Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

He was magnificent down the stretch, making big shot after big shot. He criticized himself and really took it out on the team. From a coaching standpoint, you can't ask for anything more.

Lindsay Wagner

I also realized I didn't have to understand everything in order to ask for help from the source of all life, the source of love.

John Nash

I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh, I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering.

Amanda Holden

I always felt sorry for the students who were asked to play sad, old characters.

Paul Jewell

I always ask for 100% effort, and that's what I got out of my players on Monday.

I always ask Claudio what's going on. I don't know everything, but I'm definitely curious. That stuff is always so complicated, I can hardly keep up with it myself.

He was a hardworking man. He volunteered. Pleasant Valley has a soup kitchen on Thursday. He worked every Thursday. He'd help out with Malta. He used to come out with us even. But he wouldn't give up the drinking, so we had to ask him to stop coming out with us.

Geoff Jenkins

He was a great player. We were doing our outfield drills today and I asked Davey Nelson and Gary Pettis to tell us some Kirby stories. They were telling us about some of the good times they had with him. It was nice.

He was about 10 to 12 weeks old and his left eye was swollen three times its normal size. It was so swollen he couldn't blink. They had no idea what to do and were asking if we would be good Samaritans and take him in and find him a home.

Ryan Freel

He wants to win. What more can you ask for? I think it's all you can really expect from a general manager. I think those guys are leading us down the right path. I guess we'll know more when the season starts and what adjustments we need to make. They're slowly but surely doing it. What more can you say?

Jeff Greenfield

One of the enduring myths of campaign analysis is that you can actually count the number of 'undecided' voters by asking voters if they are undecided or not. Sometimes, significant numbers of voters actually change their minds.

I was grinning and laughing on 14 and my caddie asked me why, and I wouldn't tell him. I just felt I couldn't go wrong and that feeling is such a good feeling. I wish I could have that every day. All of a sudden today, everything seemed to go in.

I was freaked out. I get nervous, believe me. I kept asking the guys if we got bumped. It was like in '99 at Memphis when we didn't make a good pass in round one and then it started raining and raining. Joe Amato would have passed us in the points if we didn't qualify but NHRA gave us all one more chance Sunday morning and we got in. I got no sleep that night.

Matthew Pearl

I was fortunate that Yale has a very open and creative law school. I took many courses outside the law school, and every semester, the students had a literature reading group. I was asked to lead one on 'Dante and the Concept of Justice,' and it was around that time that I began writing the novel.

I was finding a lot of room to move about out there. The pack slowed up a bit on the backstretch, and I saw an opening. ... I asked her a little bit, and she went.

John Calipari

I was so proud of Rodney Carney today. It would be so easy for Rodney to play for himself right now. It would easy for him to just go out and do it himself. I grabbed Rodney and said 'you are defending and we will try to give you some shots. Rodney said I am fine. At one point in the second half I asked if you want me to run something to get you going and he said I am fine. He defended and blocked shots today. Four blocks shows how far he has come and what he means to the team.

I was really surprised to get it, to tell you the truth. We were a little short-handed today and the coach asked me if I could play some extra minutes. I said ?fine,? but I was really tired late in the game.

I was really, really proud of the team. There was sort of a turn-around from the Central Michigan game to the Northwestern game within 24 hours. They came out, played hard, played well. They were doing the things we were asking them to do. They played good hockey.

Jacki Weaver

I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

Michael Vick

I wouldn't say that the game last week was similar to the one in Carolina. That was pretty much a blowout, if you ask me. Last week, we had a better chance to win. We put ourselves in a position where we could win and we didn't come through in those situations.

I wouldn't have known it was going on today but my friend called up and told me and asked me to come out and vote.

I would probably give him a big hug. I love having the ball in my hands, I love anything having to do with me running the ball or catching the ball. If he did that, I wouldn't turn it down. I'd be asking 'What play do you want me out there for?

I would have to ask him how he knows anything about these topics when he has never attended a meeting....I don't think I can respond.

I would be in support of that. I would only ask that we do it after we finish the project we've planned.

I wish we could go back to the times when you could pick up the phone, call all your friends and ask them to vote for you and you'd be halfway home. But it's very difficult a run a credible campaign with phone calls and yard signs. There are just so many different groups and segments of the community you have to circulate through. You've got to cover your bases.

I would encourage the children to be open. Ask your parents in general terms if they want some help discussing it, or in setting up a meeting to talk about it with a professional.

Bobby Bowden

I wish he could have got by without that, but I guess that was asking too much. I thought it was a great call. They had the goal line defense in there and our defense played in real good.

Joseph Parker

I would certainly want to grill them, to ask if results in 2003 are being repeated today.

I would ask you to understand that people can change.

Daniel Doctoroff

I would ask you to envision this island not as it is but as it could be, as part of the greatest harbor district in the world.

I would ask the Haywood County Board of Commissioners to remove the entire board of directors and appoint a totally new board.

I would ask the government to immediately enter a positive dialogue with the many millions of Muslims who feel offended by Denmark. I'm not sure if we have been quick enough at home to understand the scope of this.

Kevin Brady

I would ask the citizens not to go back to their old routine,