Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wright

I was very fortunate from the point of view that we always believed what goes on in the changing room stays in the changing room,

Tom Vilsack

I was very concerned about what I believed and what a lot of my citizens believed were unfair prices at the pump,

Michelle Kwan

It feels awesome. When I first put in the petition I believed I would be 100 percent at the Olympics, and I still believe it.

Richard Hamilton

I think he might have gotten down. I think he lost his confidence a little bit. I didn't know that he really believed that he really belonged here but this year he's playing with a lot more confidence.

I thought it was an outstanding comeback, ... I don't think we've ever been down two games to nothing and came back and won it. The team never gave up and believed they could win, and they did it.

Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs.

Richard Jewell

Just imagine your own mother turning to you, and for that instant, believing the media before she believed you. I'll never get back to that point where I was before they took that all away from me.

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking.

I think we all believed there would be more happening than is happening right now. One of the key problems is jobs. You look at the housing situation, and the schools situation, and you wonder where businesses are going to find the people they desperately need to get things going.

Rupert Lowe

It is not often that I am lost for words but I was then. Not only because this is the most extraordinary story in an extraordinary industry, but because I believed Harry to be here for the long term.

Latoya did a real good job of scoring and rebounding, and the guards did also. They had their confidence going, believed in their shot, it went in and they did what they had to do. (Wily and Collins) are taking a lot of pressure off me. Instead of three people guarding me, it may be two or one.

I was a little nervous there for a while, but I always believed we would win this game. I told my guys at halftime that we had to cut the lead down to eight by the end of the third quarter. Once we did that and got it to within three in the fourth, I knew it was ours for the taking.

Our overtime loss at Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard last Friday was devastating. It was a game that we believed we should have won. I was interested to see how the team would react tonight. The players came out really focused. They played with intensity.

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Our kids were ticked off at halftime. By the time we left the locker room, we believed we could win it, though.

Robert McCullum

When I first heard it, I laughed at it. I thought it was a joke. I never believed it. I never believed one time I wasn't going to be back." ()

Ronald Wright

We needed the line to give us just two more seconds (of blocking), that's all we needed. They believed and that's what made it work.

Jeff Schweitzer

You know, in the big picture, to win conference this year was a real stretch. Give the kids credit. They believed in themselves and they worked hard for this.

While we're devastated as a family, he was doing what he believed in, and I hope people respect that.

We came this far, so close, but everybody in this (locker) room believed it. The non-believers stayed in South Carolina. Everybody in this room believed we were going to win it.

We had expected a sale price of $200 million in our previous target. The $900 million price even exceeds what we believed to be the high-end of any sale range.

Mary Lambert

Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.

Phil Everly

The '60s weren't my cup of tea. I never bought that philosophy that, you know, we're all brothers and that'll solve everything. And I never believed that music dictated the times. I always thought it reflected them.

We have always held students accountable to all state requirements. We believed this would be a consistent message to the community.

We have always believed the Navy has played a part in what we do and we are happy to have them there. We are not in the business of making money. We are in the business of youth development and these guys are youth,

We have always believed that the longer this jury deliberates, the greater the chance of no verdict. We also believe that if this trial ends in a hung jury, there will not be a third trial. All of this would be especially positive for Tenet, as they would be able to start recruiting doctors more aggressively and volumes at the company may improve. Maybe -- just maybe -- it is getting closer to this outcome.

We have always believed that dairy products and meat products should be inspected before sale, and dairy products should not only be inspected, but should be pasteurized.

We have always believed that combination of the diversity and the passion of the city's sports fans and the size of the market would lead to success for an MLS team. We've also had great success with the international markets, maybe as much as we've had in any city.

We have always believed in drawing a clear line when it comes to associations with gambling and gambling-related activity. We think that protecting the integrity of our game is best served by having a very bright line, and not getting into shades of gray.

Ron Gardenhire

We know that the Puck Man would want us to go out. They all wanted to go out because they all believed that Puck would say: 'Play the game, boys, and play it the right way.

Rex Grossman

We have to win three games and we're world champions. We know we've got a good team. When the season began, no one believed it but us.

We came out prepared and fought together, we played hard and we just believed in ourselves and our plan and we got it done.

Martha Beck

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.