Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kobe Bryant

We just wanted to tighten them up. They looked too comfortable in the first half. We just wanted to put a little more pressure on them and challenge them a bit.

We weren't expecting the (1,600) to challenge for first. They had all run hard and they were tired, but I think the seniors kind of helped push the freshmen.

Bruce Williams

We were put through a lot of effort a lot of community consultation in responding to the challenges raised by the Calgary Planning Commission, and we're very happy that the council responded accordingly to our position.

What the 93 percent says to me is that there's a tremendous opportunity. What the overall numbers show is that there's a pretty big challenge in front of us, which we've known all along.

Jack Straw

What that dossier shows is that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime is not some historic leftover, but is real serious and represents a mounting challenge to the international community,

When a lot of people were counting us out, he stayed with us. He challenges us, he gives us a lot of confidence.

Tim Thomas

We lost everything. That's a challenge. Not many of these kids have had a whole lot of varsity experience. I have a lot of seniors on this team and I've challenged them to continue what last year's team did.

Sarah Clarke

We have to do better and we will. But that challenge isn't just limited to Wal-Mart.

Charlie Hunter

We had the manpower, and knew where they (the caskets and vaults were), but the challenge was getting over the terrain.

Skip Bertman

We will now face significant logistical challenges . . .. Naturally our strong preference would have been to play during the weekend, but safety for student-athletes, fans and everyone else involved in a football game was the overriding factor for the commissioner.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The prize recognizes the role of multilateralism in resolving all of the challenges we are facing today. It will strengthen my resolve and that of my colleagues to continue to speak truth to power.

We understand every game is not going to be pretty, we're not going to always win pretty. We just have to step up and be willing to take on the challenge when it comes.

We feel we're the heartbeat of the team. When we make a big play, the offense and defense can feed off of that. It's really a great motivator to be No. 1 two years in a row. It's hard to be No. 1 once. We're definitely motivated by the challenge of this weekend.

We had a couple of people who didn't show up due to other commitments, and we've also had a couple of injuries that hurt us. If we had our whole team I felt like we could have easily finished fifth, and perhaps challenge for fourth.

William Ford

Trying to re-create what was a big jumble created by 300 years of history is going to be the most interesting urban planning challenge of this century.

The project had its challenges. Each of the retail stores remained open and operating as faade construction took place. This required significant pre-planning and constant communication.

James Baker

While we are disappointed ... they specifically noted we are free to return to the federal courts to present our constitutional challenges to the selective and subjective manual recount process at an appropriate time in the future,

Wayne Allard

While these challenges are not necessarily new, they have become extremely serious and they do threaten our space dominance,

While the job market is picking up, many companies remain selective when hiring IT professionals. Executives seek individuals with a deep understanding of the issues, challenges and tools specific to their industries, and who can contribute immediately to the company's success.

John Jones

We wanted to challenge every shot they put up. Pack in the zone, don't let Potts go to work inside, and challenge their shooters.

Ismail Haniyeh

We've handled challenges in the past and we will be able to stand up to future challenges as well.

We've had a few challenges. We'll be back.

We've had slow starts all year. Our plan was to control things in the first quarter and we did. They made a little challenge and we answered.

Billy Donovan

We'll have to deal with being ranked one, two or three in the country. These are the kids I would love to deal with those challenges with.

Wrestling varsity was definitely a big step up the ladder. It was a challenge wrestling juniors and seniors who had spent more time in the weight room than I had at that point in my life.

We're sure frustrated by some of the challenges because we're consumers too,

Andy Reid

We all look forward each year to the day when the schedule comes out. We welcome the challenges facing us in 2006. As always, we'll take our one-game-at-a-time approach.

Mo Johnston

We all know what Amado can do. He possesses skills that no one else in this league has. But we have to challenge him to make plays like that.

There is always room for more. There are always challenges in terms of executing on plan and the competition doesn't stand still. They have to start somewhere and this is their base.

Ross Anderson

There is also a huge network overhead. For every message that comes in, there is a challenge going out. You are doubling your message load.

There is a lot of inequality in terms of urban workers being a lot richer than rural workers and the coastal regions a lot richer than the western regions, so there is a challenge of trying to find jobs for the people moving to the cities.

We got some outstanding results today and are set up to challenge for three championships on Sunday. We are looking forward to a strong final day.

Robert Webb

We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.