Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martina Hingis

It was a pretty impressive win. The first set was a bit tough. I guess that was because we haven't played before. I didn't feel good at the beginning -- I guess today I won with my heart. I feel great to be in the semifinals.

Carl Smith

It was a pretty good game. We lost focus at the beginning of the game. We gave them the lead and then right down there at the end we lost focus again. Other than that I'm proud of the boys. We got back in it. We fought hard but I guess the better team tonight won.

It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was a lot of fun. She's an extremely hard worker, perfectionist, and a talented writer.

It was amazing. We said at the beginning of the second half that the first five minutes were the most important five minutes of the game. We had to be the team to come out hard.

It was no good really. I struggled from beginning to end. Something is wrong with the bike and we daren't change to the second, as we hadn't run that other one yet. So to say I am disappointed is an understatement. Every time I entered a corner, right or left, it was chattering, and I was so sideways. It has to be the bike, because James and I have such a similar race set-up, it's just not funny.

Darren Collison

It was like one of those practices we usually have in the beginning of the year. It was so hard. Everybody was getting physical, everybody was competing.

It wasn't about having six girls. If you have five girls you should be able to come out and play. We just gave up. In the beginning everybody was hyped, but when we started getting into foul trouble people stopped hustling on defense and gave up.

I've been working on my jump shot lately, just going into the gym and trying to work on it and it's been paying off. These last couple of games I've been hitting big threes. At the beginning of the game I was left wide open and I just took the shot and they just happened to fall.

Oil up two percent and Wal-Mart lowering expectations set a negative tone pretty much from the beginning of the day.

Not being able to hit our shots at the beginning really did hurt us. We were never really able to get our press going.

It was a good day for us - I was very happy with our performance. There were a lot of good teams and a lot of good competition, and it was a good way to gauge where we are at the beginning of the season. I think we're off to a good start.

It was a game of runs. We made a run in the beginning and end of the second quarter. They made a run in the third and we weathered it.

Bill Callahan

It was a great victory for our team and for the state of Nebraska. It was a great way to close out 2005. We said before the beginning of the game, no matter what the outcome was, we were going to learn from this game and grow.

Jalal Talabani

There must be consensus over the constitution as a beginning for national reconciliation,

This may be the beginning of a real revolution in the treatment of heart disease. We're not merely slowing down the inexorable progression but truly reversing the disease. It's very exciting.

This marks the end of an era, but also the beginning of something new and exciting for each of the partners and for UIP,

This map is truly a new window on the Antarctic continent, providing new beginnings in our Earth science studies there,

This makes it easier for management to respond more nimbly. It also makes it less likely for any spin-offs and will help them create a new structure when their cable contracts start to expire beginning in 2002,

This long saga is about to come to a close, but in many ways it's the beginning of another saga, which is how will the company will do competitively?

Jonathan Ogden

This is what we were hoping for from the beginning. Better late than never, I guess.

This is the hardest we've played in a while, with being cohesive at the same time. It's better now to start peaking than reaching that peak at the beginning of the season.

This is tough. With Nate going down, this is just like what I said at the beginning of the year. We have to work with what we have and do the best that we can.

This is a veteran group. They are pretty battle-tested and ready to go. Our kids have been pretty focused, and they've had the goal of winning the state championship since the beginning of the year. They've got to play well one more time.

They really jumped on us hard at the beginning. We didn't get the stops when we needed them. They had a couple of transition baskets that kind of killed the whole momentum (after our comeback).

They're happy about (the BAL title), but we didn't make a big deal out of it. I met with everyone at the beginning of the year and said that we had the potential to have an impact in (the District One Class AA tournament), so we're looking forward to that.

Forest Whitaker

They're growing up in an environment so different than what I grew up in. I think they're beginning to see how blessed they are. They'll be coming back from now on, I think.

Tayshaun Prince

They recovered strong from our beginning of the game and really made some plays happen. One thing we wanted to do was try to jump on them early, but at the same time, some of the guys' legs got tired very quickly. Once we got our second wind in the third and fourth quarters, we were fine.

They're certainly beginning to spend more money on the course. I think the people who play are pretty impressed.

They're cashing in their IRAs because they need money and they're out of work. Actors in the beginning are usually unaware that they're not immortal and will never get old. But by the time they're in their 30s, they begin to understand that the future is going to require they pay some attention.

They're much stronger than I would have expected on the PC front and the laptop front. If Dell's numbers are strong, we may be seeing the beginning of a turnaround in the PC market.

Robert F. Kennedy

There's a way to log many of these rainforests without destroying them, to do it sustainably. And we've seen the beginnings of that. The work of Ian and Karen McAllister has been invaluable,

There's been so much talk about beginning to pull them home. More speeches aren't going to make much difference now. The public reacts to real events. The public's looking for something real to happen, which would be like troops withdrawing.

Marc Chandler

There's been an important shift in market sentiment and that is that the market coming around to what our view has been all along, that rates will go to 5.0 percent by mid-year and the market is beginning to price in 5.25 percent by the end of the year.