Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried

George H. W. Bush

What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas, quotas that basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think, vulcanize society.

Jim Boeheim

We've been way behind against quality teams, but we keep fighting back. This team fights hard. They make some mistakes, but they keep fighting. When you lose four in a row and do what we had to do to win tonight, I'm very proud of them. This is a great lesson for all the guys. They can win without Gerry.

We've got to throw the freshmen into the fire because they're going to be very good before it's over. I know they're our future on the mound and they're only going to get better by going out against good people in a regional-type atmosphere like we'll see this weekend.

Rick Pitino

We've got to stop Gray inside. Padgett really played well against him and Brian and Terrance aren't the offensive threat David is, so we're going to have to get a good game out of Palacios and our two centers just to contain Gray.

Bill Cowher

We've got to run the ball better, there's no question about that. We've played two pretty good defenses and this one's no different, they're ranked fifth against the rush. We have to be able to run the ball more efficiently than we have the last couple weeks. We can't sit there and rely on throwing the football all the time. Not that we don't want to have balance, we do.

We've got to push the ball up more. We got away from that against Morton. They threw a token press at us and it slowed us down.

We've got to go against God now. That's said with a lot of respect.

Brad Richards

We've done this before. We have to guard against win two, lose two, win two, lose one. That's where we are at right now.

Ron Wilson

We've done really well against Dallas. That would be a great match-up. Almost every game goes to overtime.

Ted Lindsay

With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.

We take this very seriously, it's prohibited, the commissioner will not stand for it, it's reprehensible, it's against everything the fire department stands for.

We take our defense seriously. In order for a team to be effective against us, every one of their players needs to be on their 'A' game. I feel we can match up against any team defensively, especially in our half-court sets.

We switched up to a 3-2 defense and that worked well against their weave. We extended them out and it caused some problems.

We the property owners are against the change in permit to be used for paint ball.

We tightened up on defense and got just enough scoring I guess. It was a nice win for us against an undefeated team. I'm real proud of our effort.

Avery Johnson

We thought we were pretty good defensively, for the most part, against one of the tougher teams in the Western Conference. We knew we had to be physical.

When I played with and against Gretzky, I viewed him as a player who understood what he meant to the game and always put the game first. He was always concerned about his image, and I mean that in a good way. And Janet struck me as someone who also understood who he was and how important it was to him to have the proper image.

Chauncey Billups

We are finally playing a team that's fighting for something, just like us. That's something new for us. The last few weeks we've been playing teams that are out of the race and have nothing to play for, and we sort of let our guard down. When you play against tough teams like Miami, there's no room for error. You can't let your guard down. I am looking for to it, man, I really am.

We are extremely proud of it. When you put a team together that is going to stay together -- that's a long shot. It's a matter of working day in and day out at practice and against different opponents; responding to opponents and putting in the most work possible to put yourself in that position. It's nice to be rewarded for it at the end of the regular season.

We can confirm it is actually possible to vaccinate humans against this bird virus.

Kimberley Nixon

By the time you're 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn't go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university.

Hunter pitched well but Bennett was just a little bit better. We just couldn't get anything going against him.

Hutch runs their little flare and lateral screens well, and for the most part, we did a good job of fighting through the screens. They just don't take any bad shots, and you've got to defend for such a long time against them.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

David Beckham

He was involved in a lot of things when he came on as he was against Argentina in November.

Sam Cassell

He was in there battling against the big guys. He got them. Rebounding is about desire.

Eric Chavez

He was O.K.. His stuff was a little flat. Watching the video, he was much better against New York.

Eric Chavez

He was okay. His stuff was a little flat. ... Watching the video, he was much better against New York.

Graham Gooch

He wasn't ruffled by the situation. I thought he handled it well, especially the Indian spinners. He's got a lot to learn; he's got to enhance his game in terms of options against spinners - but he did a good job for his country.

He was effective against everyone. We threw some guys at him, but it didn't make any difference.

He was set up. A number of young girls from the village where he lives were kidnapped and were detained for 15 days and were told they would only be released if they made allegations against him.

Franz Beckenbauer

He was sent off at the 1998 World Cup, and now he missed two penalties against France and Portugal. Beckham appears to have a problem with nerves.