Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you look at what's transpired in sports between then and now, you see the significance of the Wagner contract. Wagner was the quintessential star in American sports at the time. This contract sort of started it all as far as formal endorsement deals.

In pro sports, a management person in the final year of his contract is unfortunately viewed as a true lame duck. The focus is on what's going to happen, even though they are signed to a contract. We wanted to take that issue off the radar screen and have everyone concentrate on the games being played on the field.

John Corey Whaley

In the middle of my fourth year teaching is when I got my book contract - in 2010. I knew the book would come out in May 2011.

In the 15-year history of negotiating contracts with UPS, this is the first time we have requested a release from mediation.

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.

I had called around to quite a few places to try to find out who I could get a contract with. I didn't want to get down there and be hooked up with the wrong company. I want to be hooked up with a good company,

If Derek wants to sign his contract extension, then everything would be great and we could just get on with things. That has always been the case. I have always said that the best-case scenario for us and Derek is that he signs his contract extension and concentrates on his football and scoring goals until somebody that he is happy with comes in with the right money for him.

Frank Robinson

He's never complained about the hardships this team has gone through. He signed a long-term contract because he wanted to be here.

He's not getting a penny he's not owed, and there's been no sweetening of his contract. His contract was in line with market standards. There's nothing unusual about it.

Hillary Clinton

I have heard so many stories of contractors, and I've met some, too, who worked for Donald Trump, produced the goods and services and never got paid for what they were owed.

Dan Quisenberry

His contract has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.

Because these people are working for the government, they should be able to be identified. (The contract provision) turns the state employees into a nameless entity.

Jeff Kent

I'm willing to dedicate myself for another couple of years. It's safe to say I'm proud to be able to retire a Dodger. I'm 99.9 percent sure this is the last contract of my career.

Phil Davis

I need a job first, ... I had two years left on my contract but the new one takes me until 2007 and to the World Cup season and beyond.

Edmund White

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

I'm having a great time playing football. Did the new contract help? Of course. It puts you at peace and allows you to focus on football. But while in Tampa, there were things that just weren't right. And I wasn't comfortable or satisfied with where I was in my career.

Evelyn Smith

I'm happy with it. It seems everybody's pretty happy with the contract overall. Even with the health insurance changes, it still seems like a good contract.

Michael Chertoff

If there are contracts that turn out to be not properly cost effective or inappropriate in some other way, we can redo the contracts; we can renegotiate those contracts,

If our contract is rejected, we will strike.

I hope that I can get a longer contract and get settled at the club.

I have received no official approach, I have a contract with Southampton and I'm enjoying myself in football.

It was a resignation. That's important to understand. The program evaluation was ongoing. The contract extension was a piece of that. Dan didn't want a situation where it was going to drag out for a few more months.

It's a year-by-year thing with me, that's all I can tell you. ... The Pac-10 contract exists through 2011, but I'm pretty sure by 2011, I will have become the shop steward of the International Porch Sitters Union and I won't worry about it.

It's a contract year and there's no hiding that fact, ... I've got 10 games to show what I can do. I want to go out and play great and hopefully keep us on the right path.

It is still manageable in terms of the contracts we have to fulfill, but if it goes on for more time, the effect could become much more serious.

I want to do this as long as I can. My main goal this year is to sign a professional contract and start making some more money.

Mila Kunis

I wanted to quit the industry when I was eighteen and finish '70s', finish my contract on the show and go to college because I was pretty convinced that after '70s' and after being on a show for eight years that I would be very much pigeonholed for something specific that I didn't want to be a part of anymore.

It took me five years before I saw 100 grand. My first contract was for $40,000, with a $42,500 bonus.

It takes time to switch schedules because contracts are sent four and five years in advance.

Manmohan Singh

The value of this contract will be in the region of $2.2 billion,

They are on rolling contracts like our other senior players and I am delighted they will be staying with us until the end of 2009 at least.

They are no longer involved in the contract negotiations,

They won themselves a pretty good contract offer. The members said 'no' and stood up. ... Eighty-six percent sends a message.