Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Farber

Any information that leads to bringing him home as soon as possible, I would really, really appreciate it.

Steve Young

As a quarterback, when you drop back with the best athletes in the world basically paid to beat you up, you've got to know what it feels like to have a guy like that on your side. Unless you played, you can't appreciate what that means to you.

Michael Brooks

As competition increases our margins get challenged but we must understand and appreciate that competition breeds champions.

Doug Mirabelli

As a player, it feels great to hear how the fans appreciate you and your hard work.

John Armato

As a parent, I would appreciate any information about my child that I thought was going to be helpful to ensure my child was healthy.

David George

As a global company, AT&T is proud to have its name associated with this great university and some of the most exciting college football in the country. We appreciate our strong working relationship with Texas Tech, and we are grateful for the university's leadership to make the Jones AT&T Stadium name a reality.

Ken Shumate

As always, we appreciate the support we receive from the fans that were able to make the long trip to EPC.

Bonnie Blair

As an athlete, you spend so much of your time and energy getting to the Games, you don't think beyond those two weeks. The one thing an athlete needs is recovery time. Hilton offering a getaway is a tremendous acknowledgment of the dedication, sacrifice and hard work of these outstanding athletes. They will appreciate knowing they can use the Hilton Family Weekender package to relax and unwind.

David Gregory

As a Jew, I recognize the importance of Israel historically, liturgically: its place in our history and in our sacred texts. I fully recognize and appreciate that. I just think that, for me, a sole focus on Israel gets in the way of the pursuit of a relationship with God and a more spiritual existence within Judaism.

Dan Mullen

Athletes face some of the same issues any student deals with: academics, family and personal issues, career or educational path changes. Each person has a unique set of circumstances that lead to decisions they make.

Frederich Cepeda

This is a revolutionary team. Baseball is not judged by the price of the athletes but by the heart of the people.

Edwin Moses

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Dave Peterson

We had a very encouraging effort from many of our athletes for the first outdoor meet.

Dave Kohnen

We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.

Mark Wheeler

We have a bunch of excellent athletes and I have high hopes for the boys.

Mitch Barnhart

You have to remember where you want to compete. The schools at the lower end have not had that much success. If you want to compete, you must give your coaches and athletes the resources to do it.

Thomas Brooks

We try to do that. We have a number of athletes capable (of contributing). We don't want to be one-dimensional.

Lisa Miller

Like all good high school coaches, you walk around and you pilfer athletes from other programs. I was coaching field hockey and watching her play soccer and thinking, 'This kid would be really, really good at lacrosse.' So basically I chased her around with a stick for a couple of months and talked her into playing lacrosse.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Andrew Brunette

As players, I don't think that's any of our business. There's nothing we can do about it. This is between Marian and the Wild organization. It's not between any of the players. We basically come to play and we still have a job to do. The season is not going to stop. We have a job to do and we can't worry about his situation. That's something that he believes in and he's making a stand for it.

Gene Luen Yang

As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

Eric Benker

That's where the mentors come in. We make a commitment for at least one year to meet with a specific student weekly. We shoot hoops, play board games, help out a little bit with homework if needed basically we become a friend.

Ed Garcia

Rain not only produces all this water, it causes people to close their doors and lock their windows. That basically locks in the humidity.

Dennis Gartman

People who have been with me for 20 years know that when I say watershed that means a major shift. I've been a dollar bull for a long period of time, have basically been neutral for the past several months and am now turning to becoming a dollar bear. This move through $1.22 is definitive.

Stacy Pak

Our sense is that the holiday season has not been particularly good so far, that this past weekend's sales were less than spectacular and a New York City transit strike was basically the last thing the retail sector needed.

Dennis Ross

Our concepts are still basically the same, but we have made some modifications and that's what I've been going over with the leaders today,

Jack Bicknell

As far as their character, you can't beat either of those two guys, ... Both of them bring something and having two starters is a positive. You don't have to worry about the first guy going down.

Rick Stockstill

As far as the class, I'm not one to stand up here and talk about this guy and that guy and say, 'We beat this team or we beat that team on a player.' That's just not my style. We are excited about this class. I think the big thing in it is what I have said since I've been here, which is I want to surround myself with winners.

Guy Stout

As far as distribution goes, we definitely sell more wines here that are off the beaten path than we would even in Houston, because there's a demand for them here.

Jack Siedlecki

The bottom line is, their best player beat us. He made the biggest play of the game, and he beat us.

Emily Martin

The bottom of the order really came through for us today. When your last three hitters get seven hits, it should be a good day. Plus, we finished with 14 hits for the game. That should be more than enough to beat just about any team.

Todd Casebier

The bottom line is we gotta win. To get back to the playoffs we'll have to beat some quality teams at home and on the road and this schedule has that.

Samuel Johnson

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

Thomas Fuller

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be

Olga Klimova

A win would give us an easier opponent in the Big 12 Tournament. Everybody wants to win, and if we beat Nebraska, it will help us.

Carole Theriault

A new chain letter has entered the charts claiming that the MSN will be closed down unless the bogus email is forwarded to family, friends and colleagues. As always, these chain letters are best deleted as they waste bandwidth.

Frank Murkowski

Any increase in oil production will just go to meet increased demand that has already taken place, ... Thus, any increase will not result in significant price reductions to consumers ... at best it will just keep them from continuing to spiral out of sight.

Gregory Craig

Any proceedings from this date forward only serve to delay the final resolution of this matter and run counter to the best interests of the Congress, the presidency and the American people, ... We remain convinced that the national interest is best served by ending the process in a way that is fair, speedy and bipartisan.

Ken Hitchcock

Any player who thinks he is owed anything is wrong. You talk about the best players in the world, and they understand that. They always think they are a week away from going into the stands.

Kurt Warner

Anquan reminds me a whole bunch of Torry: the way they run routes, their strength to the football. Larry's a big young receiver, continues to grow. Those two guys I played with in St. Louis are the two best receivers I ever played with. The guys here have the same potential.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Mark Sanchez

As far as the Jets go, I'm competing to play. It will be a heated competition between Kellen and me, and I'm excited about that; I will do it in a respectful way. I have the utmost respect for him because he's a great player. Whatever's best for team will be best for the team and the coaches will decide.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Martin Brodeur

As far as I'm concerned, he's the best hockey player that I've played against.

Mark Whitby

As he sort of went down, two of them sort of dropped on to him to hold him down, and the other one fired. I heard five shots.

Stephen Roberts

Productivity hasn't met the high hopes held out for it and, as a result, has pretty much dropped off the radar screen for economy watchers.

Ken Hitchcock

Our energy just dropped right off the board. Our energy just went down the tubes and we've got to figure out a way to recover.

David Buckner

On the way down I actually got to see what it was like from an aerial view, and it was just destruction...it pretty much dropped my jaw,

Steve Matychowiak

Normally I probably wouldn't have been too sad about that record. It's the way we went 3-3. We started off 3-0, then dropped three to end it. For a lot of guys last year, it was a new experience. You can have a loss or setback and still do well enough to win your conference.

Jayna Neagle

Normally, $4,000 is the threshold at which you can drop collision and comprehensive.

Mitch Basefsky

The more efficient we are, the better we use each drop of water, the less likely we are to be hurt by a shortage because we're going to be able to use the water we do have as efficiently as possible.

John Vucetich

The moose are getting eaten by the high number of wolves. With moose numbers so low, we would have expected to see wolf numbers drop by now. But they haven't. That really surprised us.

Paul Hodgson

Compensation increases for CEOs, while far exceeding those for other employees, have dropped from the heady levels found in last year's survey.

Voltaire

No snowflake in an avalanch ever feels responsible.

Nate Clements

(Defensive coordinator) Jerry Gray feels the same way I feel,

John Greene

DB2 Express-C just feels like a much more profound piece of software.

Hillel Hillel

a place that feels like family, the warmth of home.

Lawrence Rita

The secretary doesn't feel this is push back. He feels it's an important clarification.

Andy Anderson

The speed on the water feels like 200 miles per hour.

Frank Anderson

The task force feels this is the most important point.

Tim Miles

I've never been through anything like that in my life. It was humiliating. That's what we talked about (at halftime), what it feels like to be humiliated.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I've always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me.

Fernando Bryant

Any receiver that says they don't think about going over the middle when you have a guy like a John Lynch or a Kenoy Kennedy or a Donovin Darius , they're lying.

Cofer Black

a second-tier guy but one who knows things.

Ted Farrell

As developers, we like open source because we feel as if it's the little guy sticking it to the big guy. And it is true to some extent.

Cameron Crowe

Ashton was one of the guys I talked to who I really liked.

Larry Taddeo

Ashton is one of the hardest workers I've ever been around. The other guys have seen that and they've seen how it has paid off for him. I would say that's rubbed off on guys like Evan.

Rob Ciarlo

As a purist I don?t like it. Put nine guys out there and let them play.

James Arness

As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your target. Often the first guy that shoots misses.

Galen Hall

As an assistant, Joe would be the only guy I would go back to work for.

Alain Vigneault

A win is a win, but the guys weren't happy -- they would have preferred to do it in regular time. It's a big win for us and I liked a lot of parts to our game.

Art Alexakis

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

Joshua Leonard

The big studio movies are spending more and more money, which means they have to open in more theatres in order to re-coup their investment.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Elizabeth Warren

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

Christian Lacroix

Ready-to-wear -- that means 'ready to wear'. Some people are doing couture during ready-to-wear (fashion week), others are putting up performances, we just come here with our little flowers.

Nick Harkaway

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

James St. James

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Louis Armstrong

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Claudio Fava

Somebody paid the bill. But this is my question: Who paid?

Herman Edwards

Quarterbacks are paid to win and he won.

Kathleen Sebelius

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

Karen Walker

Dr. Munger is paid $121,000, so it sounds pretty much a break-even to me,

Jon Kyl

Even if you win, you have no idea if you'll be paid off.

Dean Fryer

We've got all these wage claims. People are telling me they haven't been paid from Dec. 19.

Philip Rivers

Those two years were long for me and difficult. But I think I'm going to look back and say those two years were important for me and it really paid off.

Joe Pojman

We don't think it should be paid for with our tax dollars.

Bill Carr

Used to be that we paid for (use of) the whole aircraft.

Rick Moody

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Alexandra Stoddard

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Mark Zuckerberg

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Kim Crosby

Unless you've been there, unless you've woken up in it every morning,

Georgette Mosbacher

Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free.