Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a good marketing opportunity for retailers -- it's a good excuse to reach out.

Ryan Clark

It's the first game, but there's no excuses,

Tino Martinez

It's the greatest feeling in the world. Those teams we had in the late '90s and won the World Series, they just loved our team for the way we went about our business, the way we worked hard. We weren't real flashy stars. We didn't make excuses when things weren't going our way.

Joe Gibbs

It's kind of hard to put your finger on it. There are a lot of things that you could sit here and make excuses about or something.

It is very uncharacteristic. From what I understand, and this is just what I was told and I have no clarification, is that there was some name-calling going on and it escalated. And there is no excuse for that.

Dennis Ross

It may give each of them an excuse to do something, ... They will not respond to each other. That much is very clear.

Danny Devito

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

I'm tired of people making excuses for them, saying they're young. They're young, but they've got talent. They have to come out and use it.

Eddie Jordan

I need to put you in the locker room because they're looking for excuses too,

I'm not sure it would have mattered. We didn't have her. There's no excuses. We needed others to step up and not enough did.

If you were looking for an excuse to sell, you got a few things pushing you towards that. I'm a little more cautious, a little more nervous.

Michael Atherton

Inexperience can be used as an excuse or an opportunity. It is as an excuse that it is most often trotted out England's management ... India, throughout, this series, have used is as an opportunity.

Dan Quayle

It has to go back to the culture, to the family, ... I hope we don't try to use this as an excuse to go and take away guns. Let's focus on the behavior.

I just think it was errant thinking. They just didn't think well. I have no excuse there were a lot of unforced turnovers. Let's put it that way.

I just missed 'em -- there's really no excuse for it.

I just didn't make my pitches. It was about location. I won't make (excuses) why I lost the game. I lost the game because I walked a guy. I was feeling good and had all my stuff. But you can't walk the leadoff guy.

Bob Hill

I personally think we should have won this game. This is not a game you could just excuse. We've got to go back and take a hard look at this.

His excuse is weak, he just wants to learn how to do it... That's pretty ominous and obviously suggests some sort of hijacking plan.

Keith Brooking

But you won't hear any excuses in here. We're going to hold ourselves accountable. We'll look in the mirror and do what we have to do to get headed back in the right direction.

Matt Hasselbeck

Honestly, we're going to be OK, we're going to get over this game. Hey, we had an opportunity to play better and to be world champs. We didn't play well enough to be world champs and we all know that. People will make excuses, saying, 'They got you on a trick play,' or, 'The officials called that and it looked like something else.' As players, we're not going to make that excuse. Our excuse is we didn't play well enough, period.

I don?t think I fell asleep. You can?t use that as an excuse when you don?t get a lot of action. There?s going to be periods like that all the time. I hold myself accountable. I should have been a lot better.

Steve Perry

I didn't hear any excuses or any people say they weren't shopping like they usually would because of those reasons. We had a pretty good Christmas. All in all it was a pretty normal year.

But I don't want to use anything as an excuse.

Clint Eastwood

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

David Bowie

The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at.

There are no excuses. We just didn't get it done tonight.

There are no excuses for failing on that. You can't get any closer.

Submariner like that, you don't see those kinds of guys too often. But that's really no excuse.

Lloyd Carr

Thirty-seven points should have been enough to win. There are no excuses.

Adam Archuleta

There's a lot of reasons, or a lot of ways you could come up with an excuse to shut it down. Or maybe feel sorry for yourself. I think this is a testament to our character.

It really looks like there should be no excuse for not having a medal.

George Washington

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.

Jasper Fforde

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.