Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Mark Shapiro

Coco and Grady have similar skills, and we're extremely excited about Grady's future. Coco profiles best as a center fielder, which allowed us to be opportunistic and get a whole lot of value for him, which, in the end, was too much to turn down.

Pat Riley

Antoine is capable of having an outrageous night. I was going to sub for him but I just wanted to get him one more possession. We allowed Antoine to bring it up a couple of times. He hit a three and I kept him in the game.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent companyin this case, Enronis not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent company in this case, Enron is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent company - in this case, Enron - is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent company -- in this case, Enron -- is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent companyùin this case, Enronùis not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Peter Sellars

And the other great thing that we're allowed to do and you're not is use metaphor.

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Jim Gilligan

Once we get it all done, it will be better than it's ever been. Our baseball park and our baseball team are going to get better every single day... Right up to the end of the season, the field will get better.

Victor Conte

A professional baseball player, ... can drive a Mack truck through the loopholes in the current anti-doping program being administered.

Adrian Burgos

The story of Latinos in baseball, to a large degree was started in Tampa. There was some in Key West, but it really began to flourish in Tampa.

Ron Gardenhire

The story has always been with him that he's a sloppy practice guy, but a good game guy. He's gotten better at his practice now, and a lot of people talked to him about that, working on some drills. He's grown up a little bit and made his presence known this year in camp.

Ross Vecchio

The soccer side will be heavily involved in camps. Baseball will have an everyday presence.

H. Hunt

The sports hall in Chicago is a great facility, and Joe is an icon in the Italian-American community there. Chicago is such a great baseball town, so it made perfect sense to bring the items to the city.

Brian Giles

(The sweep) was disappointing, but only because we know we can play better baseball than that.

Jeff Davis

The third inning was a good offensive inning for us. It really set the tone and helped us settle in.

Colin Shaha

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this philosophy about be silly, be honest and be kind. I really try to talk to a lot of people about that on the team, and Joy is certainly all those qualities.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

Dr. Schaffner

People are trying to work out contingency plans to make sure there's a more equitable distribution. I'm sure it will never be perfect, but without work now, it'll certainly be chaotic later.

Carolyn Anderson

People are very health conscious. Certainly I am and people are definitely into the organic health stuff because we all want to live longer, stay healthy and enjoy life more.

Ted Saskin

Of equal importance is a discussion on whether the NHL is prepared to move in the direction of having a real revenue sharing program. We are certainly looking forward to hearing what they have developed in this area.

Wendy Ward

Off-the-cuff changes in the prizes certainly keep us on our toes, but what a great recruiting message. We really do enjoy treating our employees well.

Keith Acton

No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be the time to be urgent.

Aburizal Bakrie

A fuel price increase will happen certainly before January 2006. The sooner it is announced, the better.

Mark Bryant

Oil is certainly not helping, ... We passed $50 a barrel, and as to be expected, people are now talking $60 or more, which is uncharted territory.

Jerome Harrison

We really kicked their butts all the way 'til the end.

Steve Spurrier

Give them credit, they kicked our tails. No lead is safe for us.

Roger Tamraz

If they kicked me out the door, ... I would go through the window.

Butch Pierre

That was when it kicked in, when they kind of started to understand.

Ryan Dunn

I'm Ryan Dunn, and I'm about to get the sh*t kicked out of me by a girl.

Elaine Youngs

I kicked myself about that afterward. I just eased up and didn't go for it like I usually do.

Ben Barnes

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.

Steve Donner

We've kicked around the idea of putting together a local fund. There's no plan in place, no concept.

Jason Gibson

You have to be positive about it. Some weeks you get your butt kicked and some weeks you do the butt-kicking. That's what makes this league fun.

Mike Trgovac

Definitely, I would. But until the league does something about it, they're within their rights to do what they're doing.

Pat Brisson

Savior is a big word. No one's a savior of the league at this point.

Tom Hicks

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

Riley Wallace

We're 1-0 in the league and we're starting a new season now. You're in league play and that's what really counts.

Liz McCarrell

We wanted to come out and start league play strong. We wanted to show what we could do in league. And I think we did that, at least in the first half.

Nick Kroll

Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Jeff Olson

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

Brian Kilrea

He's their Danny. I think he's been a top goaltender in this league for years,

Rodney Lovell

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

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Things are calming, ... But that doesn't mean it won't restart.

Dan Hawkins

The whole streak thing doesn't mean a lot to me, but when you win three in a row on the islands, that's impressive.

Brian Baird

The whole roof was ablaze within 10 minutes of the first sign of smoke. I mean it was gone.

Rick Jones

The work that these subcommittees have done is not being disregarded. Just because visioning subcommittee members were not (selected) does not mean the subcommittees are getting ignored.

Steve Fossett

This is not just another round-the-world attempt; we mean to succeed this time. That's a tall order.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Shay Doron

You would think that little number (No. 2 seed in the region) would mean something, wouldn't you?

Jerome Hauer

Nothing indicates that this was anything other than a natural outbreak.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

Bill Cunningham

He's talked about it for months, I think this is the natural progression whether or not he runs for mayor.

Ross Lynch

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!

Michelle Turner

I didn't think homosexuality should be taught as something that is natural or the same as heterosexuality.

Meseret Defar

My speed is natural and I have been training very hard.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Boris Spassky

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

Cameron Sinclair

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Jamie Redknapp

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

Bai Ling

What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Greg Robinson

We're going to work; we're going to work hard. It's going to be quality work.

Cardinal Richelieu

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

Anton Chekhov

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Dean Koontz

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

Bob Dylan

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Deng Xiaoping

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Carl Sandburg

God, let me remember all good losers.

Conrad Hilton

Remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub.

Clare Short

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.

Dan Brown

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

David Antin

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

David Lynch

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

Confucius

Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.

Alice Miller

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

Alice Hoffman

Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

Sherdrick Bonner

San Jose was the only team willing to give him a shot.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Taron Egerton

I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

Tom Araya

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

Shelley Morrison

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Norman Foster

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

Randy Cretors

If we don't play San Benito, I'd probably get fired.

Robert Scoble

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Peter Hitchens

The whole of the U.S. system seems to be creaking at the moment,

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Jay Bilas

Even though it seems like a short timeframe, there's a lot that can happen.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Brian Clough

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

Brandi Chastain

Soccer has given me a place to express myself, fully and openly. To not be shy. To feel. To be crazy. To try things I might not try. To be honest in relationships. To make mistakes and realize that they're not life-shattering.

Brandi Chastain

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.

Brandi Chastain

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

Billy Connolly

,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

Eduardo Galeano

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

Eduardo Galeano

The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

Cristiano Ronaldo

When you see someone like him coming on, with his great pace and desire to take someone on, it is a boost.

Adam Richman

I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C. A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.

Ben Okri

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Jason Dufner

I don't like stress because stress stresses me out.

Janet Street-Porter

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

Janine Benyus

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

Jane Wagner

I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do--I had to let something go.

Bruce Forsyth

A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.

Bill James

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.

Eckhart Tolle

Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

Charles Bukowski

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

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.

Kirk Gibson

I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.

Kelly Clark

I was having a conversation with one of my teammates and she asked me, "Aren't you so glad it's over? We don't have to compete anymore." I thought that was a strange comment but in that moment I realized that I was doing it for the right reasons. I wasn't looking at the Olympics to define me. I wasn't to arrive somewhere by performing well in a contest.

Pedro Martinez

I love my teammates, and I'll do anything for them.

Curt Shaw

When Jared got hot, his teammates got him the ball.

David Ortiz

My teammates are the best.

Dwight Howard

I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

Dwight Howard

I just want to show Atalanta who I really am and show my teammates what kind of teammate I am.