Famous Quotes & Sayings

I basically just told him that if we wrestle our match, nobody is going to beat us. Once we know we could beat him, that swings the confidence in our direction.

I basically just challenged them in the locker room. I think they were more worried about this being their last home game. But they came out here and put it together like I knew they would and hit those threes.

I basically heard a big explosion ... and I looked up in the air, and basically it was like the space shuttle . . . but not as bad, of course.

Robin Weigert

I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.

I basically have designed the team to be ready for the postseason. We could be going a little easier, but we're doing some very difficult gymnastics.

I basically had to sit there and talk about why I would be good for the show and give them my background.

Todd Barry

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.

I basically considered it a long time ago. I told Dave that if he ran I wouldn't.

I basically committed two years of my life campaigning for candidates, building relationships and supporting people all over the city.

I am prepared to work hard enough to win. It's basically up to me.

Andrew Ferguson

I believe it made a greater impact on them as they realized that these people had truly lost everything, including the basic essentials of food and water,

Loren Roberts

I feel comfortable and I feel good with the way I'm swinging. I'm not having to make a lot of swing thoughts. I'm basically getting up there, seeing the shot and ripping at it.

Max von Laue

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

Mike Woodson

I feel a little bit better because everything isn't brand new. Last year the coaching staff and the team were all coming in here at basically the same time. This year we've got guys who know what we want and how we like to do things.

Keyshawn Johnson

I don't want to sound arrogant, but that's probably like six times that Bill and I have done this through the course of our relationship at the end of games, where it's been that play where it's do or basically die and they come to me. We've done pretty well.

I don't think they made any mistakes. I can't put that burden on them ... You just basically have to place it on us.

He's not overpowering in any way but he gets you to swing at his pitches. Basically we have to sit and wait for our pitch.

Troy Percival

He's not going to want to do any surgery. He liked the way the scar tissue looked to be healing. The strength was coming, so I'm basically in a pattern where I can start doing some rehab stuff, some strengthening stuff, and then start throwing in December. Then we'll go from there.

Joe Girardi

He's not going to get the innings he needs. He's a starter, and we need to get him to feel comfortable to where he should be. What I told him is you can take it a couple of different ways. It's kind of a speed bump. You're the one who can basically determine when you can get back.

Rory Kinnear

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

Andrea M. Ghez

How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's interested in finding and studying black holes. Because black holes are objects whose pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape it, not even light, so you can't see it directly.

I cannot think of a better use of taxpayers' funds than to provide basic utilities to people who need it. We are not responsible for everything in their water. The have shallow-point sand wells that septic systems, road run-offs and fertilizers from farmers' fields can infiltrate. There has been no tritium found in those wells.

Steve Forbes

I chose 17 percent because, with the generous exemptions, it allows people to meet their basic needs, but also produces a healthy revenue stream,

I cheated slightly, ... I wrote what I wanted them to say and then basically browbeat them into saying it.

Bill Frist

I do not expect that this year will be any easier than in the recent past, but I am confident that for the sake of this institution and the congressional budget process, we will do the most basic of our responsibilities this year-produce a budget.

Retief Goosen

If I could win one of them it could basically be over.

Robert Webb

If I hadn't got into comedy, I wouldn't have met Abbey, my wife, and I wouldn't have my two girls, and the whole thing unravels. That's the thing about being basically - whisper it quietly - happy, is that you don't really want to change anything, because once you start changing stuff, then what you've got all disappears.

Jeb Bush

If I'm a conservative, I'll generally watch Fox. If someone's liberal, they'll generally watch MSNBC. They'll basically learn a set of facts that are completely distinct from one another. They'll get their views validated.

I can take it! When they came to my house to offer me the role I weighed 240 pounds or something. At the time, my girlfriend was pregnant and we were basically getting huge together.

Magic Johnson

I come from a small town in Lansing, Michigan, and there were very few people I could point to and say 'I want to be like him or that person,' ... So basically I had to watch TV and say 'I want to be like that person.

Sage Rosenfels

I can't tell you why, but I do. I've played a lot in the preseason at the end of games when sometimes you are losing. We're in two-minute shotgun. We run some pretty basic plays. Maybe that's what I do best.

I don't that happening this year, I don't see it happening next year or the year after that--that leaves 2009, and I'll leave that one open. There are a lot of issues, but basically it boils down to trust and antitrust.

Richard Armitage

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have 3 basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.