Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Roddick

As good as Roger is, people want to see him tested. You want there to be the Boston Celtics for the Lakers, you want there to be Red Sox for the Yankees.

Terry Stotts

Our defense got us over the hump. It was one of those games. Boston did a nice job defensively and both teams struggled to score. We stayed with our defense and fought through.

Anything that happens in Boston that's as large as the Coltrane concert demands our attention. It's a major part of our cultural landscape. Football comes in the fall, and so does the Coltrane concert.

Roy Halladay

The way Randy Johnson pitched his last time out was a good sign for New York. I've got to give the Yankees the edge in the wild card, Boston is better suited to win the division.

Daryl Morey

The product is the team, the market is Boston and competitive responses are fairly muted. You sell most of your tickets to diehard Celtics fans and there isn't much price elasticity in terms of other sports teams or entertainment options.

Bill Clinton

Tonight I come to you as a citizen, returning to you in a role I've played most of my life. I join you here in Boston as a foot soldier in the fight for our future, as we nominate a true New England patriot for president,

Thomas Gold Appleton

Boston is a state of mind.

Stephen Elop

When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away,

Summer Sanders

Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time.

Mark Zuckerberg

If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it's not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. [Silicon Valley] is a little short-term focused and that bothers me.

Kevin Starr

If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

Matt Hasselbeck

I like to use my Larry Bird analogy, because I'm from Boston. It must have been frustrating playing behind Larry Bird. Because no matter what happens, good or bad, he's the guy. And you've got no chance of getting in. That's just the way it is. It's tough to play behind a future Hall of Famer.

Bill Richardson

Senator Kerry is very relaxed. He's very much at peace. He's confident. He feels the debates have gone well. He's looking forward to the Boston Red Sox winning.

Laurence Fishburne

She was 12 when we made this movie. She's this little girl as far as I'm concerned. My son just entered Boston University, so now I get the opportunity to spend time with her. I have been making trips once a month to New York and I take her to the theater.

Obviously, that's something that has been in the back of our minds. There is no resentment toward Diana at all. She was an unbelievable pioneer in women's basketball. We also want to leave our legacy with a successful career. It wouldn't end any better way than us being in Boston at the Final Four and winning the national championship.

Daniel Hernandez

Nicol said to The Boston Globe. ''This is a tough place to get a game. But things happen and he has gotten back in the lineup.

Thomas Menino

I am proud to say that today Boston is one of the safest cities in America. That's because we've taken crime very seriously from the very beginning.

Cy Young

My heart will always be with the Boston fans. I hope that everyone who truly loves me will still support me now that I won't be with the Red Sox,

Mark Hendrickson

Now we just need to carry it back to the road starting tonight in Boston and do what we can to spoil people's October plans.

Eric Olsen

Growing up I pulled for Notre Dame and also Miami and Boston College. When it came down to it those were all in my top five. But Boston College was probably second.

From a competitive standpoint, probably the most sensitive issues are in the Boston and Massachusetts areas, ... There's going to be some risk to Fleet's dominance there, but I'm not really concerned.

Alex Rodriguez

I don't think we're seeing colors in the other team's uniforms, ... We know each game is important whether it's Boston or Tampa. We need each game desperately, and we're playing that way.

Johnny Damon

I expect him to be on. We need him to be on. There's no way we can get back to Boston down 2-0.

John Williams

For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.

Dirk Benedict

For thousands of sick and dying people all over the country, cast out of hospitals with their individual predictions of only months left on this planet, Boston was a last hope, a Mecca.

John Sebastian

I get everything form what you might expect like a club date to the city of Boston inviting me to do a concert during the Tall Ships Ceremony.

I grew up in Poway and returned when I was done playing. It's one place I always came back to. After I left Boston I realized you never know where you will be so I made my roots back in Poway.

George Santayana

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

Franz Kline

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

Manny Ramirez

My main focus, like I say, is getting prepared for the season to help Boston win. I'm here. I don't live in the past, I live in the present.

He probably would have gotten off the bus in Boston and we may still be looking for him today.

I don't see material upside or downside (for Boston Scientific shares) for the next 12 months.

Gary Williams

All I want to talk about is Boston College.