Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Shapiro

It's a very tough division. There aren't going to be many easy nights at all when you play in the division this year. There's going to be lots of beating up on each other. Chicago and Minnesota both have exceptional pitching. Detroit's lineup is as deep as any in the major leagues, if they are all healthy.

It's a wonderful feeling to be standing here after beating Central. We have been waiting on this one for a long time, and tonight we played together and were feeling it.

DeAngelo Hall

It's a great boost to our confidence. You can talk about beating good teams but, until you do it, that's just talk. Empty words. You have to back it up, and that's what we did here tonight.

It's a defeat but I'd rather suffer a good beating like tonight's than lose four times 1-0.

It's a real mixed bag. More earnings are coming out positive, and if they're hitting their numbers or getting close, the market's taking it with a sigh, but if they miss, the market's beating them up.

It's extremely important (to believe USC is beatable) if you want to win. If you look at how good they've done and how good they are, you're beating yourself before you step on the field. They are just college kids just like us.

It was fun because we were all doing well, not necessarily because we were beating somebody that bad.

It was fun beating them. They were surprised we made such a drastic improvement.

It was frustrating. I was beating myself up for fouling out again.

It's amazing. It gives us a lot of confidence. To be this close to beating the No. 1 team in the country is exciting.

It kind of looks like he's beating me that way, ... He's thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to get a sack.'Then, I throw him.

Steven Jackson

It's hard beating a team once, but to beat them three times?

It's definitely special. Beating a ranked team, also a team that's been dominant in the Pac-10, would be huge.

Drew Stanton

It's huge. This is my biggest win at Michigan State with the magnitude of the rivalry and beating a Top 10 team on the road. This is a great momentum builder.

Tim Henman

It wasn't a good season for me in 2005 and I wanted to try to get off to a good start. And beating a guy of his caliber is what I was looking for.

Brett Butler

It means everything. You don't want to go through your four years of high school with a certain team beating you four years in a row. You always want to show them you can come out on top in the end.

It's funny and it makes for good listening, especially beating up on your boss. Listeners love it.

It's beautiful. Make it as hard as possible for us. We're not looking for any easy routes to a championship. We want to go through the best to be the best. (Toronto is) the team to beat, and you know you're ready for a dogfight with them. Beating them (again) could be a big momentum-builder for us.

Tim Thomas

It's been a long time coming. It's nice to know what the teams that have been beating us in the shootouts feel like.

That's something we talk about. But beating Kentucky is no easy task.

It's nice to be going (to state) with those guys. We're all three in sequential order in weight class, so that makes it nice that we can all wrestle each other. Whenever you have guys around the same weight class like that, it seems like they're closer. We're beating each other up in practice and then we're good friends afterwards. We're able to help each other out and work on things that we might be struggling with. It's nice to have guys you're close with going down there with you.

That's just good defense on our part. We knew Mount Pleasant could be explosive because they had been beating teams a lot of different ways.

Jerome Bettis

Bowling was my first love. Beating my mother for the first time when I was 13 or 14 was a major accomplishment. I had big glasses. I was a pretty smart kid, maybe nerdy, but I always had a good street sense.

John Abraham

Even now I don't feel like I'm that far behind, ... I missed the whole preseason, pretty much, but I still don't fell like I'm far behind. I'm still beating people on some of the rushes I used to do.

Ben Warner is a great individual and a great wrestler. He is the one guy that really had a shot at beating Derek this year. This match was proof of Derek's ability. He had to wrestle at the top of his game and he had to wrestle exceptionally smart to win this.

Whitney Houston

Bianca didn't really need any help out there; she was beating us by herself.

Every district game is critical and will prove to be exciting. We were highly competitive in every game last year even beating former state champion Dallas St. Mark's.

Danny Blanchflower

Football is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom

It's one of the shameful secrets we have, the beating of homeless for sport. It's a recreation thing, it's an initiation for gangs and fraternities.

It's not the greatest macro environment to be going into. The psyche of the consumer has taken a beating the last couple of months,

It's Oklahoma State's tournament to lose, but they have to be very, very careful in how they compete. There are a couple teams out there who are capable of beating them.

Helen Joseph

It's taken a beating these last 14 years.

It's always hard finding buyers. Nobody's beating a path to your door.