Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Knight

Ultimately, we wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

Orville Redenbacher

The other Processors sold inferior corn in the consumer package because many consumer buyers were only interested in a good price.

Jim Cramer

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.

Erskine Bowles

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

Erskine Bowles

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.

Lee Scott

There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.

Lee Scott

Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good.

Lee Scott

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.

Lee Scott

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

Steve Malchow

We want them to sit down and talk to coach McDermott before we get to the point of anyone asking for a release. If push comes to shove - we're not ogres here.

Mac Gifford

We want to show that we can play with anyone in the east and in the country. We're taking it one step at a time so that we can build the program.

Deborah Galloway

We want to see it done as badly as anyone else.

Pat Barry

We want to see if he had contact with anyone else.

Lance Galbraith

We know when it's time to shake things up. We're here for our teammates, and we hope our teammates know we're here for them. We're not going to let anyone take liberties. You've got to use your head, but if it's for the betterment of the team, it's time. Fighting is down (in the league) but if there is a time or place, I'm there for it.

Rodney Allison

We know what they are capable of doing. They have talent on defense and can score a ton of points on offense. Anyone in the Ohio Valley Conference who can go toe-to-toe with (two-time defending OVC Champion) Jacksonville State makes you stand up and take notice. We know they will be ready to play, and I guarantee that our kids will be prepared as well.

Teddy Lehman

We know we're good. We don't have to prove anything to anyone else.

Larry Hughes

We know we might face these guys early on. That's our focus. We don't want to let anyone we play feel like they have a chance.

Mark Spragg

We know everyone here, ... We won't know anyone in New York.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We want to strengthen democracy. When conflicts cannot be solved in parliament they should be solved by citizens.

Zwelinzima Vavi

We want to send a strong signal to the regime in Swaziland that it cannot be an island surrounded by democracy in the region.

O. Henry

We know we cannot win this long war by ourselves.

Bill Womack

Walk-in box, $2,200 to fix it. Ice maker cannot be repaired. It's too old. There are no parts for it.

Louis Bacon

Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.

Michel Onfray

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Morgan Wootten

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise

Louis C. K.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

Dave Ramsey

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

Saint Augustine

We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

Bob Dole

My philosophy of life is when you get up the ladder you want to reach back and give someone a hand, just like someone did for you years before. They are wonderful role models and the very personification of caring.

Dan Millman

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

Laura LaVallee

We will play our ladder matches at the end of the week (today, Friday).

James Daugherty

This truck is going to have to be replaced, ... Even if I don't get a ladder truck, I'm going to have to have a pumper.

James Daugherty

The ladder truck's got some mechanical problems, ... This truck is going to have to be replaced.

J. Cole

Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

Albert Young

When you saw us getting pushed back over things that were non-existent ... come on. I don't know what to say about that.

Fred Couples

We were trying to push each other on.

Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

John Cape

We're going to push for two things: responsibility and reform.

Kenyon Martin

We'll see. I'm getting better. I just don't want to push anything.

Brandi Chastain

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

Pat Fitterer

When they were sophomores they were pushing the seniors.

Rob Cornett

The only way you can do better is to push each other. And it's not just teammates, it's competitors doing it for one another.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Dan Robinson

unless something is in our refinery in a week or so, we're starved.

Brad Coker

Unless it's over 50 percent, I'm always skeptical. It could pass. It could fail. You can't really make a call.

Murray Walker

Unless I'm very much mistaken... I am very much mistaken.

Estelle

I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.

Simon Schama

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.

Rod Thorn

Unless we get very fortunate, ... we are not going to be a championship contender.

Robert Farmer

Unless they shrunk up over the years, he must not have been a real big fellow,

Brooke Niquette

We're so young, but we're willing to learn. We can do well.

Ed Stewart

Unfortunately, no one other than Southwest has been willing to come to the table.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

David Jones

He's disappointed, but he understands that's what you have to do. He's willing to go in and work a little harder.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Drew Brees

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.