Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Vermeil

Regardless of what excuse we want to make, we have to do a better job of getting the ball to Tony Gonzalez 's hands. He set an all-time record in the history of the National Football League with 102 catches last year and I'm certainly not going to panic because he's not at that pace right now.

April Horace

Regardless of the outcome, this is still the first inning of a very long ball game.

Ebenezer Ekuban

Regardless of how they started last week passing the ball, their motto is: We're going to hurt you with the run and we're going to pound, pound, pound. And eventually you'll succumb to all that pounding. ... You've got to get on top of them early, man. If you get on top of them early, their running game is nonexistent. They're going to have to pass the ball to catch up to you.

Joe Masleh

Regan Mooney stepped up big time for us in the first half with 12 points while Ryan and Rayne were struggling. Ball handling, rebounds. That was a very big help. Usually when Ryan and Rayne struggle, no one steps up. She took it upon herself. And Mary Kate Brady hit the boards, scored 10 points. That's what has to happen. The other kids have to step up.

Eric Johnson

Refinancing is necessary because the current financing is short term with a very large balloon payment that no community would be in a position to meet.

Dan Smith

Rebecca normally moves the ball so we thought we had a pretty good shot because she normally hits the ball somewhere.

Dan Silverthorn

Rehabilitating this facility is a great investment for us -- the facility itself is of tremendous value to TransPORT and the region, and a great location for our first port development -- it puts us in a whole new ball game.

Mike Sewak

Reggie was so open that all you could say was get the ball to him.

Carmelo Anthony

Reggie is a (great) block-out guy and Ruben will go down there and battle. Sometimes, the ball just seems to fall right in my hands.

Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.

A. Bush

rejects of the old ways of command and control from above.

Plutarch

Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to

Scott Benedict

Our mantra is good pitching and good defense, so that was kind of a typical game for us. For (Peacock) to be able to command three pitches like that was very impressive.

Antonin Scalia

Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.

Scott Harris

That command just created an internal skeleton for this object.

E. B. White

Our goal is to give our Incident Command Team the same communications support capabilities at the scene of an emergency as they would have in the office.

Elisa Massimino

Our findings reveal a picture of military discipline from which the doctrine of command responsibility is completely absent.

Samuel Freeman Miller

It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.

Jim Barlow

Guelich has confidence and experience. He has played well in the games he saw time in the past few years and is great in commanding the box.

Eric Nicoli

BASCAP is about commanding respect for intellectual property in all its forms, regardless of industry or geography,

Tim Hall

Most of the time, '24' is not about Jack Bauer commanding a squad in order to complete the mission; it's about Jack Bauer in solo action, ... So including multiplayer didn't make a lot of sense to us.

Barbara Castle

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

Karl Rove

The president was the clear, commanding victor tonight, ... It's going to give us a great momentum rolling out on the trail here for the last 19 days.

Jimmy Kimmel

What I said about Pistons fans during halftime was a joke, nothing more. If I offended anyone, I'm sorry. Clearly, over the past 10 years, we in L.A. have taken a commanding lead in post-game riots. If the Lakers win, I plan to overturn my own car.

Johan Santana

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.

Amanda Crew

It's weird but I've never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I've always been drawn more to the rock star. I love a guy on the microphone commanding an audience.

Paige Moore

But he was also always never fully satisfied. He was always commanding more and when we did play well he told us. He motivated us to play for him.

Glenn Walsh

Our objective has always been third and when we get there, we'll look at second place. These next games are extremely important. The third, fourth and fifth place teams are playing really well right now and if you lose two or three in a row, it could really drop you down in the standings.

Doug Johnson

Our main focus right now is our D zone coverage. Hopefully when the puck drops we'll be ready.

Alan Vituli

Sure it's a loss, but losses are funny things, when thing are going well, any piece that drops out of the equation seems like a loss. But things often work out.

Charles Grassley

Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after being pushed by predecessors of mine very strongly and just didn't get anywhere.

Bob Gaudet

Our team played good hockey from the drop of the puck. It was a back and forth game, and the final minute was a reflection of that.

David Flanery

Our sales probably didn't drop off as fast as they should have when we grew so fast and weren't performing at the store level. We really fixed most of the issues starting in 2003 and on into 2004. We were very comfortable where we were, but we weren't seeing the sales results. We were starting to get very frustrated around here.

Kevin Kinel

Our focus has been on the state meet. I feel pretty good about going down to state. We'll have time drops there.

F. Stone

Our unemployment has been steadily dropping over the past several years. We are going from a time when people can't find jobs to the other end of the spectrum, where employers can't find people.

David Bradford

Risk managers who saw their renewal prices drop said they felt lucky, because those who experienced the hurricane effect are now explaining to their management why renewal premiums just went through the roof. The real question is whether Katrina and Rita will have a lasting effect and strengthen the market for a time -- potentially in all lines of business, not just property -- or whether this is a short-term blip in what has proved to be a pretty resolute soft market.

Lynne Sipiora

Our population has been lowered because we have seen such a mild winter. We thought we were just going to slide into summer, but I guess the weather says otherwise.

Marc Levitan

Our thought was we could be proactive and not have to wait until after we got smacked. I guess that's not going to happen.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Kendall Gielow

I was just getting open shots. I took them when they were there and hoped they went in. And I guess they did.

Dan Wheldon

I was kind of surprised (because) I was under the impression they were going to do it with younger kids. But I guess they want to do whatever it takes to win.

Christopher Hill

I think they know our position and I guess we know their position because I don't think anything has changed.

Tom Izzo

It is a win-win-win. I guess on paper, if he goes, it looks like it's a lose for me. It's a lose if you look at the small picture, but a real win if you look at the big picture. The potential of maybe having three first-round picks is pretty impressive.

Johnny Damon

That would be nice. I guess we'll see what happens. I'm not too worried about it.

Rajon Rondo

That's what got me a starting role last year. Whoever's got the hot hand for Florida, I guess that's who I'll be checking.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Steve McDonald

Our main strategy is to secure America's borders.

Tanya Lysacek

Our main role is to be supportive caregivers and parents.

Richard Goodfellow

Our main priority is to get our staff working, and that is what we are seeking to do.

E. B. White

Our main goal, obviously, was to get sanctioned in Nevada,

Nicky Hilton

Our main demographic is 12 (years old) to 30 (years old), but I've had women in their 50s come to my signing wearing pieces from the collection.

Jim Hall

Stay plugged in. Maintain the strength of the Chamber.

Allen Freeman

Some of the main organizers of this were McEwen people, so I'm not surprised that they were able to get their people to come out.

Zhang Qiyue

Our stance is to maintain peace and stability, and to reach settlement through dialogue,

Ryan MacDonald

Our problem (was that the DWI unit) was pulling over everyone, sober, un-sober,

Beck

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

B. F. Skinner

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

Bill Burton

You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems? And the truth is, Donald Trump is not showing strength in any of the big states that he would need in order to actually get to 270. And Hillary Clinton is showing herself to be remarkably stable in all the states that she needs.

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

Craig Conroy

That's been our problem -- we haven't been able to score goals.

Tom Collins

It isn't a problem unless you want it to be

William Pickens

It is not the ought-ness of this problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

Fran Dunphy

I wish that was the only problem we had.

Maurice Cheeks

I think it starts tomorrow. We have to start evaluating and find out where we are and see what it takes to get better.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Jay Hopson

It all starts with him. He can do it all.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Leslie Sloane

She's OK. She starts work in about two weeks.

Jack Smith

We are going to take it to them. Zero-zero starts the game.

Mo Ibrahim

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

Tim Ritchey

We will know more after he starts galloping,

Ian Johnson

I will be encouraging them to vote yes. It is important we have a strong strike vote.

Trevor Noah

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Jimmy Harris

He was spotting his fastball. He had a real tight strike zone.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Mark Evans

Otherwise, I am going to get into trouble.

Ned Van

I think it was just going to be more trouble than they had anticipated.

Dave Johnson

I was in a lot of trouble as a kid.

Dan Kelso

I thought it was important that passed. Without that, we would have been in trouble as a town.

Olin Browne

I thought it was for 58, ... I've always had trouble with math.

Tom Curle

He's getting to the rim, but he's still having trouble elevating, which is frustrating for him.

Olin Browne

If we see cold, wet conditions, I'm in trouble.

Mike DeRoche

If that water had come up much faster, we would have been in trouble for sure.

Charles Kettering

Don't bring anything to me but trouble.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.