Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

Billy Donovan

I've said it all along about this team, they derive a lot pleasure from moving and passing the basketball and playing together.

George Steinbrenner

Billy Connors was just great. He brought Jaret Wright along great, was patient and he stuck to him with great success.

Mark Ross

Black River Falls has good singles players. But we're a little farther along with our doubles teams.

Blake Lively

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

Benjamin Booker

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.'

Nick Swisher

We've had this stretch before, and we've bounced right back. The difference is, there's a lot more riding right now. We've just got to dig deep, keep plugging along and see what happens.

Joe Tiller

As the season went along and losses began to mount, we began to examine everything. We probably made the change out of frustration more than anything else. We just weren't executing the offense. We felt like we were leaving too many plays on the field.

Ernest Thompson Seton

At night we reached the Indian village of Pelican Portage, and landed by climbing over huge blocks of ice that were piled along the shore.

Gary Owens

Presence is an important tool. There's no question that people understand now that we don't have officers out there 24 hours a day. If they knew we were out there are at 3, 4, 5 in the morning, I believe that would have an impact.

Darby Hector

School is really a big part of my life. I really believe in the things we do.

Jonathan Kozol

Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco.

Allen Iverson

Saying something won't mean anything. We're gonna have to do it. I can't tell you anything that's gonna make you feel like we can turn it around. All I can do is believe in that and realize we're still alive. We still have a chance to make it into another season, and that's the most important part of all of it.

Eric Ries

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

Rose Tremain

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

Saleh Saaf

The search is still continuing in Jakarta ... We believe that he is still in Jakarta, and (there has been) no indication that he is out of Jakarta or the country.

Ewan McGregor

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.

Al Fernandez

I've taught children as young as 5 years old. Believe me they are easier to teach than these (let's say older guys).

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Trent Hunter

Special teams are what usually win games. We were working hard on both sides of that.

Jimmy Just

The way both teams played you would have hated to see either team lose. It was just a fantastic game. Both teams gave it all they had and that's what it's all about.

Bob Gainey

The way both teams are going, that's why you saw the game that we saw. It was important game and it could have effect the outcome of the season.

Eddie Wong

These are the two major sources of global liquidity. If both of them reverse, it is not going to be good for the global equity market, but it is too early to say that we are at the turning point.

Tim Crowder

The rings have been pretty popular. I brought both of mine and all of the kids have wanted to look at them. Hopefully they can help inspire them to reach for their dreams.

Gary Wadler

This is a work in progress. It has to be monitored - both its details and the implementation of the details.

Joe Faraldo

This is a reasonable solution. We'll both lose some things through arbitration, but that's what a negotiation is.

Rob Smith

This is extremely modest. This will not have the impact we need both for oil independence or climate-change concerns.

Saxby Chambliss

The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Colin Hanks

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

Marty Smith

That was two too many. The first rule was you must shower every day.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.