Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Iverson

If I had an explanation, I would give it. We just got whipped from beginning to end tonight. During the season, you will have games like this.

Allen Iverson

If I had an explanation, I'd give it. We just got whipped from beginning to end. They did everything right, and we couldn't do anything right.

Jessi Klein

If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.

I'd have to say that the team defense, starting with Brad (Roberts) in goal, has put us in a position to win each game. I also think that we are starting to reap the rewards of scheduling some tough teams at the beginning of the year.

I challenged the girls at halftime to take a charge at the beginning of the third quarter and Lindsey Rodgers did it. The girls took it up another notch on both ends of the floor.

I can?t stress enough that this is the beginning of something big.

I can say the Americans did a lot for the Muslims. From the beginning of the war, they kept saving them from total defeat. And finally, they took their side and helped them draft a map so it would be toward the benefit of their side.

I could see from the beginning of our practices earlier this year that the potential was there. I knew that the pieces were in place, and I think the team just needed a change and needed some discipline.

I don't think the cycle is about to end. Telecoms are just beginning to dig out of the hole,

I don't think the process was handled very efficiently in the beginning. It's going well now, but the federal government is having to play catch-up, ... A good example is the fact that we were shuffled from city to city in the beginning of our trip before finally being directed to New Orleans, which is where we should have been deployed to begin with.

I am very pleased for the kids. This is one of the goals we set at the beginning of the season. Now we have other goals we want to accomplish.

I am very hopeful the financial community is beginning to understand what MGM is all about,

Luis Garcia

I am very happy because my son from the beginning told the truth.

Chris Coleman

I am one charming guy. We said from the beginning that this race has national importance, both in terms of partnerships between the federal government and cities, and setting a tone for 2006.

I feel 100 percent now. I'm very confident right now. I just feel great. I'm just looking forward to a new beginning and I know I'll get that in New England.

LeBron James

I don't want to make an excuse. But the core guys that we had with us at the beginning of the year are not with us right now. We have to fight through it and get better and just keep working hard.

I don't want to tell a department head right from the beginning what he needs or doesn't need. I get a statement from the county saying this is what you're going to get for tax dollars. I have a separate meeting with each of the department heads to look at what we need to cut.

I don't think this is corporate greed. This is the beginning of a new business model for the Internet.

Alan Greenspan

I don't think we did pop the bubble. We did raise interest rates in 1999, and the reason we did that is that real long-term rates were beginning to rise because the economy was beginning to accelerate,

Lou Piniella

He's not pitching like a rookie. He's gotten a whole lot better since the beginning of the season.

However, four of my boys practiced all summer and the difference was telling at the beginning of this year.

How much and all those things, I can't tell you right now. Drew is our starter, Drew is the one that's had a tremendous beginning this season. If we get a chance to play Ben, we'd like that opportunity. But if you can't, you can't.

I congratulate all on the beginning of the school year, and wish interesting study and good marks. Those who want to be successful should study all the time.

Before the beginning of years/ There came to the making of man/ Time with a gift of tears,/ Grief with a glass that ran.

Certainly there is debate about what constitutes drought and the beginning and ending of a drought. But I wouldn't characterize it as a controversy, just honest discussion and debate.

Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones.

Richard Jefferson

Certain teams set your goals at a certain level. For this team, if someone would have told you at the beginning of the year that we were going to make the playoffs, it probably wouldn't have been much of a story.

Barbara Walters

Chemistry is important and I think humor is important. We're looking for somebody who can do the interviews and also the hot topics at the beginning of the show.

By and large we've ended up better than many of the forecasts that were made at the beginning of 2005 and the reason is that economic growth has held up much better than people expected.

By the beginning of the fall semester, everyone will be in their respective campus and our plan will be complete.

By the beginning of September, we'll be done all the road repairs and we were originally projecting for spring or summer.

But you have to remember that they were at 10.2 percent at the beginning of the quarter, so these are the steepest cuts that we've seen this year, and certainly since '90.

Paul Tagliabue

Hopefully, I'll have the report by the beginning of the season, and then we can discuss it with the (NFL) Players' Association to see whether there are changes that we can make that would perhaps increase the penalties for players who might engage with others in a course of conduct that was designed to circumvent the (drugs-testing) program.