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Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'

The thing about boxers is that there's respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that's the code of honor.

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.

I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.

You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

I never looked at myself as the fat sister. Sometimes I would beat people to the punch and say, 'Oh I'm the fat, funny one,' because that's what people would say about me. But I never really thought that.

I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.

I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.'

The potential consolidation between the two towns in Orleans County may be the state's first step back to the future. This is the only way we can beat the economic death spiral gripping us all.

The positive side of it is that we have managed to keep our intensive levels high to beat teams like Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. We have done our homework well. We respect teams and we do what we can do best, without thinking too much about the opponents. It is shown by our results.

The positive drum beat has caught up with the negative one. But on an individual basis, most seniors still can't answer the big question: 'What does it mean for me?

The perception is that somehow they're paper tigers, and they aren't. Everybody needs to hope the higher seeds hold on and win their tournaments. If Gonzaga had gotten beat the other night, that would have taken up one of the other spots.

Unplugged debuting at number one is yet another amazing milestone achievement for Alicia, ... That makes it three in a row -- three out of three. You just can't beat that! What makes it extra special is the live format of Unplugged for the true musician -- the public really has to be passionate about the artist and the music to buy the album in these numbers.

We usually start out hard and playing our game, but today we came out flat; I don't know what it was. We were getting beat to pucks, we weren't playing the body enough and we didn't work hard.

We started out well and we were able to get a lead, then we just went away from what we were doing. We had way too many turnovers. When you give the ball up 28 times like we did against Jackson, it's hard to beat any team doing that.

We struggled with our shooting. We have to play better to beat a powerhouse team like Thatcher. This team is capable of doing just that. We have to play better as a team. Again, this was an important conference victory.

We struggled in the first half of the season. The complaint about the SCIL Festival is that the same teams just play each other again but it keeps all the teams motivated. At the end of the year you can still upset a team that beat you twice.

We are a different team right now. We lost to Notre Dame earlier this season by 21 and we were able to beat them, and now this win. We're learning how to play so well and I can't tell you how much I am proud of these kids right now. I'm just so proud.

We believe that the fundamentals of our business are still very healthy, and we did beat analysts estimates in terms of our earnings, and saw an opportunity to make a little more money with some slowness in Europe and the government sector. In the second half, we're still confident that the target and goal we have talked to the Street about, the 30 percent growth, is achievable, and believe that seasonally the second half is better, and will be this year as well,

We are at home and you always expect to do well at home. When you play at home against another team that came up with you then of course you hope to beat them.

There are companies out there in our country who historically have not been able to beat the Germans and the Japanese, who now beat them routinely.

There are some coaches who believe you just let the best players get all the points they can and stop everybody else. Others limit the best player and make other people beat you. For us, we want to guard everybody. But we really want to make sure that we make it hard or at least difficult for that player to continually make the plays.

(West Memphis) was 1-5 coming in and I knew they were going to beat people in our league. I was just hoping it wasn't going to be us. Taking nothing away from West Memphis, but I thought we set the game of basketball back a little bit. Our execution was horrible.

We still think we can beat them. We are definitely disappointed.

We still remember those games and it made it very nice to beat them this time. My team did not have any trouble at all getting up for this game.

We still made a lot of mental errors and mistakes we have to work on. There are a lot of little things we have to work on if we are going to beat the good ball teams. We are giving up to many outs. We have to tighten out defense up, there is no question about that.

We're in for a grind, since they've beat us they've really gotten on a roll here. I don't know if we gave them confidence or whatever. We know what we're up against. Hard work is their team identity.

We're independent teams, but we want to beat each other. Unfortunately, we were a little too loose in cool air and we just couldn't get a handle on it.

We're in a pretty good position. Teams have to beat us.

We're in a position where we're flying under the radar. We're not being talked about on TV shows. When they mention teams in the playoffs, it's like the Jaguars are the last one. That's fine. I like it that way. When we beat New England, that says it all.

We're in a different dugout now. They were good for us. We spent so much time together, but now we're enemies. If you have to beat them, you beat them. Business is business. If my dad was coaching on the other side, I still want to beat him.

When you've got a team like that that's just trying to get to New York, it's a great league. The old adage that we beat up our own, that's what everyone has to take into account.

When you've got a Division I rival this close, you want to beat them, and unfortunately we haven't been able to do that much. But I wasn't too displeased with this game because it was a good game. Both starting pitchers did very well, and we killed ourselves with a couple of key errors. We don't make those errors and it's a 0-0 game.

When you turn it over 22 times for 30 points, you're not going to beat a top team. One of the characteristics of our recent good play is we haven't been turning the ball over and we've been rebounding well. Tonight, that was part of our undoing.

When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today ?

When you think about it, it makes sense because McCain is the candidate most likely to beat Hillary. That's a uniting emotion with all Republicans.

When you take out the one-time charges, they actually beat the projected results by 10 cents per share.

There is no one better to beat than John Force because when you beat him you beat the best, ... I've won a lot of races before, but never as a team owner. I think it's just starting to sink in. I put a lot of pressure on the guys after Indy, and for them, they worked great this weekend in the heat, under the gun, they pulled through and they got it done. I appreciate that because it proved to me that they're tough, they're strong and they're with me.

Until you beat me, I'm not going to change nothing.

Yeah, it could be. Interestingly, some national polls show that John McCain would beat Hillary Clinton.

When we went up there, they beat us by like 27, so I was pleased with the way we played. This week we concentrated on defense and being in their face and never giving them an open look.

When I was over there they tried to poison me and I wasn't feeling good anyway but I really felt I beat him but didn't get the decision.

When it comes down to it, I wanted to win wearing this (USA) uniform. I was going to run to my best so that we could win. It wasn't like running against the Kenyans. Today, it would have been nice to beat my old countrymen. At some point, I felt that I let my teammates down.

When it came to the important points, maybe I took too much risk. But to beat this guy, you have to take a lot of risks; you have to play at your limit.

When it came down to opponents, it killed us. We lost to Leland and Pioneer (both of San Jose). Everybody else ahead of us beat them. You really can't argue with that.

You don't like anybody to beat you too much. I don't have a long memory. And as an athlete, you can't have too long of a memory. You've got to move on. I can sure remember last year though, because we played two of our worst games against them. ... But it's good to bounce back and get a win tonight. It's good to beat a good club." ()

We remember the one where they beat us.

We remembered that. They had the ball and every opportunity to beat us in the last seconds. You want your team to respect every opponent regardless of record. Our team really respected this team.

We're starting to beat the drums, to get a voice for this important cause.

We respect the Carolina fans. I told (Panther linebacker) Julius Peppers, 'Thank you.' That's the first thing I said to him. I didn't say 'We beat your butt.' I said 'Thank you very much for your support, I appreciate it.' Because that's what's important.

We respect the Carolina fans. I told Julius Peppers , 'Thank you.' That's the first thing I said to him. I didn't say 'We beat your butt.' I said 'Thank you very much for your support, I appreciate it.' Because that's what's important.

We're going to play whatever gives us the best chance to win. So if it's 3-4, 4-3, 2-6, whatever it is, if it's going to help us beat our opponent that's what we're going to play.

We're going to need 11 guys to contribute Thursday. That's what it takes to beat a team like Newburgh.

We're going to either resolve them through some sort of settlement...or else we're going to just beat them, starting in Mississippi, then we'll go to the next state, ... It'll be a very unhappy experience for the tobacco companies.

What this does is show other teams that we're going to be very tough to beat (in the state playoffs).

What they will tell you is that good pitching will always beat good hitting.

What they reported this morning beat my expectations, but it's hard to overlook the slowing customer growth.

When we broke Lewistown's record, gave them their first loss, our confidence went up. We said we could beat any team if we set our minds to it.

When we beat them there (in Barcelona) in the Champions League (in 2002) no one applauded us. If we play well and win that will be great and if we play badly and win that will be great too.

When we beat them the first time, some people thought it was a fluke. But then we beat them again? We proved to people we could play and that gave us confidence heading into states.

When we beat them earlier this year, their big guys dominated us on the glass. We had to be more aggressive inside and we were.

When we beat Indiana, I really don't remember anything about the game, ... I just remember running around and hugging my teammates, hugging Jeff and seeing the fans react to us, that we got back to the Finals.

When we beat Cottonwood at Cottonwood was when I felt we could be a really special team.

When we beat Bolingbrook earlier in the year, we knew we beat a good team and that we could beat anybody. Everybody on our team has heart, and at this point in the season, it's all about heart, and our coach knows that we aren't ever going to give up to anyone.

When we come out with that type of focus and that type of energy, it's tough for teams to beat us. When we play the way we played tonight, we make it look like that. We make the game look easy.

When we coach against another team, we're trying to make it as hard as we can on them to beat us. On this committee, we're trying to (make it) as hard as we can for them not to give us (the No. 1 seed). They may not, but we made it very difficult for them by winning the game.

When we challenge them and play a tight game and outwork them we beat them.

When we came to town, it wasn't a (guaranteed) win anymore. You're gonna have to work hard and play well to beat us.

When we got the ball back with about five minutes left, I asked the guys up top if we should go for two if we scored. The reasons were obvious. We missed our first two extra points, we had guys beat up and it was a non-league game.

When we get rolling like that, nobody can beat us.

When we get down like that, we know if we lose we're not losing big. We're going to put up a fight and make them know that we're there. They're going to have to beat us; we're not going to lay down for anybody.

When we first got here, everybody said we couldn't beat Kentucky. We said we're going to change that.

What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars--you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.

What a great play off the boards, ... He went one-on-two and beat everybody off the boards.

What a great feeling. To still be playing. To beat an outstanding team in Memphis. We're thrilled to be heading to Indiana.

What a great feeling, to still be playing and to beat an outstanding team like Memphis. I'm really proud of the defense we played today. The defense was just incredible.

What a display of free throw shooting by them. It's a possession by possession game and we get beat by nine at the free throw line.

We would've had to have played our best game of the year to beat them. When you beat our press pretty much all you've got to do is throw the ball up in the air.

What he needs to do to stay in his job is continue to beat the S&P 500.

What have we got to lose? The kid threw a bullet and he just beat it. That's the hardest run to make in sports ? inside the park.

What happens is, they're being aggressive; they attack the rim. You just have to go out and beat them.

We grew up competing with much larger institutions. They are very good at what they do and we knew that we couldn't beat them at their game.

We got two guys beat right away, and Aaron probably should have thrown it (on the safety),

We got to where we wanted to get, we got the first-round bye, we beat up New England pretty good. We can take solace in that, but honestly to do what we did the first week in the playoffs and to play like we did today, it's not pretty.

We got to the foul line quite a few times. Didn't make as many we would have liked, though. But it was the fools' gold that beat us. We were 1-for-17 on 3-point attempts. You can't shoot like that against a good team like East.

We felt like we should've beat them, but we just lost focus. Tonight we had more focus. It was the same game plan. There really wasn't a point where we lost it.

We felt like we had a chance to win that game but we helped them out a lot in the fourth quarter and good teams take advantage of things like that. You can't make mistakes against them because they don't usually beat themselves.

We felt like Kyle should be able to beat any one guy out there. He was our go-to-guy scoring-wise.

We both played really well as individuals and a team this whole match. We had great energy and an aggressive mindset. We had the complete package today. They didn't have their complete package, thank God. For once, they were mortal. It's not easy to beat them, but to beat them in the fashion we did is a little mind boggling.

We are getting beat up. We look like Rocky Balboa at the end of Rocky I.

What made this week even better for him was his defense. He has improving defensively and if he keeps improving in that area our teams is going to get better and better. He is getting his hands up better and he sees the floor a lot better. Instead of focusing on just his individual man now he is seeing the court better where he can come in help out on the help side or beat his man to a spot and that is something we work on every single day with everyone.

We're going to miss blocks as an offensive line. We're never going to be perfect. There's so much going on. But we had some mistakes that cause you to lose a football game and we also played in a way that gives a team a chance to beat us with our attitude and with our physical style.

We're going to have to play a perfect game to beat them.

We're going to have to get a little more play out of our guards if we want to try and beat Mater Dei, but I'm happy for the girls and happy for the win.

We're going to have a tough road. If we get Knoxville, we have to play a team we have beaten twice this season. It is never easy to beat a team three times, especially a team as physical as Knoxville. And if we play them, it will be on their own floor.