Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes these Davis Cup doubles are on a knife's edge, especially when it's a 1-1 scenario, it shows how pivotal they are, but this was a good effort, tough players those two guys. You've got Max ranked three in the world (in doubles) and the other guy's a hell of a hitter of the ball. These are not easy to win. That was a very good performance.

(Ryder Cup captain) Ian (Woosnam) has rung me already to congratulate me. Obviously I'd love to play again.

Walter Smith

Sadly, there is nothing we can do about it. The current Fifa ruling regarding release of players extends to just four days before a World Cup tie.

Pull out the measuring cup and the scale once or twice just for practice. You don't have to do it all the time, but you see what it actually looks like. If you don't want to do that, use some of the visuals just to give you an eyeball, like 3 ounces (of meat) looks like a deck of cards. You don't have to be exact, but you want to have a clue.

Ranking will be a big part of it. There is a lot more that will play into it. Right now I'm just relying on what I need for the Fed Cup and I'll look at the Olympics after that.

Colin Clarke

At the start of the year, we set our goals, and this is very high on the list. Obviously MLS Cup is the No. 1 goal. We put the Lamar Hunt (U.S.) Open Cup second to that.

Colin Clarke

At the start of the year, we set our goals, and this is very high on the list, ... Obviously MLS Cup is the No. 1 goal. We put the Lamar Hunt (U.S.) Open Cup second to that.

Jamie Carragher

At the end of the day it's only a semifinal and the Cup is still there to be won,

There's been at least one study that's shown an increased risk of miscarriage in women who drink moderate amounts of caffeine, and that's only 1 1/2 to 2 cups a day.

Henrik Lundqvist

There's been a lot of talk about the last Olympics. It was a tough loss for the nation. Of course, we want to have a good tournament. We had a tough World Cup (in 2004) as well. So I think everybody wants to see us play a good tournament.

Kenny Dalglish

This is about celebrating and reliving one of the greatest FA Cup finals ever played

Otto Rehhagel

It's true that we have not won for some time now, and we seem to have some difficulty with scoring. And that includes the Confederations Cup too, where we tried a few things.

George Vecsey

For good reasons, there are no ties during the Stanley Cup season. Somebody needs to win so the lads can get out to their cottages on the lakes, where all hockey players spend their summers, or so I have been told.

Football is the most popular team sport in Ireland and the interest in a World Cup year would have helped grow the game even further,

Food trends don't just drive the obvious things, like cupcakes or cronuts, but something as elemental as your daily cup of coffee. The way you have that coffee now is probably very different from the way you had it ten years ago, and it'll probably be very different in ten years. That has a huge impact, culturally and economically.

Sven Eriksson

It's the World Cup so you know you have to meet some very good teams. Holland, Portugal, Sweden and the Czech Republic are all good teams.

Louis Saha

It's of no interest to me to just play one match per month. I don't think you can go to the World Cup at the top of your game that way.

Mark Philippoussis

It's the Davis Cup and it's not like you have got another Davis Cup next week.

Carlos Ruiz

It's the other Cup -- Lamar Hunt -- so it's not a big deal,

Brad Richards

This is great. We talked about getting closure. I think we all needed that. It's been a while. Not that we're sick of hearing of it, but we've got to move on. It's not our Cup anymore. We saw it tonight for the last time, and now we'll fight like the other teams to try to get it.

Kasey Keller

This is an opportunity for some guys to possibly make a World Cup squad.

Robert Pires

This is the European Championship here. This tournament is even more difficult than the World Cup finals. It's frustrating that the public doesn't understand this.

Jack Warner

This goes to also say how fortunate you are to have this chance. We do not want to say that we qualified for a World Cup in a one-off situation.

It's a great opportunity for us young guys to try to make a World Cup team. Playing every day in MLS has helped me. I just want to keep going forward.

Gary Player

It's a good idea for future Presidents Cups to have a reserve ready to play. The people want to see the match played as scheduled.

Michael Ballack

It's a decisive game. Not just for us but also for the mood of the country. It's important going into the World Cup that we get a successful result.

Kurt Busch

It's a great thing that I have going with the NASCAR Cup car right now.

It only takes a cup of gasoline to destroy a million gallons of drinking water.

Pele

Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

Everything depends on what kind of team they will bring. Some of their team members might not come due to World Cup qualifying rounds next weekend.

Every team going in thinks they have a shot. Whoever ends up in the Stanley Cup final, it really wouldn't surprise me.

Every soccer player thinks of the World Cup or the Olympics. And I'd love to play professionally; it doesn't matter if it's here or in Mexico.

Keith Tkachuk

The old guys can still play a little bit. ... We've been around, we've won the World Cup in '96, and we demand a lot from each other. I think the young guys expect us to go out and lead by example. I think tonight was a good example of that.