Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're playing the defending Eastern Conference champions the next two games. We've got to come out mentally focused.

Billy Beane

You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high.

Didier Drogba

Maybe we spend a lot of money, but this money is not spent for nothing. We won the League and Carling Cup last season, we went to the semifinal of the Champions League and this year we are top of the League. Sometimes you have to spend money for the good reason and this is the good reason.

Seve Ballesteros

My intention is to compete until I'm 54. So if I join the Champions Tour, it will only be for four years - no more than that. I'm in the golf course design business. This is my future. I'd rather go to a place where there is nothing and design a golf course. This will be a good legacy for me to leave.

Ocean Champions has the potential to be one of the most transformative things we've ever done in the whole conservation movement.

One year ago they (the players) were just happy to play. Some didn't even know what the Tournament of Champions was.

Maybe they are these young crazy kids and they didn't know they were supposed to wilt. At that point, we felt like, 'OK, here it comes. We're going to go on a roll and it will be, Nice job, Riverside, thanks for showing up.' But they hung tough and did what champions do.

Rafael Benitez

Now we intend to finish the job with another victory. If we do that we will be virtually through into the knockout stages. We have been very positive in our Champions League matches and I hope that we can continue this now.

Obviously if you are at The Players Champions or the Masters, which are elite events, and your defending champion is in the hunt, you get a number of on-air mentions. That can't hurt.

We have high expectations. Our goal is to become (Imperial Valley League) champions and hopefully get back to that CIF championship game.

There are very few highway-safety champions in Congress, and he is definitely one of them.

So many champions and good horses have come from this program; it's proven ground. These horses are on the come; they have so much upside to them.

We're setting up for the Tournament of Champions -- that's district play. We had to get the kinks out so we can be ready and prepare for the district season.

We are not giving up on the Champions League. Our rivals will have their dips in form before the end of the season.

Ozzie Guillen

Today was the last day for the White Sox to enjoy the World Series. I tell people that we'll be World Champions until Feb. 18. Today we are 0-0.

Brodrick Bunkley

We stayed confident throughout all the troubling things. Every team goes through things like that. That's the way champions do it; they overcome their problems.

Helen Clark

We prefer our champions to be humble and modest,

We're excited about the opportunities .... The local community has shown great interest in supporting NAIA student-athletes and the Champions of Character program so we are thrilled to showcase some of the top NAIA golfers in the country at a wonderful host facility.

Michael Campbell

The previous champions are all of the greats in golf,

While it would be nice to qualify all our wrestlers for the district tournament, moving 20 wrestlers forward is a realistic goal. We are very fortunate to be returning several USAW Kansas Kids and high school state champions and medalists to this tournament series. We expect to have several of our wrestlers medal high at subs.

Mack Brown

We have 15 starters back next year and our expectations today remain the same as before Vince's decision. We are defending national champions and will move forward.

Jim Courier

We are excited to launch the Champions Cup Series and unveil another high quality tennis property in the United States.

When you get down to tournament time, the difference between the winners, the champions and the people who go home are the people who can win the games when they're not playing well. In tournament play, we'll take any win that we can get, anyway, anyhow.

This system will put a lot more importance on winning the region title. The format will reward teams for being region champions and runners-up.

Jeremy Foley

Why not us? Why can't we be champions in basketball, too.

Hayley Wickenheiser

To be Olympic champions for the second time in a row is great. It's definitely harder to defend gold than to win it.

To say we did well is an understatement. We really dominated the tournament. The champions we had ? not just from Mount Sinai ? I think are going to represent Division II at the tournament in a very positive fashion. We have some very tough kids and I think we're going to do well in the states.

UCLA are undefeated national champions and Stanford were last year's runners-up so they are definitely favored to win.

We will continue to oppose the Champions Trophy.

Bruce Feiler

I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.

Zig Ziglar

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

We placed third the last two years. But we have been league champions in three of the last five years. I am very proud of my team.

Financing the transfer is impossible. We could only justify the move if we were guaranteed to play in the Champions League for the next three seasons. There is no guarantee of that.