Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi -- all three -- are trying to get a handle on which offenders they don't have and where they might be.

Don Shula

Mike knew what it was going to be like. He didn't play for Bear Bryant, but he played right after he was gone. He knows all about what Alabama fans want.

Don Siegelman

My announcement is going to be about getting Alabama back on track. We are going to go through and highlight the things that I've done and highlight the things that Gov. Riley has not done,

More than 54 percent of the children in this county live in poverty, ... Twenty-two percent of births are to unwed teen-aged mothers and we are among the top counties in Alabama in the number of high school drop-outs.

Dennis Hastert

Number one, you have to clean up and neutralize the situation in New Orleans so that they can get in and do the work there. And of course also in Alabama and Mississippi,

When I came to the University of Alabama in 1996, I was given all the tools to develop the volleyball program. We have an effective and ongoing recruiting program that gives us an opportunity to recruit the right kind of kids.

If Alabama had offered me early on, I would have committed.

Suzanne Yoculan

I was impressed with our performance on beam. It was just like last year at the national championships when we stuck with a plan and had a belief we would win the competition. It was tough going over to beam with the home team on floor, and Alabama is outstanding on floor.

Jerry Bailey

I was skeptical heading into the Alabama because of the distance and the competition then she handled with ease. She's pretty easy to ride. She doesn't drop out the back and she could've been a little closer in the Alabama had I wanted, but I thought the pace being what it was that I would just tuck in. She presents no problem for a rider.

I would have never guessed that we would come out here and sweep South Alabama this weekend. But what a way to get us off and rolling in a new conference. We have been telling our guys all year that they are good, but it is another thing altogether to sweep a three-game series from South Alabama.

David Sharp

If we have a job opening and we get a good applicant from Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama with solid credentials, we would not hesitate to put them in a classroom setting,

Billy Donovan

I got on them because our thought process going into the game was go inside first and then come back out. We were letting the ball sometimes go on the perimeter with the ball never touching the paint, and I think South Alabama wanted us to do that early in the game.

DJ Qualls

I grew up in a rural area. I grew up in deep southern middle Tennessee, probably about thirty miles from the Alabama border. There's nothing there, really. And the TV was my link to the outside world. It's what kept me from going into factory employment. It's what made me want to go to college. It was really inspiring.

Because of the many problems hogs create, we want to see the sportsmen in Alabama take as many hogs as they possibly can, whenever they can. I know we have some hunters who really enjoy hunting hogs and who have some well-trained dogs that can find, chase, bay, catch and hold hogs. But we really want to see the number of hogs statewide reduced drastically because they do so much destruction to the habitat.

If I'm wrong for fighting for the children of Alabama and fighting for the teachers of Alabama, then I'm wrong. The people voted for the income tax and they voted for the money to go to education. If he wants to make that change he ought to be asking the people if they want to make that change.

Since its inception, the Greater Valley Area Crime Stoppers has received tips that have led to many arrests as well as the recovery and seizure of more than $565,000 in drugs and property. The majority of these tips have resulted in felony arrests. All the counties in Alabama should have this tool available to them to help support their law enforcement agencies.

James Hogan

If we could get 5-thousand or so letter from north Alabama I think we could be successful. We need to tell them and show them what's going wrong and send someone with just common sense.

I have been to the God Bless Fort Benning Day before, but this was an honor because I was invited by the committee to come and share my book called Rice and Cotton: South Vietnam and South Alabama .

George C. Wallace

I did the best I could for the state of Alabama and the United States,

Bob Riley

However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .

You look at our schedule. We won two out of three at Miami. We won two out of three at Alabama and we've won every other game we've played. As a coach, you can't ask for anything more than that. When you look at our schedule ... if anybody thought or expected we'd be better than (11-2) right now, I'd thought they were crazy. If I'd expected that I'd been crazy. It would have been very unrealistic of us. So I'm very pleased with where we're at.

Artur Davis

We have built a genuine level of enthusiasm and goodwill with people throughout this district. People are really excited about the possibilities this election holds, not just for this district, but because of the message Alabama sent to the rest of the country.

Tina Brown

Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it.

Barack Obama

When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won.

Katy Mixon

Pensacola isn't Florida, really. It's the Panhandle. It's right up there near Alabama and Louisiana. It's, like, a stroll away from New Orleans. I feel like New Orleans is home.

We did this without the governor's help. The real governor of Alabama got it through.

Boo Weekley

We hunt in Florida, where I live in Jay. I hunt in Alabama a little bit, on my uncle's land. I go to Illinois and hunt with some friends up there. I hunt in Mississippi and Missouri.

We got this letter on behalf of the Alabama Organ Center that said that josh was a multiple organ donor.

We definitely feel the constitution for the state of Alabama should be rewritten. We also feel there is a need for more support of our elderly people to help them get medical care.

Unfortunately, that's another e-mail scam that we've (also) seen in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. This is a scam that's similar to the other scams where individuals this time of the year (are targeted) since we're so busy and folks are so wrapped up in taxes.

We didn't come all the way up from Alabama to Indiana looking for Jesus; we brought him with us.

We're going to focus on our own performance and not worry about what Stanford or Alabama is doing.

We know we have two important games left in the season. A lot of people are going to ask us about Alabama, but we're not worried about Alabama right now. I'm like, 'Alabama who?' It's all about Georgia, and we're just getting ready for these 'Dogs.