Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you're playing against the best, you have to play your best.

Ken Hitchcock

When you're playing against teams who are wounded bears or desperate, they're looking for a reason to play and when you give them a reason, they keep going.

When you're playing against Simsbury, with its reputation in girls' hockey, you know that you're in for a battle right up to the end of the game. Nothing is ever final against a team like that until you hear the final horn.

When you're playing against a team with guys 6-8 and 6-9 and one of the top players in the state (Werner), you've got to try and shorten the game. We can't play with them up and down the court. I won't second-guess my decision. It's a game of possessions, and we were just hoping to keep it close going into the last quarter.

Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

Where else can kids sell their bracelets and stuff? We just wanted to give them an opportunity to do that in a setting where they're not competing against adults.

Where did Spring Hill's concern for all this start? I have nothing against Spring Hill, I have family there, but I want to keep our community the way it is.

Paul Lambert

When you work in training all week and throw everything in the box, it is cleared. But then, in a game, if you are not there then there is no point. I don't mind if people are scoring world class goals against us - but not from three yards out.

When you win two out of three against the world champions, you feel like you can beat any team in the league.

When you win, the odds are you're not making any changes. But I'm not going against my Wednesday decision-making process here. But I think you could probably guess.

Billy Donovan

When you win, it creates unbelievable opportunities in life. It's nothing negative against Florida, but they have to look at these opportunities.

When you weigh it against senior services and social services I don't think recycling is a critical need. I'm looking at priorities. If you're talking about what's important, recycling is not in the same category as firefighters.

Benny Hinn

When God heals them, they can't go right back in that wheelchair again because then he did it. And God doesn't do it and then take it back.

What we've got is two point guards on the floor at the same time. But Dane has been versatile enough and smart enough to get it done against bigger people.

If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.

Monica Crowley

Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents.

Nancy Gibbs

Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.

Nancy Gibbs

Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

Naguib Sawiris

Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.

Lysander Spooner

If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was it not nonsense to caution his disciples so strongly against being deluded by the works of others?

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

We're not going to leave the well dry. We've got a good group of young kids that have come along and they're going to be good again next year. That's what I wanted to see. I didn't want to see the program go down. We've got a chance to build it up again.

Flip Saunders

Were not going to keep Michael at 11 or 14 points. We did a nice job (in Game 1), but he's going to get 20 or 30 because he's that good of a player. What we've got to do is make him earn those and make him be a volume scorer. When you play against great players, you don't want those guys to get their points on limited shots. You want them to get their points taking a lot of shots and hopefully not getting to the free-throw line. That has to be our main focus.

We're not going to get out of the 20s again today.

Kevin Spacey

Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

Nikki Sixx

I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that's organized.

Nikki Reed

I went back to high school and decided that I wanted to be a kid for a while, whatever that means, but once again I found myself back with acting, so clearly I couldn't escape the passion.

Nouriel Roubini

I've nothing against Goldman Sachs. But Goldman Sachs isn't an investment bank. Goldman Sachs is a hedge fund. It's bigger than any hedge fund. It's more leveraged, to the power of three or five, than any hedge fund.

Nancy Meyers

I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.

Charles Kettering

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Michael Ignatieff

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.

Eugene Jarecki

Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their G's and saying things in a folksy sort of way that's meant to capture the hearts of people. And it's all fraud; it's all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if it's proletariat behavior.

Ezekiel Emanuel

In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.