Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kobe Bryant

Very surprised. Shocked actually. Very, very surprised. I've been hit with a couple of flagrant fouls already this year. I've been hit with a clothesline and no suspensions come of that. And I get two games for this?

Tom Glavine

We feel like there's a window of opportunity to get something done in the next several days and we're willing to explore that, ... It hurts nobody by giving it a couple of extra days.

We do see a lot of earnings acceleration in Japan in a couple of sectors in particular. We've got good exposure to Japanese retailers, good exposure to Japanese real estate companies.

Ken Hitchcock

You give skilled players that many power plays and eventually you are going to get some people tired and that is what happened. We made a couple of tired decisions at the end.

You give River Ridge a couple more players and they're right there with everyone in the league.

Jeff Bezos

You have to remember that in the Internet sector, the Internet companies' share prices have been volatile not just in the last week, but over the last couple of years. That's likely, I think, to continue.

Mike Scioscia

You have to remember, ... he was No. 1 on a lot of people's list a couple of years ago.

You get that feeling when you get one or two in a row and then you just want to shoot every time. Then other people started opening up and get a couple of assists. It's just fun.

You get a four-spot with Todd pitching and you're in good shape. He hasn't given up more than four runs in a couple of years.

You look at it like you're losing 1-0 or winning 1-0. I've had a tendency in the past when I'm up 8-0 to lose focus on a couple pitches. Before you know it, it's 8-5. If you think about you're winning or losing 1-0, it makes things so much better. You get people out.

You look at first round of district, we were in every game down the stretch. Just a couple things here or there and we could easily have won.

Maria Semple

I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it's a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

Maria Semple

I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

Dusty Baker

You can't put your finger on it. The last couple of years we've played them tough. That's not the team you want to play every day.

Dana Williams

The major game plan is to spend a couple months listening,

The key was getting a couple of shots down early to extend their zone.

The key for us the past couple games has been working hard as a team. We played excellent defense and we did it as team, which makes a big difference.

The injury makes him doubtful for the weekend because he took a couple of heavy knocks on it.

James Sullivan

The underlying trend in employment growth is pretty good. With the unemployment rate down to 5 percent and inflation expectations up over the last couple of months, we do see more acceleration in wages. For now the Fed will keep moving on its stated path.

The underlying trend for our industry over the next decade should be strong. What we've seen in the past couple of quarters is bookings have been picking up,

Ryan Sullivan

The trip went well; we improved as the trip went on. We started 1-7, but finished 4-4, so 5-11 overall. As always, there were a couple of games that we thought we should have had, but we are a young team and got better.

These are guys that are going to be able to go year in and year out for the next couple of years. I'm really excited for them.

These last couple week his progress has been really steady. He just keeps moving up and doing good things.

J. J. Johnson

These kids never quit. That was the difference from a couple of our losses. Once they got down, they would give up the game. But at the end tonight, they never stopped going hard, and they took over at the end.

These kids have been working so hard with the Olympics and the world championships. We try to give them a couple hours a day to relax and recharge their batteries.

These guys, they're married; they've got a couple of kids. Wine is part of their lives, but it's not integrated in a way that they really force themselves to be knowledgeable.

These guys have been through far, far worse. Most of these guys were on the 20-loss team from a couple years ago; last year we were on a seven-game losing streak. They've seen it all.

These guys have been in the playoffs. They have been playing in October for a couple of years, and they know what they are doing. As players, we're just trying to follow them.

It scares the heck out of me. It carves out an unprecedented exemption for agriculture. It seems like a radical departure from the way we have governed for a couple hundred years in this country.

Richard Hamilton

It scared me because it hurt for a couple of minutes, but I just pushed myself through it. I didn't want to sit out too long and have it tighten up.

It's been incredible the last couple of weeks. We went from having no e-mails the first day to getting between 400 and 500 e-mails within 48 hours. I was literally getting two or three e-mails a second at one point.

It's been hot for the last couple years, but this year it's even better than ever.

Herman Edwards

It's been tough the last couple of weeks, it really has.