Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Johnston

The pitchers on this staff have a lot of experience. They will keep us in a lot of games. Most of these guys have been on winning teams, so they bring that 'you aren't going to beat me' attitude to the table.

This year hasn't been what we had hoped coming off last year. We're all frustrated. That's what happens when you're not going to contend. But the staff's attitude remains positive.

John Hart

This year hasn't been what we had hoped coming off last year, ... We're all frustrated. That's what happens when you're not going to contend. But the staff's attitude remains positive.

You can tell the get-nasty attitude in the way you walk, the way you talk, how you feel about yourself. Maybe it's a little bit of a New Jersey-type deal with Coach Weis being from New Jersey.

You can tell it's bothering him a little bit. But he has a positive attitude about things because we're 3-2.

You can't do that without making employee unrest part of that picture. At some point the attitude thing has got to play into this.

Dominic Moore

We've had the same attitude all year long: We're not overly concerned about the standings. Our focus is on learning and getting better and doing the right things. Obviously, it's frustrating not playing our best hockey.

We've had a lot of difficulties here in the past, so it's good to get the win and the two points. It's a blast right now. The attitude of this team now is unbelievable.

Nick Collison

We've had a lot going on all year, extracurricular things. I think it weighed everybody down. (On the) first day, it does (feel better). Some guys said it felt better in Florida. They said the feel was better. Hopefully, the attitude will change everything.

We've got a different attitude coming in here, a different staff, a different attitude. A lot of guys have improved. I think we've gotten a lot better.

Barry Trotz

Tomas is a great goaltender, but he just doesn't get enough respect around the league. He's one of the great stories we have. To see where he's come from to where he is now is wonderful. When you are coaching, those are the stories that you love. Because he wasn't in great shape, his attitude was off center a little bit, but now he's the hardest working, most fit, most professional guy. And he's still young.

We all went out there with the attitude that we were going to give it our all.

Stephen Jay Gould

[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.

Stephen Jay Gould

We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading "positive attitude" protrudes from our hearts, and no finger can coerce positivity into immediate action by a single and painless pressing.

Sophia Myles

I've spent a lot of time in L.A. and I love it. A lot of Brits can't stand the place, but I like the West Coast attitude and the way people celebrate success.

I've spoken to Shea a few times this winter. His attitude is tremendously upbeat. He has spent a lot of time talking about the things we need to do as a team to get better. The things that he can do to help not only (John Gibbons), but me as an infield instructor with the young guys. Every conversation that we've had, I've hung up the phone and gone, 'All right, Shea is one-year comfortable in the organization. Now he's ready to take more of a controlled leadership.' He's not worried about being relegated to a secondary role. He's excited about what he can do to make us better.

I've never said 'why me?'. That's life. I try to keep a positive attitude. If you start feeling sorry for yourself, that's when it gets bad.

Nigel Lythgoe

I've never heard kids blame other kids to their faces on-stage. I've never heard people give the judges a mouthful and say 'I'm quitting the show.' Everybody has more attitude this season. I've never seen people as willing to (be harsh to) others as this crowd. Before, we've said to them 'You want to win. You want to get rid of other people' and they've said 'No, we all love each other.' Well, not this crowd... Thank God there weren't any sharp instruments.

Kim Clijsters

I've realized a lot more how much I missed tennis, ... That's the whole completely different attitude that I have now. No matter what I do, I'm going for it because it could be over. If I get another wrist injury, if I have anything else, my career could be over very soon. That's why I want to go out there and just enjoy every shot that I can hit.

It would be easy to take the attitude (that) whatever it costs doesn't make a difference. To the taxpaying citizens, it does.

It was unbelievably close. I can't believe I won. I have been fighting the downhill all year and I didn't come here with a positive attitude ? I was hoping to finish top 10.

It was very significant two years ago when Greenspan endorsed the first Bush tax cut plan. So his basically lukewarm attitude now, saying that some of these ideas are good things in principle, but not at the expense of large deficits, has to weigh heavily on those moderate Republicans.

Darren Sharper

It was tough for me to hold back some emotion when I saw it on the bottom of the screen. I talked to him, and he says he's going to come back stronger. That's the type of attitude that he has.

Candice Wiggins

It was a lot different this year not having the automatic bid. We'll bring a whole new attitude and level of energy to the tournament. This is when we should be playing our best.

These attitudes run deep and wide. To ignore them could be politically perilous.

Thomas Frank

These sensibilities are old, 19th century, republican ideals. That attitude has pretty much gone away. I've been reading muckraking books from the 1930s, when there was still this intense hatred and fear of monopolies - especially newspaper chains.

Martin Lewis Perl

These schools and the attitude of my parents towards these schools were important in preparing me for the work of an experimental scientist.

These were huge quality-of-life improvements. And the attitude of maintenance in doing these projects has been a 'whatever-it-takes' attitude, which is so appreciated.

These events happened because of the state of war... because of the British attitude to the occupation of Iraq.

These data clearly show consumer attitudes at recessionary levels,

Voltaire

I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me

I've checked out a lot of the new clubs, and I really think this one's my favorite. They treat you well and the attitude is so casual, but it's elegant at the same time.

I've been on some great teams. I'm just really proud. I can't express enough how proud I am of this team. The personality. The get-after-it attitude every day. I expect no less these next four games. I told you guys this a month ago: It's probably going to come down to the final weekend in Washington.