Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ferrell

We want to provide the kids with an opportunity to play against the state's best. It gives the kids a chance to get better and it gives them a chance to get seen by some of the college coaches.

Angelo Forte

We want to prepare our team mentally and physically against the best teams in Ohio. This is an important week. The Stellar gives us the opportunity to play some top teams.

Joe Sakic

We want to play well against Vancouver. We want to make sure we try and get a good win and have a good game there. We'll see how it plays out.

Jeff House

We have to have all five players on the court and be aware of where she is. She can get shots in a variety of ways, and everybody has to be aware of her presence. The biggest thing we need to do against her is get to her before she has the basketball. If you prevent her from getting the basketball you can get under her skin and limit her production.

Jon Jansen

We have to go out and prove we can do it against teams that we should have success against. We need to prove that we're a good team, and we haven't done that yet.

Tom Peterson

We have to go on the road against No. 2 (Cal Irvine) but first is tomorrow night. We have to make sure we're playing better each night. That's who will come out on top, who's playing better at the end.

Scott Johnson

We have to go back on to that drawing board and come up with something different next weekend against France.

Andy Nieto

We have to get those guys to go out with the same type of confidence they had against Cal.

Matt Cavanaugh

We have to get the turnovers under control. But it is more than just Tyler -- our receivers have to work back to some balls, our line has to protect a little better. But if we can cut down on turnovers against Nebraska we will have a chance. There are a lot of nuances about the college game that I have to learn as well. It's only two games so it is too early to press the panic button just yet.

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.

Gloria Estefan

We want it to be clarified to us why this family, who has been guarding this boy, is being compelled to betray his trust and hand him over on a silver platter.

Charles Spurgeon

The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness.

Pat Quinn

The eyeball itself is fine. There's damage to the surrounding areas, but they weren't able to report if there is serious damage. I don't know what the time frame is for him to play again. I would bet there is significant swelling.

Ray Murrihy

The extraordinary sequence of bets has a look of an unholy type of alliance.

Sarah Steele

I'll shout out to James L. Brooks. 'Terms of Endearment' always makes me cry. Also, 'Stepmom' always makes me cry. I guess, you know, mothers dying. It's a safe bet that I'm going to cry.

Mark Kelley

The popularity of BET especially with the minority community probably had an effect on mainstream networks. Not only did you see them focus on sitcoms with black characters, but you would also see shows that had an all-black cast.

David Sedaris

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

David McCullough

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.

David Rakoff

I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.

Catherynne M. Valente

Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.

Allama Iqbal

Since love first made the breast an instrumentOf fierce lamenting, by its flame my heartWas molten to a mirror, like a roseI pluck my breast apart, that I may hangThis mirror in your sightGaze you therein.

Jack Ma

Four years ago, we were naive; there was fierce fighting, ... Now all of us are survivors. We are more calm-minded.

Bianca Kajlich

Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.

Rebecca Ferguson

I think being a mum gives you extra qualities. I'm more feisty, fiercely protective and less selfish. The main trait I want to instill in my kids is kindness. I think it's the most important thing. If you're kind, you'll go a long way.

William Shakespeare

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

Mack Brown

He's a fierce competitor, but he's a little shy.

Bible Bible

He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

Wayne Rooney

He is a fierce man because he's got that great passion to win.

Carlos Ghosn

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

Carlos Ghosn

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

The Eagles

We want to put it on the defense's shoulders. More than anything we want to score on defense. We weren't able to do that, but we held on long enough so those guys could pick it up. They got in their rhythm and they did their thing.

Kevin Garnett

We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.

Jen Kirkman

We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'

Sean Payton

We have to get some of these heavy guys up to speed quick.

Michael Young

We have to get better. It comes down to every guy looking at themselves and seeing how we can get better, from veterans to rookies. There are no excuses. We have to find a way to get it done.

Brian McClennan

We have no stars in our camp. For us to win we have to have 17 guys playing well." ()

John Tortorella

We have no problems with those three guys being in the lineup this time of year.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Anupam Kher

I don't think that I will say that we are less talented in Bollywood, but our functioning is different. We cater to a different kind of audience.

Laura Thomasson

There are a lot of talented choreographers around here. I think of this as a mini-ADF.

Mark Ruffalo

Witherspoon is a blazingly intelligent and talented actress.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Joel Thompson

We're not the most talented squad. We have to outwork our opponent.

Joe Girardi

He's a talented young man. You know what, he's going to make some mistakes.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Dave Franco

I'm a tough critic on myself.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Todd Graham

This (program) was tough to turn around, but that's what I do.

Jan Karon

I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough

Scott Cross

We've got a tough draw, but what the heck. They're all tough at this point.

Bikram Choudhury

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

Demi Lovato

Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.