Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Tressel

I think in this day and age, you've got to be able to attack with a lot of different things. There are so many good guys out there that can throw and catch, and the evolution of football -- there's so many good ideas. Sometimes, things trickle down a little bit from the pros. Now, the pros don't allow their quarterback to get hit quite as much as we do in college football in our spread offenses and so forth, but I just think because people are so well-schooled on defense, you've got to give them more problems. I think if you have that as part of your package, it can give you a chance. Some of the people in our league do it very, very well.

It all starts with defense. I wasn't going to allow us to play back on our heels.

It can take several months or years if they appeal the case. Some people smuggled in containers are allowed to bond out.

It can help hospitals reduce health-care costs and allow employees to work more independently.

It boils down to this: They get to make two more gas-guzzlers for every FFV they put out. There's no way Detroit would be producing these cars if they weren't allowed to weaken miles-per-gallon standards in return.

It appears that Barbour will support change in legislation to allow land-based casinos.

It always seemed there were people in the lane waiting for me. They wouldn't allow me to get the ball where I wanted and that made it tough.

Dick Vermeil

It ain't going to happen here. I won't allow it. Not today, not tomorrow, not next week.

Mark Gottfried

I think it's a statement for our players. I don't think that they ever allowed Chuck's injury to be a built-in excuse for them.

John Smoltz

I think it's going to be even better, because mechanically it should allow me to throw with a lot less stress and a lot more accuracy.

Tim Rogers

I think it's great that they do this, that they shut down a street like this to allow us to have this ceremony.

Burns at night are currently not something allowed in AQMD regulations. We understand the risks of wildfires, and we're taking a close look at what we can do to offer some flexibility to the Forest Service.

Stephen Harper

But a big part of the reason this has happened is the Liberal government has allowed communications with the Americans to break down entirely.

Michael Brown

Based on the summer we had last year, with all the rain, the weather now has allowed a lot of our developers and builders to catch up a little bit.

Based on the conversations I've had with members of the competition committee today, I do believe that they will allow Reggie to wear that number.

Based on the consumer perspective, these companies are allowing them to save a few cents here and there, but to give up quality. That's not very compelling.

Basically the same thing that coach told me all the time, tired is a state of mind. If you allow yourself to become tired, your mind becomes tired and you don't focus as much as you need to.

Baxter really played well in net for Mt. Ararat tonight. He was always squared to the puck and didn't allow too many rebounds. He came up big for them.

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.

Nell Newman

Basically, what we've done is, every year we take half the money and allow people who've helped us in the industry to give it away. One year, the ladies who put the pretzel bags in the boxes got to give it away.

Basically what we're trying to do is allow a consumer to build a digital library for the first time.

Basically, the delegation is coming to discuss the proposal that Pakistan had given to India on allowing travel. The Indian proposal can also be discussed at the meeting.

Because of the good faith of the police department and the city of San Jose, they've been allowed to operate.

Because of that I freed up a little and allowed myself to play the golf I can.

Sharon Stone

Because someone who doesn't allow someone to fail and change and grow -- it doesn't say very much about them, in my opinion.

Joe Biden

Because our military power dwarfs that of other countries - we spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined - this Administration believes that alliances and international institutions are more of a burden than a benefit. They allow the Lilliputians to tie down Gulliver.

China's conditions are not ready (to allow the yuan to float). Maybe in eight or 10 years' time. ... There will only be gradual change before then.

China is having a tough time figuring out what the language is to allow them to back off.

Jerry Yang

China is a key market for any Internet company. We think (the deal) will allow us to grow from a strong position to a dominant one.

China enforces stability from the top down. Allowing everyone to gradually buy into development allows India's stability to take root from the bottom up.

John W. Snow

China can quickly move forward with further liberalization of its financial services sector by allowing foreign securities firms to establish wholly owned subsidiaries, and by expanding the scope of products securities firms can offer,

Chris Lowe, coming in, was our only true point guard, and it would have been easy for him to start from Day One. But I didn't allow that. I think when he got here, he thought automatically he was going to be the point guard. We wanted to make sure he earned everything he got. We wanted to make sure he was mentally ready as well as physically ready.

Chris is a very smart man, and he understands quite clearly the difference between the scatological observations he can make on his cable television specials and how to be funny within the boundaries allowed on the networks,