Coaster Quotations

Although I'm a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I'm actually amazed that I survived. Barely.

The 'science' behind hormone replacement therapy has put women on a medically engineered, press-fueled, big pharma funded roller coaster ride.

My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.

We're looking to try and put the first half behind us. There were highs and lows and a little bit of a roller coaster ride early on. We want to take lessons from that experience and set goals for the future. But really we try to focus on - not to be cliche - a shift-to-shift, period-to-period, game-top-game basis and not worry too much about what's happened or what's in front of us. I think the future will take care of itself if we just work hard every day.

Momentum can change so much in the NBA and if you keep playing things can happen for you. I think the 3-pointer lifted us in the overtime. We had the momentum and we carried it through. The game never stops. We were down and then we came back. It was a roller coaster ride.

means we're in for a roller coaster ride.

I feel like I'm going on my first roller coaster ride.

If it comes down to me leading them in the fourth quarter and putting the ball in my hands, I'll take my chances. I'm an older guy, and we have a lot of new guys. Hopefully, they will listen to me so we won't be on the roller coaster ride that we were on last year. We have to change our state of mind.

Today is an emotional roller coaster for us here. We are trying to stay focused, however, on putting out the best newspaper we can tomorrow. We have the opportunity and obligation and privilege to write our own obituary. We are in the process of trying to figure out how we are going to do that.

He was offered a sign-on bonus, a higher salary, a big year-end bonus and stock in the company for a job across the bridge. They know we have done a lot for this guy, and yet he still got all these other perks. So they fear that it's like a roller coaster on its way down ? it is hard to stop.

Job-cut announcements have been on a roller coaster ride this year. The lack of any discernible trend in corporate downsizing is indicative of the uncertainty associated with the current economy.

It has been a very significant journey, a roller coaster at times,

Regrets? Well, certainly I regret that I did that which got me into jail, ... Other than that, no. I've had a very roller coaster life, very roller coaster. And except for that -- which, of course, I regret exceedingly -- boy, no, I don't have any regrets.

Most of my fans know I love video games. I say it in every interview, so they know. But one thing that I like doing is skateboarding, I like jet skiing, skydiving. It's like a huge roller coaster ride. Like forty seconds of free-falling. That's some of the stuff I love, daredevil stuff. I like horseback riding.

We haven't sold out tickets as quickly since we were in one of the national championship games. Our fans certainly were on a roller coaster this year. We were 6-0 at one time, then there were three losses in a row and everyone was ready to take arsenic. Then we beat Virginia Tech and everyone began feeling good again.

Without a doubt, it was a roller coaster ride. But I couldn't be more proud of the team. They did everything we asked them to do.

Today was an emotional roller coaster to say the least. I felt we should've won both games against St. Pat's and Minden before an emotional win against Hershey.

We are riding the temperature roller coaster here,

We're learning how to win by doing the little things. The season is a roller coaster ride, and the key is not to get too high or too low. We're not where we want to be, but if we keep playing the way we've been playing, we'll be where we need to be.

When the fans are on me, they have every right to get on me, because I wasn't playing up to par. To me, I just kept getting more and more frustrated. It has been an up-and-down roller coaster for me in the Big Leagues.

We've had a long chat about it. We've been on a huge emotional roller coaster in the last week.

We'll head to Iraq around December 23rd and stay over there until after New Years, because it's hard for soldiers to get entertainment during the holidays. I'm not doing that so people think I'm doing something great, ... I'm doing that because I know what it's like and I remember being there during Christmas and not having anybody from home. It's a very emotional, roller coaster ride for me when I'm there because there's times when I feel so grateful for what I do (now), and times that I feel guilty for what I'm doing because I'm not working there (as a soldier).

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

We talked in the locker room about how we've improved so much. That's what you want a young group to do. They do roller coaster stuff where they play good for awhile, then not so good for awhile but they never gave up and that's a credit to them.

We were like a roller coaster today. We played fantastic against Lincoln, the best we've played all season, but we started out flat against Ida.

We don't want to ride a roller coaster where it feels good for five days and then it feels bad for five days.

Consistency is a big priority for us right now. We're not on the roller coaster we were a few weeks ago.

I've been fishing as a pro for 25 years, and never in my life have I had so much excitement. It's been such a roller coaster this last year. I've been way down, and I've been as high as you can get. This last year was one of the best I ever had. I won that big FLW tournament last year, finished in the top 10 in BASS and in the top 10 at FLW.

I've seen it the last few years, it goes up and down, up and down. Is that we want to do with our children, take them on a roller coaster ride?

It was an emotional roller coaster -- going from Christmas, then your aunt dies, and then all the stats come out and you might get all these records. I've been asked, 'How do you feel?' Tired. I'm really blessed we do have this week off where I can kind of grab a hold back to reality.

It was a little bit of a roller coaster ride. They started to hit their shots and got the crowd back into it. It was kind of a little chaotic.

Our earlier stuff was a lot of short songs that were super complicated. Nothing ever repeated. It was one roller coaster after another. We felt like we kind of did that enough ... we wanted to focus on repetition and the things that we chose to repeat.

AOL was a roller coaster ride. I was lucky and privileged to be a part of it, both the ups and the downs.

This is really hard, really tough on all of us. It's been such a roller coaster ride. All we can do is hang in there and support each other.

This is sort of like on a roller coaster ride for him this is a very dramatic game. He is into this, this is part of his lifestyle now.

Think of what we, and others, are doing as building the largest roller coaster in the world. Rocket science is mythologized out of whack with its difficulty. Nine out of 10 people will fail, but one of us will eventually get through.

American audiences, when they sit down to watch TV, like to be taken on a roller coaster ride. They don't like subtlety.

This list enables everyone to take a lighthearted look back at 2005. We laughed at Tom Cruises' shenanigans on Oprah's couch and cringed when we learned of the Pitt/Aniston break up. From Washington to Hollywood, this was a roller coaster year that provided great material for our current list.

There's a roller coaster of emotion. There is anger, and there's happiness, and there's sadness, and there's confusion. Above all, I'm confused.

It was a roller coaster all day. We finally got on track there for a while, and before we knew it made another mistake.

It's a constant roller coaster of emotions. A lot of things go through your mind on every single hole. So much of it is unknown.

It's a fairly big roller coaster for him as far as the emotions are concerned, if the knee's right I'm sure he'll be in the box helping out.

It's like a roller coaster - you're high and then you come right down low. It hurts, but we have to get back on the horse.

It's been an emotional roller coaster at times. There have been some peaks and valleys. But I'm very confident and anxious to see how it turns out.

It's been a roller coaster ride, sort of a precautionary move on the part of investors before we get these key earnings. I'm not a bit worried. This market is going to move higher.

It's been a roller coaster ride. But at the same time, you're not ready to pinch yourself yet because you know you're still winning. We're so deep into the tournament right now, it's like we can't be satisfied.

It's been a roller coaster for me. I had to fight just to be around. I was told I was going to be here but on special teams. Then Tim was traded and I was No. 3. Now I might be No. 2.

Danielle's a freshman, and there was a lot of pressure, but she worked really hard and changed her game. She was up, then down, then up again. I feel great. This was a roller coaster match. I was very pleased, especially considering they beat us last year 7-0.

I'm proud of my kids. (This season) was kind of a roller coaster ride. For us to get here, I just shake my head. I'm kind of amazed we even got this far. We've gone through a lot this year. For our kids to hang in there and keep fighting, keep battling and give themselves a chance to play in a sectional is a tribute to the seniors.

In my opinion there is not one true dominant team in the NW4A conference. I think it's going to be a roller coaster ride through the conference this year and the public will get their money's worth if they come out and watch. It's going to be exciting.

I had heard the Carter Family's music, but I didn't realize how much they were responsible for creating. Their story is quite amazing, filled with humor and heart and emotional roller coaster rides.

Being on the court is a whole lot easier than being on the bench. It's a roller coaster ride on the bench.

The emotional roller coaster and the need to win is so intense that for the wives, who have no control over what happens on the field, there are times when you want to burst into tears, ... You don't have time to celebrate, and you don't have time to lick your wounds. We win together and we lose together.

You've always got three sets of players, ... You've got guys that are trying to get into the top 30 and guys trying to get into the top 70, and then you've got the guys going through the roller coaster around the 125 number.

The market seems to be on an emotional roller coaster balancing two conflicting items -- going up on the fear of a supply interruption with very limited spare capacity, and down on exceptionally high inventories and sufficient supply in the market.