Famous Quotes & Sayings

Butch Buchholz

Part of the problem they had in negotiating this thing was a lot of players wanted unlimited challenges. That would have been a problem. That would take forever to play a match.

Gary Bettman

Our member clubs, our officials, our players and our hockey operations people will face many challenges in the weeks and months ahead. My job is to make sure that everyone stays focused on the objective of fostering competitive NHL hockey that features flow, skill, speed, puck movement and skating.

Duncan Hunter

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

Sue Cischke

Some of the challenges include designing a system that is most of all accurate, not easily disabled or avoided, is easy to use and does not create driver-distraction issues.

Frank Robinson

Some guys, they get down on themselves and wonder 'Why? But other guys, it challenges them: 'Well, I'm not going to let someone come in and take my job. I'll show them that I'm a better player.' I think that's the way he should react and that's the way he will react, because really the job is there for him to lose.

Harold Lewis

Our stadium is the most used natural turf stadium in the U.S.. Given the challenges, he's done a great job.

Gregg Semanick

Our volunteers are the heart of the program. Many have been helping for years. They enjoy the challenges of tax preparation and they're dedicated to helping in their communities.

Herb Harris

Riley is the kind of kid who likes challenges like that. He's always willing to step in and give it a shot.

Duane Ackerman

Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina.

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Mike Barnett

Our players, if the effort isn't there, will see a much different side to Wayne Gretzky than the gentleman the public knows. He'll have no problem doing that.

Richard Stallman

part of the long-term effort to liberate cyberspace.

Doc Rivers

Paul gave a superhuman effort for us to get back in this game. You'd rather have a balance, but I'd take 40 from Paul.

Toba Beta

Peace is not a state of nature. It is an effort done by the living.

Peter Budaj

Starting with me and everybody else, I don't think we put out the effort that was good enough for a win.

Li Zhaoxing

Some people are disappointed with the outcome of meetings, which was not as substantial as they have expected, ... However, we should highly value efforts made by all sides in this process.

Carl Jacobs

Our results have been worthy of an 'A,' but our effort has been on the 'C' level. We've jumped out to big leads, then other teams back in.

David Kirkland

Our team is extremely young and we're so thin in depth. However, I'm proud of their effort tonight. If you take away a handful of plays, the scoreboard would have read something else.

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless, if we said it 10 times a 1,000 times, if Rodney's out there or if Rodney's not out there, whoever's out there -- 11 guys -- we play team defense,

Claude Julien

Price is showing things at 18 guys don't usually show until their second or third year as pros.

Chris Snee

Part of it was their scheme, part of it was us not doing our assignments, and part of it was guys just getting beat.

Romeo Crennel

Part of the reason we wanted to get veteran guys in here is because of the experience,

Bill Ball

Our nine seniors, a lot of those guys have made tremendous sacrifices. Every team has scorers, but you've got to have guys willing to play roles, and that's what we've had.

Doug Aplin

Our kids worked hard for everything they got this year. I would love to get the first half back in the finals, but that is the sport. Every day, every single day, these guys showed up for practice and worked hard to succeed.

Marc Bulger

Sure it worked. We played with more of a sense of urgency. I know the message he was trying to get across, and he did it well. He went at us hard on Wednesday and Thursday, but I think we understood. Guys picked up their game. He knocked some sense into us, and hopefully we can maintain it.

Jeffrey Cohen

Steve and his guys are more strategic partners than mere contractors.

Torii Hunter

Spring training is a (time) to get to know your team. We've got new guys on our club, and you don't even know these guys.

Joe Gibbs

Patrick stepped in there and did a heck of a job. And I don't know if you can say enough about Santana.

Kacey McNulty

Robbie had a heck of a run to get to the semifinals.

Ben Borries

Jamison has really been tearing it up. He has been rebounding and passing well and doing a heck of a job for us. All week long he has been playing tremendous.

Neal Marshall

That was incredible. Ridiculous. When I saw her opener, I thought maybe a high 37. But 37.5 -- what the heck is that? She skated all of it beautifully.

Paul TRUE

That was a huge point in the game. And we just couldn't get over the hump in the second half. Presque Isle played a heck of a game.

Mark Shapiro

That was a heck of a time to go on vacation.

John Calipari

That was a heck of a game. I told their coach, 'Let's hope we are playing in April. Let's hope we are the last two standing.

Al Wolski

That's the kind of play that if it works, you pat them on the back. If it doesn't work, you say what the heck are you doing.

Scott Sutton

I think that would be a heck of a game.

Marta

But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.

Rick Peterson

To me, that was worth the whole trip. I think he understands that young pitchers who settle into the big leagues quickly settle in not because they're fastball-curveball (pitchers) but because they're fastball-changeup.

Neil Strother

While they are doing well, the process to getting with the big leagues is quite a leap.

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

Larry Graham

They can come in and post their name on a bulletin board. Then I can match them up with the leagues that are looking for people.

Dennis Howard

They're in the big leagues now. And they're paying big league money for this chance.

Bill Self

I look around the county, and I see a lit of leagues like ours. With parity a lot of people think that means mediocrity.

David Ortiz

At one point, he got called up to the big leagues

Jorge Posada

He's a no-miss. He will be in the major leagues soon. I won't be surprised if I see him before the year is over.

Phil Ramon

Some of them will need some major (repair).

Joe Jenkins

That day, there was nothing major going on,

Harley Dale

Outside of NSW spending on major renovations was softer, but not substantially so at the end of 2005.

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

Shane Coursen

We now know that it's not only a threat to smart phones. All these regular phones that support J2ME are vulnerable and can become a major target.

Shizuka Arakawa

I was a little nervous today, but there was not any major mistake tonight. It was ok.

Silvan Shalom

I think there was a very major breakthrough today in the relations between us and Pakistan,

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

David Shulman

Our logo is located in the same place as one of our minor competitors,

Ian Snell

I think it's time for me to get a major-league job. I really don't know what else I have to prove in the minor leagues. I've won at every level. I've done everything I can do.

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Josh Byrnes

He's done everything there is to do in the Minor Leagues. Right now, there's just no spot for him in the big leagues.

Vincent Alfano

We've been very busy. They're (police officers) running around. We're very short-staffed with people tied up with mostly minor incidents.

Robert Rose

Occasionally we have problems, but usually it is a minor incident, nothing like this,

Bob McDonnell

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

Adam Smith

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

John Cohen

Outstanding. He threw 98 pitches and 96 of them were fastballs.

Woody Williams

Other than two pitches, most of them were pretty much pitches I threw where I wanted to throw,

Scott Dunn

That was just one of those situations where you have to really buckle down and make quality pitches to get out of the jam.

Chris Carpenter

I think that I wasn't going to throw many pitches today,

Willie Randolph

Listen, when he pitches if I don't see what I like to see I'm not going to be totally patient. You go by your track record.

Shawn Chacon

I still made pitches when I had to.

John Shelby

I struggled a lot early. The more pitches you see, the better you're going to get.

Bob Brenly

I think he's got a wide enough variety of pitches that familiarity won't be a problem.

Mike Lowell

I think he's going to see better pitches in the American League.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

James Johnson

I think they've done as much as they've been able to do. It takes a break, some remark.

Mike Parker

That's the sixth-best in the United States. She's getting to be where she wants to be. Forty-seven takes her to her new goals.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

Jenny Lewis

I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

David Burroughs

If it takes one day, three days, 365 days, that it will have to be.

Ricky Woods

I think they may be the most talented team we've ever played.

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Joe Girardi

He's a talented young man. You know what, he's going to make some mistakes.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Carl Taylor

He's a very talented young man. He is really the only one that does that (voice call) especially at his age.

Jeremy Mincey

He's a very talented guy. He would have been unstoppable.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Tom Streicher

SWAT negotiators talked to him about an hour,

Haim Saban

Me? I don't know what you're talking about.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I can't imagine why you're so interested." He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?" "It's not very deep. Trust me, we'll clear it." "Looks deep to me. This is a Neon we're talking about, not a Hummer.

Otis Smith

We've talked with them, but we've talked to a lot of teams. I still like the team that we've assembled, but we just haven't been able to see it together because of injuries. So we're having to look at some different things. You can't just be stagnant. Like they say, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

Charley Casserly

We've talked to teams about the pick, and we're willing to move.

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Robert Philips

We've talked to him about opportunities within our cluster. It's really in Steve's court.

Ethan Dschaak

I think this (setback) will make us a tougher team.

Ryan Herrs

I think having Tommy back makes us a much tougher team.

Sergei Udaltsov

The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.

Billy Mayfair

Nah. It's tougher to travel with. Besides, they're dorky.

Amelie Mauresmo

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.

Ashley Lewie

It will make us better. We all want to get better, and it makes us work at a tougher level.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I don't know if there's a tougher place to play.

Brent Norberg

We did a lot defensively. We made them take some tougher shots.

Daniel Gibson

We want an up-tempo game. When we go out and we're the aggressor, we're tougher to handle.