Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Foxe

We learned by our last trip here (a 13-3 loss in November) that you don't want to start behind. We started 10-0 very quickly. The main thing we wanted to accomplish this time was to start fast.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge of my life. That's the most important thing for me, more than films.

We should try to accomplish our work by employing fair means.

Avoiding the phrase 'I don't have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

The only thing they want to accomplish is more building. They need to decide if they are helping or harming the environment.

This shows how much our senior leadership of Matt Rosenfeld, Matthew Mills and Jeff Bell have really stepped it up. They have taken the view that this team can accomplish great things, and they are pulling the team in with them.

The person who is inspired by good thoughts can accomplish all his vows successfully.

Maurice Cheeks

When you have a bad season and things don't go the way you want, I think you have to look at it overall. All things are possible when you fail. As a team, we failed. We didn't accomplish what we looked to do. When those things happen you have to look and see if you make changes. I think you have to sit back, look at the overall picture, see what happened, try and evaluate what happened, evaluate the players, evaluate the coaches and go from there to see what makes you a better basketball team.

The previous talks helped all parties accomplish a 'word-to-word' goal, and the new round will focus on how to carry out a commitment on the principle of 'action-to-action', which must be a complicated process.

This will accomplish very little, and this totally misses the mark, which is to take appropriate steps to slow the kind of double-digit health care increases we've seen. This is so far off the mark it's incredible.

The reason why we're doing this (resting starters, etc.) is to make the overall team better. But you still want that swagger back. You want that feeling back. I think we can accomplish that with the guys who are going to play, but it's still fun to have the guys you always play with, and get that groove back.

Flip Saunders

We're trying to accomplish things. Playing a lot of people. Doing some things, playing some full-court pressure, play our bench. But always what happens, when you get in the heat of the battle, competitive juices flow, and our guys got juiced up a bit and really executed defensively and carried over the offensive end.

Aaron Rowand

We're trying to accomplish one goal. That's to get to the World Series. It takes everybody and today everybody contributed.

Aaron Kampman

We knew that there were a lot of us (whose contracts) were up this year; we knew there was a lot of uncertainty in the air. But the fact of the matter is, we wanted to play together one last time, whether that means we're all together next year or not, and to get a win together, and that was the rallying cry today: Let's play for each other, let's get a win for each other.' And I'm just glad we were able to accomplish it.

We've definitely brought up the intensity level. This team has become unselfish and has learned that when we play together, we accomplish more.

We've come a long way. We've had our ups and downs since I've been here. The program is back on the map, that's what we were trying to accomplish since we've been here.

This time of year, people kind of expect Duke to still be playing. We are excited because we want to accomplish something for ourselves as our part of this storied program.

Mike Krzyzewski

We weren't as good of a team last year. That team did remarkable things - they were a remarkable team to accomplish what they did.

Dan Wheeler

We can't wait for tomorrow. We're a step closer to what we're trying to accomplish here. I know nobody in this clubhouse wants to go to Atlanta. We'd like to have that day off. We're going to try to do everything we can to win tomorrow. All of our energy is going to go into tomorrow.

Chipper Jones

We don't want to go home and have everybody say that this team didn't accomplish what it should've accomplished.

Brandon Roy

When I was dreaming, this is exactly what I dreamed about, but it's tough to accomplish these things.

When people make a gift to us or pay us their tuition, or when tax dollars are appropriated to us, those who pay that money or give us that donation can rest assured that this institution is going to do everything it can to make sure their dollars will accomplish what they intended for them to accomplish -- and nothing else,