Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Beane

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

Billie Jean King

Don't be afraid to hit the ball.

Danny Strong

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

Joan Collins

I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it.

David Halberstam

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

Anson Dorrance

The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival

Anson Dorrance

After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels

Bobby Knight

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

Bobby Knight

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

Bill Crawford

Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.

Carl Sagan

Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.

Charles Colson

God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it's convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic.

Deepak Chopra

Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.

Aaron Eckhart

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

Dennis Prager

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.

Adam Sandler

I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.

Alessandra Ambrosio

Feel good. Once you feel good, you look good, too.

Dan Rather

You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.

Beck

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

Beck

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

C. S. Lewis

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

Cathy Moriarty

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

Cecil Beaton

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Carl Sagan

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

Berkeley Breathed

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

Bill Budge

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

Bertrand Russell

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.