Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trevor Hoffman

Really, the hard work that I get accolades for, he's the guy behind the scenes that has much more on his shoulders than going out and pitching a ballgame. This is something that we'll share together.

Maurice Drew

That was embarrassing for a guy to take three back, then have four the whole year. It was like all his accolades came off us, so you want to go back there and pay him a visit. He's not there, so we have to pay the next guy.

Tim Johnson

It has been an extremely successful year for Belle Rock Entertainment and it's a tremendous honor to end 2005 by being recognized in such a positive way by our players. The GOM Awards are extremely well known in the industry and are deemed to be a good barometer of success. It is certainly heartening to see that the various products in the Belle Rock Entertainment portfolio are recognized by both players and industry experts for the excellent quality entertainment they offer and these accolades will serve to inspire us to reach even greater heights next year.

Kim Alexander

Linda was a very private person. The accolades she received were not something she sought out.

John Corey Whaley

I was thrilled when this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature went to Neal Schusterman's 'Challenger Deep.' This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it's received.

Desmond Clark

I'm shooting for the sky, ... There wasn't a tight end that had 80 catches last year, so I'm trying to be on top of the league. But if it's 40 catches and we win 14 or 15 games, then I'm happy. It's not a personal thing because all the personal accolades come when your team is winning anyway. But I'm shooting for 80.

Brian Gregory

He definitely has proved why all the accolades have been thrown his way. He took over that game single-handedly. Unfortunately, we didn't have an answer. You can't do anything in terms of trapping or double-teaming him. Three-quarters of his points were off missed shots where he just wanted it more. For a coach that appreciates effort on the glass as much as I do, that was as an impressive performance as I've seen.

Erik Cole

I feel fortunate to not only be a part of Ronnie's career, but the ceremony here. For all the records and all the accolades that he's had through his unbelievable career, he's a great person.

Gary Reynolds

John is more interested in THIS 2005 team and what it will accomplish on and off the field then his personal record. He understands that if the players and program are handled correctly, the personal accolades will continue to occur.

Dennis Healy

Recruiting and coaching pitching are the two things I've done since I started coaching in 1996,

DeLoss Dodds

Regardless, we are proud of our student-athletes, coaches and support staff who have worked at meeting the standards, but we are not satisfied with some of our numbers.

Jeff Graviett

Really, what that does is frustrate a coach, but you have to give credit to their offense.

Charles Rogers

Reggie is the type of coach you know will always be in your life. He is a genuine person who is always there for you through any situation.

Marshall Faulk

Our relationship is really good. It's positive. There's no strains in it. And I foresee it being the same way as we go on. Coach (Martz) has done a good job of letting us know our roles so it's fairly simple and there's no complications.

Freddy Adu

Our relationship is fine. We've had our differences but, you know, we resolved them. I respect coach Novak and I know he'll get me where I want to get to.

Ron Gerlufsen

(Originally) I didn't want the pressure of having to coach him and him having to play for me. I reached the point where I wondered if he should be here (at Memorial). I felt a lot better for him and his program this season.

Debby King

Paula's one of the most kind-hearted people I've ever met, and she will be greatly missed in the coaching field.

Ron Guenther

Paula Smith has been an outstanding coach and an exceptional representative for the University of Illinois.

Gerald Cohen

Part of the program may include relief for states ... so the drag may not be as large from the state side. You definitely will see some drag from the states, offsetting the stimulus from the federal side, but it won't be enough to totally offset the federal side.

Jennifer Joyce

Paul has been training very well. He's been very consistent. He's rushing towards that breakthrough performance. There's definitely more to come from him this season.

Ian Millward

Paul has been out of the game for 12 months with his knee but he has played the last three under-21 matches and he will definitely be in the 17. It's reward for the great effort he has made in getting back.

Jay Cutler

Part of me definitely wants to go because it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The other part of me wants to stay in Nashville and get together with some people who helped me get to this point.

Stephanie Reichert

Our offense was definitely on. We were hitting really well, and we had really timely hitting.

Nate Salley

Our offense is hard to stop. You can definitely tell a difference from last year.

Matt Murphy

Our No. 1 goal was to make the tournament. We're a little disappointed to be 10-10, but we did have to win five of our last seven to get in, so there's definitely some excitement about getting there.

Tim Busen

Our kids wrestled great tonight, just like they were supposed to. The kids knew they had to step up tonight and they did. They've definitely worked hard.

Marisa Miller

Surfing is definitely something I used to do a lot more before I was working, but I know the waves will always be there, and it's something that, when I'm not traveling as much, I'll definitely get back into.

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Mike Barnett

Our players, if the effort isn't there, will see a much different side to Wayne Gretzky than the gentleman the public knows. He'll have no problem doing that.

Richard Stallman

part of the long-term effort to liberate cyberspace.

Doc Rivers

Paul gave a superhuman effort for us to get back in this game. You'd rather have a balance, but I'd take 40 from Paul.

Toba Beta

Peace is not a state of nature. It is an effort done by the living.

Peter Budaj

Starting with me and everybody else, I don't think we put out the effort that was good enough for a win.

Li Zhaoxing

Some people are disappointed with the outcome of meetings, which was not as substantial as they have expected, ... However, we should highly value efforts made by all sides in this process.

Carl Jacobs

Our results have been worthy of an 'A,' but our effort has been on the 'C' level. We've jumped out to big leads, then other teams back in.

David Kirkland

Our team is extremely young and we're so thin in depth. However, I'm proud of their effort tonight. If you take away a handful of plays, the scoreboard would have read something else.

Dave Roberts

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Steve Yzerman

Regardless of how the game is played, there will be low-scoring games, and good teams have to win 1-0 or 2-1 (in the playoffs).

Terri Sullivan

Record wise we want to get back on track, so we know the opportunity is there to play games and do something with them. At this time of the year we're looking to play as many games as we can.

Ray Allen

Records are always made to be broken. I have a long way to go, games to play, threes to hit. The key is getting to playoff basketball.

Mike Rucker

Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be the underdog. Is that saying that the underdog wins? No. I don't think we put a whole lot of stock in that.

Rick Stansbury

Reggie needs to not always look for the 3-pointer. He's got to play off that dribble, take it to the hole, which he's done more lately. A mid-range game opens up the 3-point shot. It makes him a more versatile player. And he needs to be a screener, because screeners get open. But it's getting better.

Lana Ross

Our region is tough. We're going with the same lineup to give our players a lot of at bats. Right now, we're sore. We've played a lot of games with a little rest. Our pitchers are doing just enough and Maple Woods is a good team.

Jacques Rogge

Organizing the Games is never easy. But I am glad the fundamentals are sound.

Scott White

Oregon and Washington State are the most physical, hardest-fought games every year. You always have to pick it up a notch when you go play at Oregon.

American Proverb

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

Robert Gottlieb

Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see 'The Glass Menagerie,' well into its year-long run. I had seen a number of shows on Broadway by then, but nothing like this - because there was nothing like this on Broadway.

Bill Vaughan

As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.

Kaley Cuoco

I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

Timothy McVeigh

He walked back and put his hands up to the glass (against my hands), ... He smiled ... and off he went.

David Patten

He knows the magnifying glass is on him right now. We have to be very supportive of him right now. There is a lot of pressure on him. He needs to make those throws.

Kelly Rowland

We all come to the point where it's time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It's tough love but it's also being real with yourself. It's important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what's going on.

Jay Dillon

From what I understand, he is a good-sized 9-year-old - he's not a small child. He had already knocked the officer's glasses off, and hit and kicked him.

Larry Bortniker

Just make sure they have a glass of wine first.

Mike Schepp

I think the tournament has looked pretty impressive to the NCAA in that regard.

Michael Metz

It is an impressive showing for the market again,

Bruce Bochy

That was an impressive at-bat. He fouled one off his knee and he battled, then he got one he could handle.

Jack McCarthy

It doesn't always look impressive the way we play sometimes but we play with what we have.

Mike Bianco

Lance pitched great. He was very impressive considering it was his first collegiate start. He pitched with a lot of confidence.

John Reid

He's a very impressive young man who can play in various roles, so there is some keen interest there,

John Collins

I don't think I've ever had so many impressive people say so many impressive things.

Mack Brown

I was pleased with the young quarterbacks. They've got a lot of work to do. I thought the most impressive thing was their poise.

Dale Davis

If we make it there, the most impressive thing about that list is that most of those teams went on to win it.

Bruce Allen

Really, what took place is he missed so much of training camp,

Rick Anderson

I think the turning point was the missed PK. That made a difference.

Kim Clijsters

That was before my injury. I've realized a lot more how much I missed tennis,

Nate McLouth

That's what he threw me before, and they've been working me in. I got it. I just missed it.

Rick Barnes

I think it was a situation on this night that (Tech) missed a lot of shots. We were obviously taller and longer, so we could get those rebounds.

Mary Harris

I was upset. I didn't say anything but I really missed it.

Kevin Kelly

I still had my confidence. I don't think I've ever missed three in a row.

Robert Ross

I think if Phoenix pulled out, it would be a missed opportunity for Phoenix and the state of Arizona.

Ozzie Guillen

I think he was confused. I think he must have missed the sign, but no, I think he was just running on his own.

Holly Hatton

Our performance was not good. We weren't in it from the beginning.

Randy Jepson

Our performance as a whole was not that bad. We weren't outstanding, but we weren't poor either.

Lu Shanzhen

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Platitudes and generalities can only be sustained when performance exceeds intellect.

Jerry Slocum

It is a tough one to sit on when you have that type of performance.

Kenny Jackett

That was as well as we've played this year - particularly the first 45 minutes. The performance was excellent.

Richard Menicke

I was really pleased with the performance of Steffen Anderson.

Sasha Cohen

I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.

Steve Houghton

I was very pleased with our performance. We were very successful from a team standpoint. We have made significant progress in practice and it showed up at Wisconsin.

Olli Jokinen

We need points right now, and we can't keep throwing them away.

Scott Ashley

I want to win. If I have to score 50 points to win, I'll do that.

Ed Wade

I think there were probably points in time where a vote of confidence, if it was coming, would have come and didn't, ... I'm not naive. To say the least, I'm disappointed.

Vince Carter

I think turnovers were key, on top of them getting points off our turnovers. That was the big thing.

Valentino Castellani

For years we have been working on this ceremony, it will be one of the most important turning points of the Games.

Joe Filoteo

I would tell here to spot us 10 points before I play her. They're tough.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Mark Stone

For us to start the day with 18 points is a pretty big deal.

Scott Dalton

He scored 28 points for us at the state meet.

Trevor Goddard

Someone said he wouldn't make a run in Australia, he sort of proved them wrong.

Michelle Monaghan

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Bryan Whitman

That was rumored a year ago and never proved to be confirmed.

Dennis Lyberger

I think this proved we can be competitive with what we've got.

Reggie Bush

I think I proved that I'm the number-one pick.

Ryan Langerhans

I think I proved myself up here and I want to stay. I think I can play everyday, but it's up to the manager.

Cathy Clark

He had proved to us over and over he could be trusted, so we didn't question him.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O! My many friends proved all untrue; But now I have no money, O! My friends are real though very few.

Ryan Gomes

(Pierce) has been making those big shots for us.

Bethenny Frankel

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Joey Mullen

I thought he was solid all night. He didn't have a lot of shots for two periods, but when they did, he was there.

John Ontjes

Friesen's a tough player. She made some unbelievable shots in the first half.

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Frank Sciolla

It didn't matter. We were getting lay-ups. We were getting all the shots we wanted. They just weren't going in.

Kirk Hinrich

I thought all of my shots were going in. When they didn't, it starting getting frustrating.

Bernie Bickerstaff

He's had to do a lot of things because we haven't been making shots from the perimeter.

Russ Crist

We made the shots to win the game. They just had enough time to get one off.

Owen Fitzpatrick

Oracle, in terms of earnings, is influencing the market.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Kevin McCarthy

That was thrown on us, so we'll look at it and see which way we go about doing it.

Philippe Petit

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

Alan Trammel

If someone is going to get thrown out, it should be the manager.

Kate Michelman

Now, the gauntlet has been, I think, thrown down.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Gwynne Shotwell

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.

Carlo Ratti

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Heath Lane

We really didn't have a play at first, and we shouldn't have thrown the ball.

Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Bill Cowher

Some of those games, when we took Jerome out, (Haynes) wasn't too bad.

Michael Cohen

That completely took away the bogeyman of privatization.

Jim Snyder

That was huge, it took away that 2-0 advantage.

Jerry Sloan

That was pretty big for us. It took away their momentum.

Natalie Cole

I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.

Vince Young

I went through all my progressions, so I just took off with it.

Steve Francis

I was trying to get to the basket, but I took what was there. It was a tough shot. I got enough arc, but it was a little strong.

Marcus Williams

I think he took that out on them.

Ashley Martin

I think he took that hard, but I don't think it had anything to do with this.