Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Mickelson

Let's say she's a 15-year-old boy playing in men's tournaments, in the Amateur Public Links and winning these matches, or coming within strokes of missing the cut in a PGA tournament. When I was 17 I couldn't come close to making a cut, and at the time I was doing very well in junior golf. I just can't believe any 15 year old, especially a young girl, could be doing what she's doing. I can't fathom it. It's just amazing.

Bryan Alvarez

Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what to do with him. Tank Abbott had an amateur background but made his name in UFC brawling. He never learned to work at all and was a victim of Vince Russo 's wackiness in WCW.

Don Waddell

One of our scouts said he was the best amateur goalie he had seen in the past 10 years.

Matthew Goode

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Jonathan Lipnicki

My family actually owns an MMA promotion company, so it's kind of a family deal. It's called Fight Sports Entertainment, and they throw amateur fights in California. Because of that, I've given my mom a lot of the fighters to fight in a show.

Ron Moody

My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.

Edoardo Molinari

Obviously I made the right decision. I guess I'll be an amateur for a little while longer.

Terry Jones

I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.

Greg Bear

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

Sylvester Croom

Let me tell you something. That first game, they're going to be like a deer (in headlights), no matter what you do or how you calm them down. I remember the same way myself when I played. You can talk about it all you want to, but when you run out of that gate and that crowd starts yelling, it ain't high school any more, It's a whole different deal.

Rudi Giuliani

Make yourself calmer than you feel, force yourself to pretend you're calm and you'll be able to figure out how to get out of there if you remain calm. So I kept reminding myself of that. I was in charge, I was the person they were looking to and if I lost it they all would. I would have to say to myself, 'You've got to remain calm, you've got to stay focused.'

Tracy Sutton

Magazine did a great job. For a number four seed, that was a pretty good team. I think truthfully our kids come out a little tight and trying a little too hard instead of playing and letting it happen. Once we calmed down and relaxed we started playing a little bit.

Peter Moores

Loudon looked a really good player today, very simple, calm at the crease. It was a very, very good hundred.

Robert Massey

One thing that maybe helped us at halftime was the nice, calm conversation I had with the guys about how they were playing, ... We just challenged 'em.

Warren Lovely

Monetary tightening, a strong currency and tamer U.S. demand should spell slower economic growth ahead, calming inflation fears.

Robert Crippen

My heart rate went up to 130-plus. Not John. He was nice, calm and collected.

Richard Clarke

Now then. I'm tense. Tight. Any tips from readers on how to calm the nerves during the final session?

Tasha Smith

Now she looks likes she's relaxing. When she's having fun, I'm having fun. At the meets, if she looks like she's starting to get nervous, I'm like, ?Jami, calm down.' And she's like, ?Right.' She just gets it done.

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Alexandra Paul

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Robert Osborne

When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD.

Kurt Browning

Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

Lee Bennett

Maguire answered. That was big. We just didn't make a couple of plays down the stretch. That's the way it goes.

Rick Taylor

Lynn had three crucial hits that led to runs and made a couple of defensive plays that ended Pleasant Hill rallies.

Lanny Wadkins

Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I had Fred Couples and Loren Roberts on my team at Oak Hill, as straight as Loren drives it and as good an iron player as Fred is, my thinking was, if Loren hit off the even tees, he would putt first six times on the front and eight times on the back. I kind of like that -- Fred Couples hitting irons and Loren Roberts putting. That's a helluva combination.

Charley Juris

Last year we had two or three stars ? a couple kids who dominated. This year we have an entire team of 'no stars.' It's really been a major team effort here.

Jon Tremayne

Many of these (outages) are one or two customers, and others are a couple hundred customers.

Frank Robinson

Second pitch. Line drive off the center-field fence. Missed hitting a home run by a couple of feet. Double.

Hugh Fountain

Last year, we were playing for a region championship. This time we're fighting for our region life.

Stuart Symington

Many were hurting because they have been fighting the flood for so long.

Jim Jacobs

Mike is only 19 years old. Look up the ring records of Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano and see who they were fighting after 10 months. You won't recognize any of the names.

Sandy Hoddinott

Obviously we were hoping to win the 4x800 relay, but three of the four girls were fighting illnesses all week.

Randy Robitaille

No one is going to tell us we're done so we're going to try and keep fighting and try and get as many wins as we can. It's not as much about the wins and losses right now. It's about getting our game to where we want it to be.

Maurice Freeman

No one can say we ever gave up. We fought hard the whole game. If we keep fighting like that, we could be something special, too.

Mariela Carrion

My husband, he was out in Iraq fighting for his country, and he comes back and he gets shot down like an animal.

Sara Schopper

My girls really wanted it. That's why they kept fighting and fighting.

Rod Barajas

Whenever you play teams fighting for the playoffs, good quality teams, you want to try to win series, and we were able to do that here,

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Kristy Curry

Let's not make a mess of this. It started with our seniors today, for whatever reason. They didn't handle the situation. We will be better from today, I promise you that. The film clips are already being clipped.

Digger Phelps

Let's get serious. Glen Davis, he's so tough in the paint. They can't handle him.

Bruce Carter

Obviously we don't have a Superdome. We have to take a look at what we have in our county. We can handle hundreds or thousands, but not tens of thousands.

Troy Powell

One thing we did well was we handled their full-court press. They've got a lot of quickness, and they press the whole game.

Derian Hatcher

My abs are sore. They speed around, and they handle the puck, too. It's really tough to handle the puck when you're moving.

Peter Bondra

Maybe the pressure was too much for us, and we couldn't handle it.

Rafael Palmeiro

Maybe it wasn't the right thing to do. I've never been in a situation where I'm getting booed so badly, and I just really don't know how to handle it.

Ben Roethlisberger

Obviously, Tommy can handle this team, ... but I'm going to make sure that I'm out there.

Stew Morrill

Obviously, Nevada speaks for itself, a Top 25 team. They handled us pretty well in Logan. We played well the last time we were here. We've played pretty well in this building.

Italo Calvino

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Steve Osburn

Mr. Rader does not see himself as a monster, ... He sees himself as a human being with a monster inside of him.

Lloyd Carr

Max put himself right in the middle of our running back situation.

Granth Sahib

My Lord and Master Himself has saved me completely; I am comforted by meditating on the Lord.

David Overstreet

I can tell him that if he messes up on a play, he can't hold it; he can't think about it. Being a DB, you have to have a short memory because the next play you may come in and get an interception or something. He can't hold that stuff to himself because if he does, it's going to have a snowball effect.

Tony Kelly

getting himself in some trouble! He was gangster!

Lance Reynolds

If a guy's a stud, then he's a stud when he comes home, provided he has enough time to get himself back in shape.

Martha Miles

I was so proud when I saw that. I thought, 'That's how it should be.' That kid the rest of his life will kick himself because he didn't make it.

Spanish Proverb

Like a parakeet, that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says

Sam Wyche

Lucky enough that Mike Mularkey was in a position to make a pity hire, and I think everyone knows that's what it is, and he put me back in here.

Blaise Pascal

Love has its reasons that Reason knows not

Howard Davidowitz

Sears is a shaken-up company, and who knows when it will recover, ... are wonderful.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Gilad knows very well that the whole thing was unilateral. We had to pick up the pieces after they left without them even telling us when they were going to leave.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Gilad knows very well that the whole thing was unilateral, ... We had to pick up the pieces after they left without them even telling us when they were going to leave.

Darren Dopp

Mr. Weld knows less about solving strikes than he does about running trade schools.

Gerhard Kocher

Medicine knows no limits, expecially not its own.

Tim Carroll

One of the things I realized about doing this show with Keith is he knows as much about music as I do.

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.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Martin Parr

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

John M. Smith

I got very hammered, threw up and passed out. After that I drank, but not very often.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

George Pataki

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

T.I.

My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

Jim Calhoun

We did what we could with the schedule put before us. We passed every test.

will.i.am

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

Emanuel Steward

We get into the ring and we say, 'Welcome to big time boxing,'

Richard Grimes

Standing in the ring awaiting the first round to start is not the time to think; I wish I'd trained for this. 

David M. Shoup

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

Bon Bean

We're going all the way. It's a done deal. Put 'Gladiators' on the rings and set up the parade.

Crystal Robinson

Man, that championship ring is what we play for,

Steve Stirling

He's a real steady presence, on and off the ice. He has two championship rings and that's impressive.

Alan Faneca

They got the rings and we went home.

Candice Hansen

So we have more than enough to keep the E ring from disappearing.