Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

Let your life be your argument.

Folarin Campbell

Like coach said, we just go out there and have fun. We're all calm, poised and we make sure we have fun. I mean, basketball was made to have fun. So, if you ain't having fun, you're not going to perform.

Mike Petersen

Let's be honest, we had much higher goals and expectations for ourselves this season. What would (Wake men's basketball coach Skip) Prosser say? Skip would say 'mercurial.' He's a wordsmith. We were mercurial. We were up and down.

Joanne McCallie

LSU did a great job. We took care of their zone pretty easily, but then they played a lot of man and did a good job with it. I'm not pleased with our team's toughness. We really need to be strong on the court. It was a good lesson for us, but not at all the kind of basketball we play.

S. Walker

Maine's won three in a row and they're shooting the heck out of the basketball. They're shooting 53 percent from three in the last three games so those guys are on fire right now. We just happened to catch those guys on two nights when they didn't shoot it very well.

Garrick Phillips

Lynden is a good basketball team. There is no question they were better than us. That certainly wasn't the best effort we had.

Ben Braun

Leon and I have talked a lot about his future and his options. He just had the best season of his basketball career, which is a credit to his work ethic and perseverance. I trust that Leon will ultimately make a great decision.

Jim Tildsley

Lowell is a very, very good basketball team and they pushed us to the limit. Both teams played extremely well and I'm very happy with the way we hung in and executed at the end of the game.

Dickey Nutt

Lorenzo will still be a valued member of our basketball family, and we will support him 100 percent in his desire to obtain his college degree.

William Channing

Let us teach that the honor of a nation consists not in the forced submission of other states, but in equal laws and free institutions, in cultivated fields and prosperous cities; in the development of intellectual and moral power, in the diffusion of knowledge, in magnanimity and justice, in the virtues and blessings of peace.

Chris Raso

(Losing three key players) was a blessing in disguise.

Jerry Butler

Lou's contribution has been immeasurable. Lou has been involved in gospel, jazz, blues. So when he came to the United Negro College Fund, he brought all of that with him and the people from all those genres. It was a blessing for the United Negro College Fund to have him as a sponsor.

Izaak Walton

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.

Izaak Walton

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy

Yann Danis

Last year was like a blessing being able to work on things in Hamilton without the pressure of being in Montreal. Now, I just want to make the team and get as much playing time as I can.

Jim Smith

Scot leaves with our blessing and we'd like to thank him for his efforts during his short time with us. He'd had this offer to go to New Zealand and it was a big step to take but he wants to carry on playing as long as he can before he turns to coaching and he felt this was the right move. We wish him well.

Unknown

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door.

Irish Blessings

May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God's blessings descend upon you. May peace be within you may your heart be strong. May you find what you're seeking wherever you roam.

Richard P. Feynman

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

Robert Walpole

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

Robert Walpole

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Ronald Kessler

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

Anthony Hecht

Mandelstam's wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be destroyed by Stalin.

Kevin Mulligan

Like Ashley, Eric and Rich can both make it to states if they play like they can at districts..

Dan Hawkins

Life isn't about being fair. It is what it is. Both teams have played mid-week games, we've played at 9 in the morning, Thursdays, Fridays. I don't think the fairness issue plays into it.

Tom Livatino

Liggins and Little are both very, very good players, and they are complemented well by their other guys. We have our work cut out for us.

Robert Osborne

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

Kumail Nanjiani

When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.

Doug Smith

Let's spend the next four years working to polish the jewel that is Portsmouth. Let's go make great things happen.

Christopher Smith

Lots of drug sales, gang violence. We have had our house shot four times.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Losing your last three out of four games, well, it's incredible. I don't know where we go from here, but I think we need to have a gut check.

Bob Burke

Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.

Joyce Thompson

Last year we worked with three or four (volunteers) and that wasn't really enough because some had to do it in Midland.

James Jackson

Last year, we lost a lot of games by one, two, three, four points on a regular basis. This year, a lot of those losses we turned into wins.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Seventy four of the culprits were killed and four were wounded,

Raja Bell

We're not doing anything different. Guys understand that if it's going to be a week or a month, we're going to have to pick it up without him.

Pat Carroll

Let's rock the Capitol. Don't let these guys sneak back into town.

Mike Santiago

Leon is the starting quarterback for the Nicholls State game. Just like all the guys know, it is one day at a time. We have a lot of competition. You got to hold that spot.

S. Walker

Losing to those guys is always the worst. It's terrible.

Jose Guillen

Lots of times, you really need guys for motivation, guys trying to help your teammates. Lots of times, you see a lot of guys, they don't really care.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jim Grobe

Last year was just one of those years when we didn't have a lot of old guys - and I'm talking about seniors in that mix. And some of the young guys, quite frankly, I don't think were tough enough to play.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Dusty Baker

Scott Eyre is a fun-loving guy, but the rest of the guys, especially the new guys we've got, they are all business.

Babette March

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Nathan Kress

I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Ben Saunders

What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe... but thankfully it's still intact.

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

David Mitchell

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Chris Linsley

We're so thankful that we've been able to have what's a speedy recovery.

Brian Tracy

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

George Black

He was cooperative, ... We were thankful for that.

Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.