Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelley Smith

Our players were not happy with the results from last year and the record was not indicative of the level of soccer they played. They have been working hard to do everything they can to correct that and a refuse to lose attitude is key entering this fall. They have the motivation to improve and don't want a repeat of what their record was last fall.

Carleen Courtney

Patient care wasn't suffering, but the efficiency and the attitude of the nurses were.

Patricia Richardson

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

Dennis Johnson

Our main goal is to steadily improve throughout the season. The girls positive attitudes are their biggest assets. They all work very hard and have a strong desire to improve, which is going to be essential to their success.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

Rose Mashigo

Our lives are driven and channeled by our decisions, whatever situation we find ourselves in, we got ourselves there.

Kyle Fenner

Our kids will take the same attitude they've taken all year and that's to compete and rebound and play defense and execute on offense.

Evelina Christillin

People have been incredibly receptive, showing a very positive attitude and lots of goodwill. Turin will be a much more international city now.

Mike Lowell

Sure, there's been a little bandwagon jumping. But I think that's only normal, ... It's tough to identify with guys who haven't been with the organization for a while. I still believe you have to win back the fans, and I still think, after '97, I guess the fans had an attitude of 'You got to prove us wrong before we start giving you our money to watch you play.'

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Julianne Moore

Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.

Walter McManus

People have burned SUVs. Nobody's done that to a hybrid - yet. But if they keep giving special privileges to one type of vehicle, there could be a backlash.

Walter McManus

People have burned SUVs, ... Nobody's done that to a hybrid - yet. But if they keep giving special privileges to one type of vehicle, there could be a backlash.

Jeremy Hawkins

People have had their fingers burned and will be careful about going back into the market.

Kevin Regan

(Robbins) got a little nervous. That?s what burned him this time. He tried to get rid of it,

Rivers Cuomo

Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche.

Reggie Theus

I think they burned us in the half court. That's where we got burned mostly.

Norm Wigington

It happened so quickly I can't even express how fast it happened. Had my window been open, I would have burned the hair on my arms.

Paul Greengrass

It is not acting. The memory is so burned into his mind.

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Mike Barnett

Our players, if the effort isn't there, will see a much different side to Wayne Gretzky than the gentleman the public knows. He'll have no problem doing that.

Richard Stallman

part of the long-term effort to liberate cyberspace.

Doc Rivers

Paul gave a superhuman effort for us to get back in this game. You'd rather have a balance, but I'd take 40 from Paul.

Toba Beta

Peace is not a state of nature. It is an effort done by the living.

Peter Budaj

Starting with me and everybody else, I don't think we put out the effort that was good enough for a win.

Li Zhaoxing

Some people are disappointed with the outcome of meetings, which was not as substantial as they have expected, ... However, we should highly value efforts made by all sides in this process.

Carl Jacobs

Our results have been worthy of an 'A,' but our effort has been on the 'C' level. We've jumped out to big leads, then other teams back in.

David Kirkland

Our team is extremely young and we're so thin in depth. However, I'm proud of their effort tonight. If you take away a handful of plays, the scoreboard would have read something else.

Erik Larson

Recovery had a lot to do with resolve and enthusiasm and the pace of rebuilding.

Sonny Vaccaro

Patrick's enthusiasm is contagious. He is what you want kids to feel like when they are picked for this kind of event. And the kid can play at the very highest level.

Eddie O'Sullivan

Paul is full of fire and enthusiasm and the perfect man to get the team going.

Winston Churchill

Success is bounding from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Joel Quenneville

Overall, I liked our preseason, ... I thought we did a lot of good things. We have a lot of momentum and enthusiasm going into opening night.

Carl Sagan

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

Larry Brown

I was just looking for something to give us enthusiasm and effort, ... I would have been horrified if they didn't fight back. But I was proud of the effort.

Graham Spanier

It is a very, very positive development for the whole Penn State family. There's so much enthusiasm right now in the university because of the turnaround in the team's performance.

Mike Pratt

Last season just kind of melded into this year. He never really stopped wrestling. He has such an enthusiasm for the sport, and it showed all of (his teammates) that this is what you can do when you work as hard as he does.

Hines Ward

Relieved? Yes, ... I dont wish this on anybody. It was very hard to go out onto the field with peace of mind knowing that youre so close. I can go into the season focused now.

Jerome Bettis

Our quarterback has been incredible. His development on the field is the reason we're here.

Charlie Bell

Our offensive line was outstanding, our open field tackling was improved and our inside linebacker play was improved.

Herman Edwards

Our mindset was to get him in the game to kick field goals and he did that,

Herman Edwards

Our mind-set was to get him in the game to kick field goals, and he did that.

David Rehr

Our middles didn't do much the last time we played them. In our previous two matches (against Lee), Haley had 16 kills and our other two middles each had one, so we doubled our middle totals because that's something Lee hadn't seen before. They were worried about our outside hitters because they had a field day before.

Joe Tiller

Surprisingly, the injury isn't too serious. We thought he might have been able to hold for field goals but he wasn't able to.

Richard Barnes

States can be leaders in the field of biotechnology while holding firm to moral principles and the protection of human life.

Howard Wolfson

Spitzer has been raising money for a while, whereas Pataki's indecision froze the field and prevented Republicans from raising money until relatively late in the game.

Dave Roberts

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Steve Yzerman

Regardless of how the game is played, there will be low-scoring games, and good teams have to win 1-0 or 2-1 (in the playoffs).

Terri Sullivan

Record wise we want to get back on track, so we know the opportunity is there to play games and do something with them. At this time of the year we're looking to play as many games as we can.

Ray Allen

Records are always made to be broken. I have a long way to go, games to play, threes to hit. The key is getting to playoff basketball.

Mike Rucker

Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be the underdog. Is that saying that the underdog wins? No. I don't think we put a whole lot of stock in that.

Rick Stansbury

Reggie needs to not always look for the 3-pointer. He's got to play off that dribble, take it to the hole, which he's done more lately. A mid-range game opens up the 3-point shot. It makes him a more versatile player. And he needs to be a screener, because screeners get open. But it's getting better.

Lana Ross

Our region is tough. We're going with the same lineup to give our players a lot of at bats. Right now, we're sore. We've played a lot of games with a little rest. Our pitchers are doing just enough and Maple Woods is a good team.

Jacques Rogge

Organizing the Games is never easy. But I am glad the fundamentals are sound.

Scott White

Oregon and Washington State are the most physical, hardest-fought games every year. You always have to pick it up a notch when you go play at Oregon.

Jim McAlpin

Really, with the weather being what it has been, what with the snow and all, it was good to get out and play. All things considered, we did a nice job. I'm proud of the way we played and I think the girls are pretty satisfied. We've got some things to work on, but we did more good things than bad.

Craig Mortensen

(Regis) established themselves right away. Their tempo was tough for our girls to match.

Peter Raak

Our outlook for this year is promising. We have a lot of girls ready to step up and make significant contributions.

Sam Harp

Our numbers are such at the middle school that there probably will not be a middle school girls softball team. And that's hurting our numbers at the high school.

Bill Hawkey

Our mantra this year is 'Look Forward'. The girls want to improve on last year. They don't want to look back. They want to look forward.

Tim Atwell

Our main goal, like every year, is to get as many girls down to state as possible. That holds true this year. And we do return plenty of talent.

Mike Micochero

Our motto, and it is all over my trailer, is 10 girls, one heart. I don't ever leave any girls out.

Cathy Lyons

Our most challenging thing is to get the girls there.

Dell Leonard

People love to watch these girls play. I love to watch these girls play. I'll be sad to see the seniors go.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Richard Rossi

Paths kept leading me back to Aimee McPherson,

Eric Zastoupil

Our motto was, 'Let's make history,' or at least that was the unofficial motto. We kept saying, let's do something profound. We did. Well be remembered. We'll be back here in 25 years being remembered for this. We won the state title. We are the state champions.

Karen VanHyfte

People kept telling us that everything is going to Mississippi and Louisiana and they feel forgotten.

Carl Schurz

Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.

Rebecca Reynolds

Robert and I kind of kept up with each other.

Richard Breitman

Most Secret, to Be Kept Under Lock and Key, Never to Be Removed From the Office.

Donnie Jones

We never really thought a lot about that, to tell you the truth. We just kept focused, kept working, kept getting ready.

Tyson Nash

I was just going through the motions but I didn't feel anything (wrong), so I just kept on going.

Kim Clijsters

It is a nice start for me, ... I had to make sure I kept the pressure on and stayed aggressive.

Wally Amos

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive things to do, ... Who's In Charge.

Bob Harrington

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Mike White

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Jennifer Coolidge

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

Jim Thome

Starting with spring training, from Day 1, they really talk about winning here, and preaching winning. It's been very fun. It's been great. I can see now why this team wins. They're very focused, they're very upbeat about playing every day, and it's great.

Chester Pitts

Our first year, we had 76 sacks, ... That's not very good. Playing like this, we'll be right back where we started.

Garry Houston

Playing with Sergio was theatre and I suppose I thrived on it.

Trent Yawney

Playing with poise under pressure is something you can't teach.

Jeremy Roenick

Playing with Cammalleri and Frolov, I have to work a little harder, ... They're speedy.

David Carr

Playing the Titans is always tough, whether you're favored or you're not favored,

Tyler Murovich

Playing there would give me a lot of opportunities.

Gary Waters

Playing Princeton is like pulling teeth. It's been that way for a long time.

Lindy Ruff

Playing our own end, we've been flat-out sloppy.

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.

Dustin Villepigue

I was wondering what he was doing there. I didn't have the ball. Then he swung at me, but I didn't swing back because seniors aren't supposed to retaliate.

Mark Lasley

Most of the seniors that are starting have been starting since they were sophomores.

David Mobley

Seniors always find a way to win. There?s wisdom in experience. It showed tonight.

Matt Loveland

We wanted to (get to state) for the seniors and we wanted to do it for (Graham).

Martin Brown

We have several seniors from a lot of different sports,

Meggie Ford

We thought some of our other seniors were going to get on through, but it was a heartbreaker.

Colleen Kennedy

We have a lot of seniors this year,

Gary Sharpe

We're going to the South side on Tuesday. Our seniors have never won down there.

Abe Badmus

We're going to do everything as seniors to keep this going.

Jeff Borris

He's always had the weight of the world on his shoulders. But when he steps on the field, he's got tunnel vision.

Charlie Munger

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.

David Cornwell

We took two steps back (Tuesday). We just started out sluggish, and they tore us up.

Charles Darwin

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

Charles Darwin

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Deepak Chopra

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Dave Ramsey

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Sherry Scarberry

Someone has to be there with him 24/7, whether it be me or Robbie.

Scott McCallum

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.