Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dirk Koetter

Everybody had their doubts if Rudy was ever going to be able to play, and he's been awesome in this whole camp. I love the way that guy's worked. He's improved everything we asked him to. I hope nothing happens to Sam, but you've got to have more than one guy.

Everybody else would take the chance to go to college. They look at the Marines as some hard-nosed stuff you can't make it through. I asked him about it and he said if he had the chance he'd do it again. He said it was one of the best experiences he ever had.

Marcus Miller

Everyone was talking about her and telling me I had to check out Donny's daughter, ... I had a gig in Japan at a festival and I wanted to bring in something new, so I asked her to perform. She was just so musical, so fantastic. Every once in a while she would hit one of those notes that would make you think of her father. We've been working together off and on since then.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

Every producer I have met has asked me to change my hair. I have always said 'No.' I finally change it for me... and now everyone in the business is like, 'You have to go back to having brown hair.'

Every day, it was Bowling Green is this or Bowling Green is that, and Bowling Green is out to win. That got annoying. Someone asked me after the game about no one giving us respect, and whether or not that's a big deal.

Judy Martz

Every day, I'm asked to give money to something, and we're finding we did many of the right things when I first became governor.

For a minute he was taken aback. I asked him not to say anything, to think about it. Well, the more he thought about it, the more he began getting excited.

For a long time, we only asked questions such as, 'Does TV make kids stupid? Does TV make kids violent?' So the field was understudied.

The number 3,500 is not an accident. It's a number we feel we can get on a regular basis. And believe me, there was significant discussion on the final numbers. Some wanted more, some wanted less. If you asked five people, you got 10 different opinions. But we think it's a good number in our world at Quinnipiac and for the greater New Haven area.

Then they brought in box after box after box of things like T-shirts and underclothes they had just bought, ... After they brought in the items they had purchased, she asked if we were taking money, and I told her 'yes.' She started peeling off $100 bills one right after the other. After she handed me $1,000, we all cried.

It's the right thing to do &#151 we had corporate contributions, employee contributions, we donated a couple of thousand boxes, so when they called and asked for help it was an easy decision. I was thrilled that they asked us.

It's one of those things where you've got a fifth-year kid who has done everything we've asked of him and has worked extremely hard and has had a couple weeks in a row of tremendous practices. We inserted him in the starting lineup, and he was great. And he deserved it, just because of everything that he's done.

Troy Percival

It's not doing bad. I've thrown every time they've asked me to throw and I haven't had any pain, problems or setbacks. I didn't start throwing until early January, and it's OK. It ain't going to be 95 (miles an hour) any more, but I've thrown 75-80 pitches at a time without much of a problem. It just takes me a couple of days to recover. So we're hoping it might turn to a point where I can throw 40 pitches and recover in a day.

It's not disappointing to lose; we have lost before, but to lose with little or no effort is upsetting. When you don't listen to what's being told it becomes rather frustrating. Like I told the guys, I will tell you what I want you to do and when it doesn't work, I'll take the blame but if you don't do what you are asked nothing can work. We had four guys doing one thing and one guy doing something else. It was one of our worst outings of the year.

It's their process. They haven't asked us for anything new.

It started with the Winona Athletic Boosters. We asked for $4,000 and they gave it to us. When they did that, we realized we had enough to get started.

It started out that the residents there asked for more permit parking.

Greg Olsen

It's like a combination of college and military training. It's not five star, you're not babied... I was expected to do whatever was asked of me. There are frequent exams and I was expected to pass the exams. I haven't had that in over 30 years, the fear we all have -- here's the test, I'd better not fail it.

Jonathan Harris

It's like a campground, but a campground nobody asked to stay at,

It just didn't seem like we were even going to be asked to be a part of it. So it made no sense in our minds to try and go back to a house that we had been driven out of.

Khalil Gibran

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

Scott Parker

It is the toughest draw we could have asked for. But we won't be afraid. If you are going to win the F.A. Cup you have to beat the best teams around.

It's a loose group of individuals who were sitting around and thought it would be a good idea to do this. They're not organized, and we asked them to withdraw the petition because we want this to be a totally South Dakota operation. They were leaning towards doing that.

Vince Carter

It's always fun when you're winning, but the biggest thing that makes it fun is guys are just going out there and playing hard and doing what's asked of us. It's just the effort. Guys are dedicating themselves to these last 20-plus games and we're getting results.

Matt Hasselbeck

He's a pro and he worked hard. And I give him a lot of credit. We asked him to do a lot. He came through when we needed him.

He's a pretty tough kid and he'll do what he's asked to do. He's out there doing a bit to the opposition.

Vance Law

He said the first baseman caught the ball, I saw it completely different. I asked him to ask the other umpire and he said it was my call and I'm not going to ask the other umpire. I really need to watch what I say. I've been reprimanded before. That didn't have a whole heck of a lot of bearing on the ball game. It was pretty well out of reach, but let's just put it this way: I've got a control pitcher on the mound and he walks five guys in three innings. That's all I'll say. He hasn't walked five guys in five games.

He said that he might not seek re-election in 2007. When I asked what he wanted to do, he said, 'I hope I can get a staff job at City Council,'

I wanted Lou to come up here in the worst way as a special advisor. He promised me, if I asked him to, he'd come down to Spring Training. He's just a terrific guy. He will not be with us this year.

I wanted Lou to come up here in the worst way as a special adviser. He promised me if I asked him to, he'd come down to spring training. He's just a terrific guy. He'll not be with us this year.

I wanted to have a public-access channel run by the people in Los Banos. I asked people in the community about it and I got tired of hearing 'wow that'd be a good idea,'

I wanted to go out there and go right at them and attack it, because I don't want to be asked these questions anymore.

I wanted to come for this and Mike asked if he could bring one of his friends. Danny was having too much fun back in Mexico.