Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maurice Cheeks

Somehow we've got to turn it. We've got to turn it immediately for us to get back in this thing. We're still there, but we've got to turn it immediately. We've got to turn attitudes and turn to believe in yourself as well as your team. We've got to turn it around and make guys understand the importance of it, number one, the urgency of it, number two, and leave it out on the floor.

Scott Brown

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

Benjamin Franklin

Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.

Some kids are leading the team more than others, but we have a winning attitude now.

That attitude that I wouldn't succeed didn't come from my family; it came from school and then the township we lived in. I wasn't going to settle for that, and my mother warned us not to settle for less, to make the most of our lives.

That attitude expressed by Ford's supporters is exactly the rationale that led us to support the strongest candidate.

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

Sathya Baba

Living is not enough; it has no value by itself. It is the motives, the feelings, the thoughts, the attitudes that prompt the day to day life that matters.

Long-term is a relative term; that's what I've learned. You never know how a team's attitude about a player is going to change.

I think the most important thing I've done is come in with a positive attitude every day. I used to let things bother me off the court. And when coach (Riley Wallace) got on me in the past, I took it personal. I know he's just trying to help me now, so I make sure I listen to what he's saying.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

Angelique Kidjo

It is an issue of attitude change. You cannot preserve cattle and let your children die.

I think there is a wait-and-see attitude about next week's Fed meeting. Investors are thinking that perhaps the recent weaker-than-expected employment report means that the Fed is near the end of its rate-hiking cycle, but I don't think that's the case.

Jack Kemp

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

Jason's attitude about our team is as positive as I've heard him since his second year when we were coming off the Finals. When your better players think you have a good team, I think that's a very positive thing.

Steve Forbert

Jimmie was called a hillbilly singer, but that was not his attitude, ... He really had a kind of Gene Vincent attitude and kind of an Elvis attitude. He was a drinker and partied, and he had that joy for life.

Jim believes in what NIU soccer can be. His enthusiasm and passion is contagious, his attitude convinced me this was a place I wanted to be.

Koizumi will not change his tune because he doesn't want to face a major political setback, but this is exactly the kind of attitude that will hurt his leadership because more LDP politicians will distance themselves from him.

I thought we played better tonight than we did the other night when we only beat them 3-2. THey came out with an attitude like they wanted to take care of business, and they did that in the first and fifth innings.

I think we have a lot of attitude about us.

I think we were too juiced. But our attitude was great and we knew Lake Forest would not quit, even after we had built the kind of lead we had.

Bobby Hamilton

I think we've got a better attitude this year than last year. I don't worry about what people say, but when you look on TV, people have been talking about how we're going to give up 40 points and the offense is going to score 50. We take a lot of pride in that.

Damien Wilkins

I think we should have played better. There's no excuse why things got out of hand like that. We have to figure out if we want to win and come together and do something instead of being the laughingstock of the Western Conference. I think we're separated right now. Either we're in or we're out. If you in, let's roll. If you out, then stay out. For us not to have that attitude is bull (manure) to me, and I don't understand it.

Ariel Sharon

I think a change in the attitude of the U.N. has begun, ... I hope this visit will strengthen relations with the U.N. ... and Europe.

I think it's the spoiled attitude that we have now. It's like they have an 'I want everything right now,' microwave behavior.

I think it's the same type of attitude I try to instill in them and bring to coaching. Were going to put more energy into everything we do because that is what is going to make us better.

Cadillac Williams

I think it was my upbringing. Just learning from my mama to always treat people the way you want to be treated. I think (it is) just what she instilled in me, just that humble attitude that no matter what you do, you can always be brought down. So, I think I owe that to her.

I think it speaks to the attitude of our general manager. He said to me, 'I can do a great job with one of them, but I feel like I do a half-baked job with two of them.' His belief is that for a special show to be special, it should come once a year.

I think it's real important (to win the championship) because we haven't had a year in our career where we've won both. So I think that's something that we've talked about also as being part of being a part of our legacy to be able to say that we won both regular season and tournament championships. So that's something we also have in the back of our minds going into (tonight) and hopefully we can carry that attitude onto the floor.

I think we came into this game with a lot of momentum. Guys were up even in batting practice. We had a good attitude coming into the game and it carried over.

I think we are really blessed to be here and play in the championship game. We are going to come ready and have a positive attitude for the game.

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

William James

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome.