Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Niedermayer

Phoenix played extremely hard the past two games. They gave us all they had. We had to come up with a big effort in the third.

Gerald Henderson

Scott puts a concentrated effort into everything he does. He's going to make things happen there.

Taufik Hidayat

Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

Diane Keaton

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

Moving people out of the shelters and into temporary housing has been a source of frustration for us. It is a monumental effort that FEMA has undertaken, and we understand that effort is going to take time, but we had hoped it would come about quicker than it has.

Mental mistakes absolutely, but I am happy with the effort we are getting. We work so hard, but sometimes in the fourth quarter experience takes over.

Taylor Twellman

My job is to get it on the end. . . . I'm not going to score if my teammates don't get it to me. . . . Jay Heaps played great. (Pat) Noonan played great. It was a solid effort all around.

Miguel de Icaza

.NET was a company-wide branding effort at Microsoft that spanned multiple projects.

Bret Harte

Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

David Nicholls

Being a decent human being will require effort and energy…

Dick Vitale

It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.

When you come here and the expectations are really high then the failure hurts that much worse. You want it so much for the kids. When things don't work out the way you planned, it's frustrating and upsetting. Things didn't work out for us in the morning and then it just snowballed. We were never able to get out of it. But we had great effort and the underclassmen got a lot of experience.

If we have the same energy we had to today, and put the same effort I think we're all going to do very well and maybe we'll have a win.

William James

If the 'searching of our heart and reins' be the purpose of this human drama, then what is sought seems to be what effort we can make. He who can make none is but a shadow; he who can make much is a hero.

We need a maximum effort 32 minutes a night, and we?re not getting it. We?re just not getting it each night.

We need a better effort out of the majority of our players. Defensively, we need to do a better job going after balls. Our pitchers have to do their jobs better. We need to play all three parts of the game including some timely hitting.

Teemu Selanne

We know how much it takes, and nothing is going to come easy. We just have to find that effort and do better on special teams.

We were more crisp on our routes and catches than any practice yet. That is two Saturdays in a row these guys have been out late and we haven't had any problems. I'm proud of the effort and focus they've had.

We were looking for Matt to give us a good effort tonight and he did. We just didn't well enough overall.

Dmitry Medvedev

Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world.

Barton Gellman

There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

John Anderson

We only played well in spurts tonight, and that wasn't good enough. We're putting a good effort out there. It's been very frustrating lately.

We've been real pleased. They've been able to respond to some different adversities. We had a tough schedule this year, we've played well in some tough games, we've come ready to play. I can't say enough about the effort the kids have put forth all year long.

Craig MacTavish

At least we were trying in the third, which is more than I can say for the first two periods. At least we started trying. It was a pretty pathetic effort by our group.

All our efforts indicated we were making good progress.

About the only thing that comes without effort is old age..

It?s been really a team effort the past month and a half, and that?s really something we enjoy watching and seeing.

Patrick Marleau

It's just a great time of the year. Everybody is pulling for each other, and everybody is working together to get the job done. When we're playing well, you can see the extra effort in everything we do.

Martin Erat

It's eight games to the playoff and you have to get a second effort on everything. It was a great effort.

It's exciting to see that with a very minimal investment on the part of TCA this kind of effort come together,

The new ownership has made an extra effort to make it look and feel big time. It has worked out very well.

Michael Kimmelman

Art, not unlike raising children, ... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

Any time we wrestle someone more than once, we try to improve. It's a great measuring stick to know we improved that much. We're not happy because we didn't win, but we're happy with their effort as a team.