Famous Quotes & Sayings

I really thought Roy was going to retire after the Johnson fight. That's what he told me, and I believed it. Then, in June, I went out to his farm. Roy wasn't there. I asked where he was, and his uncle said that he was out doing roadwork. A few weeks after that, Roy got the gym cleaned up. Then he started training; and the next thing I knew, there was a fight.

I recognize that I have asked for a lot of dramatic change out of my staff and that change is hard for some, particularly those who have worked in a stagnant bureaucracy for years.

Daniel Gibson

I remember the first time he stepped into the gym, a freshman with this far-away look on his face. During practice he stopped and asked me questions like, 'What am I supposed to do on that play?' and 'Where am I supposed to go now?' At that point I knew he wanted to make himself a better player. I saw it from Day 1.

I remember being asked one time who was driving, and I guess I mumbled out me, but I don't recall. They said I was swearing up and down I was driving, but I wasn't, I don't remember that at all.

I remember once when my vice-captain came and asked me permission whether he could get married on a particular day because there was a match on. Even the parents of the cricketers come and tell me to look after their children. I am very happy working with them because I have a free hand.

Roy H. Williams

I love the coast, I love the seafood, ... Then they asked me how I like my steak cooked, and that shocked me.

Dusty Baker

I'll just take the same. Everybody asked if last year was a career year. I don't believe in career years. Once you do it once and find your formula, you should be able to do similar. He knows what he's doing now. He has an idea. He knows how to make adjustments quickly. He's very consistent. He recognizes very quickly what the opposition is trying to do to him and he knows his own limitations.

I looked him in the eye and asked if he wanted it, and without hesitation he said yes. He wanted it, and he took it, and as teammates they backed him up.

Michael Jackson

I look at this as a staff award. It's a good indicator that our staff is doing some of the right things and our kids are responding well to what we have asked them to do.

I read the book and e-mailed the organization, we got to talking and I asked if we could do a fundraiser for them. I then went to the school and started lobbying if we could have the football game with the fire fighters. They said they'd love to do it and here we are a year later, playing the game.

Bob Woodward

I realized I was going to be dragged into this, that I was the catalyst. And then I asked the source, 'If you go to the prosecutor, am I released to testify?' And the source told me, 'Yes.'

Terrell Suggs

I reacted wrong. I let my emotions get the best of me. I was upset. In short, I asked him why is he calling the game like that.

City council had said no to the big box re-zoning, and this seemed a good opportunity as well. The director had contacted us and asked us for material to include in the film, and we think the Vancouver experience is going to be part of that film.

Peter Ueberroth

Cities can do what they want. We've asked them not to spend money. Don't get consultants. Don't get logos. Let's get serious about what you're going to embark on.

His friends wanted to leave him a gift, leave his family a gift. So they want to raise enough money to build and fully furnish a home for this family. They asked us to help,

Chirac was elected each time on a left-wing, social platform and then asked his various prime ministers to do something else.

Cale Hulse is a tremendous person who came in and did everything we asked of him during his time with the Blue Jackets. This move will give him an opportunity to play in his hometown and we wish him all the best.

Candies are not legal tender and cannot be deposited anywhere. Again, a customer must be asked if it is OK to give a candy because of short change.

James Green

Can't think of anything to say. Feeling a bit nervy. Kinda like a bloke who has just asked the girl of his dreams out, only for her to say yes, now in the excitement he is not quite sure whether he can go through with it.

Stephen Harper

Canadians have asked our party to take the lead in delivering that change. We will honor your words and deliver on our commitments.

Canadians are asked to exercise judgment in reducing the use of oil and gas at this time.

Tana Umaga

But when we were under pressure we showed character to hold on. In the last 20 minutes some questions were asked of us and we came up with the answers.

But it is a beta and we're still taking feedback, fixing bugs, and working hard to ready the final release. Customers and partners have asked us to continue to be transparent on the work we're doing and to release regular builds that they can evaluate and test. We're committed to doing this.

Stella Young

I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly 'what's wrong' with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don't identify the name of my condition in an interview unless it's relevant to the context of the story.

Keira Knightley

(I am) really proud to have been asked to work with such an iconic house as Chanel, and thrilled to follow the extraordinary women who have been associated with it before.

I am so confident, in fact that I have asked the Compensation Committee of our board to pay my cash incentive bonus in GE performance shares for 2005.

Mohsin Hamid

I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory. I might mention novels by Nabokov and Calvino and Tolkien on one occasion, by Fitzgerald and Baldwin and E.B. White on another. Camus often features, as do Tolstoy, Borges, Morrison and Manto.

Annie Golden

I am the flower child who will not wilt. You couldn't have asked for anything more.

Carlos did everything we asked him to do over the off-season - and more,

But they're not - no pun intended, given the fish on Friday - entirely off the hook. If you do choose to eat meat, you're asked to perform another sacrificial act, such as refraining from eating meat on another day, or doing some service to others, or making a donation to the poor.

Jim Turner

This is a document that's designed to provoke longer-range thinking on the part of the leadership here. It's the kind of questions that I'm glad to see that are being asked in the administration,

This is a decision we made. No one asked us to close.

This has been a chaotic mess. What we have asked the IPCC to find out is how much is incompetence, negligence or gross negligence and how much of it is something sinister.