Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Glanville

I was honored he asked me, but I didn't feel bad about turning him down. Woody turned me down as a player. He rejected me.

I was holding his hand. He asked me to get his prayer shawl. It was his father's. But we couldn't find it in the chaos.

Leland Yee

I was extremely uncomfortable when my parents asked me to interpret for them, ... We have got to understand that it is not an appropriate role for children.

Martin Biron

I was in a meeting in Detroit where they asked about certain pieces of equipment, about certain changes that they wanted to make, and they listened. Making the nets bigger wasn't really an ideal situation, we all knew it. Going drastically down to like 10-inch pads was dangerous. Guys tried 'em. It was not right. With all the additions and all the new rules, you needed maybe to go just halfway and really trust one another that it was going to work. And it does. It's worked well.

John Velazquez

I was in a comfortable position. He rated perfectly. He has done everything we have asked him to do so far.

I think if you're a rookie, chances are you will be asked to play special teams and I'm fine with that.

Al Leiter

It feels good to be able to go out on your own terms. I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that's the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no. It feels right. Family, kids, I'm constantly being asked when I'm coming home.

J. Taylor

It felt good to be back out there. It felt like my first game in college again. I asked the coach if I could go another inning, but since that was the most pitches I have thrown since a few weeks before the season, the coaches said they didn't want to push me back too fast.

Al Smith

I still have the energy to do it. I was asked not to retire and told they might be able to put together the package I'd want. When I told my wife (Bonnie), she said, 'It's like we're divorced now. If you want a divorce?' So then I weighed my options.

Neal McCoy

I still see him a lot, and he still is a very dear friend and obviously responsible for me getting into country music, ... This is my first opportunity to thank him for all that he's done, and I didn't think there was any other way to do it but a duet. I just called him up and asked him, and he said I'd love to. He's singing better than ever." ()

I think right now we're in a period of a little greater uncertainty than when I was asked that question back in July and March,

Mike Fontenot

We had given the spot to someone else, but he was just so much more energetic. He left and I asked why we didn't audition him in the first place.

Jess Walter

I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.

Gia Coppola

I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.

I think he can do whatever he's asked to do until he shows he can't do it.

I thought I did a good job. I did everything I was asked to do, so I'm not disappointed with anything I did. I thought I was the perfect fit for them.

He asked me what in the world I was doing in the Marines and I told him I'd be out in a few years and was wondering if I could get another shot at a gig with him when I got out.

Michael McKean

He asked us to write a song. We went home, and we were out walking the dog and started playing with lyrics and melody. Annette has a wonderful ear for music. She kind of started out in musical comedy, and she's always been a singer and dancer - but she's never been a songwriter before, but she just has a great natural sense of what sounds good.

Craig Bellamy

He played great tonight, but two weeks ago he was struggling and I was being asked if I was disappointed by what he was doing for us.

He really stayed after hours and asked me to come out and throw with him and he really took the initiative. And it's paying off.

Her brothers kept wrestling her at the house. She kept asking her dad if she could wrestle and he would tell her no. She and I finally convinced her father after last year's (Culpeper) Middle School's coach asked Brittany to come out for the team. He thought it would help Brittany in school because she hates school. The only thing she likes about school is gym.

He raised his hand and said his plan was to have his 14-year-old grandson take it over. But he hadn't asked his grandson.

Rosa Parks

He pointed at me and said, 'that one won't stand up.' The two policemen came near me and only one spoke to me. He asked me if the driver had asked me to stand up? I said, 'yes.' He asked me why I didn't stand up, ... I told him I didn't think I should have to stand up. So I asked him: 'Why do you push us around?' And he told me, 'I don't know, but the law is the law and you are under arrest.'

He played really well. He's done everything we've asked him.

Mike Sherman

He picked up where he left off. He's in great shape. He got off the ball, blocked, did all the things we asked him to do.

James Spithill

Grant Dalton, constantly, whenever he gets asked something in the media about Oracle, he makes the statement that we have got unlimited resources, and we can do anything we like. It is just complete crap.

Tanith Belbin

For the first time, I was able to cross the border and when I was asked my citizenship, I could say American. That was exciting.

Alain Resnais

For the first time, I used a mix of black and white with color. In the editing room, I asked myself, What are you doing manipulating corpses this way?

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

If it happens, I'd like to be there. Two years ago, if you asked me whether I had a chance to be on the Venezuelan team, I would probably say no. But all the work I put in made it possible.

If I did something wrong, they should say it, but I didn't. I asked her if she was firing me because I wasn't quitting. I'm not a hush boy. She lost her mind.

David Blaine

If I asked you to stand in one spot for 35 hours or a certain length of time, you could do it.

If I asked him to run through a wall, he would run through a wall. He does what it takes to win. He picks up the other players, and he is just an all-around great guy on and off the field, which makes him that much better.