Famous Quotes & Sayings

You can't blame Burnsie for sitting on a lead,

Darren Fletcher

You can't blame anybody, especially Kenny. It's his goals that have got us to within a chance of qualifying.

We've had passengers stranded on taxiways for longer than that. I think it's really going to be a session for the secretary to browbeat people and really deflect blame from the Department of Transportation and the FAA.

Joe Barton

We all know who will be the first to complain about natural gas prices this winter. And everybody here knows who will blame high prices on a corporate conspiracy, don't we? But the real conspirators seem to be New England and places like Fall River, Mass.

We all have to take the blame for this one. As players and coaches, we have to look in the mirror. I thought we would be up and ready for this game, but I guess not.

The public doesn't like our clients for the most part, and I don't blame them.

Doug Larson

The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice

The opposition is not outside the process. They can't influence the process. The government, however, now has no one to blame for its policies.

Rhona Mitra

The other girls used to blame me whenever they got caught for something, so all the parents wrote in and said they didn't want me at the school.

Why do so many elderly people blame the youth on society's mistakes?

Eddie Jones

We got happy just taking the threes. After a tough game (a 95-89 loss at Detroit on Friday), you may not have the leg strength. That was key. We were trying to penetrate and kick. The shots didn't go down. Just don't blame it on shooting. You can never blame a loss on shooting. It's what you do defensively.

John Simpson

When people blame words they are actually blaming the society that uses them. Dictionaries just reflect the words that society uses.

Sheldon Souray

There has been questionable calls all year long. It's black, white and gray this year, the officiating. You can't blame them, but is it frustrating? Yeah, it is frustrating.

Justin Morneau

We said we couldn't wait to get home, that all those losses we could blame on the road. We're glad we're here. It's a big confidence builder for us.

There is no question that the fourth quarter was a bummer, even with that upward revision. Even if we blame temporary factors, it was a one-quarter bust.

James Dolan

There is no magic wand to wave over this team to make them a contending team. (Isiah) will persevere through the rather difficult time now and you will see that people will be lauding his job later on. Now, they're looking at the record and going 'boo.' I don't blame them. I guess in some ways it's to be expected.

Darcy Tucker

Our job was to get us into the playoffs. We didn't fulfill our goal and with that obviously comes disappointment. We understand that a lot of the blame lies with us.

Joe Kelley

We never went into a game that we did not feel sure of winning, and when we lost, we blamed it on hard luck or the umpires. We never gave any other team credit for being able to play ball, and the result was that we were hard to beat. If I could get my team to be confident, I think we would work our way to the front pretty quickly.

It is always easy to put the blame on the curators if we don't come up to the expectations of those who run and play the game. Good weather and time factor are very crucial all the time.

I think there should be more phone calls and more face-to-face meetings, and the guys from Tampa can come to New York and vice versa. Certainly there should be better communication; there's no excuse with modern communications as we have it today. That's where we've fallen short, and I blame all of us for that.

Paul Young

....jealousy, that's why she did it. She was caught by her lover with a man, and she had to say something, and she had to blame somebody, and that somebody was Monte Carter.

Norm Chow

I think coordinators have always done the same stuff. Every play I've run, I've copied. ... Maybe it's just more notoriety. Maybe it's easier to blame somebody else.

I screwed up. I could have gotten more players out there in our rotation a little more than I did and we probably paid for it in the end so I'll take the blame for it.

I said, 'You're not going to have any help for the handicapped?' And he said, 'No, you had your chance.' They're putting blame all on people not wanting to go, but that isn't so,

Mark Twain

Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an

Squarely we should put the brunt of the blame on the TEA.

Name it and Blame it, doesn't mean you solved it, nor owned it, nor changed it

I was trying to get it out of the middle -- safe play. Didn't quite work out that way. It was certainly my mistake. I'll take full blame for it.

Pamela Moore

I was upset with myself. I blamed myself.

I was the guy they could get - what could I do? That's the Yankees, though. The blame is always on somebody else other than (where) it should be.

Dean Jones

I was brought up to think that if you stuff up when you're older, you're gone, and someone else would replace you. The guys are hanging on, and I don't blame them for that, but we've got to have some tough selectors to make some tough decisions.

It feels good to blame someone else, especially if they are smaller than you.

It disappeared as if somehow the citizens were to blame for the problems that we have right now. Starting today, that will be back on the city's Web site.