Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Surtain

regains the form he had a couple of years ago.

Brian Champion

Reese, he's always competing. He left some pitches up in the first couple innings and we made some blunders. ... But he stayed within himself and kept battling, kept competing.

Winston Justice

Our relationship is very, very close. He visited me a couple of times when I was suspended and he helped me through the whole process.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat, when he goes in there it's like he's been there the whole time. He managed the game well, made a couple of big plays.

Jay Mergenthaler

Our main goals are to finish over .500 and to win a couple of tournament games.

Shahid Ghori

Our leaders have been receiving threats for the past couple of months and we had informed the government about it, but no security was provided to our leaders.

Chauncey Billups

Our last game was Tuesday, so I had a couple days to soak it in. That's when it kind of hit me that I made it. I'm an All-Star. It's still a little surreal right now. It's something that I always wanted.

Steve Massey

(People need to) stop irrigating their lawns. This time in the winter, you don't need to be watering the ground around your home but every couple of weeks.

Harold Evensky

People have historically benefited from a couple of different types of immediate annuities.

Charlie Lester

Part of my plan included giving up red meat, which I did without a fight. I really haven't missed it. Except for one thing -- pot roast.

Rachel Farwell

Our leading scorer every game, except when we played Atchison, hasn't been more than a three-point difference. So, what's working in our advantage, is when they all can score we're pretty tough.

F. Stone

Statistically, the game was pretty even, except for our shooting percentage. Jess had a lot to do with that. She's long and you have to shoot over her.

Betty Williams

That could've been disastrous. Normally they would be in that classroom, except today.

Dale Lortz

Our pitching has been very solid all year and this was no exception a Marissa did a very nice job.

Jamie Heward

I'm hoping we can keep scoring like that. We played well except for about a 10-minute span in the third period. We're a young hockey team and we're going to learn from it.

Alafair Burke

Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.

Peter Morgan

Koizumi really hasn't talked much about anything else except postal reforms,

Steve Sternberg

I think 'American Idol' wins, except during the finals of the figure skating, if the U.S. is doing well or if there's some major scandal.

Dirk Nowitzki

We never make excuses with injures. We would love to have Josh out there. Same with Devin. (But) we should have won the game with the guys that we had.

Ray Allen

I was just off. I'm not going to make any excuses. I just didn't make shots.

Bob Marquardt

I was kind of nervous, especially when they had all that momentum in the fourth. It was kind of shaky there. Rebounding is something where we did not do a good job. There is no excuse for that.

Shay Doron

I was kind of hoping she would get back in there because I didn't want any excuses later.

Elizabeth Ryan

I think it's outrageous. I think they're making excuses so they can keep raising it.

Scott Proctor

It had nothing to do with it. If you execute, you'll get guys out. I felt fine to go today. There's no excuse for not getting it done.

Bill Snyder

I think that's probably the case. But that's an excuse, and I don't mean it to be.

Joe Horn

I think that lingered. I think every week, different guys had different excuses why we were losing. And it happened over and over again.

Roger White

I think Purdue played really well. There weren't any holes in their lineup. It was indoors, it was fast and it was on their home court. All excuses aside, we just couldn't finish the matches.

Terry Brooks

We'll be able to do something with these instead of grind 'em up.

Travis Whitaker

I think in a lot of ways our two programs mirror each other. We're not the highest scoring teams, but we can grind it out if we have to.

John Ashcroft

I don't have any personal ax to grind here.

Levi Jones

Grind out your left tackle and then put him in there and tell him he needs to play better.

Lleyton Hewitt

He's a tough player, especially on this kind of surface. I just had to hang in there, try and grind him down. It wasn't the prettiest tennis, hopefully I can pick up on it.

Gary Player

I was grinding like I was winning the tournament.

Charles A. Beard

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

Baron Davis

She don't understand -- I'm in grind mode, ... It's what I do in the summer. I grind. I hustle. I don't have time to get no haircut.

Art Blakey

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Grady Little

Outstanding. He just getting his work in and getting ready for a big season.

Lois Frankel

Right now, the city, we're calm, we're under control, we're ready to go,

Samuel Pahlsson

Rested? I don't know, but I'm ready to go.

Paul Davis

I think this team is ready to get on a roll right now. I think this is the team you're going to start seeing.

Robinson Cano

I want to win a World Series, so I'm going down to spring training and get ready for the season.

Ben Broussard

I went up there ready to hit. I didn't want to take any pitches.

Christina Sims

The are just hopping ready to get there.

Ed Pinckney

That was a long time ago. I'm ready for another one.

M. Thompson

I was ready to take some shots. I'm not going to be shying away from shots.

Carrie Fisher

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Joan Bonvicini

That week was surreal. We were numb, we made it through it.

James Blake

It doesn't get better than this, ... If every week were like this I would never retire.

Pat Riley

I think he is a week away from conditioning.

Charlie Batch

I don't know. You just have to take it week by week, day by day at this point. All I can do is just be ready.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Michael Campbell

It is a long way to come for one week and go back again,

Doug MacIntyre

We may see another week or two of increases.

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!