Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.

Eric Schmidt

To the average fan, we probably look like the underdog. They're undefeated. And most people feel that, from top to bottom, the south half of our section in tougher than the north half.

To the average fan in the stands, you see 49-0 and think we did everything right,

We do have average students in AP classes right now that are succeeding. They know it's more of a challenge, and they tend to strive and work a little bit harder in that class than they normally would in a Regents class.

Judie Brown

We don't believe the average American wants to see tiny, embryonic boys and girls -- children -- used as experimental material.

When people see him pitch for the first time, they see someone with average stuff, average sinker, average change, average breaking ball,

Bill Belichick

When people say they're slowing down, I don't know what games they're watching. I'd like to be able to go out and average 35 points a game.

We would not be surprised to see gold average about $460 next year.

George Brett

I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit it. And the harder you hit it, the higher your average is going to be. And the higher your average is, the more money you're going to make.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

This report is a serious wake-up call to the nation. If the emergency medical system gets a C- on an average day, how can it ever be expected to provide expert, efficient care during a natural disaster or terrorist attack?

There is about a 10th of a gram of feces in the average pair of underwear. You don't want to be doing your handkerchiefs with your underwear.

We run six to seven running backs all year. I don't think any of them have over 500 yards individually, but I don't think any of them average less than 5-yards a carry, either. And they all run the ball hard. If they don't, they know somebody else will.

Wes averages 20 (points) and 10 (rebounds) and tonight he only played 11 minutes and had four points.

We kept the sisters to a combined 25, and usually they average something like 45. Kris really took her out of it.

We keep saying the sky is falling -- all the policymakers have ignored us. If we don't put a large infusion of money to raise that average salary to closer to 25th in the nation, then this is just going to get more gloom and doom.

Neil Patrick Harris

There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.

Our goal was to look for ways to increase the average exercise regimen, and we found being responsible for a pet, such as committing to walk a loaner dog, encouraged people who did not own dogs to walk more often and for longer periods of time.

Our goal was to look for ways to increase the average exercise regime.

Our goaltending has been average and that's maybe been generous. With Adam, even in the minors last year he played very well -- he put us in the playoffs -- but there was no in-between. He was either outstanding or awful. There was no middle ground.

Our imports of gasoline averaged close to 1.0 million barrels per day in the last four weeks, which is very high for February.

Our guards did a wonderful job defensively. We knew if we could hold them under the averages we would be in good shape and that is what we did.

Parents sometime confuse Reading Recovery and think it is a special education program. But it's not. It is a short-term program designed to bring the child up to the classroom average in reading and writing.

Parents have much lower spending plans this year, with the average at $296.20 compared with $411.24 a year ago.

Over the past couple of weeks, the move higher in the stock market has been supported by a few big-cap stocks. This is a repeat of the 'Nifty Fifty' in the '70s. While the averages have hit new highs, the bulk of the stocks is moving lower.

Over the past 50 years, the average gain in the stock market has been roughly 16 percent a year. That, considering where we closed at the end of 1995, would put us just under 6,000. Those are big numbers, but on a percentage basis they're within the scope of a bull market.

Davy Jones

Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

Over the last 10 years the average recruiting number is about 74,200. Our final numbers are about 73,200 to 73,300, so we're about 1,000, or one percent, off our average recruits for the last 10 years,

Our per-screen average was great (in the U.S.).

Chris Clemons

Our scouting report told us what they were going to do. They average something like 43 passes per game, so the job was pretty clear.

Our team average is over .400 in district. And we seem to be getting the timely hits.

Our goal is to average 80 shots a game and our record is 116. We think that takes a lot of pressure off the shooting percentage. We obviously don't want to miss, but it takes a lot of pressure off our shooters when we take that many shots.

Joe Gibbs

Our goal is to try to hold it on offense in that situation, and don't give it back, ... Run time off the clock and protect the lead. We need to average more than that when we're rushing the football.