Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerry McNamara

Under the circumstances, this is the most important shot that I've hit. In the situation we're in, we're fighting and trying to battle for every game, we needed this one.

We battle and we understand who we are. We are not going to blow teams out. We are going to play everybody close.

Nan Aron

The President has laid down the gauntlet and the battle is now wide open.

The pressure they lay on is just relentless. For our girls to battle that long is incredible.

Ryan Smith

Those are two of the best kids in the country. It's one of those things he's got to learn from. Dan Gable lost his last match. He will battle back and try to get third. That's not what he was shooting for, but that's part of life. A true champion battles back and I think he will.

Those are the kinds of signs that no candidate wants to have, especially one who still has legal battles coming up.

Jason Giambi

We know it's still early, but you don't want to fall as far behind and get in that rut where you have to battle back. You don't want to find yourself coming to the ballpark, giving away a win and then the next day, you get beat. Before you know it, it turns into something bad.

We'll look at the film and try to come up with a strategy to combat that. We'll go over there and battle as best we can.

We'll let Sweden and Finland battle it out until they go black and blue. It doesn't really matter who we play. If we hadn't (beaten the U.S. Saturday night), it would have been a real battle for us.

You'd like to see more of a battle from your clean-up hitter in that situation.

Mike Comrie

We didn't seem as hungry to win the battles as they did, and in the first 10 minutes of the game they dictated the play.

Nancy Farmer

My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

We're not going to get caught up in a battle with a particular vendor. We'll fight it at the customer level.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet.

Rachel Nichols

When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.

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.

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.

Wow, 15-for-15, I didn't know that, but I knew we were shooting pretty good. What a great game. Just a battle and a terrific battle all night long. Plymouth is a great team, and they're just so physical, and everything we had, we had to earn it.

We're still relatively small. But I think that's going to start to change because they're opening a new middle school next year in Geneva so we'll have two middle school programs. (Numbers) have always been an uphill battle for us, and then someone gets hurt and that makes it tough with a hole in the lineup.

We're still in the middle of it, but in a lot of ways Thomas has broken through. I don't think it was easy. On a personal level, he had to have a persevering spirit. It was a battle of the heart.