Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Bird

Like me, he plays the game to win, ... Because of his intensity and desire to win, Ronnie's a guy I would pay money to watch play.

I want to thank Frank McCourt for the opportunity to speak with him regarding his opening. I enjoyed speaking to him. However, I have indicated to Texas owner Tom Hicks my desire to remain with the Rangers. Therefore, I am withdrawing my name from consideration for the general manager's job with the Dodgers.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Part of it is a desire for lifelong learning. Part of it is for a job requirement. Part of it is for educational goals. Some of it is to earn more money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory

Billy Sheehan

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.

Bill O'Reilly

One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.

Treating all savings the same ignores human nature and the strong desire of people to have everything now.

Scott Parker

We aren't a sports bar, and we have no desire to be, but it should be fun.

We forced them to play the full length of the floor for four quarters. That was our desire - to make it a full-court game.

Pierce Brosnan

Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

Typically when you have people with sudden wealth, they need a long-term plan to protect it from themselves. There's this initial pent-up desire to spend. Cars, houses, and gifts of money for so-and-so. Everyone is going to be your friend.

We've known about his desire to move on well before Panorama was broadcast. He at no time offered to resign prior to this.

Mario Andretti

I've always said, 'I didn't have a Plan B in life.' I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It's all about desire and passion. At all costs.

O. Henry

We're a good team with good togetherness and you surely saw where my desire is. The way I was playing is the most important thing, not all the time talking about my contract.

We have special interests trying to infiltrate and undermine our coastal zone program. It is driven by money and greed. It is not driven out of the desire to protect the public interest or our natural resources.

Alan Shearer

I work with him every day and I don't see any desire missing. I hope that's the start of a run for Alan.

Most Lethal Combination - Desire & Dream..... One follow other in the pursuit of Excellence

Most kids would have never come back. That showed her heart, desire and character.

Bertrand Russell

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

Bertrand Russell

In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to prolong.

William Shakespeare

It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!

Orison Swett Marden

There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.

Rich Hill

Those are the kind of teams I've always been around. Scrappy guys who like to train hard, put the team first and have an intense desire to succeed. So the superstar thing kind of goes out the window.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Whoever desires the gain of the hereafter, We will give him more of that again; and whoever desires-- the gain of this world, We give him of it, and in the hereafter he has no portion.

We played even with a great team in the second and third periods. But Omaha is a team that plays with a great desire to win for a full 60 minutes. We didn't do that.

Mark Parrish

We played Calgary with emotion and desire, and we didn't have any of that tonight. Mentally, either we weren't prepared or we weren't thinking out there. This theme is getting old.

We have to take a vote, ... Im only one commissioner, but absolutely, it would be my desire to have it annually.

Remove the shackles from me and set me free, free to be the woman you desire me to be.

Reserves can't have any role in earnings targets or the desire to meet an earnings target.

Placing fourth as a freshman and fourth as a sophomore and now second as a junior, you're climbing. Hopefully he's gotten a little taste of this and has a desire to get back.