Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Gardener

It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.

Bruce Davison

I'd like to tell them thank you. Their courage and ambition to get a higher education ... is something I truly admire. It's something I can't picture, but it's something I know happened, and that's why I commend them for doing what they've done.

Marc Jones

He had his pick of schools. But his ambition is to become a top entrepreneur and businessman, and that's why he chose Bentley.

William Law

All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

William Shenstone

It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?

Richard Rorty

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

Vincent Piazza

I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.

Walter Cronkite

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

Werner Herzog

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

Darryl Sutter

Kipper is always one of the main reasons why we win hockey games.

Eric Desjardins

Hockey is important, but you have your life.

Mark Richards

I think we've talked about that a lot, about the opportunity and how it's knocking at our door. There's a lot of players who played minor-league hockey for 10-15 years that never made it past the first round.

Chad Hedrick

I watched the ice hockey and never even glanced at the speed skating.

Glen Hanlon

He was playing well enough to get called up last week but we want him to play his American Hockey League games.

Brian Burke

I couldn't sell this as a stand-alone hockey deal, and I wouldn't try,

Craig Conroy

He's been a big part of USA hockey for a long time. It's surprising. He's kind of synonymous with USA hockey.

Roberto Luongo

I don't fear stopping a 100 mph slap shot. I fear not stopping it!

Roberto Luongo

It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. The only thing that matters is how many times you get up.

Wayne Gretzky

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL

Sidney Crosby

It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it.

Paul Kariya

I'm going through the neutral zone and I've got a guy tugging me through the whole way, if I don't go down, I'm not going to get a call.

Denis Leary

If the world somehow actually ends tomorrow, let all forget about the Mayans and just agree it`s the NHL`s fault

Andy Van Slyke

Mario Lemieux is Mr. Pittsburgh.

Pat LaFontaine

I've been fortunate. I've had no residual effects whatsoever. I got out just in time.

Pat LaFontaine

Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing.

Gary Bettman

This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.