Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herschel Walker

The majority of the people that I was growing up with were going off into the military. A lot of my classmates thought of going into the military.

Muhammad Ali

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Babe Ruth

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Yogi Berra

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Marcus Allen

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.

Wilt Chamberlain

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

Yogi Berra

The future isn't what it used to be.

The current RFID initiative is distorted by the push from the retailers to have a useful system in large volumes in a short time.

Barney Ross

All destroyers at that time had about 200 men. A destroyer was rough riding, and with the rough weather, the sea can be an enemy too.

Britney Spears

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.

Britney Spears

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.

Al Kaline

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.

Al Kaline

I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used to catching everything on the sandlots. But they hit the ball a lot harder in the major leagues and I just couldn't reach the ball this time.

Al Kaline

I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked like a thousand eyes were staring right at me saying, 'Who is this young punk?' I just kept my eyes straight ahead.

Dave Winfield

There are other people like Henry Aaron. Man, just for being the best and breaking records at a time when people didn't want you to.

Jimmy Connors

Was I as close to my dad as with my mom? No, of course not. Is my daughter as close with me as she is with my wife? No, of course not.

Joe Louis

Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.

The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.

Tracy Austin

I was 5 when I began semiprivate lessons.

Angela Ruggiero

After they scored, we all reminded ourselves what we had dedicated our lives to and settled down and played like we knew we could.

Steve Carlton

It should be thrown, with the wrist and grip set, just like your fastball, slightly off center - with the same velocity and intensity.

Drew Brees

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.

Jimmy Piersall

You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

Hal Sutton

That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.

Jack Youngblood

Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

Terry Bradshaw

It's been tough, but it has been fun. This business has its ups and downs, just like any other one. You get out of it what you put into it.

Stephen Hopkins

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.

Rafer Johnson

It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.

Carly Patterson

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.