Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gibbons

Ted (Lilly) has a bad back right now, something he felt the day after his last start (March 26). So we'll give him an extra day of rest and have Josh (Towers) start the second game and Lilly the third.

Proverb Proverb

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Robert Esche

Pressure isn't a bad word. It's a great word. It gives you tunnel vision and let's you focus on the task at hand.

Russell Walters

Perhaps some people, for bad reasons, don't want to be monitored because they're not the most productive. Even good workers could take some offense to being monitored, as if maybe there is a lack of trust in what they're doing.

Frank Rijkaard

Samuel is a human being and he felt bad on the field. I was pleased with the reaction of his teammates. They all went to support him and encourage him to stay. The referee also did really well.

Jay Kim

Samsung's deal with Qualcomm will pave the way for the chipmaker to expand the chip foundry business, and is bad news for Taiwan foundry manufacturers.

Jon Raker

Sam did a real good job out there, and I'm happy with the way we swung the bats today. But (the errors) are frustrating for us and for our pitchers. We've had one bad defensive inning in all our losses.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Sanctions are a bad idea. We are not facing an imminent threat. We need to lower the pitch.

John Milton

Satan exalted sat, by merit raised / To that bad eminence.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Andy Murray

I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

Andy Roddick

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

Anna Quindlen

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off to Faulkner. He'll do the interior monologue. Hemingway will edit - no, don't make that face, you know you overwrite. And be nice to Cheever. He's young, but he's got a good ear. Wharton and Cather can't play - they're girls.'

Richard Roby

We haven't been playing our best basketball lately. We hit our peak, I think, in the middle of the season, and that's not good.

Peja Stojakovic

We haven't played good basketball all year. Hopefully, we will play better as a team as the season goes on.

Jim Calhoun

We are incredibly happy to be here today. We survived an incredible basketball game. Washington gave us everything we could ever imagine to handle. But we were able to withstand it and advance. And that is what you want to do in the NCAA Tournament.

Terry Goodson

I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.

Sandra Navarro

His days of dictatorship are over. Justice will now prevail.

John Whisenant

The doctors OK'd her to start practice two days ago. She was limited. She's very rusty, missing easy shots and it's frustrating her because she's lost her sharpness. How quickly she gets it back, we don't know.

Brian Butch

It shouldn't have been that hard. We practiced four days (against) it. We've seen it. We played them once before with it. It was a lack of execution.

Joe Sakic

We have a few days just to get ready for Dallas. Hey, we worked hard down the stretch. A lot of guys were out and we found a way to get in. That's the most important thing. Now it's round one, and this is when you're judged and we all have to be ready for Dallas.

Craig Lambert

We had to mix a lot of stuff up on the mound with that many days in a row with games and the fact that we were missing two pitchers.

Saeb Erakat

We had five days of intensive talks. It's been tough, it's been difficult.

Glenn Vietmeier

We had five days of great workouts down there, which was great for the team and I think it's going to help us later in the season.

Al Harrington

We had way too many days off. We lost our rhythm. We lost our feel.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Tony Vis

Their seniors stepped up and made free throws - I think of the two one-and-ones there at the end. You have to tip your hat to them. I don't think we lost it or gave it away as much as they made plays and won it.

Landon Donovan

The first half was sluggish. We didn't play so great. After the halftime, we got a little momentum and we started to get some free kicks in good areas. You knew that if we got a goal that they would be dead.

Morgan Spurlock

The greatest lesson those kids learned today was the importance of free speech.

George W. Bush

The image of the Iraqi soccer team playing in this Olympics, it's fantastic, isn't it? It wouldn't have been free if the United States had not acted.

Terry Hollander

You could see the pressure in those free throws when he went to the line. You could see how much of a weight he was carrying.

Clarence Darrow

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

Lorraine Berg

You can pay $50,000 or take the free tour.

Mike Jensen

Teams are looking and looking for ways to stop Brandon, and he's so good it's hard to stop him. I think you have to let him get what he gets.

Richard Parsons

Ted is my man. I love Ted, ... He knows more, particularly about the television space, which is at least a good third of this company. Ted and I have always had a wonderful relationship, and I am going to be reaching out to him, too.

Charlie Peprah

Tell him not to feel so bad, because he played a very good defense.

Ralph Connor

Terre Haute North is ranked 18th and it isn't hard to see why. Aubrey ran a really good race for us. She was about 10th at the half-mile and moved up. She ran a very smart race.

Nick Aliotti

Terrance was, first of all, just a great kid who always did the right thing. But also, as good a player as he was now, he hadn't even tapped his potential. The sky was the limit.

Mike Birbiglia

'Terminator 2' is so good. I love it.

Ken Karcher

Technically, he was not as good as he's been.

Fred A. Allen

Television is called a medium because anything good on it is rare

Joe Morton

Television has been really good to me in terms of the roles I've been able to get on TV as opposed to the roles I've gotten in film and in theater.

Jeremy Fishbein

Because of the heat and the humidity, we had to get some guys more minutes. So there were players that couldn't go the whole game.

Joe Andruzzi

Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted.

Jarvis Herring

Because of the way we practice, there will be a lot better effort. Guys are relaxed, they're rested up and they're going at it.

Jerry Jeff Walker

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

Denny Green

I'm an 'all hands on deck' type guy. All of the guys who can play in my opinion should play.

Ron Gardenhire

I'm a little biased, but I think he's the best. There's other guys that have better numbers à but to me, it doesn't get much better than Johan in this league. Not much better than him.

Jeff Slayton

No one has more heart than Nick. When other guys get pinned, we need others to pick up the slack, and Nick did that tonight.

J. J. Johnson

No, no. I'm not a shooter. I could run the show and get it to guys like you 'cause you can shoot it. That was my job.

Vance Wilson

One thing we won't have a problem with, though, is guys playing hard. Tram will make sure that happens.

Alan Zweibel

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

Jessica Simpson

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

Ryan Clark

I've been proving people wrong for a long time,

Tim Miles

I've been in that situation a lot. People look at you like they're going to whip you.

Brad Wilkerson

I've been in this organization, the Montreal/Nationals organization, from the onset of it. It's just a shock that I'm not going to be with the same organization, the same people I've been around my whole career. That's going to be different.

Mandy Moore

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Christie Brinkley

I urge people to make your workout fun.

Robert Gerard

I unequivocally think there is no place for steroids in the sport. There are tens of thousands of young people that look up to these athletes.

Ted Strickland

The zeitgeist is clear. People in this state want change. They're tired of scandal. They want to turn things around, and that's just what we are going to do.