Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Williams

I think it really opened the door for black athletes at the time.

Steve Shephard

It came down to those last two athletes to do their job the best they could and both Stephanie and Meredith really came through in the clutch.

Denny Green

He'll be one of the best athletes they've got there. He can dunk a ball any way you want to dunk it. Absolutely. He's got exceptional speed, exceptional jumping ability. He'll be a regular gym rat.

Kevin Meyer

He knows we need to get him involved more. He is one of our best athletes and we need to find ways to keep him out on the field.

Hilton Armstrong

There are so many athletes on this team. But everybody gives up a little bit to make the team better.

Van Allen

Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.

Nick Hill

Having this kind of technology available to athletes and coaches helps give us that necessary edge that you need to win on the world stage.

Pat Griffin

For men, the stereotypical image has been that gay men are not competitive, not tough enough. It's important for people to see that these stereotypes are not true. Women athletes who come out become instant heroes, because lesbians want strong heroes.

Chad Nightingale

He's as down to earth as they come. You don't always see that in upper-echelon athletes like him. The kid has been raised right.

Brian Mulroney

He certainly made an important mark on Canadian journalism.

Ryan Gosling

I don't feel like I would be a good mentor. I don't know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

David Bolland

I could see them sort of lay back a little bit. They were sort of like, 'Holy ... what's going on here?' It's a Canadian game we want to play. We want to make sure everyone knows that we're coming out hitting.

Patricia Ross

I am concerned about the U.S. energy industry taking over our Canadian natural resources. We should be holding onto them more tightly.

Al Leiter

Having faced a lot of these Canadian hitters, I certainly didn't think of them as patsies.

Steve Butler

Rising commodities prices definitely contributed to the fortune of the Canadian dollar today. Commodities have been a positive factor for the Canadian dollar in 2005 and the market expects good news to continue this year.

Stephen Harper

If the Liberals are re-elected, this is what Canadians can look forward to, a government pre-occupied with ongoing scandals, corruption and police investigations.

Boris Schlossberg

If you have a continuation of gains in commodities prices, the Canadian dollar will rise. There is some positive momentum going on for the Canadian dollar.

Mark Burnett

If you look at that situation, it certainly bodes well for the future of getting a Canadian on Survivor. Tell Canadians to submit more tapes.

Roy Wilsher

Hertfordshire has had six recent training exercises on site in the last six months - the last one three weeks ago - and has worked closely with the site for many years to prepare for any incidents.

Richard Franulovich

We're oil traders now because currencies are trading so closely off oil. All the risk now is that the hurricane does not have all the negative effects for the U.S. economy.

Tyrone Willingham

I think we're going to look very closely at our situation to make sure we have things in the right order. I think we've got to make sure we've got that situation where it needs to be.

Jason Chaffetz

I have worked closely with my Democratic allies. Elijah Cummings is a good friend.

George Darden

I'm pleased that I won, ... I'm happy ... that the colleagues who I worked closely with were always there to support me.

Allan Adler

In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed in the Library of Congress,

Pete Domenici

I intend to watch this unfolding story closely and to hold oversight hearings when appropriate.

Rachel Johnson

I'm going to watch my friends more closely and make sure they don't do anything stupid.

Jamie Cullum

The first suit I enjoyed was a Dior suit that I got given. I've never worn anything that fitted that closely - it was akin to 'Oh my God, I had no idea that a suit didn't have to be this wide.' But I do intend to get one made some day.

Jacquie Fernandes

He used that word a lot. He said coaches have a hard time teaching it and some of them are things you can't teach.

Mike Shanahan

He can take some visitors, so that's a good sign. We'll have a number of players and coaches going over there this afternoon, but they still want him to rest. (The doctors) feel very good about his progress.

Rodney Carney

He coaches every single play, and you're going to have to do it, even if we're up 35 or 40. If you're out there playing around, and not really intense, he's going to sub you. You don't want to get subbed. You want to be out there and play.

Jim Larranaga

There are so many great coaches who never get to the major level. I hope that I do represent them here.

W. Hull

I think it's been a jolt of reality for coaches on what they have to do in practice to prepare for games. There's not a lot of sense practicing five-on-five stuff. You need to practice special teams a lot.

Pat Riley

I was concerned about where we'd be, as I'm sure most coaches are coming back (from the All-Star break). We have one game in 10 days, and this was it. We started to play very well at the end of the (first) quarter.

Pete Boone

I think all you can really do (attending games) is see how they conduct themselves, their mannerisms, how the players respond to them and how they talk to the other coaches on the bench. I don't know if any of those in particular are earth-shattering pieces of information, but it's another piece to the puzzle.

Ryan Taylor

I think being jacked up for games helps because you play harder when you are really into it, ... Sometimes I might go over the edge with it. Sometimes I might get an unsportsmanlike (conduct) or unnecessary roughness (penalty), but the coaches can deal with that as long as I am playing my hardest.

Bob Walker

I think Tim Cook would have enjoyed the meet. The coaches I talked to had a fun day and everybody seemed relaxed and enjoying themselves. Not having a scoring meet makes this a totally different atmosphere.

Greg Shaheen

Just who the committee deems is the better quality team.

James Knightley

We're probably going to get two members who go for a cut. The data isn't pointing in one direction enough for the rest of the committee to go with them just yet.

John Carney

I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers.

Jim Webb

I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.

Charles Schumer

If you held the vote today, she would not get a majority either in the Judiciary Committee or the floor, ... there are one or two who said they'd support her as of now.

Arlen Specter

If there are back-room assurances and if there are back-room deals ... I think that's a matter that ought to be known by the Judiciary Committee and the American people,

Ehud Barak

If violence is reduced, and the fact-finding American-led committee goes to work, ... we are ready to go (to the United States) and help put an end to violence.

Thaksin Shinawatra

I regret the loss of lives in a way that should not have happened, due to suffocation. I will order a committee to be set up to investigate the situation,

Paul Sarbanes

I regretted that the federal open market committee today continued to take interest rates up. You know, growth in the fourth quarter of last year dropped to just about one percent, the worst since 2002 in terms of quarterly growth in the economy. So, we're concerned about that.

Max Mosley

The FIA very much hopes that all the teams and manufacturers competing in this year's championship will also enter for 2008.

Darrin Walter

The kids are competing to be on the varsity squad.

George Husack

The Gaels are riding a good streak of matches and competing well. They have a crafty team of players and it's going to be tough to play them in Moraga.

Carol Peschel

These girls have continued to persevere and improve despite some injuries. Nikki was competing in the all-around. Now she may be on one event for the end of the season.

Reese Butler

It's not even just a waste of money -- they're actually competing with us! They're hurting an existing, successful effort, and for what?

Darryl Anderson

The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining some success while we're there.

Mark Sontag

After that, we weren't competing for overall. But lots of teams with top overalls didn't have the scores we were competing with.

Dean Oestreich

It's no longer about a single dominant player providing biotech tools to the marketplace. We are competing head to head.

Steve Carpenter

It's real surprising because I know they were a high competing team and they were ranked nationally.

John Stevens

I would totally disagree with that comment. I don't think we're ever considered as a soft hockey team. We've had this conversation before, our guys that are expected to score, need to score.

Susanna Moore

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

Jon Fleischman

Here's a state that Democrats have long considered an easy win. Not this time.

Paul DePodesta

He's a guy I've been interested in sitting down with for a while, ... We considered him for farm director position last year and he is a potential rising star in the game.

Silvio Berlusconi

He expressed his own personal position which in many ways can be considered well-founded,

Samuel Butler

He ne'er considered it, as loath To look a gift-horse in the mouth

Seabo Gaeganelwe

Parliament considered national interest and in as much as people raise their objections, no one will intimidate or deny the people in the town the right to vote.

Donna Shalala

In too many cases, we are missing opportunities to save people simply because families are never contacted and donation is never even considered as an option,

Howard Gardner

I often find that entrepreneurs think my theory is great. My interpretation is that they are people who weren't considered that smart in school because they didn't have good notation skills-you know, moving little symbols around.

Dwight Freeney

I was like, 'What, we signed a free agent?' ... It's big. I think the owner (Jim Irsay) really sees the opportunity to move forward here and make that push.

Joey Porter

I would think somebody would say it, but I wouldn't think he would say it. He's too soft to say something like that. He's going to have an opportunity to back up his words and I'm going to have an opportunity to back up my words. It's something I'm looking forward to. I'm ready to get it on.

Bill Stoneman

John has been an integral part in the success of our pitching staff. We look forward to another impressive season from him.

Jessica Wilk

JMU is a big in-state rivalry, and we're looking forward to getting back at it and getting on the right side of the win column.

Annika Sorenstam

I think it's very tricky, ... There are so many different bounces you can get on the fairways, on the greens and everywhere, really. It's not playing long, but it's really tricky. The greens are a little roughed up, so I'm looking forward to a morning tee time.

Johnny Damon

I was watching the Olympics and the ice skating and I saw the pride they had for their countries. That was great. That's what I'm looking forward to.

Sally Davis

He's a very smart person, and in a phrase I'd say he gets it. He's looking very much forward to being aboard the space station.

Kermit Hall

We look forward to a very long and thriving relationship with Ordway,

Peter Rice

We look forward to sharing this perfect gem with the world. It's in the tradition of movies that have worked well for Searchlight, from 'The Full Monty,' 'Waking Ned,' and 'Sideways' to 'Garden State'.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Woodrow Wilson

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

William McKinley

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Samuel Smiles

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

Tupac Shakur

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Vance Packard

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done

Robert Reich

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Edward Cooke

He was poking the screen with it, over and over until he ripped it. But he didn't say anything about it, and then he actually incorporated it into his explanation of the next slide.

Dylan Carr

He was good, but I'll be back next year.

Charlie Lewis

He was really on us that next morning, ... We didn't start that day.

Dave Blaney

I don't know where I'm going to be at next year. That's all I know,

Jim Scherr

His appointment to the Olympic team is our issue.

Sammie Henson

I want to be the Olympic champion. . . . Then I'll have peace that no one can ever take away from me.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Jin Yan

Safety and quality of all the Olympic venue projects are under control.

Don Kardong

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Andy Murray

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Cindy Klassen

The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver.

Shaun White

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

Sarah Palin

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

Tori Amos

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Margaret Deland

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

Ani Difranco

Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.

Dean Heller

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

Ali Partovi

Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.

Thomas Starr King

What a privilege it is to be an American!

Rick Santorum

A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a right.’ It’s a privilege that society recognizes because society sees intrinsic value to that relationship over any other relationship.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I have provided a soundtrack for a scene that I am in which is pretty cool.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

David McCandless

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

Richard Davidson

That is making it a lot more complicated for all social services, ... We are going to have to 'band' together to provide these services.

Bob Beauprez

It's something we can do an do quickly to provide some relief,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Ralph Alvarez

This is our way to provide them the taste that they crave.

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I had a lot of trouble with my serve in this tournament.

Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Michael Brown

I serve totally at the will of the president.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Judith Jamison

Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Kelly Jennings

A shutout is something that always is impressive. That's something we always strive for. We're disappointed we didn't get one.

Angie Martinez

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

Ralph Nader

We must strive to become good ancestors.

Fred Frith

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

S. Hughes

I didn't feel comfortable until towards the end. One of the things we're trying to strive for as a team is to find the knockout punch, and today I think we were able to do that.

Unknown

May you get all your wishes but one, So you always have something to strive for.

Joseph Lieberman

We support a woman's right to choose, ... The other ticket does not.

Rob Woodall

There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.

Ryan McGinley

Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.

Rhianna Pratchett

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Tory Burch

Having an environment that is supportive is really important for success.

Yahoo Serious

I support all Australian films.

Winona LaDuke

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Rudy Giuliani

If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

James Spithill

Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of guys, it's the ultimate environment.

Alejandro Canizares

He's a valuable player. He's one of the top three on the team, so we had a much weaker team this week.

Sergei Samsonov

He's a terrific player. He's tricky. He makes a lot of plays. He makes that team a lot better. Him being out of their lineup works to our advantage.

Matt Wichorek

I was down on myself. Our team was all over the place.

Stephen Cervantez

We treat every team the same. We just try to play our game.

Jeff Bourne

We?re now a team that is a threat to them walking away with a win.

Larry Pearson

Today in the Busch Series, the independent, one-car team doesn't have a chance.