Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Foye

You have to go out there and give a great effort because if you don't, you're on a losing streak.

Earl Boykins

When you lose, it's disappointing. The effort we put out in the third quarter was horrible.

We're putting every ounce of effort into getting these power lines back up and running. We're doing everything we can to help Sierra Pacific.

We all kind of put in that extra effort to make sure the job gets done. It's getting progressively harder.

Steve Francis

Tonight we were just able to finish things off late in the game. They made their run and I thought we responded well. Malik Rose did a great job stepping up and hitting big shots. I thought it was a total team effort that helped us win the game.

Tonight's win was an all-together great effort from our girls. We really had players step up and contribute.

Tonight's a tough one with all that anticipation. It's kind of hard to fall asleep, and you get a little jittery, but I guess we are all mature enough now and have been through this enough. Hopefully, we will be able to relax, get off our legs and take those last final steps to have 100 percent effort (today).

David Blunkett

There is always an effort to link the public and the private.

Stephen Jay Gould

I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.

There can't be too much of this. It is going to be a long job to reach a whole generation perhaps two and embed the idea of conversation. If we make the effort now and keep on repeating the message, I am sure it will get through; tidy up after yourselves or even better, don't litter in the first place.

We had a great team effort again, using lots of different players to find the right mix.

We had a great race. I am pleased with how they ran. I did not expect to run a perfect score. I am really pleased with the effort by these young women.

We had a great effort by everyone. Thomas and Martinez each won two events and we had some good marks by our other place finishers.

We had a good effort up and down the lineup. If we keep our focus and play as a team, we can win the state title again.

Those two are good (players), but getting everybody else working hard is what's really made this team better. Now it's a total team effort for us every night.

This team needs to step up and find some leadership and stop doing these things. It's not coaching; it's effort and taking responsibility for what's happening on the court.

This team got a lot better near the end of the season, and the effort was always there.

This was an outstanding effort by all of the girls tonight. We got after it defensively and that helped us stay in the game. We held a good team to 36 total points.

This was a big weekend for us. We got a lot of big contributions, a nice effort by the entire team to win this series.

We felt as if we should have won it last year. This year, I don't think we were the favorite because we knew the kind of team CM had. They have some big guns in that lineup and I knew it would take a good effort from us and we got it from all 14 kids.

We gotta give a better effort than we did last time.

Hedo Turkoglu

We hit really big shots, I did, Pat did, everybody did. We have to take the winning streak further. It's really big for us to have a team effort like we did tonight.

We hustled well, got a lot of steals and a lot of opportunities at the basket. I was pleased with our effort. We had some mental lapses but overall, effort and execution, they did fine.

We are used to getting open without a whole lot of effort in our league (the Northern Lakes League). Those guys switch screens hard and they jump out on you. You've got to be that much better execution-wise.

We're going to be in a recovery effort for a good long time. But the state is not facing the same problems that the state of Louisiana and Mississippi are experiencing.

US efforts between now and March may have to be low profile, but Washington need not be dormant.

You get a team at home and when they get back to their house they're a totally different team. We're used to that and we expected this effort out of Green Bay.

Jim Caldwell

You find it to be true, when tragedy strikes, oftentimes you find an opportunity out on the field to liberate yourself from some of your problems and troubles. That's what I think we were able to do. The effort was good out there. They ran around and got after it. But prior to the game, and when the game was over, they were in a somber mood.

You look at a lot of players who play on this level, and they don't have the talent like I do. There are a lot of people who wish they had it. To have it and not do anything with it is bad. I am not saying I am not going to make mistakes and have my ups and downs, but I am just showing the effort and the will to want to get better.

Michael Mullen

I'm a Vietnam veteran. I was here when there was no public support, not just for the effort in Vietnam, for the mission in Vietnam, but for our men and women in uniform.

Tim Thomas

The result wasn't what we wanted it to be, but the effort pretty much was. Obviously, we were just a little off. They're a good team, but we had the lead. We should have won the game.

There was a lot of effort to keep up what was going on.

There's still a long way to go. There's a lot of work to be done. We're not at the level we were last year. We can get there. But it's going to take time and hard work. So far, these guys have responded well and put forth the effort to get that done. But there's still a lot more work left.