Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Martin

Our outlook for the balance of the year remains quite cautious as we continue to face the uncertain economic environment, and as we rebound from the Sept. 11 event, ... Our team remains focused on maximizing our operating performance in this challenging retail environment by executing our customer focus strategy while appropriately adjusting operating expenses, inventory and capital spending.

Mark Ford

Particularly identify the game that you are shooting and particularly identify your surroundings, that it's safe to shoot. Every second, you're adjusting your personal information that it is a safe area to shoot or it's not a safe area to shoot.

Dave Anderson

Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell time of elementary schools. Then we can reduce the number of buses, and then we will see the savings.

Paula Wheeler

Starting off, we had a little trouble adjusting to their pitchers. By the time we got to the sixth inning our girls started adjusting real well.

Brandon Roy

Some guys who go through big emotional swings like that want to transfer or drop out. But he's doing a good job of adjusting and trying to help his team win, so I think that's great.

Brooks Monaghan

Overall, I'm pleased with what we have accomplished this spring. The team worked hard adjusting to a new style of play. They overcame their initial frustrations and gained a strong belief in our new system.

Buddy Rice

Pikes Peak is a nice track and it is a lot of fun to drive. The high altitude does have an effect on the power of the engine, but Honda does a great job of adjusting to the thin air. We have some new things on the car that I think will help make us more competitive. I'd like to see our luck change at Pikes Peak.

Ron Artest

I was just ready, ready for anything. I was surprised (at early success). I didn't expect to hit my first three. But I felt good, even early in the day I felt good. I've got to do a little more adjusting to the game. It will come with more games played.

Jerry Stracke

It is always nice to get this first game out of the way. I thought we did OK. I'm happy with the way we played. We got into some foul trouble and that kind of hurt, but the officials were calling it tight and we didn't do a very good job of adjusting to it.

Dennis Healy

Recruiting and coaching pitching are the two things I've done since I started coaching in 1996,

Debby King

Paula's one of the most kind-hearted people I've ever met, and she will be greatly missed in the coaching field.

Bill Hogan

Our main concern at this time is for Mary's health. It will be up to her doctors to determine when she will be able to resume her coaching duties.

Bucky Quici

People like that are invaluable. They mean so much to a program and they mean so much to the kids. Everybody liked Johnny O'Leary. What meant more to the kids and the coaching staff than actually fixing the field, he gave us his time. It was very precious to have a gentleman like that to give us his time. He took so much pride in what he did.

Greg Knapp

Steve said it will take two to three years with the same coaching staff to be able to do things like that regularly.

Phil Davis

Steve Diamond and his coaching staff have done a tremendous job down at Saracens and they are looking in good shape for the season,

Peter Lally

Some of these kids are 14 years old. I've been coaching twice that long. The future of our program looks pretty interesting.

Bill Callahan

That contingency was constantly discussed and talked about. This wasn't any shock or any surprise to the team, to the players, to Harrison Beck, to his family, to the coaching staff, to the fans or to the media ? everybody knew this was coming.

Cary Groth

Our priority is to provide whatever support we can to his family, our student-athletes and coaching staff.

Dirk Nowitzki

We never make excuses with injures. We would love to have Josh out there. Same with Devin. (But) we should have won the game with the guys that we had.

Joe Horn

I think that lingered. I think every week, different guys had different excuses why we were losing. And it happened over and over again.

Roger White

I think Purdue played really well. There weren't any holes in their lineup. It was indoors, it was fast and it was on their home court. All excuses aside, we just couldn't finish the matches.

Mike Ford

I could stand here and give you all sorts of excuses about why I had the season I did in 2003-04, but I have vowed to be proactive ... in everything I do this season,

Kobe Bryant

We can have all the excuses in the world. You can say we're young, we have guys hurt, but we just have man up and be ready to play every night.

Jalen Rose

When you're 0-4, things just aren't going your way. We're just not getting it done, our record indicates that, and I'm not going to make any excuses for it.

Dennis Alejo

Most people like"If the people wants there's a lot of ways but if the people has no interest there's a lot of reason & excuses

Natalie Morales

If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.

Utah Phillips

Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

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.

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.

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless, if we said it 10 times a 1,000 times, if Rodney's out there or if Rodney's not out there, whoever's out there -- 11 guys -- we play team defense,

Claude Julien

Price is showing things at 18 guys don't usually show until their second or third year as pros.

Chris Snee

Part of it was their scheme, part of it was us not doing our assignments, and part of it was guys just getting beat.

Romeo Crennel

Part of the reason we wanted to get veteran guys in here is because of the experience,

Bill Ball

Our nine seniors, a lot of those guys have made tremendous sacrifices. Every team has scorers, but you've got to have guys willing to play roles, and that's what we've had.

Doug Aplin

Our kids worked hard for everything they got this year. I would love to get the first half back in the finals, but that is the sport. Every day, every single day, these guys showed up for practice and worked hard to succeed.

Marc Bulger

Sure it worked. We played with more of a sense of urgency. I know the message he was trying to get across, and he did it well. He went at us hard on Wednesday and Thursday, but I think we understood. Guys picked up their game. He knocked some sense into us, and hopefully we can maintain it.

Jeffrey Cohen

Steve and his guys are more strategic partners than mere contractors.

Torii Hunter

Spring training is a (time) to get to know your team. We've got new guys on our club, and you don't even know these guys.

Charles Keating

Regarding the differences between playing in various mediums, television and theatre, one's job is to tell the story.

Bobby Cox

Reitsma can do the job, we know that.

Mark Fischer

Pat always took the jobs nobody else wanted. What makes this place work is the people who give their time to others and that was Pat. She wasn't an ordinary soccer mom.

Tom DeLay

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Joe Torre

Stepping up is one thing, getting the job done is another.

Jim Christian

Some of my friends said I was taking the Kent job at the worst possible time. They said all I could do was go down.

Tim Roth

Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA.

Roy Roberts

Our whole line did a nice job of moving people around.

Michelle Sommers

Right now negotiations remain civil. We want to keep it that way. We want to get the job done.

John McNally

It hasn't been unsafe, but there are situations where it could be.

David Patterson

I think the teams struggled when we were in those situations too.

Kevin Criswell

I thrive off of these types of situations and I can't wait to get out there.

Joe Torre

He's come up in situations and you say,

John Tortorella

We've been through a lot tougher situations than this in our past. We will get it done.

Frank Verrastro

Most of these supply situations are fraught with some kind of peril.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Warren Ellis

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Luke Zeller

Rebounding has been one of the big things we have worked on all season. It has been a total team effort.

Mark Ellis

Sure, we had a lot of injuries. But a lot of teams have injuries. We can't use it as an excuse.

James Allen

Some of the teams have been pretty tough.

Ray Collins

Our team is one of the most competitive teams in the nation.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Jon Heacock

I think this team as a whole, have an understanding. They have had to play in this conference, and they know what's happening.

Bill Simmons

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.

Bill Shankly

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.

Bill Shankly

This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Bill Cosby

I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn’t have to answer to innuendos,

C. S. Lewis

The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.

Carrie Vaughn

You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me.

Carrie Brownstein

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.

Kobe Bryant

I was a little tired at the end, but I was motivated.

Bill Hicks

I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

Sean Mallon

I was really confident. At first, it was right on line. But I must have been more tired than I thought. I didn't give it enough leg.

Kim Smith

It disrupts everything. Work, babysitters, (we're) just tired of it.

Carlos Rogers

If I wasn't tired and could get some words out of my mouth, I'd still say something then.

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.