Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jake Plummer

It's nothing major and with a couple of day's rest it should be OK.

It's no secret that the ratings have been tough for the last couple of seasons. There's a point where you want to send a great show off with dignity and with some semblance of success.

Scott Skiles

It's no secret that the last couple of years we were trying to rebuild and redo our team, and there's a lot of teams that try to do that and can't get in the playoffs. For our guys to get in is a tribute to the way they have been resilient and stayed with it.

Kevin Youkilis

For me, it's not as strange. Johnny's a good friend of mine. You know what's strange? When you look down the locker room and you realize all the guys you played with the past couple years are kind of gone. You got new players and personalities you have to get used to and deal with.

For every couple that wins, there's one that loses.

For 30 minutes, we played one of our better games of the season. But the last couple minutes we didn't do what we had to do - offensively or defensively.

John Burnham Schwartz

For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.

For a couple days before I'd just been feeling lousy, like getting the flu. At one point they went and told my wife and daughters to say goodbye because I wasn't going to make it.

They don't bite. Their defense mechanism is they just play dead. They roll over on their back, throw out their tongue, and let off a horrible odor like they've been dead for a couple days.

They had a couple of thousand fans for one of their preseason scrimmages. A lot of (schools) don't get that for the real games.

They had a couple of steals and easy baskets in transition and turned momentum in their favor.

They guard well and they've got a couple of big kids that we need to take out. They run a high-low offense to where we'll really have to pressure that top guy and push them out as far as we can push them.

They didn't have a whole lot of great scoring chances. It's kind of an easy game. There were a couple of good saves in the third period, but other than that, it was pretty quiet.

They didn't come in bunches. I think we had opportunities to score more than we did. A couple of times we left some runners out there.

Dusty Baker

They found every hole. We helped them with a couple of errors, and we weren't doing it offensively.

They are a very good team with a couple of great players in (Tyson) Christie and (Adam) Phillips. They're well-coached, tough and physical. We knew it would take a great effort to have a chance.

They are still loaded at the wide receiver position. It doesn't hurt to lose a couple of guys.

They are playing more as a team. You're not seeing guys talking all about themselves. Even before the (2003) game, they had a couple of guys suspended for the first quarter. You could just tell (during the game) that they didn't come in with the mindset that they were playing a good team.

You don't want to go into the postseason 0-4 in your last four games. It really doesn't matter what you do in the first couple months of the season, but it's how you're playing right now.

Chris Coleman

You can't knock the guys, there is only a couple of times we have gone away and not competed. As long as they have a go that is all you can ask.

This past weekend I really felt comfortable. I hit a couple of shots early and that gave me confidence.

Norv Turner

This morning he went out and ran and was excited about the way he felt. We tried to plot a plan on how we'd use him. That's what we did. ... He made a couple of big plays that helped us.

Ben Roethlisberger

There wasn't much to it. A couple of plays and it was pretty much over with. There are a lot of things we need to improve on, but it's hard to tell when you're only out there so long.

There wasn't a game plan (on White). Our game plan was to go out there and play hard-nosed defense. (White) got a couple plays early in the game, and you could tell he was feeling it.

There was extreme wind, rain, loss of power, and then a couple of days later everything was normal. That's hurricane.

There was discussion of it (among university presidents) in the last couple years, and there hasn't been much enthusiasm for it at this point. I think that discussion needs to continue, but I don't see any movement in that direction.

Peter Brown

There will be more consolidation, but there is not a lot of opportunity. Many of the owners have a single or a couple of villages.

There were periods like that a couple years ago where people might have thought the same thing, and he bounces back,

Colin Hay

There were only a couple of people I would really trust, which has a kind of sadness to it. It doesn't really have anything to do with you, just to do with other people's perceptions of what's happened to you. It mainly had to do with people thinking you had untapped sources of wealth.

David Brown

There weren't many females there. A couple Navy nurses and Red Cross workers.

Paul Hewitt

There were mistakes (against Maryland) that we could have controlled. When we executed well, we got some great looks. There were a couple breakdowns and in a one-possession game you have to win every possession.

Bode Miller

There were just a couple of spots where I got a little out of balance. That's the difference between being fifth and being second. Obviously, it would have taken a hurricane wind to get first today. He was pretty much in control.

There were a lot of issues involved. We felt it was kind of selfish to keep doing it. It was real hectic the last couple of years.