Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Papa

We have a special group of athletes on our team this year with a strong nucleus of athletes that compete to the best of their abilities every single meet.

Scott Jackson

Whenever you have people in the community knowing that all the professional athletes are interested in the community and not just here part-time, that they care, I think it helps. And I think it helps that the Devil Rays are here for Spring Training and the regular season.

Scott Cowen

We want our athletes to carry the torch, face, and name of Tulane University during this difficult time.

Aaron Sorkin

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

Alan Thompson

We have picked a team of athletes who we believe will benefit from this type of intense competition in the lead-up to the 2007 FINA world championships and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Frank Uryasz

We've seen significant improvements regarding drug use in sport, and we're very pleased with how far we've come in this area. The studies show us that most athletes do not use drugs.

Ron Brant

There are a lot of countries flying in just to watch that meet. It'll be a first big step to it. You're going to put athletes together from different countries. Then you're going to be able to compare differently designed routines. Then you're going to see judges from different countries sit down together and compare.

Tanja Poutiainen

When I crossed the finish line, my first though was I got a medal. That is a huge thing for any athlete -- and it is for sure historical for the Finnish alpine team.

Scott Fujita

It's important for closet gay athletes everywhere, not just at the professional level, but more importantly athletes at the younger level in high school and college, to understand they do have support around them and that they can come out and feel comfortable. And honestly, that is going to help save lives.

Pedrito Estrill

We have never received this magnitude of funding for physical education or for athletics overall. It was a sacrifice, but it was a sacrifice in my opinion that worked very well because of all the things we gained by calling this wildcat strike.

Dave Anderson

The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.

David Roach

We strive to do what is best for our student-athletes so they can succeed in the classroom and on the playing field. Athletics done the right way can mean so much to a university, like it has here at Colgate for many, many years.

Peter Likins

We (have) a sense of concern that the rate of growth especially in revenues and expenses in Division I-A is not sustainable, and it's growing three times as fast as university expenditures as a whole, ... Athletics requires a special level of attention.

Bruce Buck

(Worthy) is an athlete. We just have to find a place for him on the field.

Jeff Hanni

We would still have athletics at Manual. We would still have basketball at every school.

John Thompson

What he did was the right thing for him. Unfortunately, it has a negative influence on a lot of other people. Going into professional sports and making the money he's made does not close the option for him to still get a formal education. It does close the option for a kid that does not make it. If I'm some kid from the inner-city who has used athletics to motivate myself and I miss, I have no more options.

Bill Rodgers

With with these points in mind go forth, enjoy Mother Nature, and celebrate your return to what you're supposed to do, live as an athlete.

Charles Brooks

She can drive you crazy with that desire to be a perfect athlete.

Carlos Ghosn

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

Ben Howland

We want to recruit the very best players in the country. That's why we're here right now: We have great players.

Anne McLellan

We want to reassure the president and the people of the United States that we are their best friends and their neighbour, and we will be there to help them in a situation that truly is without parallel in our country or theirs,

Jerry Colangelo

We want to quicken the game. We think these changes are the best way of doing it.

Ritchie McKay

We want to put our best players on the floor at any given time. Some teams happen to be guard-oriented like us.

Juergen Klinsmann

We want to push that back. It would be best for us to work with a large group of players for longer. Hopefully, we'll have time until shortly before the tournament.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide the best possible entertainment for our fans and that means creating a winning team and maximizing their chances of success.

Sam Cowart

We have to get to the point where we find out what we do best and execute it to a 'T,'

Parry Aftab

We have to get our kids to utilize the best Internet filter, and that's the one inside their heads.

Carlos Queiroz

Messi could be the best player in the world - if he was human.

Carlos Moya

I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world.

Carlos Beltran

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

Carlos Gonzalez

We have a lot of young players and some veteran players who make you feel good and give you a lot of tips. They always want to make sure you're ready to play.

Carlos Castaneda

Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.

Justin Vincent

We have so many players from New Orleans. It's always in the back of our minds.

Alan Shearer

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

Alan Shearer

For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak.

Alan Shearer

One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.

Erin Sullivan

We want to score early. And score often.

Kevin Pietersen

We set our target to score about 400 in the first innings. We're about 240 short after the first day.

Brett Hull

You have to know how to score.

Lee Kuan Yew

I would not score very highly on religious value.

Bill Watterson

The score is still Q to 12!

Ned Yost

We had battled back for him and got him in a situation where the score was tied,

Christopher Young

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

Alain Vigneault

Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.

Josh Beckett

Right now it's going to come down to whoever scores more runs, because the starters aren't going to be out there as long,

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Steve Lee

We put up some tremendous numbers, but we just couldn't get it done.

Steve Coppell

We had a tremendous year. It's been dreamlike in many ways.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Larry Coker

We need to find out about ourselves. We're going to get a tremendous test.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.