Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Cox

He's been outstanding. You can't ask for anything more.

He's been on fire. We've been facing good pitching and the kids have been competing. That's all I ask for. We've been swinging the bat well. It was nice to see us get some two-out hits.

Rick Barnes

He's been great to me. He's always asked me what we could do to make my job better.

I don't think I could ask anything else of my team. We battled hard and that's the best we can do.

Steve Berry

If a party is unresponsive, we have no other means to conduct an engineering study. It's not our preference. We'd ask people to understand we have to do these studies.

If anything, people are going to commit a little larger funds than we are asking for.

Alex Turner

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering (James 1:5-6).

Edmund Burke

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so.

Robert Townsend

If asked when you can deliver something, ask for time to think. Build in a margin of safety. Name a date. Then deliver it earlier than you promised. You'll be very valuable wherever you are.

If a customer makes crafts as a hobby, we ask them to bring them in and we will sell them.

If a kid asks what happens if I don't do my homework, say, 'I don't know.' All the kids do it.

If bail is set and the properties are squared away, I'm going to ask that he be released right away.

If a young player were to ask me what to do, ... I'm not going to tell him it's bad. Look at all the money in the game: You have a chance to set your family up, to get your daughter into a better school.... So I can't say, 'Don't do it,' not when the guy next to you is as big as a house and he's going to take your job and make the money.

James Allen

If at the end of the week's work, and on receiving his wages, he were to ask his employer for a larger sum, pleading that, though he could not justly claim it and did not really deserve it, yet he expected it, he would not only receive the larger sum but would, doubtless, be discharged from his post. Yet in spiritual things men do not think it to be either foolish or selfish to ask for these blessings

Sean Burroughs

If a trainer asked me now how I felt, I'd say fine, send me out.

Daunte Culpepper

If a trade does not happen then I am asking the Vikings to terminate my contract as soon as possible.

If an elected governor asked me to leave, I would leave - and if he asked me to stay, I would stay, ... A lot is going to depend on our philosophies and if we mesh.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Jorge Ramos

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

I don't think you can ask for any better competition. If this doesn't prepare you for a state tournament, nothing will.

David Tom

I don't want any recognition for it, it's not about that. The Tour asked me to be on and I'm going to tell them what's going on.

John Flaherty

I don't think you could ask for a better young manager for a young team. And I think there's an instant respect there as well. The career he's had on the field and winning championships, he's a person if you're around him for about five minutes you know he's going to be successful in whatever he does.

Albert Pujols

I don't try to compare myself with anybody. I don't get caught up in that because then you might take things for granted. I just try to be the best, go give it my best shot, and that's all the manager asks from me every day.

I don't think you would dispute that if I asked you to describe what you were wearing it would be a different description from mine. So it strikes me as not a big deal that memoir is subjective. It's that it has to be honest in its retelling of facts or tell you that it's not.

I expect that on Wednesday we will be asking people to inform the inquiry as to whether they have any wish to examine the prime minister in relation to his statement.

I expect her to work hard and get better everyday. She played middle infield; I've asked her to move to the outfield. She's been out there catching balls everyday. She hits everyday and works hard everyday.

John Cornyn

I expect them to stand on that principle again, no matter who asked for them,

I even called friends in Colorado, asking them to send $10 or $20, ... I need help. I kept telling everyone, and it worked.

Mike Wallace

I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.

If accurate, these are gruesome depictions of deceased people in Iraq, and that violates the standards of our values, training and procedures that we ask military personnel to observe and obey, ... It is very difficult to establish they are in fact being submitted by soldiers, where they were taken, who they were taken by, and the circumstances surrounding them.

I don't think it was much of challenge. When Jed and I were asked to take on that role, we both knew this was an arrangement we were going to try and we were going to see how it works. We were going to do that because we felt that was the best solution for the Red Sox.