Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Dennis White

It is a very lofty but reachable goal, ... It's difficult to obtain, some of the best tae kwon do athletes never make it to the Olympics. It's definitely possible though, and it will be quite an accomplishment if he reaches it.

Bill Trumbo

Jeff gets good athletes and they play hard. He's a great competitor and tries to get it done the right way.

Mike Fitzgerald

KU doesn't play very organized rugby. They rely on athletes to make plays on the outside.

Bob Williams

Sponsors have to balance the short-term bump from the Jordan effect with the reality that Jordan won't be playing basketball three to five years from now, while other athletes they need to be focusing on will be.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Tim Kaine

Often, money is taken out of that fund for other projects. I'll make sure that stops.

Cathy Nixon

Any win is a good thing for us. This was one of the goals we set, this is something we wanted to accomplish. I'm proud of the kids, they played well and it's fun to see the reward of their hard work.

Joe Jones

The Second Injury Fund seems to be advantageous to a very small number of people.

Maisie Williams

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Richard Mann

Scholarship funding doesn't come from the state, it doesn't come from university coffers.

Kevin Taylor

I've tried other jobs, ... But I am having too much fun.

Hermann Maier

It would be fun to be the first to set the record of 2000 points to mark the new millenium, but I don't want to put too much pressure on myself.

Peter Sorensen

After 16 years, we're there. We've isolated it, and we can synthesize it.

Joey Gathright

A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you.

Ron Gardenhire

Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Arthur Lydiard

I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts and that, supplementary to this, running as many easy miles as I could

Arthur Lydiard

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

Arthur Lydiard

They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.

Arthur Lydiard

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Arthur Lydiard

I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts and that, supplementary to this, running as many easy miles as I could

Arthur Lydiard

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

Arthur Lydiard

They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.

Arthur Lydiard

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

Arthur Machen

Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the ugly streets of the big industrial town. He made hi way to the station at once, and found that he was an hour too soon for the London express. So, there was plenty of time for breakfast; which consisted of brandy.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Jim Brown

This one is a very competitive tournament. There's probably 10 teams in the top 20 there, at least.

Lynn Meger

There's not a lot of differences between their teams in that district. There aren't a lot of differences between our teams.

Cadillac Williams

We want to be great. No question. Even more than that, we want our teams to be great.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Tony DeMuro

That was the way we want to see it end. It couldn't be any better than that with three teams going after it.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Hillary Clinton

Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,

Jack Rio

He said he'd be back. That's a tough man.

Erik Estrada

I like to watch the Fox News Network. I like 'Nightline.' I like to watch 'The Sopranos,' of course. That is one of my favorite shows. 'Entourage' is another one. I like 'The Shield.'

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Bono

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Ben Katchor

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

Donal Logue

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

Doug Stanhope

I'm gonna film my entire life and watch it later!

Amaury Nolasco

When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.

Dan Castellaneta

It is better to watch things then to do them.

Confucius

Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?