Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Foster

That's no excuse. Young and athletic is a positive for them, but then there's young and inexperienced for them. If we're not as athletic as them, we have to beat them with experience; and obviously we didn't do that.

Marc Ganis

That myth has been broken long ago, ... Everyone who follows the Olympics knows commercialism and corporate sponsorship is as much a part of the Olympics at this point as athletic competition. It is simply aesthetics, it is simply a veneer.

Alec Gunn

Brian is an all-around athlete. He can really haul. He's one of those guys that you've just got to let them stay in the game and get their rhythm, and he did that, I think.

Paul Dee

While the recording was made privately, it was not intended for public distribution or use. To be clear, the University and the Athletic Department disapprove of the content and its references. To those who may hear this material, we apologize. Any students whose voices can be identified will be subject to appropriate discipline and/or counseling.

Russ Bartlett

You can look at it as flash versus fundamentals. They're the most athletic team we face, so we have to be fundamentally sound.

Chuck D.

We wanted to spread them out. We are much more athletic than most teams we play, and when we have played the ball wide, we've always got people who are well-disciplined in their positions back door.

Mickey Matthews

Everyone understands money, ... When the head of the household gets a big raise, theres more things you can do. If your athletic department needs money to operate, thats why you go play em.

Chris Schultz

As soon as you start winning 10-0, 12-0 you're going to get a bad name. It just put this black eye on the team. If you look at the numbers, it was just common sense to put us back where we were. It's something that shouldn't have happened in the first place, but we're all thankful that the athletic directors voted us back into Class A.

Shawn Baumgartner

Discipline comes with the program. Hopefully, it carries on to the athletic fields. More importantly, it carries over into the classroom.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

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.

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.

Elaine Youngs

Rachel was first on my list. I'm so happy it's happened this way. I'm having so much fun and I'm probably playing the best volleyball of my career. Rachel has a lot to do with that.

Jason Williams

Probably when I was 8 or 9, because I knew I was the best player in the league, but that's about the last time. I always felt like we could win, because if I didn't feel we could win, what the use playing? But realistically, no, this is the first time.

Melvin Johnson

Probably what we are best known for is our quality work and getting turn around so fast.

Marshall Wittman

Privatization is at best in hibernation, and at worst awaiting a second Bush term, if there is one. But it's just not going to happen during 2002, which is an election year, and while we may be recovering from a recession, or still in one.

Ray Tanner

Probably the best case for him would be (out) six to eight weeks. If he does have to have surgery, then he'll be gone for the rest of the year and possibly next year.

Glenn Wilson

Probably, that was the best start in the last month by any of our starting eight pitchers. To hold a team like that, with the kind of offense they have, to three runs - it's outstanding.

Joe Williams

For Tom and myself, it's an extremely special day to be able to be involved with the Cincinnati Reds franchise as my father and uncle were at one time. We only hope to be as successful.

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Jeremy Mayfield

Coach Sampson was a major, major, major part of me signing.

David Ryan

Coach McCaffery was great to us this year. It was a great year, and right now he's our coach.

Taurean Green

Coach kind of got upset that we didn't listen to him. We can't let half our shots be threes in the first half.

Gary Foster

Coach (Ken) O'Donnell always tells us stories of the old teams. It's inspiration for us that we can be the stories for the next kids coming up. We want to win the game so we can show those guys that we're still here. The game is dedicated to them.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Eric Wright

Coach Holt is a heckuva guy, ... I love him as a person and as a coach.

Danny Nee

Coach Hobbs has done as good as job as any coach in the country at taking a program and moving to another level.

Chris Ross

Coach hit on that the other day. He said we have three wins and the team in fifth place has five wins. Everybody wants to get that high seed. Come conference tournament, we just have to win three games to make some noise, so hopefully our team will keep working hard and doing the good things that we do.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

John Daly

So more money will be coming in as well.

H. Hart

Sometimes in Leominster High School it is very hot in some of our areas. I think if all of us know it is coming and can prepare for it, it will be fine.

Phil Jackson

Teams that have lost a lot of games are dangerous teams and we knew that coming in. We just have no excuses. They outplayed us tonight.

Sarah Lowe

Teams come in and see Tennessee on the jersey and fold. The game is over before it even starts. It's a matter of coming out and giving it everything you've got, and that's what we did.

Brian Barber

Southmont is a conference rival, and it's a senior-dominated team. We know they're going to come after us. We're going to have to win three games to win it, so we have to go the long route.

Derek Dougan

The way he pitched tonight he's looking really good. He's definitely going to be a factor in this conference season.

Robert Poole

Every conference I went to in 2005, this was the topic.

Rob Smith

This team needed a win. It's been a tough start for us and this is a good way to start conference play.

Edmund Daukoru

We are doing a mini-bidding conference on May 19 and, thereafter, as soon as we can put the paperwork together we'll sign the deals.

Ernie Nestor

Like every team, we want to go to the NCAA tournament. Our seeding for the conference tournament is very important, as is the way you're playing. Hopefully, we'll have those in our favor when it counts.

Scott Wofford

If we had lost, it would have put us back in the middle of the pack. So this is a big win for us. Now, we've got to go on and finish the second half of the conference season strong.

John Casson

(Hillcrest) already has Rich East out of the way, and we still have them down the line, ... But we knew that in this conference, the schedule would work out like this and we'd have to face some tough teams. I think the conference hinges on every game from here on out.

Matt Mason

I don't really know if anybody's got a realistic shot at winning the conference outside of Mascoutah.

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Laura Harper

Our confidence in overtime is out of this world.

Bob Kummer

Developmentally, we still are growing. We still need to learn how to play together and gain confidence together. But we are more hungry and knowledgeable, I think, this year.

Kelly Scott

It was the only shot to make and we made it perfectly. We saw that spot a couple of times earlier in the game so we had pretty good confidence on how it would react. We had luck on our side with the way it reacted.

Bruce Willis

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

Ryan Franklin

Every guy loves to have someone back there who knows what he's doing and has total confidence in his game-calling. That's what he have with Sal. There's a reason he's stuck around so long.

Billy Tauzin

As soon as one or more of these major corporate figures is indicted and convicted for the thievery that occurred at the expense of the American investor, I think confidence will gradually come back.

Geoff Cooper

At the moment we're estimating it will be mid-2006 before we see any kind of pick-up. There's the impact of consumer confidence and the housing market,

Mike Englund

Confidence should remain healthy well into 2006 given robust trends for employment, income, and consumer spending.

Alan Horowitz

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.

Bastien Ripoll

It was very very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly. It was exactly what we expected. We were very confident during the warm up and we knew it was our chance.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Richard LeVine

You have to have a feel for what's really going to work in the long run, what the issues are that may seem controversial in the short run, ... If you're pretty confident that you've thought it through, you'll go ahead. But if there's a lot of controversy and you actually listen to the opposition, sometimes you decide they're right.

Brian Mason

We were confident that we were going to win. We knew what we had to do in order to get the job done.

Ali Dabagh

We were confident before, but now we are totally confident.

Shane Valdez

I thought Luke wrestled great. Lucas is solid and Luke pretty much handled him. He's right where we want him to be going into state - healthy, confident and feeling strong.

Martina McBride

If I walk out onstage and I get a warm, excited response, it makes me feel so confident and happy, and then it's so easy for me up there.

Jack Rio

I don't think there's any question that this team is going to go over 30 a lot. We feel confident about the way this unit is pulling together.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as we got the win. We gotta deal with that other (stuff) every night. But we fought through it and got the W.

Brian Baker

After going through what he went through last year, nothing is that big a deal to him. I think now he respects that it's important to win a tennis match, but it's really a small part of his life.

Andrew Larson

Some people make the connection, some don't. It's not something I would ever make a big deal about,

Dave Scott

Right now we're just trying to deal with the needs of the kids.

David Wright

It would have been a fantastic technology if we could have gotten a deal. It would have been just a huge deal for Iowa.

Laura Bush

I understand that a lot of people don't want change, but this is a good deal that makes fiscal sense,

Mark Jackson

Think about what you deal with in the NFL. You get one first-round draft pick per year, but at USC you get about six or seven.

Mark Jackson

Think about what you deal with in the NFL, ... You get one first-round draft pick per year, but at USC you get about six or seven.

Gary Ross

Things like this, we take seriously and we deal with.

Howard Marks

The state of Florida would have never required her to take her veil off if 9-11 had not occurred.

Mary Wesley

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

Rich Templin

If every person in Florida got a job at McDonald's we'd have a zero percent unemployment rate. Would that mean we have a healthy economy?

John Peterson

If Florida doesn't want to produce, then they better conserve,

Roxane Gay

Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm.

Paul Mainieri

We know they're going to be tough, especially at home. They're a Florida school and they've got good players and a good coach.

Josie Nevitt

We got to New Orleans Thursday night. We had heard Katrina was heading towards the Florida panhandle.

Eric Blaesing

We have more stores in Florida than any other state.

Coleman Stipanovich

We've done a great job. We just don't seek publicity and recognition for it. We hope members of the Florida Retirement System recognize it.

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Terrence Holt

It was funny. We were going back and forth with each other, talking the whole game.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Leroy Franklin

These are two very big games for us. We have a young team that is really is starting to come on and we're getting better with each game.

Rien Long

These are the games d-linemen live for. We were grooving.

Jerry Stackhouse

This is starting to become who we are. We feel that we are going to win these games and have the wherewithal to sustain anything any team throws at us.

Jim Tressel

This is one of those games that I don't know that you have to worry about getting anyone's attention,

Marc Bulger

You want it to be more balanced, ... You're not going to win many games in the NFL throwing it 60 or 70 times. It might work in high school and sometimes in college, but in the NFL you've got to have a running game.

Andy Reid

You're not going to win too many games in the NFL with six turnovers. When you really get down to it today, that was the problem.

Flip Saunders

You never feel like you're in good shape. These are all winnable games, but they're all games you have to go out and play. No one's going to give you the game.

Scott Johnson

You only score two runs and that is what happens. You are not going to win many games like that. Jones pitched well enough to win.

Mike Greene

I wanted to jump over the glass but I couldn't so I just stayed composed. It was a good feeling.

Davy Jones

I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.

Mark Cuban

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Oscar Wilde

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Larry Bortniker

Just make sure they have a glass of wine first.

Joni Pugh

I wanted to provide a place where people could come in, have a nice meal, and maybe have a glass of wine with their meal.

Park Chan-wook

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

Ralph Cudworth

A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

Larry Merchant

To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.

Paule Marshall

You're going to be gone so maybe you aren't the right one to talk to.

Stanley A. McChrystal

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

Mason Cooley

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

Jay Wright

I don't think we understand how hard people are going to come at us. These guys have never gone through a season like this, ranked early, getting so much attention. Everyone else wants to make their name off you. You can't imagine how hard people come at you.

Chris Pine

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

Frederick Jackson Turner

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

Frank Gehry

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

Felicity Huffman

The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

Fiona Gubelmann

I am so happy, each and every day that I come to set. Some days, I'll be there 12 hours, and it feels like five minutes have gone by.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Jane Austen

One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Tom Coughlin

No way were we going to lose at home on this date, for this great city, ... There was no way.

Mr Howard

Now it was always ridiculous and it's done great harm to a product and it's done great harm to the consumer,

Robert Davis

Now I'm worried. That worries me a great deal.

Randy Jackson

No matter how great your pitcher is, things are going to happen and you're going to have to back her up.

Edward Lincoln

So there's a different group of people managing the Japan relationship.

Bill Cowher

I've been waiting a long time to do this. This is yours, man. This is special group of coaches, a special group of players and I was a small part.

Shelia Smith

This is the first time we have ever reached the second round here. This is a different group than what we've had in the past, but we still seemed a little nervous today.

Lao Tzu

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

Jason Muzzatti

This group is a little better than the Devils.

R. Inge

You would think the overall market should be stronger, but the reason it isn't is because the heavier weight groups (financial services) are weighing down the market.

Ira Zuckerman

You're one person and I could have a group of loans that will go to that bank.

Susannah Fox

There's a group of Americans who are really hard-core offline, truly disconnected.

Michael Emerson

We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.

Jonathan Ive

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Butch Cassidy

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Busy Philipps

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Jamie Oliver

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

Jami Gertz

My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most.

Janet Jackson

Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.

Miley Cyrus

I always love coming to Disneyland but celebrating my birthday here with my family, friends and the kids from YSA is really awesome!, this is a night I'll never forget.

Alyn McCauley

Obviously it was a set play and we didn't react to it well enough.

William Stewart

Obviously if he donates generously to my campaign, I'm going to vote for him to be speaker.

Ken Heebner

Obviously this is one with risk, but the potential is huge.

Steve Young

If it's going to be broken, and obviously it is at some point, let it be those two guys,

Jim Tracy

Most of us still obviously know tendencies of their guys.

Karl Benson

We obviously need the workers for a lot of jobs.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Lu Shanzhen

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

Bobby Knight

Competitive drills enhance quickness.

Jason Bacashihua

It was 1-1 going into the third. We were doing great. Then they got two quick ones and we could not recover. But we will turn this thing around.

Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

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.

Tony Hsieh

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Erin Morgenstern

To be rather than to seem.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

Melanie Troxel

It seems like we can do no wrong. I'm as surprised as anybody. I don't want to wake up from this.

John Grele

It seems like they're experimenting at this point.

Howard Stern

It seems like they are trying to put his voice all the way in the back in the mix.

Stephen Vizinczey

A man's virtues, it seems to me, are his abilities, and his vices are his deficiencies.

Angela Kinsey

I keep my sisters on speed dial.

Anthony Chan

I just see it as a speed bump.

Bob Newhart

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Dave Russell

What's not to like? For $1999 you are going to get the processor speed you thought you had to spend $2499 to get.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Sue Miller

Right now, we're stretched payday to payday, but we'll get it done.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

John Force

We've had some trouble this year, but there's nothing wrong with me and nothing wrong with this team that a win wouldn't fix,

Darrell Gravatt

Every team is beatable. They're very good, but every team is beatable.

Warwick Smith

At the end of the day, it's a team you can't come back against.

Anna Wintour

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Ambrose Bierce

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

Thomas Hood

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Rip Taylor

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

Tacitus

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Mason Cooley

Tears are great peace-makers.

Madonna Ciccone

Who needs a smile when a tear's so full of love?

Euripides

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Boris Becker

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Robert Kiyosaki

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Robert Kiyosaki

Even when you win you lose... if you didn’t learn something.

Robert Kiyosaki

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

Robert Kiyosaki

Sometimes we win, sometimes we learn.