Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Lester

It's what I've been working long and hard for. It's been determination, perseverance, persistence, overcoming obstacles. I'm no spring chicken and most of these guys are calling it a career at this age. But I would like to think I'm still on the rise.

Pat Riley

It's what I like to call a Saturday night special.

Bill Butler

It's what I call the illusion of security, that's what I call it.

Scott Robinson

It's what I call judicially clearing the desk, and it can be as misleading as it is inherently ambiguous. Judges have a lot to do and eventually they get around to what they consider to be less pressing pending motions and resolve them.

It's very sad, a 19-year-old ... that's not going to be able to pick up the phone and call his dad.

It's very hard to call a flop, ... We talked about it with Bennett. You can't say a guy's flopping, so go penalize it. It's very difficult to make that determination.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

It's time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end the wholesale slaughter of America's horses once and for all.

Jared Bernstein

It's too soon to call this a 'jobless' recovery, ... but another quarter or two of these types of reports, and that probably will be a relevant title.

Hugh Johnson

It's too soon to call it a meaningful trend.

I want to go on record as saying I would not like to see any services cut. The public needs to know that when they call the city, the police, or the fire department will be there for them.

I want to recognize the character of our team, coming back and scoring two goals like that. They never say never. Was that a pretty setup goal? Either one of them? (It was) just puck on net. We tried to grease one out - that's why they call it a greasy goal.

Matthew Stafford

I want to commit early so I can concentrate on the high school season. Next year, I don't want to sit around taking phone calls all day.

I want to commit as soon as possible, ... I want to get it over with. It's everything. It's the calls every day, the coaches wanting to be your friends. ... It's a tough decision. It's hard.

Carlos Gonzalez

I want to call him right now and tell him about it. It's an honor.

I want to call back and say, ?How could you do this to me? How could you do this to anyone??

Bob Stoops

I want our team to know that we are not far off. We'll get those turnovers and we'll get those calls as we go through the year.

G. H. Hardy

I started making calls a week after Katrina. The captains all said the same thing: you can take away our homes, but you can't take away our Mardi Gras.

I still am constantly about to pick up the phone and call Pamela. I valued her life, not so much mine.

I try to keep track and in contact with everyone in my family. I used to see everybody. Now I have to call them.

Kerry Wood

It was a different scenario to come into the middle of an inning. It's different warming up in the bullpen. I need to stay loose and make sure to be ready to go in the game when they call me.

It was a dead-even game. However, the call was not in the flow of the game. The referee was letting a lot of things go until that point.

It was 3 inches off the ground, ... What can you do? I don't know if he was looking for it. Whatever. You've got to tip your hat to a guy in that situation. It's not fun to do, but that's why they call it the big leagues. It was a good pitch in a good location.

It was 104 degrees that night. It was 130 degrees ringside, that's what they said. I was there. It felt like it. Whatever you call 'great' nowadays, I guess Ray was that then. I went to his fights. I wasn't superstitious. When Ray sat between rounds that night, I dropped my head. People said, 'Why do you drop your head? You crying?' I was praying.

It used to be where you could call a concrete company and get it that day. Now, you've got to plan it at least a week and maybe weeks ahead.

Cameron Crowe

It used to be, like, the sanctity of rock was that you could never let a song of yours be used in a commercial. It was like, 'Oh man, we'll never let our music be exploited that way.' Now they'll call you up and say, 'You gotta use this song in your movie, man. It's the new VW ad! People love it.' And you realize, boy, have times changed.

It (the call at home) was frustrating -- but like I told the guys -- if we go and get a single, or a double, then there's no call to worry about.

It takes time, it takes manpower, it takes aircraft, ships, to verify this. That's why we are calling on all citizens to help the government, to help the military, to help the police in providing information.

Kirk Ferentz

It took a lot of courage and confidence to make that call in that situation and they executed it well. They made some huge plays in the game.

Billy Beane

It took a lot for him to pick up the phone, unsolicited. That was probably not an easy phone call for Ken, by himself, without his agent. ... When he picked up the phone, that spoke volumes about his interest in coming back.

Andrea Martin

It (the gunfire) was a lot, it was enough to make me get up. We've been here exactly a year and nothing has happened here. We've never had to call the cops.

It takes a lot of pressure off. You don't get so angry. If you think a call is incorrect, you don't spend extra games thinking about it.

Kirk Ferentz

It takes a lot of courage and confidence in your defense to make that call and most importantly, they executed. It looked initially like we had them stopped, but it was a great individual effort. He refused to go down, and it was a huge play in the game.

Joe Girardi

It woke me up. But all the calls have been neat.