Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Jack Kokinda

He's given up one run in the last 42 innings. That's the reason why we're winning. If teams can't score, they can't win.

Gary Patterson

He's given TCU three great years. All you can say is it shows that TCU has arrived.

J. Horton

He's given me all the passes in the world. The least I could do is give him one once in a while.

Ron Gardenhire

He's given everything he has, and that's all you ask.

Denny Green

He's been given a lot of God-given talent, but he's really motivated. He likes to be the best. It's how he sees himself. And he's got an unusual body. He's strong as hell. He's one of the strongest guys in the league.

Ed Orgeron

He was picking it up and was given just enough time for the routes to come open. I don't know if you're going to totally stop him.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Bobby Cox

I talked to Leo and I think he's going home and that's a big thing if a guy can do that. I think it's a good situation for him. He had a wonderful 15 years here and we move on.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Jeff Perreault

I kind of thought the third was going to be our period, it was just one of those nights where things didn't go our way.

Roy Williams

It was one of those nights that kind of snowballed on Dave's team.

Maurice Cheeks

You are not going to have too many nights where he shoots like that. We were very fortunate.

Antawn Jamison

Tonight was one of those nights when we were short-handed.

Bob Motzko

We weren't sharp tonight, but we did a lot of things well enough to find a way to win. You're not going to be sharp every night, and tonight was one of those nights that we weren't.

Rubin Salter

That was the maids' and butlers' nights off.

Patrik Elias

We had a lot of opportunities. We would've been in trouble if we couldn't score on those chances. It was just one of those nights where everything went in for us.