Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Youkilis

It's like they always say, good hitters walk. You get to be a good hitter before you get a lot of walks, that's the way I see it. You take a lot of pitches. You can be smart and selective at the plate, and that helps attribute to walks.

It shows just how competitive it is. You can also attribute it to the popularity of girls athletics. Girls are becoming more involved and they have more opportunities to play golf tournaments in the summer.

It's been a little too easy to attribute it to managed care. There are a number of factors here that could explain overcrowding and increases in the numbers of people in certain periods going to the emergency room.

Theo Epstein

It's not fair to attribute my decision to any one factor or any one person, ... There were many factors that went into the decision.

James Russell Lowell

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Mayer Hawthorne

Everybody comments that I'm white. I'm surprised I haven't gotten more criticism for it. I'm always expecting any day now it's gonna come. I guess I just attribute the lack of hate to people hearing the music and hearing how much I genuinely love it.

The number one brand attribute at the time Napster was shut down was innovation. The second highest characteristic was actually 'free'.

Her chief attribute was that she was great at getting things going. In later years she would come by and see how it was going, and I'm sure it was a great feeling that the place was not just continuing to go, but prospering - that her early efforts were rewarded.

Her best attribute is that she doesn't know how good she is.

Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

Daniel Gibson

I did a lot of other things besides scoring the basketball. I got my guys a lot of open looks. I played good defense. I think I had a good all around game, but I attribute a lot of my game to my teammates. The way they pushed me and motivated me to keep playing hard.

Rick Brunson

I attribute this to working hard and staying with it for all those eight years.

I attribute this description of us as courageous, which Commander Castro has so generously made, to the courageous position that Mexico has always held in its foreign policy, in defense of the principles of sovereignty,

I attribute that to the games we played in the first semester. I don't know if we win those games if we have a cake schedule in the first half.

I attribute that to my teammates, actually. They are always setting me up and always giving me great passes.

John Thompson

I attribute that to listening to partners. Partnering been in the DNA of our company for over 25 years.

I attribute our success to just having a solid combination of players over the last few years. We have always had outstanding players we've been able to rely on. I've been coaching since 1973, I've been around the block a little bit and I have an idea of where the gyms are around here, so I just make sure they get there and let them do the rest.

I attribute it to innovative marketing, rebellion by the people, you tell them not to smoke they're going to do it anyway, and a faster resilience by the industry.

Rob Johnson

I attribute a lot of that to the fact that Danica ran well in Indianapolis.

He's got all the attributes of a good horse. He's good enough that he makes his own luck. He can run on the front end, but he doesn't have to have the lead. I don't know about everybody else, but I know Lawyer Ron is the real deal.

David Pierce

I consciously or subconsciously draw on whatever attributes are most appropriate to the character and just heighten them.

LaVar Arrington

I could easily be in different situations. I'm healthy. My personal life is wonderful. I attribute a lot of my happiness to my wife. We have discussions on what goes on here and on everything else. We always take the positives out of things.

The Lord is without attributes; the attributes of virtue are under His control.

Billy Donovan

All of those guys can look at the individual honors and attribute it to playing as a team. They made it possible by being a team and they were honored as a team.

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

Bartolo Colon

The first three innings it felt like I had a groove going. Then I started elevating and I can't attribute it to anything. But when I started missing high, they were hitting it.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

You can't attribute it to any one cause. It constitutes part of the pattern.

The early visit of the chancellor is in keeping with Germany's special relationship with Israel and the importance she attributes to positive developments in the Middle East.

Winston Churchill

All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.