Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian McCloskey

We knew they were quick and knew they'd present a problem for us. It was a game of ebb and flow. I told my players afterward that if you want to dethrone a champion in their own building, they go down hard." ()

David Sedaris

Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.

David Millar

I've been proud to be national champion.

Rafael Benitez

The positive things from Wednesday are that we have one more Champions League point, and we were better than Chelsea,

Kevin Colbert

We're not going to sign everyone. We may have to move on without some of the players who helped us win a championship. That's the way the game is today.

Arnold Palmer

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.

Denis Waitley

Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.

Earl Browder

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

Drayton McLane

We've very, very excited about Preston Wilson. He wants to be with a champion, and we are still committed to being that champion. We want to go back to that World Series. Preston is a great defensive player with speed, and last year he had 90 RBIs. This is exactly what we're looking for.

David Poile

We know what kind of a person and competitor he is. He will do everything in his power to get back on the ice.

Alan Thompson

We know what a tough competitor Linda is and we have seen what Libby can do at the world championships.

Calvin Baisley

When he had to be good, he was good. He got better as the game went on. He's a great competitor - that's his No. 1 trait.

Fred Hassan

We remain determined to become a high-performance competitor for the long term -- and over the past several quarters we have made steady progress toward that goal.

John Schwan

Webster is always a fierce competitor and they're playing at home.

Ron Frascht

She wanted to come out and run (in the race). That just shows what a competitor she is.

E. Hicks

She's just keeping her fingers crossed. She's a competitor and sitting out is not something she wants to do.

Don Carty

Since then, we have vastly strengthened our overall domestic and international route network and have entered into alliances with a number of carriers, all of which will make us a much more vigorous competitor in the west.

Denise Ainsworth

Situations like that are when Lauren is in her domain. She's such a competitor and she refuses to get rattled. You can't teach that kind of composure.

Charles Sturt

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.

Alan Watts

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Byron Katie

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without condition.

Liza Minnelli

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.

David Hilbert

Begin with the simplest examples.

Dick Costolo

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

Benjamin Franklin

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

Mario Cuomo

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Alan Perlis

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

David Kay

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.

David Deutsch

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

David Deutsch

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

Sandy Williams

We started participating in the program in 2004. We started with six students at the Rockledge hospital, and now we have 12 there and two in Melbourne.

Nathan Myhrvold

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

Derek Bok

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

Arthur C. Clarke

God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.

Josh Matthews

We've been able to turn the program around and we're an (Jayhawk East) power. That's just because of the support that we've received.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Edward Witten

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

Lex Turner

(The nuns) were probably harder. Everything was more strict then, regardless of what you're talking about.