Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buzzie Bavasi

I learned that from Mr. Rickey, ... and I hope Billy learned that from me.

Ryan Freel

I learned more in 15 minutes with Billy than I learned in 13 years in pro ball.

Martin Freeman

I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.

Ruth Reichl

I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?'

I'm sure Jimi didn't tell Billy Cox everything. Their sort of revisionist history of things has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Victoria Jackson

There's a lot of money in Billy Graham's Association and in that Denver, Colorado thing, Focus on the Family. So, why can't we make Christian movies?

If you want to go through everybody - Don Carter, Weber, Hardwick - Billy was the guy. His mental toughness and determination made him unique.

Henry Thomas

He really stepped up. He's had two really good practices this week, and so has Jake (Griffin) and Billy (Canada). When the practice that hard, you like to see them carry that over into the game.

If he wins, Billy will be in a class with all the great coaches who coached this game, not only currently but in the past. To do it at 40 is remarkable.

I definitely thought Billy won, but, I guess the judges saw it a different way.

Steve Garvey

I can remember when Billy wouldn't say six words. Now you can't get the microphone away from him.

Brian McKnight

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

Terence Stamp

I'm very pleased with myself. I did The Collector immediately after Billy Budd, because I thought, Well, I'll let everybody know: This is my range.

Lon Kruger

I'm very excited for them. What (coach) Billy (Donovan) has done is remarkable. Two Final Four appearances in six years? That's a great accomplishment.

Natalie Merchant

I just wanted to get all this stuff in one place, ... A lot of it was scattered around or out of print. There are songs here that I thought would never get heard, the ones with Billy Bragg, for instance. The lyrics are kind of embarrassing - we wrote them in the middle of the night during these song-writing marathons - but I feel they are still documents of my work and that this is the place to let people hear them.

I received an e-mail stating that I had been chosen to fly out to LA with 11 other people to share our stories with Billy on the infomercial. It was a dream come true.

Johann Lamont

I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go and hear preachers, and then we always went to church and Sunday school. That mattered a lot to me.

It (the AFL) was so important to me. I had a lot of money in it, a lot invested in it. Emotionally, I spent a lot of time, effort and energy on it. I felt an obligation. A guy like Billy Sullivan had everything he had in it. It wouldn't have been the right thing to do.

Morris Dees

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more -- what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

It's really disappointing to lose that way and then have the official say he was sorry, he missed the call. He started that way five times. I told the officials and none of them called it. It's tough to lose that way and then have the official apologize. Billy deserves better than that.

Dom Capers

It's one of the tougher decisions we've had to make because you have such strong feelings about Billy and the kind of team guy he's been. We wish him well and hopefully he has an opportunity to catch on with another team.

Willie Randolph

I'm legit now, ... I won't be breaking Billy Martin's or Earl Weaver's records, but that's been building up for a long time. I don't want to get a reputation, but I want to protect my players.

Steve Spurrier

I'm picking my old school, Florida, and my buddy, Billy Donovan, to win it all.

Patrick Swayze

I'm sorry, but I thought I was the sickest most irreverent person in the whole world -- Billy Bob just won that contest. You put Patrick Swayze and Billy Bob Thornton together and something's gonna happen.

Kristian Bush

The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.

Larry Hogan

Victor got hurt, and Billy was in foul trouble so we had a few starters out. I thought we just didn't play very well to be quite honest. We were a little bit flat. Maybe we were worried about what happened to Victor, I'm not sure. We were just kind of stagnant on both ends.

I told Billy after the game that they were 26 points better than us -- if not more. They are a very good team.

It's disappointing that Billy doesn't want to do it. It would've been awesome.