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.

Tom Burnett

We want to see our coaches move on to head coaching positions at a higher level.

Chip Kelly

Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time

Ron Hassey

The other thing you have to remember is that we have a lot of new coaching staff this year.

Florentino Perez

The person who coaches Real Madrid needs to be disciplined, rigorous and professional.

David Pisarcik

The perfect record is awesome, but it's not really that important. I'm looking past that. I want to go to the state tournament and get some hardware. My coach (Don Cooley) has really helped me out. I think he deserves some recognition.

Dave Telep

Until a coach is hired, I don't think there's really anything those guys can do or would do. The new coach will have to decide if the recruit is the type of player that they want, and the player will have to decide if they want to play for the new coach.

Robert Whitney

We are pretty much on the same page on everything, ... She coaches third, I coach first, and we have been in the same programs since we were little and have had the same coaches. We know how important it is for the girls to have good coaches and a good experience, and we are making sure they get both.

Derek Thomas

We've already talked about it. And a lot of other coaches have noticed it as well. There's nothing we could do about now.

Todd Tate

We started pressing in the second quarter and it forced some turnovers. Their coach made some good adjustments after halftime, which slowed the game down. There was no flow to the game.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Though our trials are diverse, there is one thing the Lord expects of us no matter our difficulties and sorrows: He expects us to press on.

Ralph Klein

Shirley expects to have something finalized in a month or so and we expect to have cheques in the mail by the end of this year,

Phil Garner

We're a team and an organization that expects to win. That's the mantra from our owner and, I think, from our front office, too.

Tee Newman

Lower Richland expects to win. We're in the hoping-to-win stage. That makes a difference.

Clint Myers

She's going to be a great hitter for the next four years. She expects it and we like it so it's working out a lot for everybody.

Carl Edwards

We're kind of in a unique position. Nobody expects us to be here, including ourselves. We don't have pressure. And all it takes is one or two slip-ups from the guys in front of us, and we'll be right there. Hopefully they're looking back and worrying about us. I don't know if they are, but we feel like we've got a shot.

Jeffrey Gitomer

The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.

Joe Girardi

Those are high expectations. But I think he expects to be a very good player for a long, long time. He's very talented. There are things he can do. He works hard. He has a great attitude. We expect big things from him.

Michelle Laughlin

Nearly unanimous. Nobody expects the Federal Reserve to move today.

Charles Dickens

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

Alan Bean

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

Alan Alda

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

Mark Jackley

The power numbers really don't mean much to me. I thought we hit too many fly-ball outs today. I would rather see ground-ball outs. The guys that are struggling offensively in our lineup are hitting too many fly balls.

Michael Shaw

Where's a *!$#&!* Flying Monkey when you need one?

Nonso Anozie

Harrison Ford invited me to fly on his private plane to Los Angeles, and he's great to work with. He's really down to earth, and we got to know each other quite well.

Charley Pride

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

Edith Piaf

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

Arnold Palmer

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Neil Fallon

We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.

Chord Overstreet

Ive been playing music since I was born.

Jenic Tumaneng

We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it.

Lucas Black

When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it.

Nigel Kennedy

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

Wayne Grant

When you start playing these better region teams, you have to play well.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Derek Bailey

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Baron Davis

We're just trying to get a win at this point. Can't talk about playoffs when you're losing.

Chris Osgood

We ran into a team that's really good. Nowadays, when the playoffs start, there's no underdogs.

Kevin Morooney

She's been doing well and her spirits are up. We'll see how she reacts when playoffs begin.

Jay Lasley

When the playoffs start, it's a whole new season.

Kareem McKenzie

Right now is the time you want to start winning. Win on the road, then go to the playoffs and keep winning. That?s how you get to a Super Bowl.

Dave Tippett

One of the ways to make playoffs is to win your division. That was something we set out to do right from the start. We've got to keep pushing in that direction.

Roy Oswalt

To get 20 is great, but to get to the playoffs is more. We've come a long way, especially the way the team pulled together and started playing.

John Ellinger

If we get in, we get in. The playoffs are something you don't really want to think about at this point. You just want to get a win.

Joe Torre

The playoffs have been going on for us for awhile.

Buddy Rice

I've always been under the radar.

Larry Coker

When you're under the radar a bit, ... you just go about your work.

Matt Kohn

We've always been under the radar. Now we are on the radar (but) we still don't get any respect.

Warren Rudman

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

Buzz Aldrin

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.

Avery Johnson

We're on the radar now. There is no hiding.

Peter Tibbett

He wasn't on our anti-virus radar until Thursday. That suggests to us he probably didn't write viruses until now.

Ron Campbell

We wanted to get it on people's radar screens, and everyone we've talked to said it has merit.

Jim May

You wouldn't even see us as a blip on the radar screen.

Diablo Cody

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Brad Rex

We're getting on a roll at the right time.

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.

Dwight Schultz

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

Ed Steadham

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

Kelly Hawthorne

We are on a roll right now. We just want to keep it going.

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.

Kara Walker

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

Tori Amos

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

Alan Watts

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Alain Resnais

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

Al Hirt

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

David Guetta

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

David Crystal

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

David Cross

It's just an easy catchall to describe a style because there are a lot of alternative comics who are completely different from each other.

C. Z. Guest

Style is about surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy.

Carolina Herrera

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

Carolina Herrera

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.