Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you're working against the best every day, that's good. When you get to a game, it might be like a day off.

David Thomas

When you're watching film and you see other tight ends doing well against them, you lick your chops a little bit.

When fortune turns against you even jelly breaks your teeth

Nasser Hussain

When everything is going against you in an Ashes battle, I know it can be very difficult to keep a lid on your emotions,

Martin Brodeur

When he got the puck there I was thinking about the Olympics against Corey Hirsch. That was a big goal for him.

When he first came here last year he was even smaller then, and a new guy, so you really have to make a name for yourself and get the trust from your teammates. And he came up just hitting people last year on special teams, and then finally when he started playing on defense he was really coming downhill and just hitting big guys like Jamal Lewis last year. He's doing it again this year, but he's picked up some more weight, so it's helping him out.

We want punters to worry about us coming after them, while trying to kick the ball away from us. I've been trying to emphasize, we were No. 1 in the country with this unit a year ago, and there is no reason why we can't be again this year. I don't want to take a step back in that department.

We want our season ticket holders to know that we appreciate their continued support and offering tickets to our preseason game against the Heat is a small token of that appreciation. We hope to see everyone not only at that game, but at all six regular-season games in Baton Rouge throughout the season.

We want our fans to enjoy Spartan football home and away. This game fits our new philosophy of playing as many Western teams as possible and USC is the best there is at this point. It will be exciting for San Jose State to play against them.

We want him to know we'll give our life for him. We watched the game film of the UC Davis and Oregon games and saw the number of hits he received. We made sure that didn't happen against Washington State. Trent is one of those guys who can lead you to victory against any team as long as you give him time to work.

We wanted to use our fresh legs to come out strong and really set a fast pace against a team that played a tough game (on Tuesday), but we really didn't get it together until the second quarter.

We were better. We played competitively. There just were too many peaks and valleys against a team that good. We improved, but we still don't have everything ironed out yet.

We were behind again and the kids put together a nice rally on four hits. The kids came through.

We were beginning to revolt against the old British Empire and its ideas and I met a lot of people in Montreal who shared these views.

Gary Williams

We were aware of what he did last year. We knew he shot 70 percent from the 3-point line against us. But we're not defending anybody from the 3-point line right now, so he's no different than anyone else.

We were a small part of the process. We support it, we endorse it, there are some opportunities. There are ways to strengthen and improve but again it's a good first start.

We were asleep. Our bats were cold but (Fischer) did a good job against us. We finally started waking up in the sixth and seventh innings but it was way too late in a seven-inning game.

Ryan Clark

We were asked to get pressure on them. They wanted to pressure us. It was two sides that wanted to dictate. We weren't going to let them dictate the pace to us, and they weren't going to let us dictate to them. Neither was going to give in, and so it became our speed against theirs.

Robert McCullum

We were a much different, much better team tonight than we were last Saturday against St. John's. If you saw us last Saturday, you wouldn't think it was the same team." ()

Dusty Baker

We were a lot closer before I got here. When you play 18 times against teams that have been long-time rivalries, and then it's against my former manager and my confidant before I came here, it increases things.

We were almost perfect today. Right now (the second-place team finish), it's a little bittersweet. We felt like we could've won it. But with our backs against the wall (entering Saturday), we almost did it.

We were trailing by three points at the half and needed to play better. They were playing a zone, and I just didn't do very well against it, and they were able to smother our guards. In the second half, I moved a lot more and tried to be more aggressive. It worked out great.

Charles Manson

Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard.

Montel Williams

My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.

I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

Michael Leunig

At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.

It's not that I am against the rich giving money to charities. I'm all for it, and we should think of ways of encouraging more of it. But I also believe that states, rather than individuals, are ultimately a better bet for delivering a fair and just world and reconciling differing interests.

Craig Stevens

We believe that consumers are the first line of defense against price gouging. The first effort is not to (fill and) pay at gas stations if a consumer feels there is price gouging. The second effort is to report to state and local law enforcement agencies, and the third effort is to contact us.

Craig Stevens

We believe that consumers are the first line of defense against price gouging.

While market expectation is that it will eventually lead to a full blown takeover, it could in the medium term prove to be a negotiating tactic - the board of the London Stock Exchange now have to think again with regards to their possible future while Nasdaq has effectively left itself with a big say in any future developments.

While largely unnoticed by investors, global urbanization is going to be one of the most powerful and important trends. The world's resource base confronts unprecedented demand as a new urban world unfolds. Against this backdrop, the secular bull market in energy and basic materials is just beginning.

Jared Bernstein

Whether we're into another period now where employers are turning really cautious again ... warrants close observation,

Whether or not that excess that's always within air sacs of the lung (butt) will have a problem in the long run again it's an unknown question one which is open to concern,