Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything going on in his teeth and his hand. To me, that is major surgery. I made up my mind after talking to him. I was inclined to get him when I went out there. I decided he had enough.

Randy Barnhill

Jack was getting after it. We decided to switch him around and move him up front (from the midfield), because he can score when he's got the ball.

E. Hicks

John has an important job here with the Rangers. I want him as part of our team as we move forward and I am glad he has decided to stay with our organization.

Marty Schottenheimer

He wanted to finish, but I decided it was time to give Michael a few shots.

Dave Jones

He could have done anything else, but he decided to come out for track. I'm proud I got to be his coach.

Sam Jr

He decided to wait because he knew he was going to get some interest late. It was a very good decision for him to wait.

Graham Joyce

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

Sonia Levitin

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?

Stephen Rodrick

More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.

Jason Varitek

He's got electric stuff that is downright filthy.

David Phillips

The last two days, it has been downright miserable.

Brian Bailey

At best, this message is misleading, and at worst, downright deceptive.

Sylvester Croom

We were horrible. It was downright awful. I don't know how good we are, but we're a whole lot better than we were last year.

Rob McKittrick

At 20, waiting tables is a great job, but at 24 it's not so great, and at 27, it's downright sobering.

Pat Burns

Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

Matt Baker

The time and effort he put into it was downright impressive.

Ren Zamora

Motorola's results did not just surpass our estimates, consensus, and management guidance, these 1Q 04 numbers were downright huge.

Christian Winthrop

This shows that Ms. McFarland is not a serious candidate. It doesn't look good for someone who's running for U.S. Senate. In fact, it's downright embarrassing.

Joe Torre

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

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.

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.

Mark LeRose

He keeps us in games. He's really stepped up recently and made a statement.

Rich Brooks

Hayden Lane has played some good games for us. We are not giving up on him. We need better production, particularly from the right tackle.

Debbie Eaton

Having a lot of veteran players will be a big help to us. We get a quick look at Section 2 teams with three straight games right at the start, but that's good for us to play teams that are so strong.

Colby Armstrong

He's a great kid, and he works hard. He kept us in so many games that could have been so much worse this year. The last two nights, it's been great to see him having success. I couldn't be happier for the guy.

Buddy Bell

He's a guy that'll help us win some games.

Scott Erickson

What we wanted to do was just put to rest the question of, 'Hey, are they going to be around now that (Apple is) making a major switch to Intel?

Jon Cryer

His name is Blane? That's a major appliance, that's not a name!

Dr. Armstrong

I think it's a major step forward. There's no question about it.

David Becker

I think it's a major step forward, I don't think it signals any retreat from vigorous enforcement.

Rhodri Morgan

It is all part of a major Welsh revival. We are raising our game, and not just on the rugby field.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Sylvana Foa

I think (that) the major conclusions are that there are a lot of very rich people who are getting very, very rich, and there are a lot of very, very poor people who are getting even poorer.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Jacques Santini

It is important for the players to relax physically and also psychologically,

David Reeves

He's a very physical kid, but I think he played physical in basketball, too, when I watched him. He was always up on you bumping guys.

Rick Newman

He was physically unable to get to the closing.

Willie Randolph

He has to feel real strong physically and throw a little bit. You don't want to play around with a hamstring.

Rich Manning

He is a very reliable defenseman who is physically gifted. He can recover and play a lot of minutes.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Willie Anderson

Physically I'm doing good. It's going to be a while before I get that game-type conditioning and get my second wind in the game.

Joe Haldeman

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Geoff Stults

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

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

Retief Goosen

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

Rube Goldberg

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

Ruben Studdard

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

Rose Leslie

I now LOVE archery, I find it a very therapeutic sport. I would be taken away for a couple of hours before we started filming to get back into the rhythm so that it was a fluid movement of picking up the bow and then the arrows and just being able to make it look as authentic as possible.

Roger Kahn

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Umberto Eco

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Umberto Eco

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.