are going to be a little rusty, not look always the way you want them to, just because he hasn't done the drills. But the thing he has done is been an athlete for four years, and a damn good one, so that's where sometimes he can catch up on the learning curve. ... I think he has the willingness. Now we'll see where it goes from there.

Bob Sweeney

The Board of Education sees numbers. I see faces. If someone thinks the star athlete is the one getting by, they're wrong. These are the at-risk students ... and they need our assistance.

Thomas Hobbes

We are not to renounce our senses and experience, nor (that which is the undoubted Word of God) our natural Reason. For they are the talents which he hath put into our hands to negotiate, till the coming again of our blessed savior, and therefore not to be folded up in the napkin of an implicate faith, but employed in the purchase of justice, peace, and true religion. For though there be many things in God's Word above Reason--that is to say, which cannot by natural reason be either demonstrated or confuted--yet there is nothing contrary to it.

Steven Moffat

Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.

Ryan Simmons

My ultimate career goal is to just try to find a niche where I can make a living at making people happy, and using the talents I have been blessed with. What good is making a ton of money if you can't have any fun in life? I am so lucky to be able to be one of the clowns who help people find joy in their life.

Donte' Stallworth

Other than us staying here for a while, I don't even see myself as a victim because there are people who have lost family members, have lost everything they worked for in life and don't know when they're going to get their next meal or their next bottle of water. It's easy for me to stay focused knowing that those people are the ones who are struggling and not me. I've been blessed enough to be able to get out of there and get some of my things out of there.

Mandy Patinkin

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Mandy Moore

I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.

Malese Jow

I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.

Malcolm X

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

John C. Maxwell

We are so blessed, we get hundreds of emails a day that say, "John, I've worked this plan for one year and I can really see my growth." So what I would love is for readers [of Today Matters] to do that for a year and then email me.

Chuck Jordan

The thing that separates him from a lot of linemen is his mobility. He's got real good feet for a tall guy.

Bobby Patrick

My home didn't lose a shingle, but it's got 6 feet (nearly 2 meters) of water in it.

Jacoby Shaddix

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

Marsilio Ficino

What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .

Colleen Segarra

We'd like to get them back on their feet and make sure they get a full recovery.

John Lindsay

We don't have any ready. It's not just something you pack up and go. You have to work on it all year to make sure their feet are in good shape and they have no blemishes.

O. J. Simpson

We had five feet of water. And now our house has a slant to it and it's not safe. So, we're going to rebuild.

David Lee Roth

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

Renee Hoffman

We're talking three or four feet of sand in some places.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Andrew Strauss

That's not a panic situation we just have to keep working hard.

Joe Gibbs

That's my responsibility. Obviously we wanted to be much more productive than what we were in the playoffs. We always each year try and look real hard at everything, and that'll be one of the things we look real hard at is, offensively, how can we do a better job.

Brian Johnson

That's huge. Now we're in the thick of the race, ... There's so much parity in this conference, it would be hard for a team to sweep right through it like we did last year.

B. R. Hayden

That's hard for us to swallow. It's going to be hard for them to swallow. At the same time, we all live in Wake County. Something's got to give.

Keaton Nankivil

That's got to be our goal, to win state again. They taught me a lot, especially about working hard all the time.

Jack Nicklaus

That one is something I have a hard time just fathoming,

James Beattie

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

Carin Koch

You're thinking about your own match, but it's hard not to look at the board. With all the matches going the wrong way for us, it was tough. We've done everything we can.

Mark Richt

West Virginia did a heck of a job jumping on us. The only consolation is we didn't lay down and die.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Brian Kilrea

Tom Dempsey (the team's goalie coach) thought that the kid battled really well,

Colin Egglesfield

The reason I love kids so much is because they're so honest, so you know right away if they like you or they don't.

Jason Treutelaar

We will be all right there. It's a matter of the kids making plays out there.

Kris Alexander

Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are saying they train with them, why can't they go to state, too.

Pete Noble

Those two kids were special. But we've got some kids that might have been under the radar.

Billy Donovan

This team is just different. Different kids, different time, different everything.

Lesle Gallimore

This was a tough go as an opener, but I thought our kids played pretty well, especially with all of the new players in our program. To be up as long as we were was encouraging.

Terry Farrell

This was a physical game. Kids were down all over the place.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

John Wooden

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.

John Wooden

I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.

John Wooden

The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.

Calvin Branch

Scouting is something I'll be able to do later, but a player can play only so long.

Jeff Cunningham

College is a time in life where you get to know yourself as a player on the pitch and off the pitch. My coaches at USF were instrumental in making me understand the discipline it takes to succeed at the next level. Those were four special years for me.

Christopher Guest

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.

Ford Frick

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Ted Jr.

I think it's probably his time to go, and I think he will go.

Stephen Toulouse

It is on the table. Every time any kind of exploitation is going on, it is on the table.

Rick Barnes

He had it going. They were having a tough time with him.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.