Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

E. O. Wilson

Let's be honest now, he's a special kind of athlete. He's fast. He's strong. He's intelligent and hungry. And you don't find that all the time in different players. And especially finding all those attributes in one player.

Jason Breiholz

Luckily he's just athletic, and he remembers enough and he's trained hard enough to come out there and beat somebody that is as strong and athletic as that kid was.

George Novak

Luke is very intelligent and is very quick. He also is determined and is very athletic for a big guy. He's been very committed and dedicated in the weight room and has worked very hard.

Tony Giese

Making the All-America team for a second straight year shows how consistent Heather was for our program. This is quite an honor for an outstanding athlete.

Doug Bleadorn

Lewisville is a very athletic team who will come at you with their style of play. Our defense played well and we were able to shake off our foul trouble. It wasn't a pretty game, but at least we had a positive ending.

Myles Brand

Let me call that athletic looting, to be provocative, and we won't stand for that.

Todd Turner

Scott is one of the most talented and respected athletic directors in the nation. With Scott's arrival, I believe we now have one of the strongest, most experienced, and talented administrative teams in the nation.

Joe Alleva

Several players who were present acknowledge, however, that they did hire private party dancers and that underage drinking occurred. The judgment of the team members to host and participate in this event is inconsistent with the values of Duke Athletics and Duke University and is unacceptable.

Pete MacArthur

We're not doing anything special. We're just doing all the little things that coach talks to us about everyday in practice. We're just benefiting from it right now. We're just going to keep doing that.

Todd Fox

Man, four state placers and the school's first top 10 finish. It's a head coach's dream come true and speaks to my great coaching staff.

JaJuan Smith

Like coach said, we've done what we're supposed to do. Now we've got to take it up a level.

Tyler Palko

Like coach said, we're not playing well right now, but we're getting better and we're going to keep fighting. Football's a rough game. It's a tough game. Things don't always go your way. It's a test of manhood to see what kind of guys we have on this football team.

Todd Blersch

Like anything else, it's a lot of on-the-job training. The more experience you have, the more you see and the better you are at what you do. It's no different than if somebody was trying to coach in the Super Bowl.

Terrell Buckley

Life is not fair. You're one game away from a championship one year, the next year they let him go somewhere else. His coaching didn't change. You never want to be where you've proved you can win but there are still questions.

Flip Saunders

Like I said, I think a coach is as good as the players he has. You do have to drive them. You've got to make sure to put them in the right situations. And we have a group that's very committed as far as what we're doing.

Xavier Perkins

Mainly just the coaching staff. I didn't have to go far away. The coaches with experience know what they're doing.

Ron Lynch

Magnolia reminds me a lot of Deer Park. There are good, hard-working kids. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to coach them.

John Heimlich

We're not expecting it to be much crazier than last summer.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.

William Chappell

I think women get a little crazier when they run in packs. They want to outdo each other.

Arthur Sterbcow

Right after the storm, if I had heard myself talking like I am now, about setting records in some offices and posting three record-breaking months in a row, I would've wondered what Kool-Aid this guy was drinking. But every day it gets crazier and crazier in a positive way.

Mike Farrell

He was always like that older, crazier brother. He did everything at high speed, no matter what it was.

Drew Neitzel

It ain't over by any stretch. Crazier things have happened.

Alex Pareene

There are a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on keeping lots of conservatives terrified and ill-informed. The groups that exist to raise funds raise more funds when they endorse the crazier candidate.

Ricky Williams

This whole thing gets crazier by the day.

Jodi Picoult

It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.

John Monroe

One-terabyte hard drives will be standard repositories for movies, music and games in the home.

Geoff Pemble

My day job is as a lawyer and I enjoy my job very much. But I think I've known for most of my life that in my heart, I'm a musician and music is what really drives me.

Jennifer Young

My husband drives 150 miles round trip to work everyday to Sheridan...biggest thing with the gas.

Alex Rodriguez

Obviously, October is something I need to improve on this year. Winning a World Series, that drives me to the core.

Twyla Tharp

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

Jerramy Stevens

If we had a short field, some of those drives would have been scoring drives. We just played on the wrong side of the field today.

Ron Hamm

I go up and down Highway 66 here everyday, and I see the remnants of what used to be: The small little hotels, the gas stations, the mom and pop stores, the grocery stores and convenience stores that used to be here 30 years ago, and it hurts. The population is increasing in the area, but everyone drives to Barstow.

Elizabeth Darger

She's a terrific shooter that has a long range. She also uses the backboard well, drives well and has a sense for the basket.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's our heart and soul. Her spirit and enthusiasm are what drives us.

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

Azhar Usman

To me this is not just about standing on stage telling jokes. There's a lot riding on this.

Bernard Hinault

I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

Craig Kelly

Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.

Craig Kelly

I've always been into powder, that's what I like riding, and now you've got to go farther to get it.

Brene Brown

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

Bob Dylan

Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

Doug Anderson

We can have more than one session at a time here. There are two riding pens. There's a new spectator area, too.

James Blake

I am just going to try riding the wave until I wake up.

e. e. cummings

All in green went my love riding

Diablo Cody

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Austin Stowell

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

Dave Wannstedt

It's what we've talked about for two months; it's a roller coaster, things go up and down,

George Papandreou

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

Jon Huertas

I don't really like roller coasters!

Henry F. Ashurst

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

Rush Limbaugh

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

Kevin Hart

Really, I don't like roller coasters.

Robert Fulghum

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?

Levance Fields

Of course, I'll be ready. I think I could have done it this year if Carl hadn't come back.

Cory Sarich

One year I had about 14 different returns. That's a lot of signatures when it comes time.

Jose Theodore

Obviously, this year I didn't play up to my level, but the year's not over yet.

Chris Evans

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Charles Spurgeon

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Charles Spurgeon

In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Dick Van Dyke

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

Chris Evans

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Alexander the Great

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

David Rakoff

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

In [my] youth I was smacked around.

Dick Clark

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

Charles Fourier

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

William Shakespeare

For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

Elizabeth Arden

Hold fast to youth and beauty.