Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Grassley

When I make a decision, I'm going to be applauded or rejected by the electorate once every six years. There's an immediate response to any decision that a coach makes, and it's either the booing or applauding of those people in the audience.

Michael Young

I feel for him. He's a great friend and teammate. Knowing him, he's going to come out of it. Just relax, don't think and just cut it loose. It happens to everybody. I was telling him a few years ago we got to Mariano Rivera a couple of nights in a row and they were booing him in Yankee Stadium. It happens to the best.

Ozzie Guillen

I feel proud. It's not like I'm criticizing the people that were booing because when you go from a 15-game lead to one or two, obviously they do it. But when you win that many games and people keep criticizing and criticizing, second doubts and second guessing, it takes the fun away from the people. To me this is a release and a satisfaction.

Kobe Bryant

I don't know what to say. I'm happy to win MVP in Philadelphia. The booing was just hurtful. But it's not going to ruin this day for me.

George Foreman

I've been on the opposite side of decisions before when the crowd would be booing and saying that I lost. I've lived with it. Judging in boxing has been same since the beginning, and it isn't gonna change.

Antoine Winfield

We could have easily folded. I mean, we're 1-4, we haven't been playing well, and we're down 17-0 at home, with the crowd booing us. But guys took it to heart that we needed to make a few more plays to get back into the game.

Stuart Schweigert

Kerry is a guy who shows great character. He's a guy who's stuck in there. It's hard, because every game he plays is like an away game because he's got the crowd booing him and all that stuff. I give him a lot of credit to come in here and work hard every week like he does. Sometimes people put a lot of pressure on the quarterback, but there are other reasons why sometimes there's interceptions or the offense isn't doing so well. It's disappointing to see everyone put it on his shoulders.

Mike Browning

Here's a guy that's been great for the city, great for the team, great for the organization. He plays about as hard as anybody. You've got to think twice about booing a guy like that.

Ozzie Guillen

Brutal. I think it's really disappointing. ... The way this kid played in this town, people should tip their caps. ... I thought it was kind of embarrassing. Booing Jim Thome ? you don't boo a class act.

Sasha Carter

My grandparents, I'm sure, were nervous sitting on the couch watching. And I hear that my dad had some friends over to his house. My sister's in Winnipeg and I'm sure they were all glued to the TV and cheering and sweeping on that last shot.

Jack Roush

On the face of it, I'm cheering for them for going out and finding something with the same parts the rest of us are running and making it work better, which they did,

Andy Roddick

I guess I'm at the right place at the right time. There's no better feeling than to win with all these fans cheering you on.

Ronnie Barker

Barker was a great writer, a great actor and a great loss to us all. I think God must have needed cheering up.

Patty Schnyder

I have just two things to say, ... Rainer (Hofmann, her husband), I love you, and to the crowd, next time try cheering for me in the first set as well.

Robert Brusca

I find it just odd for all these economists and policy makers to be cheering for all this consumer spending when we're just digging ourselves into a hole. With all the obligations we have ahead, to retirees and to ourselves, we have all the reasons in the world for people to be saving more and be controlling their spending.

Mike Simons

She's very well known. She has a very big cheering crowd.

Whitney Hite

If they don't swim well in the morning, they'll be sitting next to me during the finals, cheering instead of swimming. We're going to load up our gun and go guns-a-blazing because we really do have a shot at winning.

Jim Haslett

I don't know what to expect. I would hope to have 65,000 people cheering for us. I would think if they're coming to the game, they're going to root for us, but I'm not really sure.

Jimmye Laycock

Last year, they played really tough and they've got most of those people back, including their quarterback. It should be an exciting game.

Dan Wheldon

Scott and I already were talking that we want to make a big impact next year. That's a goal. I had a lot of success this season, and I'm looking to do the same (in '06). It will be a very exciting season in general. There will be a lot of competitive cars, so we'll have to be on top of our game.

Adam Topper

Sean is going to be a very exciting runner to watch this fall.

Roma Downey

Season number seven! It's been so exciting for us. When we first began, we were like the little train that could... and we did! We're terribly excited! It will be an interesting season for us, I think.

Chauncey Billups

Maybe we're not the most exciting team, but we know what it takes to win. That's what we do.

Jim Wilson

One of our goals has always been to provide fans with an exciting race program that is run fairly and efficiently.

Alice Hamilton

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.

Brian VanGorder

Obviously this is an exciting day for myself and my staff.

Ryan Howard

When I look at us, I see a young, exciting team. And with the guys we picked up, I can't wait to get to spring training and see it all unfold.

Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Carol Thorp

Motorists might see prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Movies might take five-six years, sometimes 10 years to produce. For television, when you have an idea, you put it to a network and within a week or so they have an answer.

Tom Tremont

One owner pays seven times more than another might pay.

George Carlin

One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people

Winston Churchill

My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather,

John Shepard

Now that Andrew's over his hamstring injury, it's nice to have him,

Joe Thornton

Obviously it would have been nice to win that game, but we've got to go right back at it (tonight).

Tom Selleck

Obviously, it's one passion of mine. I mean, I don't always want to do westerns, but it's nice to always kind of have one in the works.

Steven Smith

Obviously it's nice to win, but people are in it for the exposure.

Charles Olson

Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?

Diane Lane

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

Diane Kruger

When you are in a relationship, you want the other person to appreciate the things you like. It sounds superficial, but it's nice.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Geoffrey Nice

The prosecution is completely opposed to any question of severance of the indictments.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Erwin McManus

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

Roger Cook

We need to have them playing as opposed to setting on the bench.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Jason Calacanis

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Billy Bush

Seven years together, and four-and-a-half years of marriage, and now, Mr. and Mrs. Pitt are no longer.

Derek Jeter

Moose, don't tell me you're throwing all your pitches yet, are you?

Buck Showalter

From a pitching standpoint, I'd like to see him get down there and get back on the horse, see him getting the ball. It's been unlike any year he has ever had in professional baseball. He's had to make a lot of decisions.

Ozzie Guillen

From the first day of the playoffs the pitching always has been good.

Dizzy Dean

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

Mickey Hatcher

The pitch Moyer threw had to be a foot-and-a-half off the plate.

Ben Quinby

The pitching for our team was really exceptional.

English 14th Century Proverbs

The pitcher will go to the well once too often.

Darin Erstad

Only our pitchers have been playing well. We've been scratching and clawing for runs. We'll find a way to get it done any way we can, but we've been inconsistently offensively.