Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Snyder

Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.

William Shakespeare

O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead! That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds which too untimely here did scorn the earth.

At a personal level, when I moved from the 1/2 mile to the mile as a college junior, I used the experiences and stories of those milers who came before me for education and inspiration. Don, too, moved from the 1/2 mile to the mile in college, and his 3:58.7, which made him the third-fastest miler ever when he ran it, was remarkable in part because he ran it on the same day that he took a final exam in Berkeley. For an athlete like myself, who aspired to be a student and an athlete throughout my career, Don was and is a true role model.

At a minimum, the (Fed's policy panel) can and should aspire to policy statements that are clear and do not themselves create uncertainty and ambiguity,

Bonnie Raitt

AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.

This is something to which I have aspired to for a long, long time. It is a job I would have been disappointed at not filling at some stage of my career.

This is something I aspired to as long as I've been at Bountiful High.

Mark Hughes

You should never pass up the opportunity to walk up a few steps and raise a trophy over your head. As a player, that is something you should aspire to and something you can be proud of.

This is a tremendous honor for Freddy. As a young player, we are proud of his development and continued determination to be a great player. Freddy and D.C. United both aspire to succeed on the world stage and this is another step toward that goal.

Alexandra Orlando

Erika is a huge role model for me and an inspiration. I'm growing into myself and a much stronger gymnast and maybe one day, people will aspire to be like me.

Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.

We should aspire to become enthusiastic and noble.

In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

You hit one shot and it might be two or three holes before you hit another one. Raymond really didn't have a putt on that back nine until he had the putt to win all the money on 17. It's a little different thing. It's a very tough format to hold your patience and the patience to keep going. And Raymond aspired to that.

I sort of followed in his footsteps out to Hollywood, and aspired in the way he did. I was wonderful to come home and make a movie.

Jim Courier

The writing's been on the wall. Tennis takes us all over the world. People aspire to be the players they see on TV, and that's where dreams come from.

Through this program we aspire to give youth a comprehensive picture of the magnitude of this crisis and to provide a forum in which this disease can be discussed frankly, openly and honestly, ... We hope this forms a basis of a pro-active youth response to the crisis.

The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.

I've always looked upon his career and the things he's done very favorably. Any young, up-and-coming coach, you do aspire to do a certain thing a certain way, and he was always one of those guys that I looked up to, and I still look up to.

Ashley Jensen

I missed Britain. I'm from here and I never aspired to go to L.A. - it sort of happened by default. I loved being there. I found it a little bit difficult at first, but I found my way.

Jamie Dixon

It's my desire to have assistants who aspire to be head coaches. I know that's been the goal for Barry and Joe, and that's why I'm so excited about their opportunities. Both have made invaluable contributions to our program. The University of Pittsburgh is very indebted to them.

Mirra Alfassa

Daily we must aspire to conquer all mistakes, all obscurities, and all ignorance.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

Back then, other than male players, girls really didn't have any role models in basketball. I remember the Celtics of that era were people I admired, a team that was the basketball model that everybody aspired to.

Sathya Baba

Aspire to live in peace, not in plenty.

Dan Wheldon

That's what really got me passionate about American motor sports. Ever since that point, I've kind of aspired to being out here.

Joel Kinnaman

For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.

He brings all the intangibles that we aspire for in our players. He is a winner and served as captain of his club team that captured a national championship. He was the glue that held everything together. He has a dynamic personality that will improve the competitive drive on our entire team.

Jane Smiley

he aspired to produce something simultaneously less vulgar and less formless than the novels of the great Victorians, and ... he wished his work to elevate the novel to the status of art.

He really had to think about it. He isn't an actor; he doesn't aspire for fame; he doesn't want a career in Hollywood. It was just a great opportunity, all the life experiences. All the stuff he's done in Paris, the private yachts and staying in a castle. Plus it's a good time for him to settle down.

For thence - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale

Joe Greene

I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

David Rakoff

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.