Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Kaline

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

Al McGuire

Live in the moment that you are in.

Al McGuire

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

Al McGuire

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

Al McGuire

Can't win without talent, you know.

Al McGuire

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

Al McGuire

You better have great practices.

Al McGuire

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

Al McGuire

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

Lucy Lawless

I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your reflexes pick up, and I've become quite good - if somebody throws keys or something, I can catch them.

Brian Schneider

We've actually talked about that a little bit. That's part of the reason I wanted to start catching him. Any time you catch somebody and you're more familiar with him, it helps, especially with as big as these games are going to be.

Wendy Rosenbach

We usually have to catch someone in the act. But it's always a good idea to dispose of it properly, and depending on the rate of decay, our wildlife people may want to examine the remains.

David Nicholson

We're in a growth mode, and we're trying to catch up,

Davis III

When you've got a day like today when the scoring is good, you have to shoot a good score and not put yourself behind. It's not a good course to catch up on, because it's going to get harder and harder every day. It's nice to get off to a good start.

Nolan Sotillo

I watch a lot of Disney. I want to catch 'Hannah Montana Forever.'

Kaylyn Bayly

We have some catching up to do. But we'll be okay.

Willie Smith

We want him to catch everything in front of us. We don't want him to catch any long passes. If we can keep him over the middle, we have good linebackers that can make him pay.

Dwight Taylor

We were trying to catch up and went for more scoring.

Charles Dickens

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Charles Caleb Colton

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

Alain Prost

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

Al Neuharth

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

Jay Wright

We want to shoot 3s. We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Jay Wright

We want to shoot 3s, ... We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Chogyam Trungpa

Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.

David Storey

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge

Carter G. Woodson

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

Lisa Therrell

We are processing the overnight permit applications right now, and I haven't counted how many applications but it looks like we've got a thousand.

Curt Schilling

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

John Czwartacki

We're not saying don't fill it out. If that is their personal desire to fill out only some questions, its better to do that than not get counted at all.

Bobby Butler

I was sweating it out when they counted off this morning,

Johnny Weir

I've always had a loud mouth, and for that I've gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in some big competitions in my career, but being counted out and not being seen as a threat is something I'm used to.

Libba Bray

I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Kim Cattrall

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

Karen Maitland

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.

Joe Tiller

But we didn't do it. On the drive that counted the most.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

C. P. Scott

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

Alan Jackson

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

David Giuntoli

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

David Guterson

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Luke Bracey

'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.

Lucas Till

We all grew up with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

Nnedi Okorafor

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

Elizabeth Moon

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

Lennon Parham

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.

Jonathan Vilma

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

Jeff Lowell

The point of the sport is to try to peak at the end of the season, and our guys did that today.

Kelly Green

We are always playing for something. We told our guys that we need to get better and that's what we did.

Jon Clark

We started out with a lot of expectations and we didn't meet some of those. The guys will always remember the last stand and will be proud of it.

Jason Treutelaar

We struggled to score and that has been the issue for this team the whole season. We need guys to step up and knock down shots. When we get good, open looks, we need to make the shots, and we're not doing that right now.

Lute Olson

There are some guys you have to kick in the butt to get the response you want. There are some you need to pat on the back. He's one you need to pat on the back.

Joe Becerra

There are some guys here who could play in the NBA.

Edward Atorino

There are some deep-pocketed guys who want to own newspapers.

Gary Player

When you've got two guys 1-up with two to play, you automatically think, 'we've got it', especially after they'd battled their hearts out to get back in those matches.

Brian Dawkins

We stopped the run, we stopped the pass, we kept people out of the end zone, ... but yet we still get looked down upon.

Bobby Bowden

When you've got a young inexperienced quarterback, the first thing you think of is 'Son don't lose the game,' ... He didn't lose the game. He kept us from losing.

Hugh Fountain

We actually got after it better. We played harder. It's a tribute to the kids. They've kept plugging away. It was important for them to see some results come out of the work.

Paul Friel

We were told we would be kept up on the time. If we don't have a scoreboard, we shouldn't play at that field.

Christine Baranski

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

H. Hunt

We knew what we had to do and we just kept going after them. I think we really wore them down and later on we were picking up big yards on runs.

Carmelo Anthony

We knew they were going to make a run, we weren't going to be able to keep a (big) lead on them. They made a run, they made a big run in the third, but we kept our composure.

E. O. Wilson

We knew they were going to make a run. We knew they were going to get hot, but we kept our composure.

Mike Myers

Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Daniel Goldstein

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Drew Rosenhaus

We had a productive meeting. We talked about things important to us, and they talked about things important to them.

Stanley Hauerwas

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

Nick Saban

He has been one of our most productive players.

Peter Wallace

You can be productive while you are doing that. Time is money.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Daron Schoenrock

All of those were shots. He shortened his swing a little bit. He has been a little long. He's got enough strength where a short swing like that can be productive for him.

Ayn Rand

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Doug Tygar

We probably don't want to be relying on passwords as we do.

Mary Chapman

They are relying too much on first impressions

Michael Young

I just want to be a little more consistent. I've been relying a lot on instincts.