Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

The point is made we're still fighting this battle. It's not as dynamic a battle as people being hosed down ... but it's still happening.

Jamie Langenbrunner

We're in a tight race right now and points are huge. We're in a battle to get in the playoffs and we've got 14 games left. We need to get some points. You can't get in playing like this. We're not winning.

David Hume

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

Andrew Demetriou

We always hear talk of clubs trying to sign new members but one of the biggest battles they have is to retain all of their members from the previous year.

Edgar Degas

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

Benjamin E. Mays

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.

We wanted to win the battles all over the floor and that's what we did.

We were better than the Marlins last year. We were supposed to battle them to the end, but we had no wind left in our sails because of our schedule. Twenty-two extra road games beats you down.

We were trying to do that with Battle Mountain, and I think we needed to slow it down. We weren't being smart with our passes.

We were tough at the end, tougher than we've been late in games. We've been through the struggles, and we feel we have the experience to battle through it now.

Charlaine Harris

And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.

Leonard Boswell

While many things have changed since 1963, we still must continue the battle to ensure that all Americans are treated as equals.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.

We're getting the wrestlers ready for the battles at the end of the season. We're happy to make the playoffs. That's always a team goal. But we have some guys with bigger goals.

Jon Gruden

We're going to play the regulars a little bit. They'll give way early to a lot of guys who we think are in key battles at certain positions, and guys who are young players who we think need game time.

We're going to get after it in practice and then be ready to go on Tuesday night. We're going to take a look at our injuries and see who can and can't go, and then go battle and try to get back up here next weekend.

Brian Rolston

When we came into the season, I don't think there were a whole lot of people who thought we were going to be close to a playoff position, maybe including the organization. We have to battle every night to get there. It's going to be tough, still. But we can be there.

When we can show direct battle damage, it's much easier for me to get funding.

We bring out the best in them and they bring out the best in us. It's always a battle on the ice.

Maurice Greene

We're going to meet a lot of times this season, and it's going to be a battle each and every time we step on a track. We're all competitors, and we're all going to put on a show.

With two strikes, we?re just trying to battle and put it in play and, when you do, good things can sometimes happen.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

John Carroll

We're just really close, ... Ever since freshman year, we've gotten closer and closer, especially through the battle back and forth. We motivate each other on the sidelines. Everything's good when we're working together.

Jermaine Dye

We're just missing pitches. We've got to continue to battle and not put pressure on ourselves.

We're just inconsistent. Day-to-day, that's the battle we're facing. But that's my job; we have to try and find that consistency.

Chauncey Billups

We're battle tested. We're been in that situation so many times. We just had our confidence.

Through and through the Big Ten is a battle every game. We were a step away from the NCAA tournament last year and that's part of the reason we put a challenging schedule together for 2006. We'll have to show up every day, wire to wire. This could be our toughest schedule ever.

We're really clicking right now. Our battle cry right now is 14-0 because that's something that no other (Coppell girls soccer) team has done.

We're ready for battle and all we need now is to hear the sound of the bugle.

We knew when we came down it was going to be a battle until the end. We obviously didn't get the job done.

We knew they'd play that way because they are a real physical team. It is hard to get in there and battle and box out their 7-footers, and then they have five guys crashing the boards on every shot.

Wayne Gretzky

We know what we have with Boucher, and we know Curtis is a tremendous goalie and got a year off to get healthy, ... We expect it to be a competitive battle between both of them. . . . I'd like to see one of them jump up and grab that starting position.