Famous Quotes & Sayings

Most of the time, it's probably not a bug bite. I blame the plants, which makes my botanist friends mad.

Cris Collinsworth

Mike's in a tough spot. There were some big expectations for this team, and they have to get it back on the right track. So I don't blame him.

Mark Duffy

Mistakes cost you, and we had a few that really hurt us today. It wasn't just on that goal that got waived off, but we had five blue shirts standing around watching two (Tech goals) on rebounds when our goalie didn't know where the puck was. We have no one to blame there but ourselves.

Mr. Martin, whose role as finance minister did not involve him in the supervision of spending by the PMO or (Public Works) is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct.

Mr. Martin...is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct,

Mr. Martin ... is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct,

Mr. Greenspan is at least partly to blame for the turnaround in the fiscal position here -- his musings on the problems of ever-increasing surpluses were a clear green light to Congress to cut taxes.

Mayor Nagin has blamed everyone else except himself,

Maybe we should have come out with a zone in the second half to stop their dribble penetration. Our guards were not responsible for that, coach Turco was. I'll take the blame for that.

George H. W. Bush

One of the things people want us to do here is play the blame game, ... We got to solve problems. There will be ample time to figure out what went right and what went wrong.

Sebastien Loeb

Of course I'm very disappointed to have made the mistake on Friday that dropped us down to eighth overall - especially for the team. I can only blame myself.

No one is a failure until they blame somebody else.

It is always easy to put the blame on the curators if we don't come up to the expectations of those who run and play the game. Good weather and time factor are very crucial all the time.

I think there should be more phone calls and more face-to-face meetings, and the guys from Tampa can come to New York and vice versa. Certainly there should be better communication; there's no excuse with modern communications as we have it today. That's where we've fallen short, and I blame all of us for that.

Paul Young

....jealousy, that's why she did it. She was caught by her lover with a man, and she had to say something, and she had to blame somebody, and that somebody was Monte Carter.

Norm Chow

I think coordinators have always done the same stuff. Every play I've run, I've copied. ... Maybe it's just more notoriety. Maybe it's easier to blame somebody else.

I screwed up. I could have gotten more players out there in our rotation a little more than I did and we probably paid for it in the end so I'll take the blame for it.

I said, 'You're not going to have any help for the handicapped?' And he said, 'No, you had your chance.' They're putting blame all on people not wanting to go, but that isn't so,

Mark Twain

Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an

Squarely we should put the brunt of the blame on the TEA.

Name it and Blame it, doesn't mean you solved it, nor owned it, nor changed it

Bob Barker

Maybe I should blame it on Chuck Norris, ... He probably kicked me in the neck. God knows he kicked me everywhere else.

Joe Kelley

We never went into a game that we did not feel sure of winning, and when we lost, we blamed it on hard luck or the umpires. We never gave any other team credit for being able to play ball, and the result was that we were hard to beat. If I could get my team to be confident, I think we would work our way to the front pretty quickly.

The Americans are at home and we are away. He's had a change of scenery and a change in racing conditions. There's less pressure if he runs in the Classic. If you run him in the Mile, he has to win. If he runs in the Classic and doesn't win, we can blame it on the dirt. All in all, it's very difficult, but it can be done.

That would have been a big plus for the president. You get the blame when you're the top dog. And in this case, I think there is no doubt that we had inadequate preparation and we've had inadequate response.

That wasn't anything unusual. He has different styles. Sometimes he's quiet. I don't blame him for getting loud.

That's very unlikely here. The management are all new and weren't here in the times this happened. They are not to blame for this. They have done the right thing to come clean.

Tim Thomas

I wasn't surprised, really. I obviously wasn't at my best. I don't want to make excuses. I can't say I was tired. It just wasn't there for me. I will take the blame for what happened. I didn't get the bounces and I probably made some of the saves harder than they needed to be.

Brandon Inge

I would like this (regime) to stick. That's just luck of the draw. You can't blame it all on (the managers). You can't blame it all on us. There's fault everywhere. We had plenty to do with us losing, too.

When the Burmese government tries to blame the victims for the crime, and say that (democracy activist) Aung San Suu Kyi and her party are responsible for their own repression, I can only reply that much the same was once said about Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel, ... The world is not fooled. And we must not be silent.

I was trying to get it out of the middle -- safe play. Didn't quite work out that way. It was certainly my mistake. I'll take full blame for it.

Pamela Moore

I was upset with myself. I blamed myself.

I was the guy they could get - what could I do? That's the Yankees, though. The blame is always on somebody else other than (where) it should be.