Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Lowell

It doesn't change your intensity or your approach or your preparation. But it does have you looking at the scoreboard a lot more often.

Pat Kennedy

It doesn't happen very often. The pilot was cleared to land and he elected to do the missed approach and go back up and around.

Dean Serbus

I tell my girls don't talk it, walk it. Talk is nice but we have to get it done on the floor. We use that mentality and it is how we approach the game.

Carson Palmer

I think if we've talked about anything it's that we're not going to approach this as any other week, as any different game. Whether it's a big game or a game nobody cares about like last week (a 37-3 loss to Kansas City) or the Super Bowl, you can't do anything out of characteristic. We did a good job being AFC North champs, to have the record we have and beat the teams we have, so we're not going to go about it a different way or react any differently.

Shane Olivea

I think I'll be better this year in every aspect. This year there was more of a mental approach to camp and the playbook. Last year I was learning on the run, but this year if I make a mistake I know exactly what it is. I'm playing with more mental confidence.

Mark Shapiro

I think he's made great progress from a year ago in his approach and plate discipline. The quality of his at-bats was significantly better. He's a guy that's coming. He needs to finish off some things offensively, but he's coming.

Denny Green

I think he's going to kick that way every year. I mean, he has a strong leg. He has a very good mental approach to the game. Hopefully we'll be a lot better team and he'll have a lot fewer opportunities, but I think he'll be successful when he kicks.

Clint Hurdle

I think his back got better but also his approach got better. He went into the season with a lot of different challenges. No. 1, he got called out for maybe possible steroid use, which was a big bunch of horse manure thrown out there.

William Reinsch

It does a good job of defining the difficult issues we face with China, but its standard solution is to beat Chinese over the head until they comply. That approach runs the risk of undoing our policy of engagement with China, which has been the policy of the last five administrations.

Don Pooley

I've played well every week, but there's this one guy that's been beating me every week.

Mack Brown

Don't let distractions beat you down, don't let critics take you out of getting where you need to go.

Tyoka Jackson

Don't try to overanalyze it, and don't panic. But play better. When you've got a tackle, make it. When you've got to beat a block, beat it. When you get penetration, get (there). And when you need to be in your gap, be where you're supposed to be and be accountable, so that the defense works.

Tyoka Jackson

Don't try to overanalyze it, and don't panic, ... But play better. When you've got a tackle, make it. When you've got to beat a block, beat it. When you get penetration, get (there). And when you need to be in your gap, be where you're supposed to be and be accountable, so that the defense works.

Bryan Tucker

Don't think that wasn't on our mind. This was a pretty big game for us. Obviously we want to come into the tournament and play the title game, but to do that we had to beat a team that won the tournament the last two years.

Bob Shaw

Don't think that doesn't come up when I talk to the Kiwanis or Rotary Club, ... I beat Koufax in the Series. How many people can say that?

Ron Nelson

Enterprise came in with a great game plan, and we just couldn't stop them. We tried to match them in the first half and found success throwing the ball, because they were bound and determined not to let us run. But they are a fine football team that just beat us.

Joe Renfro

Elijah got beat by that kid in December and came out there and kind of took it to him. He's finally coming around and he's doing a lot better.

Christine Gregoire

Enough is enough. There is only so long you can beat a dead horse,

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Jim Ewan

We just couldn't make plays. Too many times we weren't successful on first down and that just makes it really difficult to sustain drives. We wanted to be in a position to win the game in the fourth quarter and we were there.

Melissa Arms

Heather tried a more difficult first pass on floor. It's a big risk, and it could have a big payoff. Unfortunately she fell in the meet even though she nailed it in warm-ups. But its good, she needs to make a statement if she wants to make nationals.

Rafael Nadal

He plays all the time inside the court. He returns very fast all time. And at the difficult moments, I think maybe the 15-40, 4-all, he has a lot of confidence.

Iris Chang

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

Lamon Brewster

I felt that after the Meehan fight, which was difficult for me for a number of reasons, I had to make a statement with Golota. And I did that.

Mary Ellen Mark

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

Eleanor Mondale

I don't want to name names. But sometimes when actors are monosyllabic it makes it difficult to have a good story.

Steve Hartman

He has a wife here and seven children, and this is tremendously difficult for them.

Christina Guerland

Rebecca stepped into a really difficult situation, and she did a phenomenal job. They really struggled with her.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Heather Casey

I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did with her hands got her something she wanted.

Todd Galloway

We have to get out there and get to the shooters and at least put a hand in their face to make it a tough shot.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Bill Gates

There are many years where Waterloo is the university we hire the most people from of any university in the world. Waterloo has always been in the top five every year.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Tom Mihalovich

Sometimes we try too hard. We were trying to make too good of plays.

Kent Mueller

Sometimes we get, I don't want to say unrealistic, but our expectations are awfully high. That's not to take anything away from Madison. We had some lapses defensively, which is not typical. But at the same time, the offense was so good so early, which really isn't typical.

Gerard Houllier

Sometimes we do not know what happens inside ourselves, but the good thing is that it seems a minor thing and he will be back training the team,

Brad Richards

Sometimes those things happen. You put the puck on net and good things happen. Sometimes you are on the right side of the puck.

Ted Epley

Sometimes they just don't go in. We had good looks from inside and out.

Bill Brown

Sometimes there are too many people who tell you how good they are. And Jordan is the opposite. He'll just go out and show you.

Andi Ferris

Sometimes it's harder to hang onto a small lead than it is to come back from one. It's frustrating at times, but it's part of coaching. The ladies did a good job of protecting the ball, and the lead today; we did a good job all-around.

Paul Stewart

Sometimes, it's good to spend more and get quality service that's going to save you money in the long run.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Alfred Molina

My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.

Alex Ebert

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

Aldo Leopold

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to carry off more flood water, but in the process we have lost our old willows where the owl hooted on a winter night and under which the cows switched flies in the noon shade. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians bloomed.

Ali Liebegott

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

Ali Smith

I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

Alexander Herzen

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

Josh Miller

We want to be out there as much as players and managers want us to be out there. We do this job because we love it. It's not to get rich or to get famous. But we also have to survive.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

David Akers

It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.