Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Dawson

The 18th hole will present a birdie opportunity but as a dog-leg hole with out-of-bounds ever present it will also be a hole for potential disaster.

John Daly

I thought I had it but I missed a birdie putt on the 16th and then missed from four feet on 17 and that was the golf tournament. I should have had it won but it's just a lack of confidence in putting. Tiger has won so many golf tournaments I am sure I was feeling a bit more heat than he was but you just hate to lose that way and I know Tiger hates to win that way.

Jay Haas

I won't say it turned my round around, but it certainly helped. It never really looked like I was going to make a 4 on that hole at any point, but to walk away with a birdie was great.

Mardan Mamat

To birdie the three par-three holes on this course is like making a hole-in-one. The par threes here are tough with the wind blowing.

Mardan Mamat

To birdie the three par-3s on this course is like making a hole-in-one. The par-3s here are tough with the wind blowing.

Retief Goosen

On the front nine I never really did anything. All of my birdie putts were really too far away to make anything,

Vaughn Taylor

I was swinging really well on the front nine. I was hitting it really close to the hole and was feeling it. I can't remember a tournament tapping in and knocking in 2- or 3-footers for birdie as often as I have here. That's always nice.

Dana Quigley

I would have sold out for a birdie in a heartbeat. It's not important to lead the first day. I don't think it would have made much difference if I didn't make it.

Scott Petersen

I feel like I can birdie every hole right now. Maybe I'll have a 61 or 62 in me tomorrow. We'll see.

Brad Goreski

If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.

Darell Hammond

This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.

Bill Cosby

If you have one of the worst schools in the city, then chances are the teachers are not going to care for you. Chances are the parents don't feel seriously about coming to meet with teachers.

Ichiro Kawachi

The 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke just about do everything that we know that is harmful to the heart, ... It will damage the lining of the arteries, increase the stickiness of your blood, therefore increasing the chances that you will develop clotting and develop a heart attack.

Greg Jackson

That was tough during our championship year. He realized his chances of playing at another level will be extremely tough, but his education is in the palm of his hands.

Sam Jacobs

We have a more offensive-minded team with more weapons this year. Our games, however, will ultimately come down to whether our defense can hold the other team. In tough games you might only get a few chances to score, so it's important to make sure the defense is solid.

Mickey Blatnik

We could never get the lead to enough where (Maysville) had to panic. We had some chances to go up by six or eight points and take the game over, but we just couldn't get over the hump.

Otto Baric

We could have done better. We had a couple of chances which we should have converted. The Swiss are a good team.

Dan Favreau

We just didn't give them a lot of opportunities. They didn't have a lot of chances because our defense was really strong.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Randy Petersen

The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Malcolm Jenkins

The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Nolan Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

Jason Kidd

That won the game for us, (Jefferson's defense) and Jacque's two shots.

Webb Simpson

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

Stephen Hawking

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.

Buddy Bell

We got back in the game, but it seems we never have enough. We have too many holes in the lineup to keep things going.

Tiger Woods

No. 7 is one of the narrowest holes on the course, if not the narrowest.

Ken Johnson

I was impressed with our depth. We didn't miss a beat. There's no big holes in (the lineup). That's the key for us.

Brett Bergman

I was so nervous. It seemed like the quickest nine holes I've ever played, it went so fast.

Ernie Els

I wish we could have played 18 holes in these conditions.

George Clooney

What you learn after you're 40 is it's just about plugging up holes in the boat,

Verron Haynes

He was kind of off a little bit. His story had some holes and some leaks.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

LaSheena Brown

That was something new. They were able to get that lob in, but we stuck it out.

David Allen

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

Tom Renney

We stuck with it. Definitely, we had to compete.

Alan Lightman

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Shirley Manson

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

Leon Johnson

Our spinners bowled well as they stuck to the task and bowled well to their fields.

Don Blalock

I said 'who is he?' I was stuck thereafter.

Phil Garner

No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove.

Brian Gionta

You thought they were down and out, for sure. But they stuck with it and got some confidence. Once you win the first one, you never know.