Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Gottlieb

The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.

Robert Gottlieb

One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?

I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

Pete Rose

Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there's a close play on first base, they will not run the replay at the ballpark? I've seen umpires go underneath and call up and say if you run one more of those replays, we're gonna forfeit the game. That's how strong their union is.

Pud Galvin

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.

Peter Senge

I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that on the surface creates growth and profit, ends up with waste, junk, and CO2. So how do you make it economic to bring new players into the ball game?

We've just gotta execute and take care of the ball better. I think if we do that, we're in the game (on Tuesday).

Richard Winger

The only state where it's clearly more difficult for an independent candidate to get on the ballot for governor is Alabama.

The only experience we are taking from Princeton -- and it is a broken record for me -- is that we have to play better team defense. We have to help each other wherever the ball is on the floor. We've been giving up way too many baskets.

We always look to get Ronnie the ball. He's the leading scorer in the SEC, so we definitely feel like we should give him the ball in crunch time.

Deborah Cox

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.

Billy Davis

With experienced quarterbacks, they know where the holes are, they know which one of those receivers is going to be in that hole. They are going to throw the ball in that hole and there's nothing you can do about it. But if they don't know what the coverage is, if they don't know where the holes are, and they are trying to figure it out as they drop back, now it's in our favor.

With everything we just did, you would think we're going to win that game. One minute you think you're going to win or at least tie it, and then you get a double play ball and the game's over so that definitely took a little wind out of our sails.

With our defense, we were able to get the ball out in transition and run the floor, and that paid off for us. As the game went on, our conditioning came into play. When they're all working, it's great.

With our defense, we made it clear to both of them that they?re not there to strike people out. Their job is to not give up walks and don?t put the ball down the middle of the plate. They can strike people out, but we don?t want to put that kind of pressure on them. Right now, we have enough to win the game without them striking people out.

With one out, you just try to put a ball in play in the outfield. I was glad he took off.

Without question, Kurt was our go-to guy. He played fearlessly and wanted the ball in his hands at crunch time.

Without Mike out there, everyone was staying back too much. We lost control of the midfield and couldn't get the ball to our offensive players." ()

Without her, we wouldn't have won a game this year. We don't get the ball up the floor if she isn't our point guard.

With the ball in her hands, there aren't too many that are better. She's the real deal.

We need to deny her the ball. Once she gets the ball she can do anything with it. We've got to deny her the ball. If she can't get it, she can't make an offensive move.

We need to deal with some of our ball control issues, defensive issues and our kicking. We still had a good side out, with four British Lions out on the paddock, and we should have done better.

Dave Wannstedt

We need to be more of a threat with speed on the field. Kinder and Marcel Pestano will get a chance to see if they can help push the ball down the field. Teams are going to roll coverage to Greg Lee on every play and we need other guys to step up.

We have made significant changes to the policy in the last year and a half. We made the first step by ourselves, and we thought we needed to take the next step. We hope this lets things die down with Congress, because we want to end the problem now and get back to playing ball and not worrying about steroids every day.

Leon Jackson

We moved the ball well, ... We did a great job of coming out and executing our plays. . . . We had them on their heels a lot.

Dwyane Wade

We moved the ball well tonight. I think we probably didn't swing it, maybe eight times or so. It just looks like you're not moving the ball when you are missing shots,

Ben Murphy

We moved the ball well. They just big played us. We're still confident in what we're doing. On offense, we just need to keep doing what we've been doing.

We moved the ball well, ... then we had some more penalties, which were our nemesis all night long.

We moved the ball well on offense and shot over 40 percent from the field. It was one of our better games of the season.

Flip Saunders

We moved the ball well, had 35 assists, 12 turnovers and rebounded the ball well. We had a good overall performance.

We moved the ball well, but we couldn't get the ball to pop through to a running forward.

We moved the ball well, but it was not as clean as I'd like to have seen it. We'll have to be better with our first touch on Saturday.

Mike Tice

We moved the ball well all preseason, but we've shot ourselves in the foot too. We're not playing our best football right now, and I don't want us to play our best right now.