Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Busch

(A race you win) is one less race for things to go wrong, ... You can look at it from many different directions, and for us, we wanted to capitalize on the first eight races and after Atlanta we were forced into making sure we didn't have anything go wrong after that. We wanted to attack for as many races as we could, and then you have to play it cool, because you can only go for so long.

Right now we just want this game in Atlanta to be one of the best ones we've ever put on. Then we'll worry about the future. We need to do it for the people of New Orleans.

Jonathan Friedman

Critically, there has been an explosion in warranty litigation in the last five years. In Atlanta alone, as an example, in 2000 we had less than 50 warranty lawsuits filed in the courts. Today there are literally thousands of them.

John Smoltz

There's a perception problem in Atlanta with the bullpen. It's hard to let go of the past. As soon as something goes wrong, everyone says, 'Here we go again.

Carl Edwards

Atlanta Motor Speedway couldn't come at a better time for our team. We've run three races so far and we've run terribly at two of them. We need Atlanta. We need to come here and run well.

Atlanta is the kind of market you will not need to quit school to work in. You can balance it here.

Kasey Kahne

Atlanta is one of my favorite race tracks, and it always has been.

Atlanta is in for a treat this St. Patrick's Day. The teamwork by all the groups involved has been exceptional, and we have positioned ourselves for a successful and sustainable regional family festival for 2006 and many years to come.

Mark Martin

Atlanta is definitely one of my favorite tracks. From top to bottom it's one of my favorite places that we race. It's a fast track and over time the pavement has settled and you have a lot of grooves for racing, which really makes for good racing and a good show for the fans.

Atlanta is a nice city, ... I'm sure they would have the facilities.

Rich Rodriguez

Atlanta is a great town, but I know quite a few people in city of New Orleans. When I left there, I always thought it would be great to go back to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl.

Atlanta has become a magnet for the beneficiaries of the civil rights movement, and those are the folks who attend New Birth.

Greg Erwin

Atlanta and Vegas were two really strong runs for us, and Texas has a similar setup in race configuration. But we're hoping to throw a little something different at it to help our qualifying. Robby knows we've been in a bit of a slide these last few weeks, so we're going to be counting on him to bring his game face on Friday. We have to qualify better.

The more, the merrier. It says a lot about Atlanta and what they've done. Being from here, I'm proud.

Forget it. I'm an Atlanta Brave. I'm very pleased with what I got here. They were very fair. I'm pleased with everything.

This is the biggest free-agent signing in the history of the Atlanta Thrashers.

Young Jeezy

This could have been us in Atlanta right now, living in this building.

It's marvelous and really a new museum. It's a wonderful frame for what we will do in Atlanta in the future.

Shameik Moore

As I get older, I'm starting to find myself liking clean, fitted outfits, so I like a button-down. I'm seeing supermodels and what fashion is really like in real life. There's more than just Atlanta with the saggy pants.

Both Bill and Shawn have proven track records and will continue to deliver the tradition of excellence that our Atlanta and Orlando viewing audiences expect.

Brendan is a really cool guy. It was a really cool thing to hang out with him in this niche environment in Atlanta and see how Stone Temple Pilots did their stuff.

Michael Bolton

When Coretta Scott King invited me to come to Atlanta and give a speech and sing at a tribute to her last year, I decided to write a song for her and sing it directly to her. I was studying her words and history, and I wrote 'The Courage in Your Eyes.' I look at those pictures of her standing with Dr. King -- she was a rock.

Kenny Perry

We cannot thank 100 Black Men of Atlanta enough. It was an unbelievable trip. This is an experience that we will relish for the rest of our lives.

John Schuerholz

The viewpoints attributed to John Rocker in no way reflect the views of the Atlanta Braves organization.

I've been under contract with the Atlanta Braves for 14 years, and I hope to be under contract with them another 14 years. I love it here.

Chris Watson

I've been coming here from Atlanta since I was a baby, and my favorite thing to do was walk around the block. She said it was safe enough in Decatur to let the little guy go out on his own.

Dennis Kelly

The Zoo Atlanta family is elated at the news of twin gorilla babies. We are proud to do our part to support a species that is experiencing such catastrophic decline in the wild.

Felix Sabates

Think about this. Would you want to go to Atlanta at 8 o'clock at night and walk around by yourself?

John Tortorella

We just froze. Atlanta has some good offensive people and we couldn't change the momentum. The way we played the last two periods, we're fortunate to get two points.

Michael Vick

We are very critical of ourselves and of how we play and what we do as Atlanta Falcons, ... We know that we have some work to do on both sides of the ball, and that's what we are looking for from our team: improvement. It would be a great situation to be in, 5-2 and 1-0 in the division. It's a great step for us, and obviously as we come back we have to win games and step our own game up a little bit as we get into playing more divisional opponents. We have to really focus in and beat New York this week and worry about what is down the road a little bit later.

We're going to aggressively go after the greater Atlanta community.

Muhammad Ali

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous

Hakeem Olajuwon

I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.