Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Self

That kind of got blown out of proportion how that went down. There's no hard feelings about that deal at all, but I think in a way it might have helped us.

Michael Strahan

This feels like a blown opportunity. We should've won. ... You're not going to win when you handicap yourself.

I'm looking forward to seeing him back over fences and he's in good form. He ran well over hurdles last week and that would have blown away a few cobwebs and he's been down to the sea this week as he normally does.

John Jay

I'm obviously very proud of our guys and their fight. The guys hung in there. There were a couple of times in the first half and the second when we could have been blown out of here.

I'm blown away. . . . I wasn't expecting anything like this.

I just think (this) has been blown out of proportion.

I'm proud of the way he's kept his spirits up and continued to work hard. In college, what he did goes on all the time and it never gets blown out of proportion.

I'm just blown away by what people told me.

I'm so proud of those girls. They played hard the whole game. When we went to Prairie Grove, we got blown out in the first quarter.

If Kenny doesn't knock down the shots when he does, we could have been blown out of the building.

J. C. Watts

I never heard (Rich) go off on a musician unless there was a reason, ... However, (Rich) never knew when to lighten up. He'd state his case and then continue until he had blown his stack.

Steve Alford

I never once had a conversation with the A.D. at Missouri. But it gets reported that way and it just gets blown up and goes from there. There was no contact on my part with Indiana. Obviously that's my alma mater, and if they wanted to talk I would have at least listened out of my respect for my alma mater.

I'm very proud of my team. We've obviously been struggling in the Big 12. There were a couple of different spots tonight when they could've blown us out of this building and I thought the team responded every timeout we took. They just hung in there and fought as hard as they could.

I'm too old to start over. But in 10 years, if we don't sell, this place either will be blown away or too run-down to recognize.

I'm not worried about it at all. A lot of times it gets blown out of proportion.

Malik Rose

It's real tough, losing a game that you controlled the majority of. But I always try to look at the positive. At least we're not getting blown out now. We're competing and putting ourselves in a chance to win games. We just have to take that all-important step and learn how to win those types of games.

A lot of power poles in the (trailer) park are down, a lot of the vans have been destroyed, blown away completely.

A lot of speculative excess is being blown out of this market here. It was long overdue, and finally a little more sanity is prevailing here right now.

A lot of people have already blown all their money.

They may have blown his doors off there.

It was so windy, street signs were being blown over and the driver had to pull off a couple of times.

They are all very relieved and feel that justice has been served. This was all just one big misunderstanding that got blown way out of proportion.

Because the ground is saturated, trees will get blown over pretty easy.

If your goals are blown out of proportion, you won't even want to get started.

Butch Harmon

I had heard of Tiger, but I had never seen him play, ... Like everyone else, I was immediately blown away by the raw talent.

Brodie Croyle

Honestly, I think this game was better than if we would have blown them out. We were up and then we went down and we came back to win after being down by 11.

Scott Turow

Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall.

Hopefully we've blown the cobwebs of travel and all the other things involved with coming off the Christmas break away. It wasn't the prettiest (victory), but I was real proud of our kids. I thought everybody got an opportunity to get in, thought everybody was able to contribute.

Reggie Brown

I've played a lot of games there, and every time it's always been a good one, except for that time we got blown out by LSU, ... Other than that, it was all good.

It was. To get blown out on national TV by a team we like to think we're better than ... We all knew what the situation was. We knew we had a history of that type of performance after a big game. We wanted to change that, but we didn't.

It's akin to the Soviet Politburo erasing people from photographs. The only reason we know most of these things are happening is that civil servants have observed these violations of the law and have bravely blown the whistle and told the press.

Teri Hatcher

It struck me so strongly that -- oh my God, he's been doing this for 35 years! I was just blown over by this girl's pain. I thought, boy, that's really close to being me, any day of the week. I could feel that sort of pain.

It's not like we're getting blown out by forty or anything like that. We're right there in the game. We've just got to get those guys on the ship and toughen those games out.