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.

David Lawson

We have scheduled this every year for about five years. It is a routine thing now.

John Potter

We have music tonight but there are four or five people here. I don't know how much longer we can do this.

Mark Shapiro

We want him to pitch every five days.

Tony Russa

We've seen Roy four or five times this year. They've seen Mulder four times. It's not really going to be stuff, it's going to be command; you know, do you locate your pitches?

Todd Davidson

We've seen in the last year here in the state, visitor expenditures grow 7.5%, which is our strongest rate of growth in the last five years.

Lindy Ruff

We've won three of our last five now. They've kind of turned the corner. Our play, our tempo, our offensive zone play is back.

Ghulam Rasool

We have recovered five bodies. They are in many pieces.

Michael Cheika

We've still got five games left to play in the pool. We've got to win them all, but we are not giving up.

Greg Smith

We have so many different weapons. When you talk about a team, you need to have four or five individuals you can go to. That's what we're good at - we can come at you so many different ways.

Scott Hand

We have seen a downturn in nickel prices during the third quarter and into the fourth quarter,

Chris Morris

We have to find out what happened between the first four weeks and the past four weeks. This offense isn't as productive. We have the same people, but we're not clicking.

Bob Cavanagh

We have a solid four to work around.

Ron Ledbetter

We have nine kids who have a solid shot of qualifying. Our other four entries have an outside shot of qualifying.

Daniel Becker

What the president is proposing will only save two weeks of oil over a four year period of time, not very impressive.

Paul DiPietro

When you see a team play together like we did, with four lines, that's how teams win. We have great goaltending and then anything can happen.

Kristy Curry

When you see a team do what they did, win four games in four days, that says a lot about their will to get it done.

Gigi Hadid

When you're two, three, four years old, it's not really modelling. You run around, and they give you toys in a fun place, and they take pictures of you playing.

Graeme Souness

We want more of the same from our back four tomorrow. We know that if we can keep Portsmouth out we have the players who can score goals at the other end,

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Rivers Cuomo

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.

Theodor Mommsen

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

Mack Brown

We did not have to show very much from a scheme point of view, ... and that's what we wanted.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Charlie Cox

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

Tarvaris Jackson

I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Mario Harpel

This was a super win for Nick. He has been working hard. It was a well-deserved win.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman—who is only a mere superhero.

Bai Ling

I'm not superstitious.

Baha'u'llah

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

Ashley Jensen

I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out.

Bill Maher

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.