Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve McKinney

We were supposed to be contending for a playoff spot right now. Instead, we're contending for the No. 1 pick in the draft. Our fans are kind of frothing at the mouth over it.

Kimo Oelhoffen

We've contended four out of five years for the Super Bowl. You get to a point where contending just isn't enough.

Dan Callahan

Our starting pitching was, to put it bluntly, lousy this weekend. We know we're having some defensive problems, but we can't expect to be a contending team in the Valley with starting pitching like that.

Greg Anthony

Right now with the roster as it exists, they're nowhere near contending. They're not even contending for the playoffs. That's going to be a tough pill to swallow for (Garnett). When you look up and you're now 30, and you don't see the team contending, it's hard. It's going to be a big dilemma for Kevin and those guys in what direction they go in.

Dennis Ross

That's the new struggle of our time, and we have to frame it that way to understand what we're contending with and why it's so important for us not to fail.

Liz Nash

With the girls, if we do what we need to do the next 30 days and shave some seconds off our minutes, we should have a shot at contending for a state title.

Carl Fuller

We have our pitching back, so we're strong there. But we lost four seniors, so we're trying to fill those positions. We have some young kids getting their first varsity experience, but we hope to be contending for the top spots in the league.

Herb Sendek

Eric Williams was sensational. Right from the outset we had a difficult time contending with him.

Mack Garner

There was 25 years of provocation. I'm not contending this homicide was justified. It was a crime. He offered to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

Ronald Coleman

We have to go up there and have another defensive mindset and get the job done.

Jeff Herron

We have to force them to be one dimensional. We need to take away the run, put them in passing situations and then let our defensive line and secondary do what they do best. We've had a good pass rush, and we have a good secondary.

Gary Moody

We have some depth on the defensive line. We just don't have any game experience.

Rich Conover

We wanted to try to set the tone on the defensive end and really take it to Albany early. We felt like we wanted to establish our presence here at home and I thought we did a great job of that early on.

Shanna Zolman

We were trying to make our defensive pressure so great to put pressure on them.

Lindy Ruff

This was as good a game as I've seen us put together from an offensive standpoint and defensive standpoint.

P. J. Harvey

We did not have enough effort at the defensive end of the floor in the first half. We did a better job in the second half. We had to do a better job defensively. They were rotating and their kids were running hard through the screens. (Nolan) does a nice job running their sets.

Greg Garmen

We did not have any zip in our step all night and it really showed up on the defensive end of the floor.

Kaylee Brown

We did not do well on the defensive end. We gave them a lot of uncontested three's. We just didn't defend.

Carlos Beltran

I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

Carlos Castaneda

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

Johnny Damon

We have to go out and expect to win every game. I think everyone knows it's our job.

Steve Ballmer

We have no plan in place. We don't expect that to happen.

Kiran More

We have named him in the team. We expect him to be fit. Let us wait till tomorrow.

Stephen Reitman

We have moved to expectations of a loss of 100 million euros for the fourth quarter of this year from Chrysler, whereas we had previously been expecting a small profit.

Jamal Mayers

When you're up 5-3 going into the third period, you expect to win. They won because they worked harder than we did. It's as simple as that.

Brian McCutcheon

When he gets the puck, people start to come out of their seats. It's expect the unexpected with Max." ()

Charles Dickens

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Bob Stoops

We have not been good. The players haven't been good. You can say whatever you want. I have done a lousy job.

Eli Lustgarten

The report is lousy but it is much better underneath.

Jim McKenna

You would think that somebody would put out a map of the Kettle Moraine Scenic Trail, ... They went to enough trouble to put up the lousy signs.

Eric Bosshard

The first thing they need to do is sell the lousy stores.

Anthony DiClemente

I don't see this as a negative or a positive. I see it as a reflection of the already lousy fundamentals in the business.

Carl Relyea

We have a solid pitching staff and should be solid defensively. We should be a competitive team in a very strong division.

Bruce Bochy

Woody has been pitching better than Brian. We'll talk about it.

Bob Feller

I just reared back and let them go.

Bob Gibson

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.

Bob Gibson

When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

Johan Santana

Most of the time it's going to take the whole team to do what you want to do, to see this team succeed and go to the playoffs, ... Yeah, pitching is a big part of it, but we haven't been able to put everything together.

Dizzy Dean

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

Early Wynn

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

Early Wynn

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

Trey Burke

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Brian Tracy

If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

Lawrence Frank

We're starting to see what we need to do to win.

Terrie Archer

We're starting to get some of the registrations in.

Kim Smith

We're starting to get on a roll. Things are going well for us.

Gary LaGrange

We're starting to get back to work today.

Carlos Beltran

My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.

Carlos Beltran

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

Carlos Gonzalez

I never want to be satisfied. I never want to be like, 'OK, this is good enough.' I always want to get to the next level and help the team improve.

Carlos Gonzalez

I'm not thinking about my numbers. I'm just trying to do the best I can to help the team win.

Carlos Ghosn

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

Carl Crawford

I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.

Rick Adelman

We were a team without a personality. With Ron, we have one.

Steve Bruce

We were always the better team but Everton threw on their He-Men and I was always worried they would get a touch or ricochet.

Alan Shearer

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

Kacey Musgraves

Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.

Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Bill Gurley

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

Jay Leno

106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.

Oswald Chambers

We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.

Oswald Chambers

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

Oswald Chambers

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

Neil Young

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Gloria Grahame

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.