Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sasha Cohen

My big weaknesses (in the past) have been a lack of preparation, a lack of knowledge and perhaps not enough confidence and afraid of mistakes. I need to stop trying to be perfect and just worry about becoming better.

Mike Thibault

My biggest relief was when I found out it wasn't a torn ligament. Not that the other injury is better, but a ligament injury is a long injury. I was a little bit afraid that we were in that realm.

My biggest concern with the younger girls was that I was afraid the older swimmers would be jealous, ... That's not the case at all. There is no jealousy and everyone supports each other. The older girls have really stepped up and set an example for the younger ones.

Bo Derek

My character is an agoraphobic. She is afraid to leave her home or wherever her safe place is and in this case it's her home with her husband.

Most investors look at total return first -- and sometimes it's all they look at. We think that consistent return really focuses in on risk. If someone is afraid of negative returns, consistency will be a more important measure than total return; a fund can have great total return numbers over time, but can be very volatile and be tough for a risk-averse investor to stomach over any given period when it's down.

Reed Hastings

Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.

Amity Gaige

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.

When the boys were finally released, they were swollen, hurting from the beatings, afraid of more and covered with manure.

Mike Farrell

When the ball goes up in the air, (Hazleton's) going to come down with it. He reminds me a lot of Michael Irvin in the fact that he's got deceptive speed, he's a guy that's not afraid to go over the middle and it takes more than one person to tackle him.

Markets are afraid there might be a sign of stagflation in the U.S. economy.

Matt is a loyal young man. I told him to bring back what he learned and we'll work on it. I told him not to be afraid of hurting my feelings. One of the great things about boxing is no one knows everything. I'm really happy for him. He is right on track.

Mark is the ultimate gym rat. He plays a lot of basketball. And he's just fearless on the floor. He's not afraid to go up against anyone. And he's done a great job for us.

Marshall is a tougher player than last year. I love playing with him because he's not afraid to try to win the game.

Dorothy McGuire

Listen, honey, there are some people who probably do think of me as a little old lady and I'm afraid there's nothing you can do about that!

Michael Rispoli

My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.

I was very concerned when Josh fouled out. I was afraid we?d lose our momentum that we?d gained.

I was happy with how the kids came out in the second half. They really stepped up and weren't afraid of the contact, and they went up strong with the ball.

I was frustrated with the fact that we weren't playing our game at all, and you could tell it ate them up. Some of them, I think they almost wanted it too much, so much that they overdid things. They were just afraid to play. Especially that second game, when we started out, ahead 17-9. Then we let them come back and win? That's when I said, come on, this is not my team.

I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.

I think seeing that killed the enthusiasm even before the match started. I think that Paul and Jared got bad draws for the tournament but you cannot be afraid to play anyone.

I think people are very scared. Yesterday, you had a kind of panic buying where people were afraid to be out of the market.

Jim Tressel

I think remembrance of how good you better be because you have to play a lot better than the last time you played them. If revenge becomes a factor, I'm afraid you lose sight of what it is that you're trying to square away. It's our performance that we need to square away, but all of us have lived with our lack of performance that day.

Larry Brown

I think once we struggle it seems that it just snowballs, ... Our young kids continue to play hard; they're kind of fearless. I think everybody else seems like they're just afraid to make a mistake.

Mark Johnson

Whether you look at it from the fair chase issue and say it's not fair to be able to take a farmed animal and kill it - we don't call it hunting - whether you disapprove of that or are afraid for the deer population as a whole because of disease or are just concerned about the integrity of our hunting heritage, people better go talk to their legislators.

We're afraid Jacksonville will be known as an environmental catastrophe and people will avoid it.

We're afraid if we do something unique here, we're going to put undue burden on our restaurants.

We really, really wanted this. We were afraid to say how much we wanted this.

We really love playing this music and showing it to people. We're not afraid to show people our stuff. That's what it's about. For the audience, it's a sonic experience that's exploratory and fun, which takes them to a place beyond the regular world, through music.

Pete MacArthur

We don't get afraid of BC. We don't care that it's BC. It's just another team. We know that they have the same fears playing against us as we would against them. It's just another game.

We have some outside presence with them. Both have learned not to be afraid to shoot. It's a development thing.

We have some kids that are great athletes. They like to play the game and aren't afraid of competition.

We played some good team ball in the second quarter. We were finding the open person and weren't afraid to take the open shot.

Jason Silva

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.