Famous Quotes & Sayings

In their frenzy to beat freshness into the endless loops of disaster footage that have been running all day, broadcasters might have mentioned that nearly all the visible people left behind in New Orleans are of the black persuasion, and mostly poor.

Tony Blair

Instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards... let that money provide thousands more police officers on the beat in our local communities.

Instead of the kids looking around like here we go again. They were having fun - they were enjoying playing with each other. You could just tell that Hot Springs was going to have to do some pretty good things to beat us.

Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

In our league every game is important because there are only five games. The key to our season last year was beating Turlock.

In order to make the NCAA tournament, we have to beat Boston College. From there if we beat North Carolina, I think we will easily get in.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

I like to get out of my house and be with the people. It beats sitting home, vegetating.

I just wanted to beat him so bad. I never looked at the scoreboard. I was told not to look at the scoreboard and just go out and wrestle. I thought I was up. ... Still I won a silver medal but now I'll always think of what might have been.

I just said, 'Hey, you guys gotta find your hearts, you gotta find your souls and go out there and find some intensity and beat these guys.' And they went out and did that. We held them to two shots in the third period.

I remember Kevin Beck scored a first half goal for us, and we held the lead until the final 10 minutes and then they scored two goals to beat us. But we turned the tables on them the next year.

I really thought that we were going to be one of the teams to beat in state. Unfortunately, because of sickness we were never able to play at the level we started.

I really thought our match was like the championship because I believe we would have beaten Memphis. Our season could have been a lot better. I lost five starters from last year, two of them to injury. Not having Danny Caldwell (who broke his hand in the league meet) really hurt us last night. It's kind of discouraging.

I really think they are the best team in the tournament. I know Mascoutah beat them last night, but their five starters are good. I told our team they are a better team. If we play good and they play good, they're going to beat us. We needed them to be off a little bit and they weren't.

I really think they are going to win state this year. They are just solid. They can beat you inside and out.

I really do feel for her. She came back to beat us and get a ring and she felt exactly the same way she did last year.

I really want to beat Texas Tech. We've lost to them all three years I've been here. I think they might be the only team we haven't beaten at least once since I've been in college.

I really want to beat Syracuse. We've never beaten them before, and that would top everything off completely and make us feel good about our last home game.

I remember that game like it was yesterday, ... That S.O.B beat us but Dave and I have been big fans of each other over the years.

I remember quite distinctly her coming to me quite agitated, emotionally distressed, and at that point confided to me that she had indeed been beaten by her husband and that she had decided to leave the marriage.

Maria Sharapova

I remember not being very patient with her, ... A lot of things have happened since then. Hopefully I can use my experience to beat her.

Jay Johnson

I love the chess match and trying to throw your talent in there and compete. But I like to figure out what my team's strengths are, play to them and not worry about what other team's strengths are. We need to do what we do and if other teams are good enough to beat us, they're going to beat us.

I love playing big games. I love playing BC - you can't beat that.

Tom Izzo

Illinois is not going to be worried because they beat us two times or three times. They're not going to have a letdown. They've got a great team.

Illinois didn't beat us Saturday night. I don't want Illinois to beat us Wednesday night.

I looked at this as a rubber match. They beat us here two years ago ... and we beat them last year.

I looked at the bracket and I thought about it. I've been thinking about (2004, when she made the all-tournament team as a freshman) a lot lately. I remember the feeling of celebrating after we beat Penn State. Hopefully, that's one we can duplicate.

I looked at it as a statement. They were ranked pretty high and they beat Maryland. I look at it like an NCAA tournament win.

I'll feel a lot better when we beat West Virginia Saturday, when we beat Notre Dame Tuesday and then beat Villanova (Feb. 26) when they come here. You want to win every game. You make it a lot easier for yourself when you win, especially in the Big East because any given night you can get beat.

I look at Chatham and Moncton, I'm a little wary of them too. They beat us 11-9 down there and they can hit the ball. Ben Higgins, at 15 years old, is probably one of the top three or four young ballplayers in the province.

Ozzie Guillen

I know he has good enough stuff to beat any team in the league. It's proven. Garland is different than the rest of the guys because when he doesn't perform, it seems like he doesn't care. Everybody has a different way to handle himself.

Jay Wright

I know our guys believed we could beat them and even if we lost this game they would believe it. Everyone talks about our guards, but in our locker room we know what our forwards can do.

I know one of Central's biggest goals this season was to beat us at our gym. But we weren't going to let that happen. We went at them for the full 32 minutes.