Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darin Hazel

We've told the kids that our best way to win a championship is through defense. I thought coming into the season defense would a strong point but I think we've gotten into an offensive frame of mind at times. We're trying to get back to basics with defense.

Samir Haj

It has been a tough conference. You can get beat on any given night. You have to stick to your basics and concentrate on fundamentals.

Margot Robbie

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

Taro Aso

I won't seek changes to the basics of the agreement,

Bill Brady

I don't believe the people of Illinois want a governor that is unclear on the basics of legislation or one who plays loose and fast with the facts.

Chuck D.

Fundamentals are the focus during spring drills. Every spring, we work on blocking and tackling and the little things that end up being the big things - the basics of football.

Hugh Nall

I thought Ben has gotten better and better each week. The biggest thing with Ben is just learning the basics of offensive line play. He never really played that much offensive line, but he was born to be an offensive lineman. He has a bright future in this game. He's such a good person; he works hard, and he's smart.

Dan Shechtman

I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.

Randeep Hooda

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

Sadie Frost

People have begun to look so air-brushed in films. Everything I've done this year has been about showing imperfections, about real people.

Kate Warne

People just got very nervous about technology all of a sudden. After a rally earlier in the day, the Nasdaq just begun to drop.

David Blaine

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

Peter Cardillo

Some of the economic data we have been seeing are quite strong, but -- if you really look into it -- there are signs the rate hikes we've seen have begun to slow the economy.

George Whalin

I think the women's business is much tougher than anything else they have been in. It doesn't seem like a natural extension to me. They have begun to get a better selection of merchandise and the business is getting better, but they don't have a real track record here yet.

Scott Turow

The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.

Robert Brusca

I think some of the job growth has been pushed forward. Behind the surface of these very strong reports, there are signs the economy has begun to slow down.

Masaki Iso

It is impossible to expect that things will improve in a short period of time at Sony, ... The company has only just begun a begun a real structural reform.

Jerome Charyn

Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.

Trevor Hoffman

Regardless of how the outcome happens, it's how you get over the failures that matters more than anything else in this role, ... If you do screw up, 24 hours later, there's a chance the ball's going to be in your hand again.

Mark LaTurner

Rebounds just killed us in the first half. When you give a team two, three chances at scoring, it's going to hurt you.

Gene Rasmussen

Rebounding and second chance opportunities were a big key for us.

Aaron Harberts

Rebecca is tripping over stuff and we're just humiliating her every chance we get.

Jose Maria

Real Madrid created their chances and we couldn't have done anymore. I had the feeling we were going to be struck by an avalanche,

Li Zhi

Regulators have picked out two points this year: encouraging fund inflow to the market and revving up studies of new derivative products. The index has a good chance to test 1,300 this week.

John Barrow

Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.

Dragan Cavic

Our positions are considerably different. We shall see today whether there is a chance for creating a middle ground.

John Bunting

Our players know this dismantled us in the second half, ... I think they also knew we had a chance in the first half.

Dennis Healy

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

DeLoss Dodds

Regardless, we are proud of our student-athletes, coaches and support staff who have worked at meeting the standards, but we are not satisfied with some of our numbers.

Jeff Graviett

Really, what that does is frustrate a coach, but you have to give credit to their offense.

Charles Rogers

Reggie is the type of coach you know will always be in your life. He is a genuine person who is always there for you through any situation.

Marshall Faulk

Our relationship is really good. It's positive. There's no strains in it. And I foresee it being the same way as we go on. Coach (Martz) has done a good job of letting us know our roles so it's fairly simple and there's no complications.

Freddy Adu

Our relationship is fine. We've had our differences but, you know, we resolved them. I respect coach Novak and I know he'll get me where I want to get to.

Ron Gerlufsen

(Originally) I didn't want the pressure of having to coach him and him having to play for me. I reached the point where I wondered if he should be here (at Memorial). I felt a lot better for him and his program this season.

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.

Ron Guenther

Paula Smith has been an outstanding coach and an exceptional representative for the University of Illinois.

Kofi Annan

Reform is a process, not an event and we are going to continue after the summit

John Chambers

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

Robert Milton

Recognizing the significant progress we have made, there is no room for any complacency and we must continue to pursue efficiencies throughout our businesses.

Philadelphia Fed

Price pressures remain but continue to show a moderating trend.

Jorma Ollila

Our position in the fastest-growing market in the world continues to be strong.

Ed Colligan

Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,

Anna Rozenich

Our reduction is taking longer than anticipated. We continue to make progress in our testing because we want to make sure we get it right for our customers.

Joseph Farah

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Marc Andreessen

Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.

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.

Pete Carroll

Reggie just tried too hard on that play and he'll regret it forever. Reggie was just trying to get a TD.

Linda Ronstadt

Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.

John Berlin

(Paul) is a perfectionist. She works so hard on hurdles and it really shows.

Malik Rose

Part of me thinks Larry likes it, people not knowing what he wants or whatever. All I know is I go as hard as I can when I'm out there. Sometimes, things just don't go your way.

Bertrand Russel

Our mental make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor

Dan Rucker

Our motto is play hard to play another day.

Steven Lopez

People in the U.S. didn't know what taekwondo was. But they saw what the Lopezes were able to do with all the love and support and hard work we put in, and what we accomplished. It makes me feel real lucky to be in a position like that.

David Walton

People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.

Samantha Morton

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

John Ellinger

If we get in, we get in. The playoffs are something you don't really want to think about at this point. You just want to get a win.

Dave Tippett

One of the ways to make playoffs is to win your division. That was something we set out to do right from the start. We've got to keep pushing in that direction.

Kevin Morooney

She's been doing well and her spirits are up. We'll see how she reacts when playoffs begin.

Jay Lasley

When the playoffs start, it's a whole new season.

Joe Torre

The playoffs have been going on for us for awhile.

Don Robertson

The playoffs get underway very quickly and we'll make sure we let everyone know when.

Chris Kaman

We haven't been in the playoffs since 1997.

Kareem McKenzie

Right now is the time you want to start winning. Win on the road, then go to the playoffs and keep winning. That?s how you get to a Super Bowl.

Roy Oswalt

To get 20 is great, but to get to the playoffs is more. We've come a long way, especially the way the team pulled together and started playing.

Ozzie Newsome

Right or wrong on this call, the system in place has worked and he trusts it, ... You can't stretch too much and still stick with your system.

Carrie Underwood

If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.

Emily Smith

That was awesome. It wasn't really a surprise. We always try to stick together, because that makes it better.

Joey Porter

I still stick to my word: that's not smash-mouth football. We play smash-mouth football.

Derek Jeter

He can play. He has an approach, and he sticks to it. He can pretty much do it all.

Seth MacFarlane

If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'.

Ben Fountain

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

Anthony Chan

More and more firms are sticking their toes in the water. The recovery's begun, but it will be fragile.

Dave Ramsey

When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

Bill Shorten

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

Bill Crawford

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

C. S. Lewis

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

Carl Rogers

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Tsuneo Watanabe

Imagine, a 32-year-old youngster teaching an 80-year-old something. Do I want him to come to the Giants? Yes, I want him. I want him to be our manager.

Charles Kettering

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time...

Charles Darwin

...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.

Charles Babbage

Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it.

Blaise Pascal

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

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.

David Davies

Sven's got a roving eye. He's like a seagull and can wrap his wings around people.

Kevin Morris

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Ben Curtis

I'm here to win and that's what I want to do,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!