Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 doctors are positive, so that's reassuring. This is one of those tragic situations where someone is trying to do something good for somebody, and it turns against you.

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.

You want to win them all, but you want to get better, too. We'll get this weekend in and then come home and get ready to open up (in Baum Stadium against Louisiana Tech on Feb. 24).

You want to understand the powers and predilection of the national government to look at your data and the chance that the service provider would comply. Some country is always getting caught doing some industrial espionage against U.S. companies. It's nothing new.

You want to make sure you eat a healthy and balanced diet, with fruit, fiber and vegetables. It's a protective factor against many diseases, such as cancer.

Tim Kaine

You want to have a shooting contest? You want to go hiking? Give me a pocketknife and a set of matches and I'll go up against anybody,

You want to get a heads up on maybe what some guy can do because you're going to be playing against him in a couple months. They don't necessarily have a book on us, but we certainly can have a book on them.

Adoniram Judson

You will readily believe me when I say that on leaving my country, I little imagined that I should ever become a Baptist. I had not indeed candidly examined the subject of baptism, but I had strong prejudices against the sect, that is everywhere spoken against.

Tommy Tuberville

You've got to have a mobile quarterback against a front like theirs. When they blitz up the middle on 4th and 12, Jason has the presence to get outside and throw sidearm to get the first down. A young guy wouldn't know to do that.