Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Kevin English

Competing in this event is going to raise his confidence level. He got to see what he needs to do to get past some of the best talent in the state. There are no easy matches once you get here.

Bobby Bennett

Coal mining is probably one of the best jobs you can get around here.

Allan Schweyer

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Kayla Burt

Coming to the Hope straight out of college is the best move for me right now in my life as I am simply working with one of my passions.

Avery Johnson

Devin Harris probably had his best day, really, of the preseason, including practices.

Ashley Hahn

Developers look at it form the stand point of their client. Do people want their water systems tied to others? They want to best serve those people buying the houses.

Matt Hasselbeck

Detroit's been great. I've actually had a great time. The weather has been great. I've said many times, we've had police escorts everywhere we go in every city, and these are definitely the best police escorts. I don't know if they practice at home on the weekends or what, but these guys know what they're doing.

Paul Doyle

What did he run, about 30 meters in the first round and 40 or 50 in the second? You'll see a lot more out of him, he's really looking like he's going to do something impressive ... he's certainly looking like he's in sub-10 form.

Ted Leonsis

We'll look at free agency, but I'm still trying to find where big free-agent signings can help the team. There's certainly no magic wand to wave and the team gets instantly better, but I like the way we're playing and I like the way the players have responded to our coach.

Ryan Ford

Certainly it was big win and we're disappointed that we didn't get two. But going into this weekend, we're still in this thing.

Bob Melvin

Certainly he's a force. Whether or not he's in the lineup, he'll make you think about what you're going to do. ... I think emotionally it could be a big lift for them.

Jennifer Beals

Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative.

Mark Keenan

Certainly for product prices, the only way is up.

Mark Campbell

Certainly fewer and fewer young drinkers use it ... younger drinkers like to be seen drinking what's fashionable.

Robert Ray

Certainly Fannie Mae's interest would be to get to the finish line, to wrap up and get it done.

Tom Grzymala

Certainly don't take loans out of your 401(k). Let your tax-deferred money grow as long as you can let it grow.

Bill Vaughan

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

Wilford Brimley

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

Walter Lippmann

The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.

Jon Hamm

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

David Hayes

The horse has pulled up very well and his shins are great.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

Ogden Nash

In the world of mules there are no rules.

Norman Mailer

A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I'm not the kind that could lead the millionaire lifestyle. I've got a truck, and I've got my bike. I've got a lovely Labrador and two kitty-cats. I live very modestly.

John C. Maxwell

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

Lamar Odom

I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

Kyrie Irving

I haven't been a leader -- not at all.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

Jon Meacham

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

Henri Nouwen

To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.

Hattie McDaniel

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.

Helen Mirren

Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've finally reached the point when they can let go of al technique.

John Barrowman

It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.

Jim Rohn

Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them!

Shirley Lasker

They took down all of those trees without getting permission or letting us know.

Anne Lang

There's always going to be some unknown work that comes up. Then it's just a matter of communicating with your people and letting them communicate back what they can and can't take on at that time.

Ron Nelson

It was big for our team to not get down after letting them come back on us. For us to be up 7-2 and let them back in it could have been bad.

Bob Barnett

We pride ourselves on not letting teams get what they want.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

George Smith

I tell our players a lot about some of those guys. I don't know if they realize the tradition. Maybe if they see it in the paper, it will mean a lot more to them.

Larry Brown

I think he just didn't want to shoot the ball. I thought he'd have 15, 20 assists. It was just one of those nights where maybe he didn't feel like he was on.

Robert Hansen

I think maybe the shock of the water froze his senses so he was not able to breathe. I can't understand myself what happened.

Gary Kurokawa

I thought maybe we would have more than what we're actually receiving.

Andy Roddick

I thought I played maybe better in the second and third sets than I did in the first set,

Mark Wilson

I thought it would be a lot more obtrusive than it was. I think maybe the next time it happens, that uncertainty will be gone.

Brian Barnhart

We can't get rid of them on the two-day (race weekends), but maybe we can at the three-day shows.

Paul Costa

He and I have been trying to work with the governor's office to work out an arrangement -- maybe a zero-interest loan,

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!