Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Edwards

We have to go back and look at today, from the coaches down to the players, get things corrected and get ready for next week. It's one game. You hate to lose a game, but at some point, if you lose it, you lose it. What we have to do is get our confidence back.

Mike Gundy

We have to find out what he can do if we give him lots of reps, ... That's where we as coaches have to make decisions and we go with them and go full speed ahead.

Will Allen

We have some depth in the secondary and the coaches preach to the backups to prepare like starters and I think you can see that on the field. When all of the guys, from the veterans to the rookies, are playing hard, it makes us a very difficult team to beat.

Kip Drown

Whenever there's a coaching change, players always have a little apprehension about it. Lauren might have given me a little more credibility at first. But they are all my kids now.

Joe Jamail

When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

Ekene Ibekwe

We wanted to win for coach on the home court. It was a long time coming for him.

H. Hunt

We've shared it with coaches at this point ... some of it is still negotiable. I think it's a misconception that it's set in stone and we're going with it. I was on the phone all day (Tuesday) with maneuvers that may happen.

Danny Corcoran

We have six people who are trying to get into that relay and, if the girls don't toe the line, I am sure the coaches will have something to say. They want a cohesive team out there on the track.

Wesley Duke

When I walked into the party, Coach Shanahan said, 'Congratulations. We're happy to have you.' ... That really made it official to me.

Aaron Staton

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

Aaron Tveit

After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.

Alan Shepard

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

Charlie Daniels

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

Charles Stanley

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

Richard Mills

The fact that so many more students now want to go to college shows our young people realize the need for higher standards and achievement,

David Elkind

We have so many good colleges. If you're honest, it's not the education they get as much as the connections, the people they meet. And that's where a lot of it's at.

Mike McKenzie

We have six kids that played for us last year but aren't back. We have some kids, we just don't have enough kids with college experience.

Anne Robinson

There are a lot of different ways individuals can earn college credit and get their degrees these days? It's probably one of the better kept secrets.

Joe Gibbs

We have a smart football team, and they understand,

Mike Tice

When you're trying to win a playoff-caliber football game, you need to have all three parts play at that level. Not only the level of play-making ability, but also the level of poise and the level of intelligence or smartness.

Mike Shula

We want guys here we've got guys here who want to have people looking at them and wondering what our football team is about.

Alan Sillitoe

I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.

Alan Sugar

I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.

Alan Sugar

There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.

Alan Shearer

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.

Alan Shearer

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

Alan Shearer

I have never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never in football.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

Rhonda Smith

We have probably two or three spots open right now. That is mostly with the outfield because the infield is pretty well set. The outfield is pretty much up for grabs so it'll be whoever works the hardest and we feel wants it the most.

Thomas Jane

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

David Allan Coe

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

Edmund Spenser

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

Nate Skaar

We're still in it, and we feel like we still can win it. We need to have a better day (today). It is a one-day season right now, and the team which comes out and wrestles the hardest wins.

Anne Paulk

Leaving homosexuality was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Gene Collins

Sharon Wilson is one of the hardest workers in Ector County. It's a shame what has happened.

Kelly Anderson

She's probably improved the most. She's also probably our hardest worker. I thought that made her a lot better.

Carlos Mencia

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

C. S. Lewis

Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Agnes Repplier

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Aaron Tveit

Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

Charlotte Bronte

I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too." "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.

Charles de Lint

But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

Charles de Lint

Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.

Charles Dickens

I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

Charles Caleb Colton

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. The reason perhaps is this: when we find others that agree with us, we seldom trouble ourselves to confirm that agreement; but when we chance on those who differ from us, we are zealous both to convince and to convert them. Our pride is hurt by the failure, and disappointed pride engenders hatred.

Carole Bouquet

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Carol Leifer

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Carol Moseley Braun

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Carlos Ghosn

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

Carlos Ghosn

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

C. S. Lewis

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

Shannon Miller

We have to get jobs to support ourselves. We can't sit around for six months like it's vacation.

Dan Webster

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Agnes Macphail

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Carol Shields

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again...

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Eugene Doro

When you see a team like that, you can learn by just watching them play.

Richard Smith

We want it to be a learning experience. It's an opportunity to review the plans you developed. Doing a plan is first in the process.

Agnes Repplier

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Drake Reed

We have had a lot of tough lessons on the road this year. It's time to start learning from them.

Jeff Francis

When I executed my pitches I had success, ... I can learn a lot from that.

Carl Bernstein

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Shamalene Broner

We have a solid defense. There's really no weak line out there. If they make a mistake it's mental, not physical.

Bob Watters

What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

Jim Sheridan

We were always walking the line between reality and fiction.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Brian Eno

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

Leroy Hill

We know he has a big job. He's got to get the calls, give them to us and line us up. But we still like to mess with him. Like, after awhile, we get tired and we don't want to huddle anymore. He'll get mad and start fussing at everybody.

Dave Barry

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Eric Van Lustbader

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

Johnny Thomas

We have to find two offensive lineman to replace those guys. That's a priority.

Luke Babbitt

When your shots don't fall, you just have to go get offensive rebounds and keep working hard.

Benjamin Tucker

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

Clara Kassel

We've been able to run some offensive plays already.

Bryan McCabe

We know we've got the offensive here. The problem is our play defensively. We get away from it sometimes.

Edward Snowden

The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences.

Cameron Smith

Give big props to the offensive line. I know without them and the rest of the team, I couldn't do it. They spring me open. They're a big part of my success.

Jabari Levey

I feel like I could be a first day pick. This is going to be a big year for offensive linemen.

Mike McCurry

The president thinks it's time for an offensive in the war on drugs and not a time for surrender." ()

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Kami Roeder

We've seen them play, played them twice, and we know what they're all about.

Tim Finchem

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.

Erik King

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

Edmond H. Fischer

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Ed Speleers

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

Lesley Nicol

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

Jamie Hyneman

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

Camille Paglia

My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

Pat Fitterer

When they were sophomores they were pushing the seniors.

Clyde Edgerton

It's nice to have more than one little one because then you'll have - while one is pushing you in a wheelchair, the other one can open the doors for you.

Jim Hamilton

We are young, and we have some new seniors. I worry about pushing them too soon, but I will push them every week.

Nicole Perrot

Winning is always great, I'm ready for it to happen, but I'm not pushing it,

Adam Schoenfeld

When we start pushing our next-generation voice services out, it's going to be a whole new ballgame,

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Scott Mills

The extemporaneous thinking is important. It is a really important skill in life.

Brian Eno

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Jasmine Cresswell

dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Charlotte Bunch

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Bruno Walter

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Alain Resnais

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Bela Lugosi

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Bruce Lee

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

Homaro Cantu

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

W. H. Auden

Sincerity is technique.

Robert Morgan

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Cecilia Bartoli

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

Bill Bruford

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.