Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Moore

It was awesome to come out of the gates and play as well as we did in our first game of the season,

Beth Keating

I'm very excited about it, particularly for the summer. It's a lot of work. But it's great not having a boss. And I have some ideas.

Brad Meltzer

I'm excited just to start my new novel,

Dave Winker

I'm excited for two reasons. First, a rocket launch is always exciting. But in terms of my career, the real interesting, exciting thing is getting the data.

Dan Mahurin

I'm excited for those two guys. Those kids work extremely hard ... I'm happy for them.

Charli Turner

I'm excited for this weekend . . . to see how we'll grow from this, and to see how good we can be under these circumstances. I know this team and its character. I think we can prevent this from happening again. I really do.

Derek Jones

I'm excited for this season, with it being my first full season as a pro. I'm especially proud to be part of the National Guard team because of what they stand for.

O. Henry

I'm excited for the summer. Well, not excited for the summer, but I'm excited for the season, anyway.

Ozzie Guillen

I'm excited for the people here. They wait so long for this to happen. It was a lot of work but a great thing to get it done.

Mike McCoy

I'm excited for the kids. I think they're excited to be in a new building. Not only are they seeing friends they haven't seen since last year, they also have new surroundings." ()

Irving Berlin

We joined the Navy to see the world, / And what did we see? We saw the sea.

Nick Swisher

What a comeback,'' A's manager Ken Macha said.

John Madden

It's a big deal. ABC and MNF are a big part of NFL history, and it's going to end with the Super Bowl (on ABC). You can't say you're not looking forward to it .

Bobby Bowden

There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You did not tell me what you are doing athletically just now but I do hope that if your arm comes along next spring you can get it in good shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. However, if you don't make it then I suggest you take up golf which after all is the best game of all of them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.

Duffy Daugherty

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.