Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Gonzalez

When you enter an arena or stadium at full capacity you just don't know who is going through the turnstiles, ... Everything that helps our security, I'm for it.

When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.

We've got to find energy in an arena that is not our own.

Mario Lemieux

This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them.

Jackson Browne

If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.

We were expecting to blow them out of the gym and send them home early. But we're surrounded by a lot of rookies, and this is their first time in an arena like this. They had to calm down and let the game come to them.

Well, if we won out through the playoffs and got to the Joe (Louis Arena for the CCHA championships), we could be gone that long. We had to consider that possibility.

There is still a long way to go. It would be great to go up to Rupp Arena and get a win.

We have a different variety of artists. We're working with a lot of dancers who are also acrobats, a band of 11 musicians and six singers. And we're using the arena in a different way.

We have been managing the racecourse now for nearly a year and I am delighted that following extensive work between Arena and DMBC we have finalised this planning application.

E. B. White

We have been looking forward to this day. The talent in the AFL has improved dramatically from my first years in the league where now teams are deep enough that they can't protect everyone. On top of that, the free-agent market is loaded with players that have solid arena experience. We just held our first open tryout last month and hosted over 200 quality players. This is going to be fun, starting from scratch and building a competitive team.

We have been looking forward to this day, ... The talent in the AFL has improved dramatically from my first years in the league where now teams are deep enough that they can't protect everyone. On top of that, the free-agent market is loaded with players that have solid arena experience. We just held our first open tryout last month and hosted over 200 quality players. This is going to be fun, starting from scratch and building a competitive team.

Javier Bardem

When I was doing Arenas dying of Aids, I watched Philadelphia 13 or 14 times, because I thought Tom Hanks was making good choices.

When people are desperate to sell you buy. When they are desperate to buy you sell. He who waits until he is in the arena to plan has planned too late.

There have long been rumors surrounding Lloyds as a potential bid target. Wells Fargo has a large part of its business in the retail banking arena so to take over someone like Lloyds would make a lot of sense.

We built the arena for the Spurs (the SBC Center in 2002). We have a capacity in our bonds maybe to do something down the line. But the issue then would be, if you build a new one, what do you do with the one you've got?

John Martin

When the entire policy for hiring people is put into (this) arena ... you're creating a golden employee who can't be disciplined or told what to do.

We will have space that will be unfinished for more suites if the market demands that and or that space might be used for other kind of seating but it's not for a large expansion, just a different use of the space inside the arena walls if you will.

We've played in pro arenas before, and the NBA line messes us up. We've already called, and they said they're not going to have it (NBA arc) down, so that's good.

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We are really trying to dip our toe into that arena more and more.

Todd Rundgren

I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do.

Desiree Rogers

Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the arena is filled with the media. In government, you have to learn to put yourself second in a big way. But I am a business person at heart. I like to be in charge.

Neal Schon

World Play is very '70s arena rock, very raw and in your face, and that's what we wanted. We recorded it in a very off-the-cuff manner and didn't really plan out how we were going to play. My solos are first takes.

Vicente Fox

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

We still haven't played a complete game on both sides of the ball. We're 5-1 right now, and that's scary. . . . The bottom line is we're finding ways to win. That's one thing about arena football; the games are going to be close.

Trent Reznor

You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.

Tony Campolo

We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.

Chris Van Hollen

You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.

William Sloane Coffin

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

Orlando Bloom

I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.

Today, the current military demarcation line between North and South Korea is the most heavily armed in the world and it remains an arena for potential confrontation,

Edmund Muskie

You know, I never have been a stagnant kind of individual. I've been in the Senate 22 years. I'm still stimulated by the challenges that it offers, but here's a whole new arena in which to deal, whole new set of challenges, whole new kind of authority, a chance for growth, and how could I say no?