Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Jeter

MVP, you could have picked a name out of a hat... we have a group of MVPs. You don't rely on one guy. You have to get contributions from everyone.

Conan O'Brien

Tom Brady says he wants to give the truck he was given as the Super Bowl MVP to the guy who won the Super Bowl for the Patriots. So Brady's giving his truck toSeahawks coach Pete Carroll.

Mark Grace

I just hope Sammy (Sosa) gets the attention he deserves. Not only has he hit sixty-two homers, but he has carried us. He is without doubt the MVP of the National League.

Jerry Rice

I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything

Jeff Kent

I can't be No. 1 with an MVP trophy. I could be No. 1 with the championship ring and the championship trophy on my fireplace.

Hunter S. Thompson

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

Eric Ries

The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

Peyton Manning

Everyone should play like Adrian Peterson. This guy does everything full speed. Pro Bowl - promoting himself for MVP.

Tom Brady

A lot of people didn't get to see Butler's skills throughout the course of the season.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Billy Joe Saunders

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

Edward Gibbon

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

David Hockney

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

Audrey Meadows

Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.

Dhani Jones

I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.

Buddy Ryan

Trade him for a six pack; it doesn't even have to be cold.

Bill Parcells

I'm not really in the excuse business.

Bill Parcells

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

Barry Switzer

The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.

Bo Jackson

It is better to give a lick than receive one.

Chad Pennington

Sitting let me learn what the NFL is all about.

Bill Walsh

Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

Bill Walsh

Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.