Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Seaver

I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.

Kurt Angle

You go from Olympic wrestling into pro wrestling, and it's a very difficult transition, but if you make it, you can earn a great living while at the same time giving amateur wrestling a lot of exposure by being on TV every week. Fans know where you came from.

Kurt Angle

Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you said you were going to do. Sometimes you have to feel the crowd and do the moves at the right time and know the timing and tell a good story.

Kurt Angle

I'm not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I'm gone, I'm gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I never went back. Same for pro.

Kurt Angle

My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that's where I was born. I've always wanted to wrestle.

Terry Jones

I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.

Phil Mickelson

Let's say she's a 15-year-old boy playing in men's tournaments, in the Amateur Public Links and winning these matches, or coming within strokes of missing the cut in a PGA tournament. When I was 17 I couldn't come close to making a cut, and at the time I was doing very well in junior golf. I just can't believe any 15 year old, especially a young girl, could be doing what she's doing. I can't fathom it. It's just amazing.

Bryan Alvarez

Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what to do with him. Tank Abbott had an amateur background but made his name in UFC brawling. He never learned to work at all and was a victim of Vince Russo 's wackiness in WCW.

Ian Clarke

We're hoping that the gap between amateur creativity and creativity funded by large, centralized media companies will probably continue to shrink.

Bill Clayton

We want somebody who is experienced in national and international fundraising. We have to continue the growth of the museum or else it is going to dissolve, ... As we work to build a new funding base, having an executive director with a different background will help us to make that possible.

Wayne Rosso

We were always in the background trying to get licenses and in those days we would get one of two responses -- either, 'We're not going to reward pirates,' or 'Shut down and we'll talk about it.

Carol Whiteside

The fact of the matter is that the process MCAG went through a few years ago gave them the background to do this.

Tommy Wiseau

My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.

Tom Hooper

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.

Elizabeth Thornton

We perceive through our senses a person, a situation or an event, and in an instant, we project our mental models - our fears, background and experiences - onto that perception. This often results in cognitive errors, which means we judge and respond incorrectly.

Edward M. Lerner

History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.

Lacey Schwimmer

Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.

Judith Hill

Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I'm always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn from them.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Tracy Morgan

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

Erin Cahill

I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

Khloe Kardashian

When you're at a lunch, enjoy being - I'm always on my phone when I'm at lunch or with things here or there. I've learned to put the phone down and be present.

Juan Pablo Galavis

I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

King Bach

I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story.

Junior Seau

From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised.

Laila Ali

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

Carol Kane

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

Carol Leifer

I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The 'Big Island' - that name cracks me up. First of all, it's not that big, so I'm pretty sure a guy came up with that name.

Carlos Mencia

If you're Filipino, you're the beaner of the Asian community 'cause you're just like us. You're indigenous people that got banged by some Spaniards. That's why you have names like Kwan Ping Del Toro.

Carlos Fuentes

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

C. S. Lewis

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

C. S. Lewis

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.

C. S. Lewis

All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.

C. S. Lewis

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

C. S. Lewis

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

David Harding

Look out, Paddy Power, someone's just parked a tank on your lawn.

Reggie Jackson

His tank was empty. He did what he could do.

Jack Kerouac

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

Eoin Colfer

Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.

Tilman J. Fertitta

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

William Goldman

Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.

Byron Katie

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

Al Sharpton

I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,

Charisma Carpenter

I wasn't willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through.

Billy Tauzin

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

Deepak Chopra

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

Cameron van der Burgh

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Frank Haas

Basically, we've become a victim of our own success.

Susann Griffin

We don't want to do anything that would impede the investigation for the victim or the suspect.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.