Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Woodward

Paul is the best player and I am mindful we've had no training time at all since the World Cup. To throw in Ollie Barkley or Alex King with no preparation would be a big call, especially playing away from home.

Chris Mortensen

People often ask me whether Alex was adopted. But I promise you, he's all ours.

Steve and Matt are exceptional athletes with the combination of power and finesse. Everything seems to bode well for their success. Kip and Alex are a year older and have improved a great deal. I'm pleased with the progress they've made.

Don Mattingly

Some guys will walk away from it. Alex never does that. He always wants to do more. He's always the first guy to ask to hit more, see more tape. He's always working at it.

Our running game was not where we wanted it to be. We have had Alex on defense. He is a Division I caliber player, so we put him on offense.

Our sweeper Alex Tucker really stood out in the back field and Derek Graham played his best game of the season as a striker, he was all over the place.

Overall it was a pretty good day. Alex made a good start and did what he needed to do to put himself in a position for a podium.

Our biggest concern through this was little Alex here and we wanted to make sure that everything was going to be ok with her.

Man United has a great squad and whatever happens, we will be able to bring a strong squad. I know Alex (Ferguson) always wants to win and he will put together a good team. I know they will be tough matches but everyone who comes to watch will have a great time.

(Konieczki) and (MacArtney) were both really strong. Alex Tostenson, who played for us in the field last year, played really strong in his first start in goal.

That was really impressive. That's what he likes to do is stalk. Alex knows him well.

That's the scary part for the community and the scary part for the employees - we don't know. We don't know what it's going to look like, and we can't tell what it's going to mean for Alexander City.

That's the most time Alex has gotten all season. She did a real nice job in a difficult spot for us.

That's what I do in my house, teach money management. Was it Benjamin Franklin or Alexander Hamilton who said, 'If you watch your pennies, dollars will watch themselves?' Oh well. At least my grandmother said it.

Matt Hasselbeck

Like we've all seen, Shaun Alexander plays his best games in the spotlight.

I was excited when they told me that I was on the final roster. It is an honor to be on the field with some of the game's best players. I'm pumped up that those choosing the team put me in the same class as players like Clemens, Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.

I think I'm actually quite lucky to get a start, given how well Alex has gone, ... He's started well, he comes from Argentina and has played in France, two countries that pride themselves on scrumming, and he can play anywhere in the front row.

I thought it was a really tough game, Alexander is really tough up here. Any win on this field is a good win. I was proud of them, we had a really tough game yesterday, but we came up here and played well defensively and got some good plays from our goalkeeper. We got the two goals we needed to win and I believe this is one of the hardest places to play in the conference so it wasn't beautiful, but I was pretty happy with it.

I thought I was 100 percent at the beginning, but they wanted to protect my leg at first. Then our offense kind of struggled, and they sent me in. Alex Rogers has worked hard this week, and he deserved to start. We just picked it up after the first quarter.

Ryan Giggs

John's put a lot of faith in me, making me captain and like the players he's brought in, I've responded. He's got his own style but the lads are a lot more comfortable with him now. John and Sir Alex Ferguson are both old school, like to do the coaching, and stress what they want from individuals. And, more often than not, they get it.

I don't feel like he's doing a poor job. Statistics, positive and negative, don't always bear out with what you see when you go in and look at video. So I don't feel any differently about Alex than I did a couple weeks ago.

I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never

I am glad our younger guys were able to get some valuable playing time and pick up some wins in the process. We are expecting a lot out of Alex and Carson in the future. I hope the victories make their confidence bloom.

He can run but don't look for Urban to feature him as a runner as much as he did with Alex Smith. In that offense the quarterback is kind of like a wishbone quarterback in that every thing is keyed off him. Look for him to pass more than he runs. Urban really likes him.

Viswanathan Anand

He conducted the attack quite well and I had an unpleasant position despite the extra pawn. Alexander just played better than me today.

I feel good about our chances. But Rice is very talented. They have three right-handed pitchers who were drafted this week. They can also swing the bats. They went into LSU at Alex Box and won, so that tells you they can play a little bit.

I feel like we had a deep bench this season, but if you take Matt away from that team and you take away the connection he had with teammate Alex Powell, I don't think we would've gotten where we did.

I don't think Alex has seen a lot of 3-4. We started picking up what they were doing. Once Alex sees that look, he's a great pre-snap guy.

(Jockey) Alex Solis said he feels like a brand new horse,

It brings state, national, and international attention to the job that our school family is doing. I think it will be a huge economic development asset for the community to say that the Alexander City School System was the first in the state to have this designation.

David Legwand

Baumgartner looked like it got stuck to his stick, like he double hit it, and it came right to me. I just knew to get it over Bryan Allen's knee pad there and see what could happen, and I don't think Alex Auld saw the shot.

Baseball has individual stars, as does music, and we already handle the individual sites for (baseball stars) Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds and Derek Jeter.

I thought we swung the bats, obviously, very well, and Alex threw extremely well. You have to give Duke credit, they came back and scored some runs, but we held on and got a good win.