Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was proud of how we played. In years past, we would have gotten out of focus, but we wanted to make things happen as a group. The most important thing right now is that we're beginning to trust and believe.

I was proud of the way our girls got out there at the beginning of the game. They really came out with a lot of effort and hustle.

I was real happy with the fact we were ready to play at the beginning of the game. Sometimes kids can come out lackadaisical when you're playing a team that's not doing very well.

I was ready to go. Last year missing the championship, I wanted to get back and now we're back so I'm happy about that. That was our goal from the beginning of the year a championship and nothing less and we're here now so we have to finish the deal.

Chad Allen

I was pleased that we came out ready to play. We played well together and played with a lot of intensity. We pressured them really hard early and got some turnovers to get that good lead at the beginning of the game.

I was pleased because we are at the beginning of the season. For this time of the year they did an excellent job.

I was playing a lot at the beginning of the season but not as much during the middle of the year. It's hard, because I want to play, but as long as we're winning, I'm fine with it.

I was out of shape, so I began to run. In 1998, I entered the New York City Marathon, and the rest is history.

Terry Gilliam

I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to make a movie again,

Frank McCourt

I was beginning to think that you could somehow miraculously dig down into your memory and bring back stuff that is stored there." ()

Corey Maggette

I was begging them, too. But they told me to wait until Friday.

Charles Payne

I wasn't surprised investors began pulling back at the close. Even though the run-up was huge, there wasn't a lot of volume there.

I was a sickly child and couldn't digest food. Preparing food for me was a challenge for my mother, but when I got older I began to do it. I think because of that I've always had an interest in nutrition.

I would like to finish what we began at the head of a new government,

My cartoon life is in my office, and it's very separate and getting very in my own head. My television life is I'm begging one of the actors to say the line in the way I'd like them to.

Most men have begun to understand what it takes to build a shoe wardrobe, just as they knew what it took to build a wardrobe of suits or sport coats.

Joe Girardi

Miguel was begging the opposing team to give them one more inning to hit and see if they could get those two runs, but sorry, you can't do that in the real game.

Midwest Builders and their subcontractors have begun to make progress on the construction of the Hampton Inn, ... The footings for the building are half poured, the grading has been started and a large number of wall sections are being pre-fabricated at other locations.

When the committee started looking at Ellen's contributions, especially the Adopt-a-Tree program, the committee began to look at her upbringing. They then realized what a great impact her mother, Jane had made on her and the many contributions she had made for the community as well.

We need to recognize that while the most obvious part of the drought has been established over the last six to eight weeks, this dryness is a pattern that began in 2005.

Richard Reid

Look at the vacant commercial property around town. We already have enough malls and mini-malls, and Keizer Station hasn't even begun to get going. These changes are counter to their own goals.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Matt has a tendency not to loosen up at times because of the surgery. I thought he was loose when he went out there today. He got to a point that things began to tighten a bit. He felt like he couldn't let it go.

Jerome Charyn

Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.

Og Mandino

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find ''tomorrow'' on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, ''If I had my life to live over again. ''Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Live it simple, make it simple, and say it simple, the obvious key for happiness which life is all about. Problems begin when we use our overrated brains to explain something we do not fully comprehend and make ourselves experts.

Like those players in the bond market, stock players may have begun to factor in rate hikes in the future.

Bernard Berenson

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

I wondered what the heck was going on and I began writing letters of complaint,

Clinton Portis

I was trying to find a way to get into the end zone. So I came out in disguise trying to dissect a game plan to get me to the end zone. It had been so long since I had gotten in there before I finally got in, and I actually did it playing around (with costumes). And then the fans and people started looking forward to it. The fans began to help me, and now it's turned into this national-known scene that we have now.

I was there at the beginning of her outrage period.

I was having knee issues and began riding. I started out with a mountain bike; (I) started riding on the roads and quickly realized I needed a road bike. It's been a very steady progression from there.

Rabih Alameddine

I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.