Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's been one of those years where the kids come to work every day and extremely hard. If you would have told me at the beginning of the year that we'd win 24 games, win the conference, district and regional championship, then I think most coaches are going to take that and be pretty happy.

It's been my desire from the beginning to bring a championship-caliber tournament to Ocala.

It's sad because this is the beginning of the end. Each year has been great, and each year we've been getting better and better.

Deron Williams

That's something we struggled with at the beginning of the season. We turn up our defense, and we execute. That's the reason we were losing games early on. We weren't doing things that got us to that point.

Jerry Sloan

That's the Boozer we hoped for at the beginning of the year.

That's the best we've played since the beginning of the season.

Harry Anderson

That's the exact right answer, from beginning to end,

Sherwood Anderson

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

That is definitely just in the beginning stages. We're not really sure that's going to happen.

That kind of was the opening of the crack, the beginning of us turning it on.

That really placed him on the archaeological map. It really helped the beginnings of the rewriting of Egyptian history.

Derek Roy

It's nice to help the team now. At the beginning of the year I wasn't scoring much. Hopefully I can keep plugging away and keep trying to score.

It's still the beginning, and the beginning is when you have to be tough.

Earnest Graham

It's something I set out to do. I wanted to be here from the very beginning to the very end. Hopefully I can be here all through the season.

It's simply that we've had a very strong run in the past couple of weeks and you've got a natural correction from that. You've got some overseas investors beginning to take a little profit.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.""I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,"" said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote. ""What!"" interrupted Rochebriant; ""eating dinner in a drawing-room?"" ""I must beg you to observe, monsieur,"" explained the great gastronome, ""that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.

Everyone's expecting a big rally at the beginning of next year and nobody wants to be left out.

Everybody is worried about a soft landing for the economy and a contraction of consumer spending. And come Christmas it will be far less exciting than a year ago. The high cost at the gas pump is beginning to take its toll and for a lot of families spending an extra $20-to-$25 a month on gasoline means spending that much less on stores.

Bobby Hamilton

Everybody is happy when you win. When you lose, everybody is going to be down. Everybody says, 'Move on, move on.' But at some point time is going to run out. ... It's still a long season. We still have nine games to play. We hadn't won two games in a row since the beginning of last year. So we feel good about this.

The Bush-hating phenomenon was not so important until the president's popularity more generally started to decline - at which point the voices of Bush's strongest opponents take on much more importance, because much of public opinion is beginning to dovetail with the views of those who haven't liked Bush from the beginning.

The big question is whether (the gains of April) were the beginning of a sustainable rally. My sense is it's probably too soon for that.

Alfonso Soriano

Ballplayers are soldiers, and we have to play where we're told to. At the beginning I didn't want to, but I don't have control of the situation -- and after all, I thought it's just for a year.

Back-to-back outright titles - it's pretty nice. It was one of our goals at the beginning of the year. Hopefully, it's just a stepping stone to bigger things.

Rick Barnes

Back in the beginning of the season when I was looking at the schedule I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.

Vladimir Putin

As I told you from the beginning that main efforts must be concentrated within the government,

As our practice gets stronger, we can do it in more distracting situations. What we are seeing in the beginning is how our thinking works.

Harvey Keitel

That period was a very flowery one for me. It was the beginning of something, of a movement you might say. I was lucky enough to be there.

That's what we were really excited about at the beginning of the year, the whole teamwork thing and playing more as a team instead of just relying on two people. I think we've stepped up and done that.

That's what we planned to do from the beginning of the summer. So far, we've been able to stay true to what we've wanted to do.

Amelie Mauresmo

That's what I wanted today, from the first point really making her play as much as I could, I did that very well at the beginning and felt my game was very effective.

George Shinn

That's my intent. It has been from the beginning and it still is.

That's just how it is; that's how people are, how they think. If we go out and lose in the first round (in the NCAA Tournament), everybody will say, 'I told you so.' If we go to the Sweet 16, everybody will be surprised, like they were at the beginning of the season.

Ricky Phillips

That's how we came up with the name, it was songs that were from the beginning of our universe as musicians.