Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're a small community. Everybody knows each other here. Everybody would love to see it put to rest. I think it will be good (for the Davis family) to have some kind of closure.

Bill Cobbs

Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

Paul Weller

No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?

Rich Gannon

I am very proud with my association with the Oakland Raiders. I am very thankful to Mr. (Al) Davis (team owner) for giving me that opportunity to play in 1999.

Rich Gannon

I am very proud with my association with the Oakland Raiders, ... I am very thankful to Mr. (Al) Davis (team owner) for giving me that opportunity to play in 1999.

Basically, Crist and Davis are nominal front-runners. Going in, they are going to be the favorites.

Jake Delhomme

I'm all for it. Whoever we can get in there. But if it's still Stephen Davis or Steve Smith, that's fine with us, as long as we have one more point than the other team.

Tommy Haas

France will have to be reckoned with in Davis Cup. We weren't good enough today.

Joel Davis

The fact that this happened in Davis is what makes this a book, ... You'd be hard-pressed to go around Davis today and find kids this good as (John and Sabrina) were back then.

He's a compassionate guy; he's a person of substance; he's passionate about what he wants for this state. Jim Davis is a nice guy. From my perspective, it takes more than a nice guy to get elected.

Lovie Smith

Going into the game, we did not know Davis could return kicks like that.

Larry Parrish

I thought Davis threw pretty good. He pitched better than giving up three runs. In the five games we've played, we could have won four of them easily if we were scoring runs and swinging the bats.

I think as the game wore on, Davis started seeing that they were in it and they got stronger and stronger. And the pressure on our team got stronger and stronger and we weren't able to deal with it.

Michael Turner

He had only generous words for Ray Davis and Koshiba.

He is not the type of person who will shy away from any pressure situation, which he has already proved in Davis Cup, in Wimbledon and finals of tournaments already in the last year. He's desperate to play in front of his Scottish fans.

Danny Elfman

He looks like Sammy Davis Jr. -- but he's a skeleton,

Bobby Ross

Glenn Davis was my hero. I think that Carlton, when he has time to get over the excitement of this victory, will be able to look at what he has done as an unbelievable accomplishment.

John Brady

Glen Davis could never get into the rhythm he had last night or the way he finished the year.

Gray Davis

If it could happen, Davis would look forward to such an opportunity. It's just very difficult to listen to inaccurate facts that went unchallenged.

Carlos Santana

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

Tonight was the most focused I've ever seen Jessica Davis on the mound.

We had a big first inning and that kind of set the tone. Our young kids just played good, scored and scored early. (Sophomore right-hander) Jacob Davis did a good job of throwing strikes.

Henry Rollins

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

Adam Scott

I think Davis was much in the same boat. When you just get in the worst spots, there's no forgiveness.

I think Davis is the team to beat.

Tom Izzo

I think Davis did the 'Lambeau Leap,' even.

Steve's making the majority of the catches, but our offense isn't designed just to get him the ball, ... He's just getting open and making some great plays, and Jake is hooking up with him. Naturally, we'd like to spread it out a little more and get other guys (into the end zone), but whenever we can move the ball, it doesn't matter to us how we move it. Whether it's getting Steve catches or Stephen Davis a lot of carries, as long as we're efficient, it really doesn't matter.

I think having Davis in the middle gives those other guys a lot of confidence.

It did not look like it was my match, but somehow in the best-of-five matches there is always a chance. I love to play Davis Cup. I always fight until the end.

I think Tom Davis is about as safe as an incumbent can be these days. Davis strikes a pretty good middle ground for his constituents.

Mark Shapiro

Our original plan in the off-season was to slate the No. 5 spot in the rotation for a younger player (Jason Davis or Fausto Carmona) and to spend money to upgrade elsewhere. When we were unable to get some other things done, we saw an opportunity to improve the team by signing Jason. The young guys still could end up playing a role for us in 2006.

We're still a spread offense. We're going to throw it around. We think our tight ends (Charles Davis and Dustin Keller) are talented and we want to get them involved.

John Brady

We played really well in overtime, but the 3 that Glen Davis hit was really something special. You've got to have those kinds of plays when you have the kind of season that we've had.