Famous Quotes & Sayings

We definitely talked about crashing the offensive glass. We felt like that was something that we could beat them on.

We gave them too many second-chance looks and you can't beat a top-25 team that way.

We don't know what would have happened if North Polk was on the field. We were proud to say that that team came from our district, and that we were fortunate enough to beat them.

We don't know a lot about West Virginia. We have restarted that series. Missouri, however, has done well in the Big 12 and beat us last year 5-2. So, we have got a chance for some payback for that loss. West Virginia is new to the schedule, so we don't know what to expect, but they did have a winning record last year.

We worked hard to hold them in the 60s. We got beat up on the glass, but ... we did a good job of guarding.

Richard Flanagan

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.

Rachel Griffiths

We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.

Quincy Jones

Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

Randy Pausch

I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.

The defense has been great all year. On offense ... we're beating ourselves, and I think a lot of it is the younger guys are still a little unsure of themselves.

The Dark Side of the Force could be alcoholism or a guy who beats his wife. Luke saves his father, and Darth has that transformation and realizes the love of his son is stronger than anything.

James Franklin

Western New England just beat Williams, so that will be sort of a benchmark. We should be right up there if we continue to play well.

Ken Hitchcock

We stayed compact. If they were going to beat us they were going to have to shoot it.

We stayed close with them, but their long-range shooting hurt us. Morton beat us, plain and simple.

We start from the goal out, (and) we've got goaltenders that have both won at the world championships and have both beaten Canada. We're pretty strong and physically savvy on defense, and I think we've got a lot of strength down the middle. We've got a lot of options at the center position, and playmakers on both sides of the puck.

We've both beaten each other at home. I like our chances on a neutral court.

Mike White

We've been working on making history all year long. But it's not easy at the top. Everybody wants to beat you.

We've been working on being positive and after he lost to Rigel, he realized it was close enough that he could beat him.

Daniel Barenboim

It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

Dan Stevens

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

Dan Stevens

I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

Aretha Franklin

I am doing what I love to do, and you cannot beat that, especially when the audience appreciates what you prepare for them. It's very, very gratifying.

Dennis Erickson

There are times during the year where you're so beat up, even with the practice guys that you have, that you can't even practice,

Kajol

I can't stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I'm the best. I just think I've been the luckiest of all. Yes, I'm talented. The movies that I've chosen and the way they've fared have also helped. I've always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.

Charles Portis

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

Tom Selleck

I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.

Bernie Siegel

I use music in the operating room to help create a healing environment for patients and staff. There is a reason that certain heart rates are healthy and certain beats of music heal and relax us.

Bella Abzug

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

The only team that can beat us is ourselves. We played hard and put a lot of heart in it.

Those were my favorite games. I always likened them to a heavyweight fight. You knew you were going to get beat up, but it was fun. We needed the Chiefs. We wouldn't have been as good without them.

Jesse Jackson

Those people are not walking the beat today (in Philadelphia), and that's good news.

Tim ran really well tonight. He beat the No. 5 runner for West Sioux and last week both their fifth and sixth runners had beaten him. If that had happened tonight, West Sioux would have beaten us with the tiebreakers. He really came through for us.

Hannah Williams

To try and get as close to Baliga as I can -- and beat her,