Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Phillips

Ben was such a special guy. He had the utmost respect for people. That was one of the things we thought and admired about him and the love the kids had for him. The kids wanted to it because of the respect for the person. Watching him teach kids was a privilege. He was always energetic, always intense and an unbelievable teacher.

Frank Morgan

I was an admirer of Art Pepper even before I went to California, when he was still in Kenton's band. His playing is joyous, great.

Edward Albee

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

Tom Poorman

The mayor opened the door for people to speak out. The mayor did the right thing. He brought a higher profile to this matter. I really admire what he did.

Nora Volkow

It's a sense of doing something that can improve the quality of life for people, ... Of course I admire (Trotsky), I think he was an incredibly visionary individual.

Frank Robinson

A lot of guys said he was off the wall, he's crazy. I found him to be a guy with a lot of energy. He played the game hard. He just wanted to go out and play. Sometimes his emotion got in the way. He would lose control and tear things. I talked to him and reasoned with him. I listened to him. We developed a fondness for each other. I admire him for the way he goes about his work.

Steve French

This being the longest sports season of the year and having to train indoors, you have to admire any kid for sticking with it and doing as well as they do. It's the only co-ed situation of the team sports and there's a lot of camaraderie and support of the underclassman. I think the athletes had a fun season. It was fun for me to be a part of.

Richard Mathis

They've got a good system and they play it well. They play a lot of people and they wear you down. Give Bubba (Skelton) credit. His kids play hard every game. You have to admire what they've done.

Jim Tracy

For a guy to come in here and work to improve his versatility, to put on that catcher's gear ... I admire that. I had a 15-minute talk with him, and I told him so. Like I told him, it takes a hell of a lot more than nine players to win. ... I appreciate the demeanor he's shown coming into this camp.

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,

Jerry Friesen

It's really unique because not a lot of sports put people with elite athletes when they are competing.

Doug Perry

It shows how hard our athletes are willing to work under those conditions. Our kids continue to work hard and they're showing improvement.

Jeremy Bloom

It shouldn't be about winning. What's important is coming here, to a fantastic event that brings together great athletes from all over the world, and taking in the experience. That's what I hope to take from this.

Bob Davies

It?s become very competitive. There are qualifying standards and each school can only enter two athletes per event.

Clint Hurdle

It's been a little rock in our shoe. We'll work it out. We ran the bases outstanding all spring. For whatever reason we've made some mistakes on the bases. We'll get it tightened up. We've got the athletes to do it.

Kevin Nugent

It's great for our program. When you visit the Hall of Fame and see all the sports and great athletes in there, it's great that men's soccer is now in there. It will open the door for more players to get nominated.

Jim Sullivan

It's quite a split we have on boths sides, ... But they're all great athletes and we'll have some fun this year and some success.

Robin Wagner

It's probably about 80 to 90 percent. These athletes are well trained at this point. Everybody is in their best physical condition. They are well prepared. This is their moment to shine.

Bobby Vinton

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Steve Alford

This year's been easy. This has been a fun team. And I don't think these guys are ready to be done just yet.

James Blake

When I was warming up and it was windy and cold, it was more like a job, not going out to have fun playing tennis.

Harry Potter

Wizards are fun and I wish it was real,

Jordan Pacheco

We're supposed to be out here for fun. I mean, they're just starting their season and we're halfway through ours. It's fun for us, but we want to see how our team is, how good we are doing and how we match up.

Bobby Hauck

The receivers did a nice job. It was fun to see young guys get their first catches.

Ron Olsen

The other kids are stepping up to help out, and I think those younger guys are getting a feel for -- holy cow! -- this could be a good season. I think it could be a fun year.

Al Jefferson

This was fun because at one point Doc wasn't comfortable with us out there together.

Steve Alford

This team is having too much fun right now. We don't want this run to end Friday, we don't want it to end Sunday.

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.

Marty Manfredo

Every kid on this team is now a little better than they were before the game. And that's good. It was a successful night, but without a win, you're never completely happy.

Kurt Knauff

Every kid has been there already. They know what it looks like; they've seen all this stuff. For her, it's the first time.

Jim Bishop

Every kid has a bike, and every kid wants to race. So you just put the two together,

Masiela Lusha

I find time to write the way kids find time to ride their bikes.

Michael Laws

It's wrong for kids to be angry about something inanimate.

Bill Dee

To me, it's part of the success of the program, placing as many kids in school as we possibly can. It makes you feel proud of the kids and where the program's come.

Steve Patterson

We think she's going to be OK. But, obviously, we were being very cautious. With a kid in that situation, you don't want to make any mistakes.

Curtis Haggins

We didn't panic. I called time and told the kids we didn't need threes. We just needed solid defense.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

Chris Ellis

I didn't think we'd have a season like this.

Scott Hamilton

There's more to sports than just being big and strong and quick.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

Dorothy Allison

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

Donald Johanson

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

Don Yaeger

In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.

Don Zimmer

Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.

Dale Earnhardt

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

Cristie Kerr

I think LPGA players for a long time were afraid to say what's on their minds. But we're doing all the right things and there's nothing wrong with having some great personalities and rivalries and some friction. I think that's really good for the sport.

Cris Judd

From a very early age, as far back as I can remember, I always played sports.

Rusty Wallace

I made my decision. I'm sticking to it,

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

P. J. O'Rourke

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

Paul Jacob

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

Margaret Atwood

Support your libraries... or else!

Kevin Madden

We did a lot right with the voters with whom we've enjoyed traditional support. But we haven't done enough to build a larger coalition of voters. We have to modernize our message to reach a larger audience of voters beyond our base.

Kenny Marchant

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.

Carl Homer

That's another way we can support the program.

Quentin Bryce

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

Sean Hannity

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Drew Gooden

I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.

Drew Gooden

I was never a guy who came into a new situation on a team being vocal right away. I kind of monitored the situation, observed the situation and then found my role throughout that process.

Drew Gooden

My main focus, whenever I put on a new uniform, was just to provide energy. ... There was one thing I knew I could never mess up, and that was going hard. That's what I really kind of relied on to get me through the transition period between two teams.

Drew Gooden

I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff.

Douglas Gresham

I have a great deal of respect for Mark Gordon’s work and am confident that together we can bring the beauty and magical delight that Narnia engenders in the hearts of those who read the books to the screen in ‘The Silver Chair.’ I am very much looking forward to diving once more into Narnia, this time with Mark Gordon and his team.

Andy Kennedy

People realize that we're certainly faced with an abnormal amount of adversity. The Cincinnati faithful is still going through a healing process with what transpired with Coach Huggins in the fall. But over the 20 games they've seen this team, I think they appreciate the fact that this team continues to fight, even though they're not always happy with the result.

Andy Hertzfeld

But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Gina Carano

I am always training because I love it.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Doris Lessing

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

Doris Lessing

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

Donna Summer

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.