Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Holmgren

Patience. I thanked Paul for being patient with me in a rather volatile business, to allow your coaches to build something and to believe in them. You don't always see it as much as you should in this business, and he has been great for me. With the patience Mr. Allen has shown me, he gave me a chance to stand on the podium.

Darrell Jackson

Stacey did a good job and she had an outstanding defensive performance behind her. Cynthia Allen made three spectacular catches in the field. She made those catches you don't expect from your players, but you are happy to get them.

I think the most encouraging part of what they're doing is that they have had now a certain amount of incremental time since Allen came on board to upgrade the executive suite, so to speak. The people are very experienced people that have a better sense of how a centrally managed business works.

It is amazing what Allen has done for us this spring, as far as learning our offense. And he is a tremendous athlete -- one of the best on our team.

Dick Vermeil

Jared Allen was very special. He has such an unbelievable motor. You expect him to run out of gas, and he just keeps humming.

Jared Allen played a great game for us, ... He was all over the field making plays.

Jim Joel, Lord Howard de Walden, Nicky Phillips and Mrs Doris Allen were very hard to replace. The times are changing and we're moving with it. We're getting up back up there.

Maurice Cheeks

Kyle got beat a couple times, but he can change the game. He spreads the floor and gives Allen more room to operate. They have to make a decision who's going to beat 'em.

It is impossible to think there is any other search firm as completely in tune with who we are in Allen and the good things we're trying to do for the kids as the Horn, Smith and Wood team would be.

I was very disappointed him and Allen weren't playing tonight on fan appreciation day.

I think she's a female Allen Iverson. She'll have nights when she can't miss, and then she'll have off nights. But you have to go with her. She's as tough as nails, and you want the ball in her hands at the end of a game.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to just have a house in Allen for board meetings. That's just not right if I'm not really living here.

Is Tyler Allen a genius or a fool? Only time will tell.

Mahesh Babu

I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn't resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr's book 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.' After I read that book, I didn't touch a fag again.

Jon Gruden

I still think Dexter is a very good player, ... But Will Allen is a guy who, in his second year here, has made a lot of progress. He's got to become a more consistent player, but that should come in time, so that's going to be a very difficult call for us.

Andre Iguodala

I think lately there has been (movement). I remember last night we had many possessions where everybody touched the ball and guys were getting movement. Especially when Kevin Ollie?s in the game and Michael Bradley?s in the game, we tend to get a whole lot of movement, being we don?t have a scorer like Allen in the game.

Maurice Cheeks

I thought Kevin played well. I think he had our offense going a little bit, but on the flip side I think sometimes you want to bring Kyle in to stretch the defense and give Allen Iverson and Chris (Webber) a little more room to operate.

Michael McClure

I don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I told him about my dreams of being Blake." ()

Mike Mills

I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and Godard and Milos Forman and all these people.

From my earliest childhood memories, Clarence Ray Allen imparted the most loving, giving and generous grandfatherly spirit.

For several years we've allowed administrators to run our East Allen vision. It's time for the board to take the lead.

I don't think Allen plans to stop there. He's said publicly that he is committed to doubling his cable holdings by the end of the year.

Maurice Cheeks

I don't think Allen is coming. He's not playing tomorrow night and we're still waiting to see how he feels for Sunday. It doesn't look good.

I think in the last quarter, neither team would use it on a teaching tape for defense. I know Gilbert Arenas gets credit, but he's Allen Iverson in a different package as far as body size and strength. He's competitive. He's quick. He attacks. He makes 3s.

George Allen

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I'm an 18-year-old guy who has this opportunity. Millions and millions of high school players out there in the world don't get to practice every day with Allen Iverson. I think people get caught up with me not playing this year in college. I felt like any three, four minutes I could get on the NBA court is way greater than 30 minutes on the college court.

Mike Birbiglia

I love 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but I'm pretty sure Woody Allen hasn't killed somebody.

I feel very indebted to those who came before me and whose planning and sacrifice built the excellent district that my sons enjoyed. I am committed to honoring that debt by working to make this district even better for the next generation of Allen children.

Bob Hill

It could be fatigue. We all know it's been a long year. Ray Allen still amazes me. He's playing really hard. He competed his heart out, he just couldn't get the ball in the basket.

Maurice Cheeks

I thought down the stretch of the game, when we needed those two guys to score the points, that?s what they did. That?s what they have to do. We got to the penalty at a certain point, Allen continued to drive the ball, and Chris had wide open jump shots because of it.

I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.

Howard Schultz

I think with Ray you got somebody who really is an unusual person and an unusual player in the NBA in terms of his character, his leadership and how he takes care of himself, ... If you were going to make a bet on someone, I think Ray Allen is the poster child for that. I feel very comfortable.

He really was a major contributor to the American sports scene and to the changing times in sports history -- Mel Allen left his mark,