Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Martin

It does surprise me but it is kind of understandable. There are an awful lot of guys who have given a lot to this game.

We played him before and we did a very good job. We just didn't execute. We had an awful first half.

We played good enough to win in the first quarter. We just played awful after that.

We played awful hockey in the second and third periods. We were fortunate it was only 3-1.

Lindy Ruff

We dug ourselves a hole, and we tried to dig ourselves out of it. We kept it close until late, but they didn't give up a lot. Our passing was awful and our shooting was worse.

Unfortunately, that's what happens with this awful disease. You feel good, you're responding and then the downturn.

We were just right there in some of it. We were awful close.

Hannibal Buress

I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, 'Hannibal, you're going to die.' Stuff like that.

On the first day God made Thai asses, and on the seventh day he was awful tired, and that's when he made U.S. asses.

Geno Auriemma

One of the dangers that you run into when you have success so early, people tend to forget. It?s better to have success late then early because an awful lot of people may end up remembering whatever happened last year or whatever is going to happen this year.

I would have to say the chief of staff's figure does surprise me. It's an awful lot for someone who worked in a position for 4-1/2 years.

Chris had one of the best fall seasons I've ever seen. He definitely picked up where he left off this week. He's playing with an awful lot of confidence right now. His back nine today was incredible.

David Ervine

I have a feeling of awful foreboding that there are people out there so determined to damage me that they will take an innocent life.

I have an awful lot of girls on my two teams, and there used to be a paradigm that girls cannot do math. But all these kids are honors students, and you have to constantly keep challenging them. Otherwise they'll get lazy, roll over and do the minimum to get an A.

I have mixed emotions. We were right there and it's an awful feeling to lose and not get that next step. You just try to tell these young players that everything that happened before what we feel right now is what this team is.

I hate it driving more than anything in the whole world. I'm just an awful, awful driver. I get lost, I hit things: parked cars, one moving car, a pole in my parking garage. Just when I think I got everything under control, I'll miss seeing something out of the corner of my mirror.

For right now, we are operating under the correct principles. We hear an awful lot of exceptional cases. This is a big system and there are many ways through it.

Ben Howland

I expect it would take an awful lot to keep him out of the game (against Louisiana State) tomorrow.

Bill Self

I don't think panic's set in by any means. But in fans' minds, they're thinking it's awful early to be struggling this much.

To get back here and play in the world's greatest arena, this late in the season, for a university and a team who have a great deal of pride, it means an awful lot.

Guys are feeling pretty good, but it's on now. We've got 15 games before any postseason stuff, and there's not one game in that stretch that doesn't mean an awful lot.

God made the wicked Grocer / For a mystery and a sign, / That men might shun the awful shop/ And go to inns to dine.

God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.

Jason Varitek

He's had to deal with it an awful lot. Sometimes you can't really tell because he's gone out there and pitched so well. Today he maintained his focus. It didn't matter how he felt.

He should give the entire picture, not just pick out a piece where it kind of looks like, you know, something awful happened to him but it's kind of his fault. He caused that. People are gonna say things that might be ugly. And I can tell you on my behalf, I understand those things are gonna be said.

Keeping costs down and getting close to the customer makes an awful lot of sense when the revenue environment is flattening.

I think it just showed homosexuals that being bold, being brave, coming out, you know, was not going to have the awful results that everybody always feared. That those days were passed, they were behind us. And that was a thrilling day; that was a thrilling day.

Jerry Reinsdorf

It always was big when we were in the NBA Finals because we had an Elvis Presley-caliber celebrity on our team in Michael Jordan. But the World Series is much bigger. I've never seen Chicago this excited. Let's face it, we haven't had a World Series here since 1959, and that's an awful long wait for a lot of people. Winning all those championships with the Bulls was great, but it would be the ultimate of my sports career if we win a world championship.

I think it's a tough one. It's going to be extremely hot. We have a limited number of players available, which means that some players are going to get an awful lot of football. You hope that you don't have any injuries.

I think it's awful that because of a personal conflict, Mr. Spinks thinks it's necessary to do something that may have the effect of disrupting the whole festival and the whole county loses.

Jacqueline Woodson

I think it's important that everyday we think about the work we need to do to make this world a better place. I mean, we should wake up thinking about it and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's tasks. There's an awful lot of change needing to be made around here.

David Kennedy

It could be false, but an awful lot of it gels. Unless the guy's been much more surreptitious than these guys usually are, it's probable that law enforcement is on his trail.

David Ervine

It could have a positive effect, or it could stir passions further. It could have no effect at all. The only important thing now is to get over these awful, awful days and restore people's confidence as quickly as possible in the cease-fire.