Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Paterno

He has to hang on to the football, ... The one thing about Tony that I have always worried about is that he has a tendency to be careless with the football. He is a good back. If he pays attention to the little things and spends a little bit more time with tapes and watching blocking schemes and things like that he can be even better than just a good back. He has speed and he is strong. He's a 225-pound tailback.

Bob Stoops

He is indifferent to all the attention he has been receiving. It does not seem to bother him one way or the other.

He is going to speak for the administration to two very important countries. The fact that he's going is a sign of the attention that the United States pays to these relationships.

Marcus Washington

He had a huge impact on this defense. He's a guy who just gets into the backfield and destroys everything. He blows up running plays. He's just a beast once he gets going, and a guy a lot of people don't really know. He's kind of our best-kept secret around here. He definitely doesn't get the attention he deserves, but in a game you definitely better pay attention to number 96.

He first came to our attention when he was at school in Newcastle and we've kept tabs on him ever since.

He earned his scholarship. You have to commend him for what he did with us. He was only healthy for the last two years. I've said 'It's not easy being Trim' because of the way he draws attention under the basket. It's a game of production and Trim produced for us.

He draws a lot of attention and makes good decisions. He's a senior, so we're going to try to get the ball in his hands as much as we can.

Billy Donovan

He gets bothered at a lot of the attention, or (that) people want to talk to him because it is a unique story. It is a unique family. He worries about getting too much attention and taking away from the rest of the guys. ... He doesn't want that.

He'll know not to pay attention to those things.

James Boyd

He'll do us a favor by calling people's attention to the fact that we are going to have to move a new fuel.

He came out for track last year as a football player and didn't pay much attention to it. Now he is starting to think like a track kid. If he's winning a race he just eases up. Now he isn't just a football player running.

We can give more personal attention than at our three-day camp that costs more and is for kids 10 and up.

Ichiro Suzuki

This was not perfect so far. But I believe a lot of people in the whole world paid attention to baseball.

What may have been OK four months ago, certainly isn't OK now. They understand now that the attention level is getting shifted more towards them in regards to this practice session.

There is no better way to get somebody's attention in the business community and the tennis business, than to be fortunate enough to have been able to pull all the pieces together to form this, what I call a coup. It's a coup. Everything has come together perfectly.

There is no evidence that what we have here is a willful disregard of the rules. What we have is some cases of lack of attention to detail and some questions about the vagaries of classification rules.

There is no evidence that (victim) was ever traumatized, he testified that he enjoyed the sex and attention from Webb.

The people that come up here and really pay attention do well.

We took delivery of the Smart Cars over the weekend and have been getting interest everywhere we go -- left, front and center. As we were parking them in front of the dealership, they attracted so much attention they literally stopped traffic, and even caused a fender-bender as people were gawking at them. I drove by my son's elementary school and the teacher invited me to bring the Smart Car for show and tell!

We're in the middle of the review process with the ULA deal. All of our attention is focused on that at this time. It would be inappropriate for us to comment on Boeing's labor relations.

Deron Miller

We're optimistic pessimists. We believe in ourselves, but no one else. We have respect for our fans and for what we do and if we were to pay attention to anything else, I think we would all go nuts.

Chan Gailey

We're on the field for four hours anyway. Our games have gone 3:50, 3:40 and 3:30. You want to get my attention and my ire up, let's start talking about shortening the game. To me, this is not smart on our part. We could take some plays out that nobody would miss by running the clock in some situations.

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Joe Nathan

When his name popped up, I thought it was a joke at first. Knowing him, I thought this was one of his pranks or something. ... With this testing, you've really got to be careful and you've really got to pay attention to what's going into your body.

When he was younger he took a real beating in the games, but this year he used his head more and was able to turn some of that attention from the other teams into opportunities for us. He's a very deceptive skater. When he looked tired and got the puck he was able to explode to the goal.

Billy Bob Thornton

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

John Green

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.

When you really pay attention on the recording, you're making sure each drum sounds the way you want it to sound and your guitar is where you want it to be.

When you're a little guy, you have an attitude because you get attention that you're too small. Royce has a big heart. He's our leader.

We had been experiencing some neglect and lack of attention from the candidates.

Geno Auriemma

When I look back, that's probably the one thing that I'm going to remember more than anything, not so much the championships, the wins, but I think we made the Big East take women's basketball seriously. I think we made people around the country pay attention to what we were doing. Because of that, it showed a lot of people out there that there's an unbelievable game out there that people were missing.

Rena Sofer

When I buy clothes, I like to buy them in outfits so I know they go together. I like a very simple, natural style. I never like to be the attention getter; I like to come under the radar and be cool about my look, very classic and stylish. I'm not into fads.