Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reese Witherspoon

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

Steve Staios

We were going go win the game ? we said it. I don't know if we all believed it, but we have come back in years before, especially at home.

Yolanda King

We were stunned when we found out there were problems and challenges there. They came highly recommended. We made the decision to go there and Mother concurred because we believed the place was doing incredible work.

We were sold. That's the only reason why we're still alive, because we really believed in it.

Corey Brewer

We had a lot of doubters, but we just believed in each other and the way we played every night. It feels great, especially since it's our school's first national championship. It doesn't get any better than that.

Martin Jol

We had to take a gamble and make a decision to use three forwards. We believed in it and it's a very important away win for us. But we gave two cheap goals away. That was a big disappointment for me because we only conceded three goals in seven matches before that.

Tom Izzo

We have to learn how to play with the lead, and the Iowa game was a case in point where we didn't play with the lead. (The players) came into our huddle, we were up 15-4, and they really believed (Iowa) was tired. It was good: 'Let's get 'em now coach, let's do this, let's do that.' But I think they took that to another level and they started taking shots too early.

Utilizing very sophisticated, very sensitive technical equipment, we were able to locate what we believed to be a listening and transmittal device. We left the device in place. We took steps to protect it. We took steps to minimize any loss that would result (from) its continued presence.

Paula Garces

There were the people that believed in me when I was walking around Spanish Harlem, saying that I was going to be a Hollywood actress. They were like, 'Yeah, you could do it!'

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

Mindy Grossman

I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.

I am afraid that people will think I re-illustrated 'The Little Prince,' when really, it was more a tribute to him as a dedicated pilot and a man who believed in the goodness of people.

Malik Rose

We're capable of more than that. We believed we were going to win.

Red Schoendienst

You always believed that as good as you knew you were, there was always somebody who could take your place. I tried to work as hard as I could to make sure that didn't happen.

We really thought we would be making history (last night). We wanted to be here saying we got Pittsburgh into the NCAA Tournament for the first time. This has been a magical season, and we aren't going to let not being selected to the NCAA Tournament take away from what we have accomplished this season, even though we really believed we would be invited.

Bennett Miller

We couldn't have gotten it made without his involvement, without his showing up and saying he believed in us.

We played some great teams early in the season. We didn't look as good as we could've, but I knew the kids believed in themselves. We knew we were eventually going to get better.

We had made this decision well over a year ago. We believed in portable video back then.

We had heard that we were going to make it, but that doesn't mean anything. I was waiting for the call Sunday night to see if we had made it. Thank God it was a good call. We believed that we deserved to get in.

I was never freaked out about what was going to happen to me. But I always believed in my heart (Armstrong) was born to race bicycles. It was an undeniable force within him, and that's what he was going to do.

I would never have believed it unless I saw it. The devastation just goes on for miles and miles and miles. I mean, it just goes on forever.

Mike Riley

I would never have believed he would be that good. He's completing 70 percent of his passes? That's just ridiculous.

Matt Birk

(Wilf) decided he wanted to sit down with me at some point later on and talk about some stuff. All he said is he was concerned about my physical health and he wanted to sit down and talk with me about it. He looked me in the eye and told me that and I believed him, which made me think also that I'm in the long-term plans here, the long-term thoughts, which is great, because I want to be.

Allen Iverson

We just believed in each other, got defensive stops when we needed them and executed our offense. We were able to make something happen.

Michael Robinson

That was probably the time everybody on the team believed I could get the job done.

That was a huge play. Nash is a big-game receiver who's going to get open. I believed in him, and he got open.

Robert Kiyosaki

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

Zainab Salbi

In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.

(Watkins) believed he could play at Division I all along, ... and it worked out great for him.

Two years ago, three years ago, we would've gone down in flames. There was no point when we believed we'd lose.

We were just as suspicious of the second communication as the first. We didn't know what to think. Rightly or wrongly, we believed it was important to make factual statements to the family.

Gary Bettman

Who ever believed it could come back this strong? Actually we did.

Who believed we were going to go the whole year and not have a game (like that)? That was our game.