Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zack Nixon

We know we are in for some tough competition. But, today we showed that if we play our ?A'-game, we can compete with anybody.

Rick LeBeau

Like athletes, you have to be completely dedicated to compete at this elite level.

Simon Maughan

Macquarie prides itself on its entrepreneurial spirit. Macquarie in effect is run as a series of competing businesses. At times the management encourages different teams to compete for the same assets. They see it as healthy.

Cindy Snead

Last year, we started seven freshmen, and this year we will probably only start two. That makes it a lot easier for us to compete because we will have maturity and experience.

Nancy Clark

Many of the people that I counsel sleep through breakfast, spend lunch money on junk -- or eat nothing. And then they try to compete and they are running on empty.

Dan Hartleb

Minnesota is always a quality club. They have very good pitching and are solid defensively. They are similar to us, but they do have a little more experience than us. Yet, I expect us to be able to compete very well with them.

Tim Corbin

Much like David, Wade was a proven player right away. He's about as competitive a guy as you will face. I haven't seen him since we played them last year, but that doesn't matter. That kid knows how to pitch, he knows how to compete and he's a winner.

Gary Tague

(McNicol) has run to compete at meets this year. He was tough tonight.

Dwight Howard

Maybe we're not mentally ready for a playoff series right now. But physically, I think we can compete with any team.

Torrie Wheat

Man, he's just magical sometimes. That first goal was unbelievable, a highlight-reel goal. Then he went to the net hard and potted two more. He's a goal scorer. He's going to do that for the rest of his career.

Heidi Martin

Making the state tournament has always been our top goal and we're just one win away from that now.

Lou Cacchio

League championship and getting back to states-that's the goal for the year.

Brent Walston

Many of her goals were with her left foot. And she's not left-footed.

Scott Goodale

Scott loves playing to the crowd. He'll be under a lot of pressure next year for sure. But he thrives on it. The goal now is three titles. He could end up the greatest wrestler in Jackson history.

Inaki Saez

Scoring the first goal is a weapon we have to use,

Lalit Panda

Setting high goals for your staff, and guiding them to think with an out-of-the-box mentality is important.

Brad Shaw

Miro Jr. probably needs a goal today, doesn't he?

David Beckham

Mine was a great goal but the important thing was the team winning,

Michael Hurst

Many POWs went home and were discouraged from talking about their time in Taiwan. Therefore, we must work harder to make sure these men are never forgotten.

Jessica Martinez

Missing them is a big deal, but I think the rest of the team, the rest of the players knew what was on the line, and everyone just stepped it up and played harder throughout the second half.

David Miliband

One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as the public and the personal - but the public and the private... it's very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public.

Angus King

One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.

Natalie Cole

One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.

Corey Woods

Obviously, it seems to me that if turnout is low, it's harder to get 50 percent plus one.

Tina Fey

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

Tyler Murovich

When I hear stuff like that it reminds to work harder and stay in the weight room.

Cassie Ventura

I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to. I went to a school where I was there on a scholarship. So I think when you're on a scholarship, you always work a tad harder, or you want to work a tad harder than the next person.

Isabella Rossellini

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Charlie Siem

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been.

Matt McGorry

I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.

Oren Peli

The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

Nathan Lane

Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him - I'm Nathan Lane?

Donald Trump

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

Chang-Rae Lee

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

Mary Wilson Little

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Marilyn Praisner

Let's stop going around and around. Let's move it.

Kit Hale

Sellers may not be able to move quite as quickly with the transaction, but prices still remain solid.

William Proxmire

Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!

Richard Rosenbaum

move on to the next stage of his life.

Chris McCarron

One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,

Tom Bradley

Obviously, we're going to have to move some personnel around and make some adjustments.

Walt Kuver

Of course, the commissioners need to be reassured that this move will be risk-free for the county.

Mikko Hypponen

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

Mystikal

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Emma Udwin

From now on, there will be no more payments through the National Palestinian Authority.

Foster Friess

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest.

Charde Houston

She has two national championships under her belt. She has to be like that.

Mark Souder

If this is a cohesive national policy, it is embarrassing,

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Steve Stirling

I thought we played well the first two periods. But when the other team took it up a notch in the third, we did not respond with smart hockey, plain and simple.

Rick Stansbury

We took it to them a little bit. We turned it up a notch defensively.

Mike Bibby

We have to take these two road wins, and take it up a notch from here.

Jeromy Burnitz

He stepped it up a notch at the end. He took it to another level.

Charles Clark

Offense has been getting praise throughout the spring. We had to turn it up a notch and come ready to play today and shut down the offense. We were kind of motivated.

Neel Mehta

It requires user interaction of some sort, which takes it down a notch from MS05-051, but it is still a serious vulnerability.

James Johnson

It's all going to be a notch up for him.

Steve Elkington

It's a notch up from what we play week in and week out, that's for sure,

Paul Giamatti

I definitely had a top-notch education.

Mark McGwire

Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past,

Robert Davies

Lycos has experienced phenomenal success during the past several months,

Alan Doss

Liberia has been the epicenter of progressive waves of instability that have swept through this region over the past 25 years,

Mike Nugent

One of the things I've been concentrating on is not worrying about the past, ... Even if it's not my past.

Chris Klein

Ocean's Twelve. Her and my relationship is a time in the past.

Bible Bible

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Landon Donovan

We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong.

Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

Diane Ravitch

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Ann Coulter

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

Alex O'Loughlin

I've always loved, as an Aussie, comedy is part of my life. My friends and I are always ribbing each other and that's how we get through the days. When it comes to cameras rolling and getting that timing right, the only way to do it and do it well is to throw yourself into it.

Ed Steadham

We're not speculating. We've got a contingency plan. We're rolling up our sleeves.

Bob Gaudio

But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.

Annie Leibovitz

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

Frank Molinaro

That was a tough loss. But no excuses. Now we just have to take this win and try to keep rolling through the Shore Conference.

Stephen Robinson

After we landed, when we were rolling out, I really thought about my pals on Columbia, ... I thought, 'We got to do this and they didn't.'

Scott Benedict

I wanted to give someone else an inning or two, but he was just rolling along.

Cameron Bennerman

This is 2006. We're just trying to keep this thing rolling while we're here.

Isabel Allende

one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Joe Frazier

He's good. I think he's still a young man. If he stays here and works with us on the basics, we'll make him better than good.

Pete Jeffries

whatever was said in the room, stays in the room.

Richard Barber

But it stays within bounds, and that's an unusual system,

George Coleman

He waves and that's about it. He stays to himself.

Hasso Plattner

Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.

Gordon Strachan

Naka is the same in that he stays on to practice. I just want him to keep doing what he does.

Alice Lowe

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Mike Brey

Let's see if we can put two together. That's the only step we can think about taking right now.

Diane Lane

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Deng Xiaoping

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Denis Diderot

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

John Roe

Getting united as a team was step one. We know we have to keep working on the skill.

Trey Johnson

Getting 'discovered' is something that made us step up our game.

Deepak Chopra

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Dave Ramsey

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Terry Kukesh

She stepped it up and got them going.

Diane Lane

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Deng Xiaoping

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Denis Diderot

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Deepak Chopra

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Dave Ramsey

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Adam Everett

She has taken as many as 12 steps before crashing.

Lisa Busch

We play as a team and someone always steps up. Tonight it was just my time, my chance, to be there for the team and do that.

Helio Castroneves

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

Ludwig von Mises

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

David Akers

I can't say we haven't talked about that,'' Reid said,

Jenn Giel

She talked more around him, responded more to him.

Davey Johnson

I don't know anything about it. Nobody's talked to me.

Pat Howard

I don't know what he's doing. We have talked to him and he is going to have a look at all his options.

Mark Ford

We never had a plan. We just walked around and talked about it, and he did it.

Mike Maroth

We got together and talked some things out.

Tony Gwynn

Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Kordell Stewart

My contributions to the team won't be worth much, not being the guy,

Shawn Williams

My hat's off to them. That team there should've been in the top 10 during the season.

Craig Patrick

Obviously, the nucleus of our team is a lot younger.

George Nessman

We had breakdowns in our zone defense. We're not a team that can play from behind.

M. Wolfe

When I got there, this was the worst team in professional football,

Chris Crutcher

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Bob Holthus

When you put up a million-dollar purse, naturally, you're going to try to win it.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.