Famous Quotes & Sayings

It didn't really cross our minds (to foul) and we kind of backed off a little bit and Cyndi made a great shot. Great players make great shots.

Erin Wilson

I think it will be wonderful for the students who don't have self-confidence, who need to be backed by teachers and principals.

Jaromir Jagr

He backed up his words. I respect that.

John McDonald

He backed the wrong person and now they're using the workers' comp claim for retribution. That's illegal. You can't do that.

He backed out of the fight. I'm here. I showed up. He didn't want to fight me.

He really didn't feel like he was getting loose to where he needed to be to throw live BP, so we just backed him down. He had (a similar problem) last spring. It's something that just worked itself out with some treatment and some stretching over the course of a few days.

If every state follows a similar tack, maybe we're onto something and Microsoft's Open XML strategy may not be a great idea. But we're not seeing that. Microsoft has not backed down and is committed to using Open XML for its forthcoming Office versions.

I called my wife and had her bring my pistol down, then I backed up to where they couldn't get out.

Roy Moore

I don't think he's backed off the differential salaries, because he is allotting an extra catch-up, delaying the catch-up until January. There is a reduction in the delayed pool for faculty catch-up, but it'll still be a substantial increase.

Ray Rhodes

I backed off, got my rest. Get myself well and get healthy.

I could have pitched better, but the team backed me up and we got the win.

I remind them of a few games that got away from us and the mistakes we made in those games. I remind them of the three years we worked to get to this point and the sacrifices they made over the summers and everything the team and the community did for us and we don't want to have brain freezes once we get out there. They have never backed down from a challenge since I've been there.

Rupert Sheldrake

The point of what I'm doing is to talk not about science backed up by hundreds of committees, thousands of professors, and many tons of textbooks.

John C. Calhoun

I will not undertake to offer an opinion on the capacity of Hindustan to produce cotton. The region is large, and the soil and climate various, the population great and wages low; but I must be permitted to doubt the success of the experiment of driving us out of the market, though backed and patronized by English capital and energy.

Earl Campbell

I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.

Mitt Romney

There will always be, within a party, people who backed one candidate versus people who backed another, and there will be factions in the party, and there's always a little glee faction looking at the difficulty of the other faction.

George Foreman

Frazier was not a big man at all. Frazier was about 5'9, but he would make anyone run. Put up your dukes and cover up because he's coming. He never backed up from anyone.

We definitely would like to start it by May 1. We're still shooting for it. But if we don't get it ready by then it will be backed off til September.

Yanis Varoufakis

Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.

John Hall

There are backups for everything. All records are backed up, not just on disk but also on paper,

Kailash Kher

My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.

Three or four teams have backed out already, so it's going to be a small meet.

You know, there were five different teams that had it all locked up, and they all lost within the last week. And so Nebraska sort of backed in, and Oregon was the consensus No. 2, and the computer polls didn't like them, so then ended up the Fiesta Bowl. And then it was a rotten game.

Daniel Johns

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

We had a couple of opportunities that we didn't take and we backed that up with poor discipline. Playing our third game in 10 days, that gave us too much to do.

Graeme Smith

We backed our bowlers to take a big chunk out of their batting order, and in the first two or three hours we created a lot of chances. But I would have to say the gamble hasn't paid off.

We backed off in the third quarter. We had some turnovers and they got on a roll. Cabell Midland can score. We want back to the pressure and got on a roll ourselves.

Yet another survey of the economy is suggesting sustainable strength. Rates backed up a little because of this report, but you're treading water a bit because of payrolls data lurking on Friday.

Gary Ross

I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.

John Sullivan

When you get on the field at West Lafayette, that crowd is intense. You can tell there's a hatred for you and you're backed into a corner, and the only thing you can do is fight your way out.

Graeme Smith

We thought after having gone through their top order twice in Centurion and with the moisture in the wicket here, we backed ourselves to get a big chunk in their batting order.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are coming to the litmus test in the next few weeks. Diplomacy is not just talking. Diplomacy has to be backed by pressure and, in extreme cases, by force.