Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain.

We are getting close (to where we need to be). We are improving from week to week. I enjoy seeing them smile and reaching them (as a coach). They have all stepped up this year and we have a couple of captains who are very passionate.

Bruce Dickinson

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

Jamie Farr

I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.

Blaise Pascal

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Clive Woodward

Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum.

She's very disciplined. She has to be to keep the schedule she does. She doesn't necessarily say a whole lot, but she's one of our captains and a real leader on and off the court.

She's a veteran leader, one of our captains and she's just got a solid all-around game. It's nice having an extra player that can step up.

Daniel Lee

You are the captain of your ship that never comes in

Drew Carey

Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?

Davy Jones

The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!

Alphonse Karr

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

Having three captains on a cross country team is rare. But that's a sign of how strong our leadership is this year.

I wish he would have just let us have two captains and let us draft.

Aziz Ansari

Myself, Eric Wareheim, and Jason Woliner decided to start a Food Club where the three of us go to restaurants with a couple of other people. The three of us are the captains of the Food Club, so we have to wear the captains' hats.

Rosemary Mahoney

A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue.

We have talked a lot about leadership. We name our captains late. They are just feeling their role and Marc stepped up big time. He leads by example and is a big motivator. How he plays is how we go.

We have some strong hitters, but our emphasis will be defense. We have a good defense. Our two captains are great leaders. We don't have as much power. We'll win our games through defense and strategy.

Rajendra Prasad

We must re-dedicate ourselves on this day to the peaceful but sure realisation of the dream that had inspired the Father of our Nation and the other captains and soldiers of our freedom struggle, the dream of establishing a classless, co-operative, free and happy society in "his country,""We must remember that this is more a day of dedications than of rejoicing - dedication to the glorious task of making the peasants and workers the toilers and the thinkers fully free, happy and cultured

Those captains are really helping the team take ownership of each unit. We've seen the effort level raised and they are accountable for their responsibilities. The captains will show a clip from practice and tell guys when they're letting down their unit. It's been great.

We were looking for players that were captains of their high school teams and involved in more than one sport. We sought competitors, and we found them. We searched for people of character, guys that really want to be at The Citadel.

James Patterson

Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.

Gail Carriger

Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend?

At the end of the game, if we lose, our captains will take it over and give it to their captains. If we win, our captains will take it over and show it to them, so they can see what it looks like.

Sean Jones

After losing in the quarterfinals for six years straight, this feels good. We didn't play with any passion in the second period, but our captains got things squared away between periods. Spaulding's too good to play a man down. We told them it was still within reach, go show some heart.

Joe Paterno

They took it. Nobody pouted. The captains got them together and all's well that ends well.

American supports our captains when those decisions are made,

James Branch Cabell

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

Jack White

Captain Lone Wolf Gonzaullas was one of a kind. I'm sure he would agree to this truth, If you continuously compete with others, you will become bitter. If you constantly compete with yourself, you can become great.

George Meredith

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

He's the leader of the team. He's one of our captains and was our leading tackler last year.

These are a great group of kids to work with and they have been working hard. The kids did a great job of choosing captains and I am looking forward to the season.

Lapo Elkann

I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way.