Famous Quotes & Sayings

Any time you lose someone of her caliber it hurts. I'm happy for her, and she deserves it. I know she'll go there and do well, but I hate it for our program. She established this program to state-wide recognition. I hate losing a person of her quality.

Kevin Towers

Any time you lose a player the caliber of a Mark Loretta, it's a big blow. However we are encouraged that Mark did not need to have a full reconstruction of the thumb and that he will make a full recovery to be back on the field before too long.

Bill Laimbeer

That it's being sponsored by the NBA makes it legitimate for the better caliber of players to participate in it, ... All they have to do now is market the individual teams.

That's probably the hardest part because sometimes you just want to let go and be yourself and have a good time. It's not that easy sometimes, though, because everyone is always expecting a certain caliber of behavior.

It's not often you get someone of the caliber of Terry Bowden.

Rowan Atkinson

I'm not really a writer, so my main problem always is finding the writing talent to write something of the caliber that you would like to do.

I'm curious to see the caliber of team we'll be playing.

Michael Hitchcock

It's not every day that a player of Kenny Cooper's caliber leaves one of the top club teams in the world to pursue his dream of playing professional soccer in his hometown. This is a great day for FC Dallas, Major League Soccer and the entire Dallas Soccer Community.

Joe Klein

This record speaks to not only the caliber of play on the field, but to the support of our fans over the years. Congratulations to the fans, the staffs and the players for making the league such a success.

When you face a pitcher the caliber of Chris Carpenter, you only get one opportunity like that.

The original plan was to go to Purdue (University) this weekend, but they changed their meet to last weekend so we changed it to Northern Iowa. We were going to be close to Notre Dame, which is a very high caliber meet to send some people like (seniors) Aubrey (Martin) and Jen (Gilson) to give them a little better competition.

We knew that we had played a great team and competed with them toe-to-toe. But at the same time, it gave us a direction to go in our program. We knew too that we weren't the caliber team that they were.

Scott Moir

We learned something about being in the lead. We couldn't hold back with the caliber of skaters nipping out our heels, so we really had to go for it.

To have somebody of his caliber in this town can only help the rest of us.

This year at 1-2, our expectations are so much higher. We know the caliber of team we have, and we know we can be very, very competitive.

Sometimes a player of his caliber goes through a long dry spell. He's worked really hard and fought through a lot of adversity.

Jack Clark

Sacramento State wasn't the caliber of UBC, but neither was the team we had on the field. We made mistakes of inexperience. We're not happy to give up tries, certainly.

It was a new unit at the checkpoint, and new units are always pretty hardcore. We pulled up and (a soldier) puts his face in the car and says, 'Slow down. You have a .50 caliber pointed at the back of your head. Of course it was pointed at the back of my head, because I was in the back seat.

This is awesome. With the caliber of guys (drivers) here tonight, I didn't know what was going to happen. We stayed out of trouble and wanted to be there at the end and we were there.

Jerome Bettis

This is good for the team, ... It keeps team morale up. Whenever you get a player of his caliber signed, it shows the commitment the organization has to its players. I think it reinforces a positive message that if you go out there and perform on the field, we'll take care of you. I think that makes a very, very conducive environment for us to go out there and work.

This is a true reaffirmation of the rebuilding process. We are extraordinarily grateful for the caliber of appointments that they have made.

This isn't good enough. Not with the caliber of team that we have.

There were two shotgun blasts, followed by two lower caliber shots, followed by two shotgun blasts.

The caliber of teams we're playing week in and week out now, we're going to have to be more focused, ready to play.

The caliber of play we showed on defense at this time of the year far and away exceeded my expectations.

The caliber of competition is getting more difficult.

I certainly felt we had a very fair hearing. I thought the process was very fair. The people were of very high caliber on the hearing panel and (there's) nothing new. There were no surprises to us, no new allegations or anything like that.

Thomas Scott

Eugene's research speaks to the caliber of scientists at SDSU. Not only will it lead to future discoveries in nanotechnology, it will also improve the quality of products we use everyday.

Even though this is a home meet, with the caliber of team we have right now, we have to be thinking towards the end of the season,

Every game means a lot to me. The caliber of our opponent does not matter. We just try to keep a positive attitude.

To win by that caliber of points, it's just impressive. We've given credit to our defense all season, but we'll hand it to the offense tonight.

We are very pleased with the caliber of the top nine. We've had a lot of interest and we're pleased with the quality of the candidates.

Hank Blalock

I should not let anything like that frustrate me. I feel like I'm the caliber of player who can hit there, but I can't use hitting somewhere else in the lineup as an excuse. Whether I'm hitting third or sixth, I've got to put together good at-bats.