Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was real proud of the effort we got out of our guys today. We knew we were going to throw a different pitcher every inning and we swapped up the lineup at first, knowing we were going to try and get everybody in we could.

I was really proud of the effort the kids put in this game and this season. As far as this game goes I could tell our team was trying as hard as they could and they left it all out on the field.

I was surprised he was here. It was great that he made the effort to come out.

Carlos Ruiz

I work to score goals -- you know, I haven't scored a goal yet this season. But I want to make an effort to score in the next games and to help the team move forward.

I was pleased with the running game. I was really pleased with the second and third effort on some of those runs.

Marty Schottenheimer

I was pleased with the overall effort of everybody. I thought we played pretty solid for the most part.

I was pleased with the kids effort tonight. We were good defensively all four quarters, which is what we need.

I was pleased with the kids' effort and we ended 2005 on a good note.

I was pleased with the guys fight today. The guy's gave a good effort and we were able to get out and push our style on the other team and it paid off for us.

Jack Foster

I was pleased with the effort of the entire team throughout the Big North season. Different players stepped up when we needed them and it was no different today.

I was pleased with the effort and the execution improved from the previous scrimmage. The penalties were drastically reduced and the mental mistakes were reduced.

I guess it gives people a positive story to look at and maybe take their mind off of Katrina. Or maybe it will inspire people to help with the rescue effort and everything like that.

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.

If they (staff) don't get good preparation, the kids and the teachers suffer. No one puts as much time, effort and money into it (training) as we do.

Oh yeah, he'll tell you he's different. But that's still Todd. He's put years and effort and sweat into this.

She doesn't seem like she's real comfortable and I think part of that is that she's never had to pitch so much. She's put so much effort physically into pitching that something has to give.

Since we put up the lights (in 1988), we make an effort to have the new projects look as if they've always been here. Our goal is to have you sit in the seats in the regular grandstand and look out and see the seats filled with fans, you will be hard-pressed to notice the difference.

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation,

Since I?m the most experienced guy, most of the players look at me. I have to take the time to explain the little aspects, like going out and giving your hardest effort on every play. You have to be tougher than your opponent on every play.

She's a good shooter from the outside. We can't focus all of our efforts on the two post players.

She is really great with the younger players. She's a senior captain, but she really makes an effort to go talk to them and make sure everything is okay and everyone is doing well.

She made a good point that only one team was in it (in the first half). We weren't giving the effort that was required. I know it got our team fired up.

Carolyn Wright

I felt real good about their effort tonight.

Eddy Curry

I felt pretty good out there. It was a good effort by our guys and we will take the win. We really want to protect our home court. We're a pretty good team on the road and it is important for us to protect our court.

I felt like it was a great team effort. I just thought that the energy was great, that the effort was great. I am just happy for my kids today, and I'm just really proud of their effort and the outcome. It is just a reward for their hard work today.

Aaron Rowand

I felt everybody was in the game tonight. The effort and intensity was in the dugout. Guys were hanging on every pitch.

Markus Naslund

I feel like I'm repeating myself. I think we were undisciplined, we took too many penalties and I think our power play wasn't as good as we needed it. The effort was there at times, just not at the right times.

Jay Nixon

I can't say enough about the tremendous work the Missouri National Guard has done as part of our military efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries.

I can't say enough about how hard they played in that second half. If we could have done any of that in the first half, I think we could have turned the game around. In the second half there were so many places we could have turned it around, too. I can't say enough about the effort that the kids put out. It was amazing, it really was.

I can't fault my kids for their effort and their heart. It seemed like we were one little play from finishing it off and we couldn't do it.

Jean-Claude Juncker

There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.

Jim Hightower

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.