Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liz Nash

With the girls, if we do what we need to do the next 30 days and shave some seconds off our minutes, we should have a shot at contending for a state title.

Steve McKinney

We were supposed to be contending for a playoff spot right now. Instead, we're contending for the No. 1 pick in the draft. Our fans are kind of frothing at the mouth over it.

Dan Callahan

Our starting pitching was, to put it bluntly, lousy this weekend. We know we're having some defensive problems, but we can't expect to be a contending team in the Valley with starting pitching like that.

Greg Anthony

Right now with the roster as it exists, they're nowhere near contending. They're not even contending for the playoffs. That's going to be a tough pill to swallow for (Garnett). When you look up and you're now 30, and you don't see the team contending, it's hard. It's going to be a big dilemma for Kevin and those guys in what direction they go in.

Kimo Oelhoffen

We've contended four out of five years for the Super Bowl. You get to a point where contending just isn't enough.

Herb Sendek

Eric Williams was sensational. Right from the outset we had a difficult time contending with him.

Mack Garner

There was 25 years of provocation. I'm not contending this homicide was justified. It was a crime. He offered to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

Carl Fuller

We have our pitching back, so we're strong there. But we lost four seniors, so we're trying to fill those positions. We have some young kids getting their first varsity experience, but we hope to be contending for the top spots in the league.

Dennis Ross

That's the new struggle of our time, and we have to frame it that way to understand what we're contending with and why it's so important for us not to fail.

Jim Schwartz

Let's say a prayer the injury isn't too severe. He was dominating inside. I don't know if I've seen a defensive tackle inside dominate the way he did today.

Chris Leshinski

Losing two defensive starters (to graduation), Nicole has really stepped up and helped us.

Ken Sheinberg

Leadership isn't phenomenal and now you're entering pre-announcement season, so people are worried. Volume hasn't been great, but trends are definitely in place ? technology is for sale and defensive issues are to buy.

Mark Brunell

Let's face it, those guys hold if they can get away with it and it's hard to hold a defensive end when you can't grab onto him.

John Whisenant

Mistakes, turnovers, that's part of our defensive intention. We hope to get more shots than them (64-52), limit their shots, make their shots harder and limit their assists.

Robert Pires

Maybe we should play in a more defensive manner,

A.J. Hawk

Obviously we're not big defensive ends who are going to get 15 to 18 sacks a year. We're not going to be a running back who's going to rush for 1,500 yards. It's a spot where there's three or four of them on the field. I guess you can justify not taking guys too high.

Dean Bellanti

Oconomowoc gave us a hard time down there earlier in the year and we expected another tough game tonight. It was kind of surprising. But that's what can happen when we play with that kind of defensive intensity.

Marcellus Wiley

My desire is to play as a pass-rushing defensive end on third down. If the opportunity to do that doesn't exist in Dallas, I don't want to be in Dallas.

French Proverb

Life works out - but not as you expect it

Christopher Low

Like everyone else, we expect a quarter-point hike in fed funds today to 4.75 percent -- we also expect the statement to be softened.

Frances Tuke

Life has to go on and people have to use the transport system. People always expect the Americans in particular to shy away after there have been incidents but we have not heard of any mass cancellations.

Rudi Johnson

Let him be. He's focused. We're all expecting big things out of him, and he's expecting big things out of his teammates. Let him focus and soak it in and be ready for Sunday.

Tee Newman

Lower Richland expects to win. We're in the hoping-to-win stage. That makes a difference.

Greg Olsen

Losing, it doesn't happen here. It's not accepted. That's just the way it is. Winning is the standard that's been set by the past teams, and each new team wants to live up to those standards. So expectations here are as high as ever. Every time we take the field, we expect to win.

Bob Castellini

Lou really had a year that he had to stay away from major league baseball. I didn't know that at the time we talked about it. It's just not going to happen this year. And I would expect Lou to go back to managing.

Dave Duncan

Looper is important to our bullpen. Can it be a good bullpen? Yes, if somebody else steps up if he isn't what we expect him to be right away. The key is getting him to do the things he needs to be doing.

Ron Eastman

Last year was the first year in about 19 years they didn't make the playoffs, so you always know they are always going to have a quality team. They usually have a lot of talent. We don't know a whole lot about them, but I fully expect them to come in ready to play and have one or two real good pitchers to throw at us.

Bob Stoops

We have not been good. The players haven't been good. You can say whatever you want. I have done a lousy job.

Jim McKenna

You would think that somebody would put out a map of the Kettle Moraine Scenic Trail, ... They went to enough trouble to put up the lousy signs.

Eli Lustgarten

The report is lousy but it is much better underneath.

Anthony DiClemente

I don't see this as a negative or a positive. I see it as a reflection of the already lousy fundamentals in the business.

Eric Bosshard

The first thing they need to do is sell the lousy stores.

Buck Showalter

From a pitching standpoint, I'd like to see him get down there and get back on the horse, see him getting the ball. It's been unlike any year he has ever had in professional baseball. He's had to make a lot of decisions.

Ozzie Guillen

From the first day of the playoffs the pitching always has been good.

Dizzy Dean

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

Ben Quinby

The pitching for our team was really exceptional.

Thomas Murphy

I come because I do pitching lessons. I come to watch and to be a better pitcher.

Joe Torre

with the way our pitching has been hurt, it hasn't been a lot of fun. Otherwise, I feel no different at all.

Bruce Bochy

Woody has been pitching better than Brian. We'll talk about it.

Carl Relyea

We have a solid pitching staff and should be solid defensively. We should be a competitive team in a very strong division.

Early Wynn

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Karel Bruckner

I can tell you that the starting lineup will be very different this time.

Kevin McHale

Getting Marko was something we really wanted to do. It's all starting to come together.

Herman Edwards

If we had to play tomorrow, ... Kingsbury would be our starting quarterback.

Rob Niedermayer

I didn't want to go. I really wanted to stay. Things were starting to go well. I was pretty disappointed when I got traded.

Dan McCarney

I don't know who the starting kicker's going to be.

Jonathan Taylor

Tribes are starting to make it on their own.

Aaron Levie

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Kordell Stewart

My contributions to the team won't be worth much, not being the guy,

Shawn Williams

My hat's off to them. That team there should've been in the top 10 during the season.

Craig Patrick

Obviously, the nucleus of our team is a lot younger.

George Nessman

We had breakdowns in our zone defense. We're not a team that can play from behind.

M. Wolfe

When I got there, this was the worst team in professional football,

Chris Crutcher

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.

Kacey Musgraves

Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.

Bill Gurley

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Helen Keller

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

Isabelle Huppert

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

Niklas Zennstrom

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

Jay Leno

106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.

Mark Twain

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

George Herbert

Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.