Famous Quotes & Sayings

Here is an opportunity for a great experience to play in our backyard in front of a lot of people and fans, ... As a coach you really think about wanting to win at state. You usually don't want to duck the better teams and usually Dade has the great teams. I look at it as a challenge.

Hockey's our national sport and I think most people you talk to have their story about when they played in the backyard rink or on the pond.

Chuck D.

I think it's going to be a backyard brawl and it would be great to get that first 'W' on the board. But it's going to be like a street fight. This is the best JB team I've seen since I've been here (18 years). They've got good size and are physical. So we're expecting a fight.

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures.

I thought we played OK. That's not the easiest game to play when you're playing a team ... that tries to make it a backyard brawl.

Robert Patrick

I was working around the backyard and I looked up, 'Is that snow? Right on.'We don't have to go all the way to the mountains to see that now.

He was playing point guard and directing teams all over the place at 6 years old. And Maggie was the same way. She just loved it. She used to play in the backyard all the time.

Jerry Angelo

I didn't like how we ended that '01 season. We got beat. It made us look weak, and I've got that taste in my mouth still. We just didn't look like we were ready to play. We got beat in our own backyard and got our butts kicked.

I had a great view, out in my backyard with a couple of telescopes.

Clear the backyard of those summer playthings lying around such as trampolines that are hazardous if they become airborne.

Mike Vogel

I have such an eclectic taste in music. Come to a backyard BBQ at my house, and I will run the gamut from Skynyrd to Sinatra to '90s grunge, rap, R&B, and classic rock. I have issues. If I had to pick one, I love this country artist named Craig Morgan. His music and his songs are so relatable and tell such vivid stories.

I heard a loud rushing sound and my dogs were barking so I came into my backyard to see millions of gallons of water pouring over the embankment. I was terrified--I thought something was flooding it looked like a river.

Champ Bailey

I'm sure they will. We'll be in their backyard and they'll forget what I said. Everybody said it. And I'm not going to shy away from speaking my mind. I mean, I felt like I was kicking their (butt) so I just said it. . . . I say that about everybody. If I'm doing my job and doing it well, then I'm going to talk about it.

Tracy Morgan

I'm no Jerry Seinfeld. I wasn't raised with some backyard with a creek and trees and all that.

I'm a big garden person, so the backyard is kind of an extension of our home.

Sarah Hyland

I love living in L.A. It's quieter. It's much more relaxing. I'm living in a house for the first time ever. I have a backyard for the first time ever; a dog for the first time ever. So it's a lot of firsts, and I love it so much. It's just so different. It's a nice change of pace.

The Chinese are so dominant at the moment that to go there and win in their own backyard was very satisfying.

The first day I got there it was a completely different experience. No one shot off any names to me that had been training at that school. The facility itself was much cleaner; it actually looked like a wrestling gym, opposed to someone just put up a backyard ring in a dirty, filthy basement.

The Great Backyard Bird Count is unique because it provides a four-day snapshot of where the continent's birds are.

Susan Tully

You can say it's a federal problem all you want, but the truth is it's in your backyard so the problem's yours.

It's really nice to get them outside at 6, 7 or 8 o'clock where they're in the backyard skating and I don't have to worry about them getting into trouble. It's nice to look out the back window and see the kids messing around on the ice ? as long as they're not fighting, which happens often.

It's been a long time coming trying to find an outdoor venue here in my own backyard to bring the biggest names in rock and country music. I'm extremely excited about this.

It's our biggest rivalry game and our girls would like nothing better than to beat Silver in their backyard and win the district outright.

Doing Civil War re-enactments is something I live for. To have one in my backyard is great.

Dom Starsia

It truly doesn't matter. We know both teams well. It's a little bit like a backyard brawl whether it's Carolina or Maryland. It's going to be a great game.

Tubby Smith

It was like he was playing in his backyard and nobody was guarding him.

I've been with the game for a while and I know, truly, it's one of the best systems in the world in terms of identifying players. When you can go from your own backyard to the Olympics, it's very exciting.

Kylie Jenner

I wanted a house near my family in a quiet neighborhood with a front yard and a backyard that my dog will like.

Linda Miles

It's kind of backyard breeding. You get a bunch of dogs, and breed them and then sell them for profit. Generally it's called a puppy mill because it's not the excellence that you would expect from a qualified breeder.

Richard Petty

A lot of them also looked a little further down the line in the future than we did. We always did everything out of Level Cross (N.C.) in the backyard and we were fairly successful with the thing. Then it started being a bigger and bigger business. It started going and bringing more people in, more money, more technology, that kind of stuff. We still sat there in the backyard. By the time we got ready to do something about it, we were so far behind on our money and our engineering and all that stuff it's just taken us a little time to get going.

It's the not in my backyard syndrome. And it's very difficult. We all need power. Plants need to be somewhere.

We played a lot better today (than in the Backyard Brawl). Now we're looking forward to league play.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other fascinating behaviours of sticklebacks.