Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Barker

My Dad always liked Syracuse and we knew here that Colin (Barber) was leaving, ... We figured that this would be the best place for me. Plus, the academics are great, too.

Mark Lunsford

Obviously the academics are outstanding at Duke, and Doug is a smart young man,

Johann Jones

Growing up, it was always academics first, then basketball. If you would ask me to choose between the two, then it would be academics because I know anything can happen tomorrow. I can get injured or something and then basketball is over but I'll always have my mind.

Tom Moore

I have a high regard for the academics at Delaware, and the history of athletic success speaks for itself.

Tanya Chaplin

She's living the life that's kind of honoring her mother right now and doing that in every area that she can, from academics to gymnastics to her relationships. It's also helped this team understand and value their relationships that they have between each other and their own family members.

David Giles

I have heard of many occasions when academics rely on children to explain why a game works and then rely on their own area of specialisation to analyse the game.

Jared Mitchell

I have chosen to continue my athletic career in football and baseball as well as my academics at Louisiana State University.

George M. Whitesides

We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.

Tucker Max

You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity.

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.

Jonny Gomes

Like I always tell people, I'm a baseball player, it's what I do,

Robert Fick

Like I always say, I'm just glad to be in the lineup, playing baseball.

Paul Archey

Major League Baseball is very interested in playing games in Europe. We're investigating possibilities in Europe where we may be able to play regular-season games as early as the 2007 season.

Bud Selig

Major League Baseball is fortunate to have a man of Jimmie Lee's experience, intellect and dedication already on board to handle such a complex and important position as the chief of our baseball operations. Over the years, he has demonstrated considerable skill in working through the labyrinth of our minor league system. I have great confidence that he will be an enormous success in this key position.

Gary Wadler

Major League Baseball can't put its head in the sand and do a sound-bite press conference and say everything's going to be fine. Everything's not fine.

Mark Snyder

Major League Baseball and Holiday Inn are going to hit a home run. I just had to say that.

Mike Butters

Lets put it this way. If this was baseball, our magic number would be six.

Billy Beane

Lenny was so perfectly designed, emotionally, to play the game of baseball. He was able to instantly forget any failure and draw strength from every success. He had no concept of failure. And he had no idea of where he was.

Higinio Velez

Let's fight together so this event won't be held every four years but rather every two, so the baseball world won't have to wait so long to enjoy this.

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Scott Skiles

Luther's been great. I liked watching him in college. I think he's a great all-around player. My feeling is, wherever his career is going, he's probably going to continue to get minutes. He looks like a good pro guard to me.

Bill Conti

Making a living is not a career. It might be for an accountant, but it's not for someone who says "I want one thing." The guy who feels that his career hasn't happened yet. The guy who has that kind of hunger, who wants money and fame.

Derrick Brooks

Let's not be naive to the system. For the countless examples of people who have changed teams, there are countless of examples of people who haven't changed teams. Darrell Green finished his career with the Redskins and he always was one of the highest-paid cornerbacks in the league. Jackie Slater was always one of the highest-paid tackles in the league and he played his whole career with the Rams. Brett Favre got a $100-million contract a few years ago and they found a way to keep him, so it can be done. Is it important to me? Yes. Is it in my hands? No.

Ian Millward

Liam can reflect on his career with great satisfaction,

James Roday

Leonardo Dicaprio didn't change his name, Emilio Estevez didn't change his name. But every case is different. I only have one reference of what my career was and I was very, very blessed and very, very lucky, and it got started very quickly after college. And I only know that by going with Roday.

Richard Bolles

Many people take career tests with the hope that someone can definitely tell them who they are and what they should do. No test can do that. I recommend that people use the results of their career interest tests to stimulate their own ideas about possible occupations.

Mabel Illidge

Many students see the importance of the minor, and even a major in Spanish for personal pleasure, for interest in new careers and for enhancement of their own careers.

Royce Chadwick

Senior Day is unique. It's always tough for a lot of reasons. It's hard for them to know that it's their last to play at home. The reality of the season starts to sink in. There are no more games left. But some of them come out and have career performances. I just hope we're ready.

Freddy Shepherd

Scott has been our main target for a while and we are delighted that he has chosen to join us,

Anthony Cordesman

Serving soldiers develop a tremendous sense of obligation to their comrades, and are trained to see the mission through. They know the military and the risk, and they have already chosen to serve their country.

R. Robinson

Maury County has chosen to maintain its unit schools and smaller schools. As a result, it's impossible and not really practical to have the same identical courses at all schools.

Pedro Almodovar

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

Nicholas Burns

One would have hoped that he (Ahmadinejad) might have chosen a speech with more humility, a speech with a greater inclination to compromise. He was quite defiant ... That did not leave a lot of room for compromise, for diplomacy.

Elbert Hubbard

One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.

Richard McGuire

Gilts rallied, as the BOE minutes had something for everyone. The market may have chosen to focus on the softness of growth.

Samuel Johnson

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.

Bill Graham

If an election has to happen, our executive of our party have told me they're in a position to have an emergency leader chosen and they can do that. So, I'm not worried about that.

Isabella Rossellini

I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it depends who you are working with. I will continue to make acting, too, but I'm old - I'm getting tired of it.

Kurt Andersen

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

Marcy Kaptur

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Gary Griffin

We're not being as effective as she wants us to be, ... Why would I continue to dedicate my resources to something she wants the sheriff to do?

Bill Cowher

Like anything else, it will grow with time and as we continue to go through ups and downs. I'm always there for him, and he'll always know how I feel. We have a very trusting relationship.

Austin Brooks

Like I said from day one, I'm just going to stay humble. I know that hard work pays off. It's just one of those things where I feel like hard work did pay off, but I'm still going to continue to work hard. I'm just going to continue to do the things I do, on the court and off the court.

Rosevelt Colvin

Lucky we're in the bye week, ... because if we continue to play like that, we'd be 3-4 next week. It's ridiculous to go out there and play like that.

Angela Clark

Mac's Place was packed after the concert. That was awesome. People just wanted to continue to listen to great music.

Lionel Anderson

Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It is what we do. We play basketball.

Ricky Ray

Man, did we run the football really well. It all starts up front. They were doing a great job of controlling the line of scrimmage and Troy was doing a good job of making his reads and getting a lot of yardage.

Ricky Ray

Man, did we run the football really well, ... It all starts up front. They were doing a great job of controlling the line of scrimmage and Troy was doing a good job of making his reads and getting a lot of yardage.

Richard Seymour

Make no mistake about it. That wasn't the reason that we lost that football game.

David Wright

Last year we started off pretty horrible and this year we're off to a good start. If this was a football season we'd be sitting pretty right now, but in baseball, we have a long way to go.

Jeff King

Lee said he wants to play in the Football League and I understand that.

John Giles

Selling him to Leeds, not seeing his potential as a midfield player, was my greatest mistake in football.

Youri Djorkaeff

Mo guaranteed me some new players, and a kind of football, more offensive. He didn't guarantee me victory, but to try, it was very important to me.

Chris Connolly

Mt. Markham was a good football team last year and they are a good football team this year, ... I know they lost their big back from last year but this was a good test. Next up is Richfield and they are another good team. They played us tough last year at their place.

Joe King

Me and the team want to win the state championship. We want to go undefeated this year and show the state what Southside football is all about.

Victor Shum

Louisiana refineries can process that, but they are shut down.

Mickey Loomis

If we can uplift anyone, obviously that's worthwhile to us. We're representatives of the people of Louisiana and the people of New Orleans.

Wes Brown

Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.

Andy Kopplin

We are providing ways to keep homeowners as homeowners. You can successfully rebuild South Louisiana with the package we have proposed.

Bob Jones

We were still getting some oysters from waters in Louisiana and Texas and those may stop as soon as Rita makes landfall.

Steve Cleveland

I think you've got to look at Nevada, Utah State and Louisiana Tech immediately.

Kathleen Blanco

Rita has Louisiana in her sights and we must move,

Robert Jackson

Refugees have come up from Louisiana and have located in Quitman County, Coahoma and Tunica,

Robbie Berg

We are urging all residents from south Texas to Louisiana to keep watch.

Mallory Ortberg

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

Larry Jacobs

No one state is the same. You wouldn't want to look at that ranking and think 'Minnesotans are getting screwed' because that really isn't the case.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

David Wojciechowski

For sure he's going to play. It's a state championship game.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Wendell Byrd

When we say local, we say the state of Virginia and Maryland.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Sourav Ganguly

Only time will tell. It's not right for me to make a statement now.

David Jensen

Iwish the state would have done that, and Ithink they will in two years,