Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Alford

We know how difficult the first eight (games) were in this league. Now the tension, the pressure, the battles that are going to happen in the next eight probably are going to intensify.

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.

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

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.

Suzanne Collins

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.

We won the battle. But we want to put it in perspective; it's just one of many battles yet to come.

We have had some tough battles with Traverse City this season. Competing in a playoff environment will continue to challenge our guys and prove to be great experience in the development of our players.

She's so tough inside and constantly battles for the ball.

She's been a great benefit not only on the sidelines, but at practice she works hard. She gets the sneakers on and battles Jessica (Laing).

Janet Jackson

Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.

Merle Haggard

We've been in many battles together (always on the same side). Over the last few years, we'd become closer than we ever realized ... We were outlaws together.

Chris Stewart

We didn't win the little battles on the ice. That's going to cost you a hockey game. There wasn't one blatant thing we were doing wrong other than the fact we have to win those one-on-one battles.

John Dryden

Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the slain.

J.R. is just J.R.. He fights and battles and keeps us in every game.

Jess plays the whole game inside and battles hard. She?s just a warrior.

Koizumi has made the party his after four years of often fierce and difficult battles with his opponents within.

E. B. White

I thought they won a lot of individual battles in the first half. They set the tone and tempo. The second half we did a better job of stepping up in some of the individual battles.

Pascal Leclaire

We're playing with a lot of confidence right now. We won a lot of battles in front of the net and on the boards and I think that's why we won.

Sun Tzu

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

He's fought many battles in his life and won them all. We hope that he will win this battle as well.

Bobby Cox

He's been one of the finer ballplayers in this league the past six, seven years. He battles in every at-bat. I like that kind of hitter.

Hopefully (the loss to the Red Devils) will somehow help us out in the long run. Coffman is a good team and we've had some battles with them the last couple years. They've been playing real well and they haven't had Robby Gardiner.

Brad Shaw

We have to, as players and as coaches, do a better job of preparing guys to play. We were not ready physically or mentally. We didn't seem to win many puck battles tonight.

He has done a good job. Curtis is tough. He battles and is one of our hardest workers. He works hard at his craft.

He doesn't want to fight battles unnecessarily and create a distance between himself and his party.

He made some good shots. It's just part of the game. I had some battles that I won and he had some battles he won. But tonight we lost as a team, so that is the only thing that counts.

Edward Kennedy

He was a constant profile in courage on countless issues, continually insisting that the Senate live up to its ideals and always willing to wage lonely battles for noble causes.

Walt Whitman

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won

Stephen J. Cannell

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.

Sean Kelly

I respected Greg a lot. We had some real ding-dong battles - especially in that 1983 Tour of Lombardy.... The finish was so close.

Penalty kills will be really big. They have a great power play. We need to do really well on our kills and get our clears and win pucks and win battles for sure.