Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry McGuigan

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Billy Corgan

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Bill Taylor

Players win games, teams win championships.

Bill Tilden

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.

Bill Simmons

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

Bill Simmons

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

Bill Shankly

I never drop a player I only make changes.

Bill Cowher

We're not attempting to circumcise rules.

C. S. Lewis

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

Ronde Barber

Regardless of what 2004 was about, 2005 gave us a new opportunity. Everybody jumped at it, believe in it, worked for it.

Friso Abbing

Regarding the substance of the proposal, our view is the reverse of the people you have been speaking to. We believe that we need to protect innovators, therefore we want to send a strong signal to those people infringing intellectual property that they face criminal sanctions.

James Loy

Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging-threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the southwest border to infiltrate the United States. Several al Qaeda leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons.

Anthony Romero

President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional approval, but this program is illegal and we intend to put a stop to it.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job, We don't speculate on personnel decisions.

Alan Greenspan

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job.

Donna Shalala

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press.

George Buckley

Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.

Donnie Henderson

Our practice tempo was probably a little different than what we've seen.

B. F. Skinner

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.

B. F. Skinner

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

Bill Crawford

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

Bill Bryson

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

Bernard Arnault

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Frank Scelfo

I think there's more of a sense of urgency. We saw it in practice on Tuesday.