Famous Quotes & Sayings

The first year, we're just trying to get the girls up to pace on what the speed's going to be like. You're playing against kids that are seniors and they don't want to lose their last game. You've got to put forth more effort and it's got to show through.

Martin Brodeur

The Flyers are so freewheeling, they're able to hit your stick with their glove, just touch you a little bit, ... It's hard to get your position. It's hard to move around the net, especially against a team like that. That's their strength and they use it. They go hard to the net.

The Florida delegation is united against it, as are most coastal states, but he has a promise it will be heard, so we're not taking it lightly. We're thinking it might only be a starting position for him.

The Indians are going to be careful. The Indians want to persuade the Americans that we are a potential partner for them strategically. On the other hand, they don't want to persuade the Chinese that they're linking up with the United States against China.

The Indian customs officials sent photos of the seizure to us and most of the engineers had them up on their desks for weeks. For those who spent years of testing and failing, knowing it was being used and helping to protect against terror was exceptionally motivating.

John Conyers

The independent counsel had four years to investigate the president. This committee had four months. The White House is now getting two days. There is no question the president's conduct was wrong. But I believe that the legal case against the president is not strong.

Jonathan Zittrain

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.

The idea when you go on the road is to come away with points. We got one today, but I thought we earned three. We really limited Columbus. They didn't pose many threats against us, but somehow when you look up at the board it's 1-1. We have a competitive group inside that locker room that felt we could have gotten three (points), but it's an important point we got today and we're going to continue to build on that.

The idea when you go on the road is to come away with points and obviously from the standpoint of points we go one today. I felt we earned three. We really limited Columbus. They posed not a lot of threats against us and somehow when you look up on the board its 1-1. We have a group inside the locker room that's competitive and felt we could have had three today. But again, a point on the road, an important point, and we are going to continue to build on that.

Ilham Aliyev

The idea that we should negotiate pipeline routes through Armenia in exchange for Armenia militarily freeing our territories is simply not a wise strategy. I'm against it.

Leo Beenhakker

The idea (of the two matches against the Grenada Under-23 team) was to give a full game to guys on the 24. The 23 (players for the World Cup) will come from the 24 I have seen everyone else before.

The documents say they were conducting some kind of investigation. That implies we were under surveillance simply because we were against the war. Our freedoms are being undermined.

The doctors told her she needs a bone marrow transplant to increase her chances for long term survival. Because her cancer is always recurring, that odds are against her to live cancer free. Her best odds for living a full healthy life is to have a bone marrow transplant.

The difference was they were ready to play and we weren't. Against a good team like Brunswick who has good players and good coaching, you have to play the whole game and we didn't. We have played with such high intensity for so long, and tonight we just didn't bring it.

The difference was they came out to play and we didn't. When we did play hard, it was too late. You can't do that against teams which play such good defense like they do. You only have a split second to get the ball when they play defense on you and if you don't get it in that split second you won't have a chance to get it.

The difference was that we stood a lot in the second half. Against a team as good as Bolivar, you've got to do everything right.

The difference is depth, and the difference will be depth if Arizona State goes against Duke. Duke goes to its bench and it just gets stronger and stronger. ASU has a good, solid seven or eight, but Duke has a good solid 10.

Charles Barkley

The difference in the playoffs is you're playing against a good team every day. You're not playing one good team, then two bad, then two good ones. The one thing that I learned in my 16 years is that you might take a glimpse of tape before games, but (in the playoffs) you sit down and go over tapes every single day from game to game. . . . That's when you find out who can really play and who can really coach.

Bruce Springsteen

The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves, ... For them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-American. The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about -- namely freedom.

Although a year has past ... our mourning for those who died, Americans and Africans, has not diminished, ... We miss them still and rage against their loss.

Although 2005 has been more challenging than recent years, our businesses have performed well against sector peers and the group has made good progress, both strategically and operationally.

A lot of Muslims feel hemmed in. They feel that they've been pushed against the wall ... and they responded to it by supporting parties that waved the Islamic flag,

A lot of money has been spent on the fight against AIDS in general... but we haven't put enough money into children.

Ayn Rand

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

A good showing (for us) on the road in a tough place to play against good AA competition. Basically, they shot the ball very well. The (Bobby) Howard kid hit a number of threes (three) against us.

A huge win for us. It was really an overall team effort. We beat the No. 2 team in our district, and we're going to try to find a way to do our best against the No. 1 team in our district.

Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand -- I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

Jim Taylor

Agnes has her back against the wall. It's a crapshoot. (VNS therapy) is 35 percent effective, but it's 35 percent better than nothing.

Igor Ivanov

aggression against a country which needs help and support to retaliate.

Ariel Sharon

A genuine war against terror by the Palestinians, involving the real effort to prevent terror, is key to progress in political process,

Tom Renney

You want to do better than that. You want to answer the bell. We did have a strong game against New Jersey. But so what? That one's over.

Andy Roddick

You want to compete against the best and he is the measuring stick,

Kyle McLaren

You watch games and find yourself rooting against teams that are ahead of you. It's a tough position to be in, needing to win games and needing others to lose.