Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had an opportunity there in the seventh and earlier in the game we had a couple of scoring opportunities where we didn't get a hit. They sort of manufactured a run, and we had opportunities and we didn't, and that's the difference.

Jay Wright

We had no doubt that St. John's was going to come in here and play tough. They remind me of us a couple of years ago, young and just scrapping.

Kyle McLaren

When they can get the momentum on a couple 5-on-3s, it's tough to take back. They have some really talented players over there. If you give them too many opportunities, especially 5-on-3, they're going to capitalize.

When you work the whole year for a couple of days of performing and things don't go well, you take it personally. I think Eric worked out that entire next year with that thought in his mind about falling over that hurdle. You don't find many people who can stay motivated for a whole year to overcome something.

Alain Vigneault

When you win, you feel good about yourselves. That's what the focus is going to be on these next couple games.

John Calipari

When you win, everyone shines. We all performed at a high level. The most pleasing thing is we saw an energy level we have not seen in a couple of weeks. Forget the score, you have need to get yourself ready to play at a high level and we did.

Noah Feldman

The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a single executive took a couple of hundred years.

Nancy Pelosi

Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.

Nadia Giosia

'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'

We're not going to do anything too different. We just want to try to win some games after a couple of tough losses.

Les Dawson

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

Lydia Ko

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I think the thing about acting and making music is that it's easy to do both. I'll shoot a movie for three months, and then I won't have to work for however long I want to. So, I can do a movie for a couple of months and then come and do music for a couple. But whatever's hot at the moment is what I'll gravitate toward.

Rod Stewart

I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

Dom DeLuise

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.

Nicki Minaj

I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in the world, I'd be useless. Seriously.

We played well in the first half, but in the second they hit their shots and we didn't and we also had some turnovers. They had a couple pretty good shooters who hit from the outside.

We played well enough to win, but in the last couple of minutes, we didn't execute. Strickland made some big shots. ... He was guarded, but that's what seniors do.

Darren Sharper

We played well early on. The first couple of drives, we knocked them out. But we got a little worn down as the first half went along.

We played well defensively. We had a couple of breakdowns, and they capitalized on them.

We played well, but we had a couple of stretches where we didn't play well and they went on runs.

Pat Gillick

Those are a couple of great acquisitions by the Mets. They have strengthened themselves. It's going to make them more of a force to be dealt with in the East.

Pat Gillick

Those are a couple of great acquisitions by the Mets, ... They have strengthened themselves. It's going to make them more of a force to be dealt with in the East.

Andre Iguodala

Tomorrow is going to be a fun day. I've got a couple of things under my sleeve. I want to try something new. Everything I did today, you've seen before. I am going to try some new things tomorrow.

Dwane Casey

(Yao) is a big man and he's a handful for us. We tried three people on him and he is just a handful down here wrestling with him. He has really, really had a stretch of games the last couple of weeks where he has played well and been a force.

Lucinda Williams

Y'all have made us so comfortable that we're going to do a couple of new songs,

We are looking at all players at the moment. We want a couple of forwards, whether permanently or on loan. Then we will look at other positions.

We are letting the dust settle around here. We are not pressed. We will let it all go for a couple of weeks or more, then it's decision time for the entire football team. I know the quarterback situation is marquee in everyone's minds. But we will deal with it.

We are learning the game every day. Our girls have improved from day one 100 percent. Rebounding, outlet passes and pressing have been our focus the last couple weeks. The girls have responded with hard work and multiple wins.

We are just having a lot of poles down and wires down. We haven't had a lot of flooding. We have had a couple of requests for sand bags.

We're a third-quarter team. We know that the first two minutes of the third quarter are going to dictate the rest of the game. A couple of guys had foul trouble and I just knew that I had to get in there and step it up.

Alvin Lee

I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I'm serious. Listen to your radio station.

The rate of growth over the last couple of years has been solid.