Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have had some tough battles with Traverse City this season. Competing in a playoff environment will continue to challenge our guys and prove to be great experience in the development of our players.

Kenneth Branagh

'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'

Merle Haggard

We've been in many battles together (always on the same side). Over the last few years, we'd become closer than we ever realized ... We were outlaws together.

Chris Stewart

We didn't win the little battles on the ice. That's going to cost you a hockey game. There wasn't one blatant thing we were doing wrong other than the fact we have to win those one-on-one battles.

Suzanne Collins

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.

Rachel Nichols

When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.

We reenact battles in our area, but we also do living history, enacting daily life at schools and community centers.

Al Sharpton

When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.

David Bailey

We did sort of score a touchdown today, but the thing is you know the battles not even half over yet.

A.J. Hawk

People always try to get us in linebacker battles with the other teams. But we're trying to be the best defense in the country. We're going in as a defense and to make a statement.

Jess plays the whole game inside and battles hard. She?s just a warrior.

Koizumi has made the party his after four years of often fierce and difficult battles with his opponents within.

Sean Kelly

I respected Greg a lot. We had some real ding-dong battles - especially in that 1983 Tour of Lombardy.... The finish was so close.

E. B. White

I thought they won a lot of individual battles in the first half. They set the tone and tempo. The second half we did a better job of stepping up in some of the individual battles.

John Mabry

Last year, it was like a machine. It just kept rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling. This year, it's like whoever steps in comes up and does the job. It's a different guy every night. It's not the usual suspects, because most of them are hurt. Somebody goes out there and battles and gets a key hit or makes a big play for us.

I will bring diversity, a viewpoint, experience, common sense, a passion for agriculture and a desire for reasonable solutions, to the issues facing all of agriculture. I am confident the new team of officers will fight the old and new battles with energy and integrity. With the support of our membership, we can overcome the obstacles we face.

Tommy Haas

Pavel is a very good player, ... We have had some close battles in the past.

Al Groh

Our last message at halftime was something that we had said early in training camp. We just reminded the players that battles are not won by digging in. If you dig in, you just become a target. Battles are won by attacking. The players did a very good job of that, and they can be proud of themselves.

Merle Haggard

Buck influenced a lot of people, from The Beatles to me. Buck and I were in a lot of battles over the years, always on the same side. Over the last few years, we'd become closer. He even flew up to Portland to see me when I opened for Dylan last year. We were outlaws together.

He's a warrior, he's a real fighter. He's fought many battles in his life and won them all.

He's fought many battles in his life and won them all. We hope that he will win this battle as well.

Bobby Cox

He's been one of the finer ballplayers in this league the past six, seven years. He battles in every at-bat. I like that kind of hitter.

Hopefully (the loss to the Red Devils) will somehow help us out in the long run. Coffman is a good team and we've had some battles with them the last couple years. They've been playing real well and they haven't had Robby Gardiner.

Brad Shaw

We have to, as players and as coaches, do a better job of preparing guys to play. We were not ready physically or mentally. We didn't seem to win many puck battles tonight.

Stephen J. Cannell

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.

We had a lot of hard-fought battles in the district this season. There is no clear-cut favorite. Everyone is 0-0 and it will be interesting to see who makes it out of the tournament.

Like every freshman entering college, he's going to have to mature. He's going to be in battles every day.

Janet Jackson

Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.

She's so tough inside and constantly battles for the ball.

She's been a great benefit not only on the sidelines, but at practice she works hard. She gets the sneakers on and battles Jessica (Laing).

We won the battle. But we want to put it in perspective; it's just one of many battles yet to come.

Kevin Boothe

I got my love for football watching him play in high school and then going off to college. I talk to him about four or five times a day. He's married now and has two kids, but whenever I go home, we have video game battles like we are teenagers.

I think he battles out of tough spots now and it's not a matter of him throwing a pitch and hoping he gets the guy out. I think now you're seeing the real Jose Contreras coming out.