Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Foley

Part of the conversations with (Miami athletic director) Paul Dee is they are about to put $120 million in renovations in the Orange Bowl. If they do that, it's not a concern. The contract has an out, if that work doesn't get done. Then we would play it in Dolphins Stadium.

Rich Johnson

Our main goals this year are to return to the NCAA Championship and successfully defend our University Athletic Association Championship title.

David Stern

Our minor league has a proven track record of developing talent both on and off the court, with more than 100 players, coaches, referees, athletic trainers and front-office personnel moving to NBA teams or the league office, and we look for that trend to continue.

Jay Jacobs

Our mission statement is to ensure Auburn has the pre-eminent athletics department in the nation. And we're going to get there by following our two cardinal rules: Always tell the truth, and always treat others as you'd like to be treated. If we can do that, we'll succeed.

Diane Smith

Sports Illustrated looks for models with the perfect combination of beauty, athleticism and personality for the swimsuit issue. Michelle perfectly embodies what the issue has always been about.

Sebastian Coe

Sport is a bridgehead into any number of things we want. It's not going to be enough to sit there in 2012 saying we didn't get any medals but got lots of social outcomes. I hope in light of what comes out of here UK Athletics will make some tough judgments.

Vince Dooley

Stanfill put him on his tail four or five times, ... Steve was a great athlete, confident and cocky, but we put tremendous pressure on him. That was the best way I knew to stop the quarterback.

John Scott

Our second semester transfer signings went well - we offered five and got the five we wanted. They are a good fit for us, they are workers - we also needed the maturity that these veterans bring to the program. Our freshman class is rounding out to be a very versatile group. We have a good combination of athletic kids who move well and skill kids who will bring athleticism and speed to the program.

Gerell Robinson

Our team is very athletic and fast. That helps and they give me a lot of choices. But I didn't expect to be here this year.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Jay Oxley

Our league will be tough. Telluride has been tearing it up down south.

Rodney Selph

Our league is so tough and we don't have a lot of nights where we could do this. It was a nice team effort.

Tony DiCecco

Our league is legit. You have to respect everybody.

Willie Randolph

Our pitching is like everyone else's in the league - very uncertain.

Doug Johnson

Our schedule hasn't been very good, and that's something I think the league has to look at and try to fix,

M. Wolfe

We noticed it, obviously. It opens up an NCAA berth for another league team.

Bill Shankly

When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.

Bert Blyleven

I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don't want to be gone and have all the old guys - Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton - still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.

Arsene Wenger

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season.

Pete Foley

That was the most phenomenal swim of the meet.

Chad Spalding

Having two triples in one inning is something that is unheard of in my time with the team. Tyler just had a phenomenal game.

Dirk Nowitzki

He's been playing phenomenal since the All-Star break. His turnaround (jumper) is money.

Ernie Kent

He's had two back-to-back phenomenal games, to score like that and with no turnovers. I thought he was great.

Gary Player

If it did end up in a tie, it has been phenomenal golf. It could happen. If it did, so be it.

Scott Skiles

He was on. When he's on like that, he can shoot over people. His threes were dialed in. It was a phenomenal display.

Tom Crean

He's phenomenal at the end of the game.

Cynthia Stevenson

I loved doing 'Dead Like Me.' That role was phenomenal to me.

Dan Scanlon

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

Jim Smith

Reece is one of those players that when he's on the floor, something's going to happen. It may be good, it may be bad. But it's going to happen.

Greg Marshall

Our players were as embarrassed as I was.

Sherri Coale

Our players have such tremendous respect for Marsha. I wanted them to be a part of treating her the way she has always treated us.

Steve Spurrier

Our players have remained relaxed when on the verge of winning,

George Steinbrenner

Sure, there will be some more back out, whether it's our players or somebody else's. I'm used to spring training being to concentrate on the World Series, and that's what we like to see our players do. But we don't tell them not to play.

Ben Gordon

Some of the players just brain-locked out there.

Mary Pinkowski

Some of our players were nervous. We got off to a slow start. It was frustrating.

Phil Jackson

Some of our players didn't look ready to play.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Some of the younger players do need protecting as they are new at this level. That is why I do not play them all the time as they need to be bedded in slowly.

Carrie Underwood

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

Aimee Mullins

Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.

Aimee Mullins

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Billie Jean King

No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.

Chris Evert

Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in the one area - that's what it takes to be a champion.

Arthur Ashe

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

Michael Wolff

When the source is a story. That's a softball question.

Bruce Bochy

If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.

Dwight Howard

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.

Joe Torre

Spring Training is probably going to make up our mind,

Eric Chavez

Spring training doesn't matter. Stats don't matter. You take that time, especially the veteran guys, to get ready.

C. S. Lewis

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Carl Safina

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bernard Berenson

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Bill Vaughan

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

Chris Evans

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

Benjamin Disraeli

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

Bruce Catton

Early youth is a baffling time

Barbara Mertz

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

Alexander the Great

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

Aeschylus

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Agatha Christie

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

E. W. Howe

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Stephen Kinzer

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.