Famous Quotes & Sayings

Us being men, feminine hygiene products were something we would never consider. Once a local woman brought that up, we called up the radio station and asked them to mention it.

You gotta believe you can coach. What works is getting the kids to believe in what you're doing. My guys at Auburn, if I asked them to run through a wall, they'd certainly give it a shot. I try to tell them how good I think they are and get them to believe they can be that good.

At our request, we have asked the federal government to create a unit on unsolved Civil Rights murders before 1970, which is why we must care. There are those who believe that since the two men are dead that it should be left alone, why dredge up the past, that attitudes are better.

Shahid Afridi

At one stage, when I was going hard at them, Kumble asked me where should he bowl to me he was so frustrated.

At that point my community and my family asked me to work on this because we were drastically affected. Our traditional hunting grounds were flooded and our Indian land rights were extinguished. I had this duty to do something about the unilateral extinguishment of our rights.

At that meeting they asked if they could do another (safety check) at Coolidge,

At the end I asked them a rhetorical question: 'We still have work to do right?' ... But I believe we're getting better. The spirit is excellent. I'm not sure what the psychological effect of a fourth tie would be. Certainly there's joy and pride in any win at all, but to do it in this fashion is extra special.

Al Sharpton

At the Apollo, he asked me to come and stand in for him. He's like my father.

Harry Redknapp

At no stage did I ever swear. I just said to the fourth official, asked him why the goal was allowed. He said - how you would talk to a six-year-old at school if you were a schoolteacher - to sit down,

Bill Griffith

At this point, it's just kind of a long tradition to help with this auction and help Adele out. I've been there as long as its been going. It was a fast 20 years. I would do anything she asked me to do.

At the time, the suspect asked the two bank employees who the manager was, and one of the individuals told the suspect that she was the manager,

At the time, there was a group in town called VSA Arts, and they wanted to launch classes for people with disabilities. I attended a workshop they were conducting and was asked to teach lessons.

At the start of this season, we asked the kids if they wanted to swim as Royal Oak, or if they wanted to be known as the Ravens. They preferred to be Royal Oak for one more season.

Cheryl Lynn

At The Gong Show... I was nervous, I was afraid, but I went out there and auditioned and they liked me. They asked me to come back and tape the show.

Conservatives want someone with a clear, written record. The Roberts hearing has been superb as a technical, tactical matter, but it's left some people in despair and just clamoring for someone with a written record. The left keeps asking, 'What does the right know that we don't know?' Well the truth of the matter is, we don't know anything. We're all being asked to take a leap of faith.

Diogenes

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world

Jim Tressel

Dick LeBeau is the father of the zone blitz, and that's what we are. So everything he's asked to do there, he will have done a million times. That's better than somebody saying, 'Let me take him,' and then be in the wrong system. He's in the perfect system.

Countries needing to spruce up their aviation safety will be asked what sort of assistance they need: logistical or financial.

Aaron Peirsol

Couldn't have asked for a better meet as far as the competition goes. Those are some great fans sitting out there, a lot of kids and that's kind of who we're trying to reach with this.

Aaron Peirsol

Couldn't have asked for a better meet as far as the competition goes, ... Those are some great fans sitting out there, a lot of kids and that's kind of who we're trying to reach with this.

Shirley Hazzard

Do you ever notice, asked Luisa, "how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic . . . while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Ryan Smyth

Don't get me wrong. I've been fortunate to be asked so many times. I want not to be asked this year because I'm still playing in the playoffs. I take pride in making the playoffs. I've been around the longest and I'm sick of going to the world championships.

Amy Johnson

Every year I sent her stuff for our camps and asked her to come out. Her mom just called out of the blue and said she was going to come out.

The results seems to be a matter of memory. We asked people to name the century's best male and female singers and for some their memories didn't extend back more than a decade or a year.

There's still heartbreaks in there, but we had a solid, solid meet with a great group of guys. And they have done everything that I have asked them to do.

There's much more awareness about the problem of suicides in jails. Twenty years ago if you asked a sheriff, he wouldn't have any information on it or any sensitivity to it. It wouldn't be on his radar screen.

Jules Verne

The resolutions passed at the last meeting produced a great effect out of doors. Timid people took fright at the idea of a shot weighing 20,000 pounds being launched into space; they asked what cannon could ever transmit a sufficient velocity to such a mighty mass.

Frank Robinson

There's no way you could've asked more of him,

There's nothing we can do about it. But if you asked me why we lost, I'd say we have to do a better job on our power play.

The tobacco industry itself has said this is a fair tax, ... The ones who have been giving us a run are the mini-marts and the big retailers like JR's. We're glad the tobacco industry saw it was fair, but it makes us think we could have asked for even a little more.

Jane Green

I am often asked what I would be doing if I hadn't become a writer. I have long said I would probably be a chef or a garden designer or a decorator, but since recording my own books, there is no doubt in my mind that if the writing doesn't work out, voice work is what I would choose.

Caron Butler

If Coach needed me to come off the bench to be successful, I was going to do that. Obviously we went through a stretch in which we didn't win games, and with the injury to Jarvis Hayes, he told me I had the opportunity to start. He asked me how I felt about it, and I said, 'If the team's going to be better with me starting, I'll all for it.' And we've been good. We're 3-1.

I feel bad that I took that away from him. I went and found him and asked him if he could forgive me.