Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's been scoring goals. He's been setting up goals. He's going to the net hard. He's back-checking and playing well in his own zone. He's done everything we've asked him.

He's been raised around basketball since he was conceived. The only thing we've asked of Billy is to continue to nurture and teach him to become the best possible basketball player he can possibly be. Coach Donovan and his coaching staff are doing a remarkable job. I couldn't have put him in a better hand that Coach Donovan.

Nick Knight

He's a very impressive character and has great standing in the game and I'm sure that will serve him well if he is asked to work with England.

He's a very good father. I couldn't have asked for a better father. He loved his kids.

He seems to have gotten a lot better. A lot of the things that we were working on with him were mental and technical. He's done a real nice job of doing what the coaches have asked him.

Bill Belichick

He's done what we've asked him to do. I don't think that he's had any problem with it,

He showed me some guts tonight. They kinda made us work for this win and my horse responded when I asked him. That impressed me a lot. He was parked out a long way and still has some speed left over at the finish.

Hans Blix

He should not have had them. I asked him how he got them and he would not tell me,

Ron James

I wrote back and asked if she could be more specific. She e-mailed me back with exact labels and products, and the good news is that we were already planning to carry 90 percent of it.

K.B. she just took over. She put her heart and soul into it. She never came out of the game, and she never asked for a breather. She stepped up and was a leader.

Karl has truthfully told everyone who's asked him that he did not circulate Valerie Plame's name to punish her husband, Joe Wilson, Everyone is everyone.

Keith introduces most songs on guitar, ... But right before we started I asked Keith if he'd mind if I did a little cadenza up front on sax to lead into his intro. He said, 'Go ahead, man, do your thing.' I started playing, and Charlie immediately joined me. I had this short statement in mind, but then I thought, 'Charlie's playing with me; I've got to keep going.'

Josephine showed up to play today. Before the game, someone asked if she was ready, and she nodded yes. And I guess she was because she was awesome. We could use that every game.

Joel urged that I consider this, this year, ... We talked, and I asked him about the range of things that you think are important, and what the governor is going to run with. One thing led to another, and we finally concluded that this is something that makes sense.

Jody and I told them that we thought they stepped it up and competed very hard. You know, we couldn't have asked for anything more out of those girls. It's hard when you don't have your top lineup out there, but we communicated well in doubles, and had a few girls step it up in singles.

I talked with John just last week about this and asked him some questions about our values -- and he is solid. In fact on Family Research Council's scorecard he has scored a hundred for the past several years, being right on the issues.

Emmanuel Lewis

I talked to Mike and asked him, 'How do you feel about it? What do you want me to do?' And he was like, 'You don't have to do anything.'

Mike Holmgren

I talk about that a lot. I think if you asked one of my players, they'd probably tell you I kill them with that stuff. Just being careful. It's the last thing I told them Sunday night after we broke from the stadium after the game. After this incident, it gave me another opportunity because they were listening. I mean for the guys who kind of tuned me out before, now I had everybody listening and we talked about it, which, I think, is my responsibility as a coach. You know these guys are my family, and it would be like talking to your own kids, you don't want bad things to happen to them so let's try to help them a little bit.

I think it is about both. Not only does it help the financial situation, but it sends an appropriate message to employees that they're not the only ones being asked to bite the bullet.

I think it is a great thing to do and we can be flexible with what happens down the road. For instance, the Paint Crew, which is a student run organization, has asked us to facilitate a contest for its shirt.

It bothers and hurts me so much because I love those two like brothers. Those two have done what I have asked since the day I took the job. They are great kids from great families who made a really bad decision.

It could have been resolved easily and much faster if they just simply called us and asked us. I don't think they really realized what they were doing in pulling the paper.

He loved the arrangement so much, he asked her if he could keep it as a memento.

He mentioned something, but we weren't interested. When he first asked if we were interested it was before he was going to tear it down. I said 'Why would we want to take $40,000 to tear it down?' We've got other obligations that are priority right now.

Ty Wigginton

Whatever they asked of me. That's my job to do.

Whatever it takes, production comes second. Safety comes first. There's nothing I have asked for that they haven't given me.

Andrew Johnson

Whatever coach Coker wanted me to do, I was willing to do, ... If he wanted me to sit the rest of the year, then that's what I would have done. This opportunity came and he asked me if I wanted to play. Any player is going to say yes.

Tirunesh Dibaba

What enabled me to win was strength of God. I was very tired. At one point I felt pain, and when I made the sign of the cross and asked God to help, I felt better.

We try to help her understand it's just a 'guy thing,' (but) when asked if she wanted to call the next day, Courtney touches 'no' on her communication system. But as soon as Brad calls, she is all smiles again.

We took this threat seriously. We tried a number of avenues and we asked for his assistance in trying to corroborate the threats. But we were unable to produce enough information.

Billy Burns

We talked for a brief minute (inside a local pool hall), and I asked (Jackson) what had happened. He said they went to the house, they saw her, and (Jackson) hit her.

We talked at the half that we needed to start playing the way we knew how. The main thing we needed to do was play defense. Having lost to Blackville earlier in the season, I don't know if we knew what to expect. I just asked them to turn it up in the second half.

We're open to hearing about a new facility. What we've asked the city is to show us some plans. I don't think we're there yet.