Famous Quotes & Sayings

My dad came over from Ireland when he was 13 and lived on the streets, working on building sites, and has just retired from his job delivering furniture for John Lewis. My mum has had the same job for 30 years as a sales assistant at Marks and Spencer. They've always been really great; they just want me to be happy.

Steve Jones

My concern at this point is the safety of the kids and to assist the families. Baseball is very secondary as opposed to what's going on.

My assistant told me to keep my composure, but I hadn't said anything all game and I wanted them to know I wasn't happy with that call. The thing that upsets me most is now I have to go buy a box of pencils because I'm out.

My assistant told me there was a very insistent boy waiting to see me, who was a bit too cocky for his own good.

My assistants pay a lot of attention to that stuff, checking scores during the game and things like that. But I don't even know what the standings are. I know that it's going to be a dogfight until the end.

My assistants have been with me all the last eight years. Some of them have been there longer than that. Brian McDermott, I think, is going into his 20th year of coaching. Danny Malloy probably has 12 years. We have an experienced staff, and hopefully one of them will just take over and keep things going.

My assistant said he didn't have any problems with the track, and hopefully he doesn't.

My assistant Fran Amara said it was probably the best half he?s played this season. We really played like a team, making the extra pass and finding the open man. When we play like a team, we?re hard to beat.

My assistant (Doug Barba) and I were giggling over the summer. This is like the beginning of a good movie, and you can't wait to see how it ends.

My assistant coach kept telling to me take it to the goal and get fouled. I just had to slow down and concentrate and start knocking my free throws down.

My assistant coaches have watched them. I'm watching tape right now. They're a good team. Very athletic. But that's what were focused on and that's what's important right now.

Lloyd Doggett

more support and assistance than ... all the states outside of the direct line of the hurricane put together.

Scott Walker

More so when I was playing defense in the minors, I'd make a pass up the ice and go off and change. I'd be sitting on the bench and they'd get the goal. They'd review it and you'd hear you got an assist and you were sitting on the bench. It can happen.

Roger Corman

My father was an engineer, ... But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.

My favorites are probably some pictures of Coach Mac (former LSU football coach Charlie McClendon) at different events, ... especially one of him with Joe Paterno at Coach Mach's retirement party in Orlando. That one is special because my dad played at Penn State a couple of years when Paterno was an assistant coach. Paterno was my dad's hero at Penn State.

Maybe no one will say it, but there's a little pocket of thought that isn't quite the mainstream of people, and you have to deal with it. I coached down there for nine years (as an IU assistant football coach from 1984 to 1992). I dealt with it, but I wasn't the head coach.

No one -- whether citizen or public official -- will be permitted to illegally profit at the expense of the communities and citizens who so desperately need FEMA funds and assistance in the wake of this region's terrible disaster.

Obviously, this was very special for me, growing up in North Carolina, growing up on ACC basketball and being an assistant in this league at Wake Forest.

Obviously the United States government deplores this violence, ... We stand ready to assist the governments of Kenya and Israel as they investigate these attacks.

Obviously, the $10 million is going to help a great deal. We are certainly hearing from many, many more rate payers than we did last year. The number of inquiries we are getting with respect to people needing some assistance we're certainly a lot busier than we were at this time last year.

Obviously, Murray State has got a great program and a great tradition. As an assistant coach, everybody has aspirations to be a head coach, but in no way am I in a hurry to leave the University of Alabama.

When you're a GM ? or a personnel manager or assistant GM ? you're already in the basketball world. Which isn't the world of dealing, of business, of thinking how this fits with that. I wanted knowledge that went to another level. I wanted a statistical side other people don't have.

When I was assistant coach of Harlequins, I came to Castres and got walloped, so I've seen what they are capable of,

When the mayor was elected, the administrative assistant was a position he requested be added. Because he was the first black mayor in Selma - something that got attention worldwide - he felt he needed someone skilled in administrative work. If you go into his office, he's rarely ever sitting there by himself. Calls came in all the time requesting him to speak and still do.

I feel that all those millions of women who are looking at us are totally vindicated, and they have something to grasp to assist them for their battles for equality,

Tara VanDerveer

I can't remember a year when I've moved on as quickly. I made a concerted effort to do that this morning when I got up. I talked to Candice (Wiggins); I talked to my assistant coaches. I am really motivated by the fact that I don't want to be feeling this way a year from today.

I can tell you I have called 29 other teams, and all of our special assistants are flying in tonight to start two days of meetings. . . . We?re going to take a fresh look at everything.

Joe Barton

I can only guess at the excuses that will be offered by people who profit by engaging in an obvious fraud, by invading personal privacy, and by assisting criminal behavior.

Bill Foster

Getting help to our colleagues is problematic at this time due to emergency restrictions. However we are preparing our plan and will be ready with immediate assistance when supply routes are open.

France and Russia have oil companies and interests in Iraq. They should be told that if they are of assistance in moving Iraq toward decent government, we'll do the best we can to ensure that the new government and American companies work closely with them. If they throw in their lot with Saddam, it will be difficult to the point of impossible to persuade the new Iraqi government to work with them.

From what we've seen, many people love this product and swear by it. Putting Safe Sea out there to South Florida residents creates more publicity for the lotion. It'll assist our company as well, since we're relatively new.

From what I've been told, everything went as well as you would expect and would hope. We'll just let Yao get over the surgery and give him the best possible treatment to assist his recovery.

Funds raised at the yard sale will be donated via the Tahoe-Douglas Chamber to the American Red Cross to assist survivors of Hurricane Katrina.