Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carroll Dawson

After a decade of starring in this league, Dikembe established himself as one of the league's top reserves last season. Deke gives us rebounding and defense off the bench and he also serves as a personal mentor to Yao Ming. He is a valuable contributor as well as a great teammate.

Malcolm Deans

It was a lack of defensive intensity. But I would like to praise the intensity of the bench in the fourth quarter, they had desire.

Pat Casey

This is the best conference in the nation from top to bottom without question. It is a great benchmark to have that we are not happy that we didn't sweep Arizona. That is the way we feel about ourselves. As a club, we thought we should have swept.

Phil Edmonston

The way to fight is just simply send a registered letter or an e-mail (to GM). If your vehicle is not reasonably durable and has a mechanical defect, any judge on any bench -- small claims up to the Supreme Court of Canada -- can make that company pay.

Flip Saunders

The way this team is built, our bench guys are meant to play together in clusters with our main group. When you put all five guys on the floor, they're not as effective as when three of those guys play with a couple of starters.

John Wicks

You take a team's will away by playing great defense and defense is what is going to win games for us. And we got great minutes from our bench and had a complete team effort.

John Hickman

You need to take care of the people in front of the bench and those that have been harmed.

Mike Mannino

You play for pride, but it's an all star game so it's all for fun. Me and (Countryside coach) Dave (Sica) joked on the bench that we'll trade an all-star win for a couple of championships any day.

Chris Clarke

We really had to work her in and out. Michelle Dirks did a great job, got a few rebounds, hit her free throws, a few shots ... Our bench hadn't scored any points in the tournament so far and we challenged those kids today ... They're a huge reason we won this game.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Akhenaton

As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Geno Auriemma

The Brittany thing is a lot better than we could have even imagined, ... We could be sitting here right now talking about how the meniscus transplant didn't work as well as we liked and it doesn't look like she will play. That was a possibility. And here we're looking at it and - knock on wood - she hasn't had one incident with that since she started being able to do things. That came out way better than we anticipated.

Roger Kahn

Aware, but unself-conscious, Reese and Robinson came to personify integration. If a man didn't like what they personified, why, he better not play for the Dodgers.

Sky Blaylock

A volunteer computer tech came in to work on another computer problem and stumbled upon it. That's when I immediately called police.

Barbara Wagner

A while later, a maitre d' came up to him.

Julian Tavarez

A week after I came from the Dominican, I wanted to go back because I didn't understand,

Tim Olson

Austin's hitting those three 3s in a row was the difference. He came up big.

John Givhan

A vast number of soldiers came by our table to see our books. Even the soldiers that were in training came over to our tent. Several Vietnam vets came by the tent to see the books.

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Edwin Mulitalo

Our defense has given us a chance to win a lot of games over the years, and they gave us every chance to win tonight. For some reason, our offense still doesn't want to be a force to be reckoned with. We have a lot invested in our offense, and hopefully it will become what we want it to be.

Jerry York

Our destiny?s still in our hands. We still have a chance to win it and that?s what we?re looking at.

Jeff Joseph

Our concern remains that this is an effort to stifle technology before it has a chance to grow. It has never been illegal to record a song off the radio in the context of fair use.

Tony Bauman

Our emphasis was on defending. Our goal was to defend first, then look for opportunities. - We wanted to keep it close and see if we could steal a chance or two.

Doc Sadler

Our effort was tremendous. It's frustrating to get an effort like that and come up short. We didn't give ourselves a chance at the end of the game.

Colin Falls

Other guys are going to have to step up around those two seniors for us to have a chance to win.

Ben Bernanke

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.

Tony Lee

People come here because they're desperate, and we offer them a chance of living. That's why they come here, because of something we have here and nowhere else is offering.

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.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

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

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Rick Anderson

Coming up here, it was pretty quiet. You're just sitting there and thinking how unfair the whole situation is.

Mack Brown

Coming up here, everybody picked us to lose. Nobody gave us a chance.

O. Singh

Coming up here and trying to defend is my main priority. I like playing golf tournaments, I like winning golf tournaments and this is one of them I'd like to defend if I can.

Gail Evans

The more credit you give, the better it reflects on you.

Cate Williams

A credit score is a snapshot of an exact moment.

Shane Jones

Sometimes we take (Weaver) for granted, but any time your hitters look good, you've got to give a lot of credit to your setter,too.

Lamont Bryant

Sometimes these games get personal. All the credit goes to the kids.

Eude Brito

Sometimes I don't give enough credit to pitchers.

Scott Dalton

Salisbury couldn't have shot it any better in the first quarter. But we finally got over that initial burst, and I give my kids a lot of credit for withstanding it.

Steve Ricchiuto

Sales ex-autos were decidedly stronger than people had given credit for. This is an important piece of information on where the economy was prior to Katrina.

Mark Hermann

It was uncharacteristic of our guards to turn it over like we did. But you have to credit them (Lake Region). They have some great athletes.

Al Groh

It was very pleasing to see. That's what a team's got to do. People understand their roles and their expectations . . . That's a credit to their resilience, and Ron Prince did a good job of getting them organized at halftime, as to what was going to go on, what we were going to call, so they were well-prepped. They can feel proud of what they did tonight.

Lorenzo Romar

That was a big win for us. I thought we played about as solid a game as we have played in a while.

Vladimir Radmanovic

Really, I don't think about it any more. I signed a one-year deal, ... My game is going to show what needs to be shown.

Kenyatta Walker

Really disappointed. Probably my worst game of the whole year.

Rickey Henderson

Our theory was get Eck in the game. You knew the game was over.

Sylvia Hatchell

Our team will be very motivated by the strength of our bracket. We'll use it as a positive to prepare for every game we play.

Ryan Howard

People are trying to play, they're not out there trying to mess up. That's just how the game goes sometimes. Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose and unfortunately we were on the losing end today. We know we're better than that.

Jason Giambi

People don't realize this game is not fair. I've seen some great players who, for whatever reason, never got the opportunity. To keep going back to Triple A, when you know in your heart you have nothing to prove there, it takes a special kid to do that.

Jim Tracy

Offensively, we did some great things. To get back in the game in the manner in which we did took some great at-bats.

Melanie Hall

Offensively, the team was very patient. Made good decisions. We played hard. We played smart. And we had fun. That was a big game for us.

Roger Clemens

So they gave me some medication and I'm going to treat it and that's all I can tell you from there.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Andy Reid

There are plenty of things to work on, but they gave a great effort.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Flip Saunders

The only negative was I wanted to play Carlos (Delfino) and I didn't. I think he could have probably helped us. We went with Mo, and Mo gave us energy.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Jeb Bush

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

Andy Dennings

Offensively he's hitting toward his strengths. He's not pulling every pitch. He's doing his job.

Alison Lacey

Norwalk just kept hitting big shots, and we needed to realize that and get out on them and we didn't. It was frustrating to see their shots keep going in. We tried to get on them, and they just kept hitting.

Carlos Gracida

Once we got to overtime, we were going to win. Luckily, I was hitting my penalty shots well.

Brian Randle

Dee's a big-time player. He hits big-time shots.

Dan Castellaneta

And there's nothing wrong with hitting someone when his back is turned.

Stephen Ames

Anything can happen. Especially where he's hitting the ball.

Dan Shoemaker

Anything it hits that's cold, it's going to stick to it.

Steven Smith

The shots they were hitting was like getting hit in the stomach.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Ted Eubanks

People travel for the experience. They want to try on your lives.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Philip Hoffman

People thought they had me pegged because of the way I am, because of the way I talk, ... And they're always wrong.

Doug Myers

People think we're taking something away, but they've never been listed.

Worsie Gregory

People think we have nothing to offer. They'll be amazed.

Angela Leisure

People think they know him, but they don't. I see him only as my child.

Waris Ahluwalia

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

Kay Bell

People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Barbara Pym

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

Art Buchwald

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Art Buchwald

I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

Ayrton Senna

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.