Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Geir Braathen

The size of this year's ozone hole is approaching an all-time high, but it will probably not break any records.

Andre Agassi

Ivo, it's so hard to break him. One or two points can decide the match. It was good to close that one out, this was getting tougher.

Alan Schroeder

Something has to happen to break one guy loose,

John Callas

Something could just break and that will be it for the rover. There could be one day when the rover has a massive stroke and it will be over.

David Armour

Some people don't even expect us to score on these teams, ... We score twice, that might break their momentum and make them ask, 'How are they doing this to us?' Whether it's one point or it's 30 points, I'm going to be upset because a loss is a loss.

Mark Cuban

Somebody said that he was trying to break up a fight. There was no fight. He just pushed him. He put his hands to his chest and pushed him. By the way everybody reacted, everybody knew there was a problem, except for the official that got pushed.

Ramez Naam

Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

Riley Wallace

The seniors have led the way, there's no question about that. There was a time during the year when we lost a couple games that they could have gotten down, but they never did that. They just went to work and really kept it going. It all starts at the top with the leadership.

Charlie Batch

I've been to a couple of places, but this isn't the first I've been back to Detroit in a while. I was here in our bye week. During the off-season, I'm here twice a month. This is my second home. There are a lot of people I went to school with, a lot of friends I have are still up here.

Rick Carlisle

A.J.'s the starter for now. We'll see how the next couple of weeks unfold. We were in this same situation in January and probably rushed him back too soon.

Scott Harris

Zach is just a freshman. In a couple years he is going to be real tough.

Matt Proper

You're looking up at the sign and you've looked up at the sign three years in a row and it's like, Senior Night? Big whoop. But when you see your name up there it's like, wow. I only have a couple weeks left. It is kind of tough.

Tony Dungy

You realize how difficult it is to get 100 wins in this day and age, with the instant gratification and where you have a couple of years to make things happen. It puts you in really special company.

Kevin Coates

You read a letter like this and you get to sleep for a couple hours. It makes you feel good. That's the whole point. It makes you feel good.

Simon Gagne

You need to get a couple moves in your head. The move I did was the first move in my mind. I haven't had much success in shootouts this year and I was a little nervous on this one. Maybe this takes off some pressure and the next one will be sweeter.

David Lawrence

You raised a couple of questions at the end.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Ed Sennett

Our defense took them out of it. It looked like their kids were a little tired. They played three pretty hard games in a row. We put the defense on them, got ahead, and when you're tired, it's hard to come back.

Jack Siedlecki

Our defense stood up each time we turned it over.

Chris Carlson

Our defense played tough. I just thought our zone did a really nice job on them.

John Carroll

Our defense played great, just like we expected. Offensively we did just what I expected as well. We made a ton of mistakes, but we did what we had to.

Randy Appling

Our defense played better tonight. Hudson hardly took any shots inside the paint tonight and we limited them to three offensive rebounds, all in the fourth quarter.

Dan Campbell

Our defense played amazing. They played their hearts out. That's why this is a team game. The defense really bailed us out today.

Angell Floyd

Our defense picked up in the third quarter. Our defense was horrible in the second quarter. We were letting them shoot at will with wide open shots.

Richard McKenzie

This is the downside of the lack of pollution in New Zealand.

Bill Brandt

This is the downside of doing an all-debt plan.

Charles Schumer

Even if he is more likely to be a Rehnquist than a Thomas, the downside of him being a Thomas outweighed the upside of him being a Rehnquist,

John Travolta

I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is making a living at doing what he loves doing - acting, singing and dancing. So any career ups and downs were not that significant to me; the only things that really powerfully impinged on me were my losses, and there were many in my life.

Andrew Grove

I don't know that you can say it's over, but our industry has its ups and downs superimposed upon a steadily increasing growth curve.

Brett Gallagher

Had they won, the upside would be significantly greater than the downside we're seeing . . . .

Al Leiter

He is a guy modern players can relate to and respect because he actually played at the major-league level. He will understand the ups and downs of a major-league player and know when the time is appropriate to jump on someone and when to give a pat on the back.

S. Walker

In order for the program to work it has to have some teeth and that's the downside if you're not willing to make a full-blown commitment.

Jerry Miller

It's a great day -- I'm glad to see the sun, ... The only downside is we have fewer volunteers -- people had priors plans. Right now, I have nobody to run the trolleys.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Tomas Vokoun

We scored that goal. It's not like they gave it to us.

Bill Clinton

You gave me the ride of my life, and I've tried to give as good as I got.

Eric Davis

There was a five-point swing at the end of the third that gave them momentum.

Leo Beenhakker

When we started in May after three matches the team only had one point and nobody gave us a chance. In the qualifying matches it went better and better, and this, of course, is the result.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Reggie McNeal

We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Anthony Hopkins

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Simon Pegg

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

Russ Grimm

And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.

Victoria Jackson

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

Suzanne Collins

In other words, I step out of line and we're all dead.

Jim Richards

We really struggled offensively and lacked the timely hit,

Larry Brown

I'm sure I've been 0-3 a lot, ... And most of my teams have struggled early.

Tiki Barber

It was a tough sled. We struggled a little bit.

Peter Zoppi

We struggled offensively. We didn't make enough contact. We couldn't deliver.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Pete Carroll

It took all day long to get this win, ... It took every second.

Scott Justus

They took us out of some of the things we wanted to do.

Ricky Proehl

They took away a lot of things. They took us completely out of our game, and that's a tribute to them.

Christopher Hitchens

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.