Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Schultz

Alex made a good pass. I just wanted to get it on net. It's nice to get on the board.

Alex Lawrence is still the head of the program. The rest of us are just trying to help a little.

Alex Knight was a big victory for us. It was a bit of redemption for Olympus. He beat Ryan Gonzales of Payson, who was a defending champion, and two years ago Gonzales beat a guy from Olympus that was a defending champ. It felt good to kind of get a payback.

You're right, but Alexander Cartwright was a good friend of Shakespeare's and they played a prototype game in an amateur league back then ...

Zack ran a tremendous race and Alex cut almost two minutes off his time from last year. The whole team did an extraordinary job.

You see our senior guards, such as Derek Harris, Byers and Alex Smith taking care of the ball. I was told we had just two turnovers in the first half.

They have a big-time player in Alex Munday. She is precise and efficient. We are going to have our hands full.

They don't have quite the same body type (as the Pike cousins), but they have the quickness and skills. Alex is a good basketball player, too. He's been our defensive stopper the last two seasons.

They had some nice strategies, and they were obviously concentrating on taking Greg completely away. But in order to do that they were going to have to leave Alex open and he cashed in big.

This morning was overcast and grey with low track temperatures and Alex suffered a low speed accident.

There was no score like the Jeopardy format, ... Nobody looked like Alex Trebek, either.

Joe McCarthy

It's just a testament to how hard these guys have worked. When Alex passed away (of Hodgkin's disease in February), a bunch of them made a commitment that they wanted to be successful in his honor. They have worked to get here now.

It's a team game, but Alex had great positional play, excellent distribution. I thought he played a perfect game.

It was definitely a back-and-forth game, numerous lead changes. Alex Jensen, being my best player, had the ball in his hands all the time, he makes it easy for us to create and score. People might say he didn't dominate today, but 13 points, eight assists and seven rebounds -- that's almost a triple-double. Will Brown struggled early, and then came back and had a big game.

Joe Torre

It was down. But Alex was able to get underneath it.

George spoke to Alex and his family this afternoon. It's fair to say George was thrilled.

Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent.

Brian filled in incredibly well. Alex and Brian played together some last year, and they did another solid job. Their performance gives me the confidence. If we do have a guy out, another can step in and we won't lose a whole lot.

Mike Holmgren

Being the personal protector, blocker for Shaun Alexander and then look what Shaun has done.

Ozzie Guillen

Everyone was concerned, because I was only throwing 85, but it was good today. It gives me a chance to keep Alex sharp.

Scott Boras

The thing I'd say about that is that if Alex is a hypocrite, then everyone who is American and has parents of different heritage and wants to be respectful of that is a hypocrite, too. If that's being a hypocrite, then I'd want to be one. Alex was thoughtfully considering a difficult decision and was trying to make the right decision for him and his family.

Joe Torre

So much of baseball is about history and the records. The fans want the records to mean something. If somebody like Alex had the most home runs, there wouldn't be any questions.

George Bancroft

It was tough wrestling Alex because we do train together in the summer. I hope there are no hard feelings, but when we get on the mat we have to put our friendship behind.

Glen Davis

It was an even contest. They hustled us and got most of our 50/50 balls. We just played a little lackadaisical from three days off. We did have excellent defense from Alex Seifert and Carl Tesch.

The selectors also considered Alex for the Test squad - and although he's not been included on this occasion, he made a good impression in Pakistan and is one of a number of spin bowlers we have chosen on the A tour.

Cadillac Williams

The spotlight has been on me a lot, but it's something I'm kind of used to. I think if Alex keeps on putting up games like that, I'm going to be the one sitting back watching him, like the spotlight is off of me now.

The big thing for Alex was that he got a great draw. You always have to come to wrestle, but it always helps when you're on a good side of the bracket. Alex was the best wrestler on his side.

We've got Alexander Central on Tuesday, Hickory on Wednesday in the makeup game, and McDowell on Friday. We'll take them one at a time, and try to get better.

We have a clear understanding of the NCAA rules and understand how this process works. We will make sure that Alexander and his family have all of that information available to them during this process.

Jesse James

This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September.

Steve Alford

We just knew we needed about two minutes. We went with Alex and he was terrific in those two minutes.

The wins by Alex and John were really the story of the match. If they don't win, it's 3-3 going into doubles and they (East) are always known for having strong doubles players. Both Alex and John have been playing steady tennis recently and at No. 5 that's what you want.

John Gibbons

The whole thing with Alex is he's able to get to that pitch now, where in the past he wasn't able to. It's tougher with his size anyway. He's got long arms. It all has to do with his balance. He's not falling backwards. He's out to prove something.