Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have a spot on the team. Right now, I guess you could say I am a walk-on. But I will be treated just like any other player on the team. As far as a scholarship goes, he likes to reward players who work hard. Every player that has stayed with the program has earned a scholarship.

Troy Percival

I feel very fortunate for everything I've had. I worked hard to get it. I feel I earned it. I just wish it would have ended a little differently. I don't have any negative feelings about it at all at this point.

I feel like we're very well prepared (for districts). In the last week, we lost to three very tough teams (St. Basil, Villa Maria, Downingtown) and got two big wins (over Nazareth) back to back. I feel like the girls have earned a lot of respect.

I don't feel like we escaped with one. I feel we earned it.

Gerald Vizenor

W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.

Jacob threw 84 pitches and gave up one earned run. He's one of those pitchers we're looking at, who can come in and solidify that third spot.

Joe can also go to end, so I look at it as seven and a half. They've earned (the right to rotate) so far, but you can lose that right and they understand that.

John is a fighter. He earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line for his country,

Patrick McEnroe

He is the leader. He's been around long enough that he's earned that right. I love his effort, and I love his intensity.

He is someone who has earned the right to be president. He also teaches those seminars. He's a great guy with solid leadership skills.

Winston Churchill

Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts

Ken Hitchcock

He's earned a right to be a prime time player for us. (Sim) has just come out and earned his spot.

He should be 6-0; he's given up three earned runs in three games. That's tough, in high school, to still lose.

Ron Brown

I think you'll feel like you earned it more. Instead of two teams meeting one night for one game -- that part doesn't feel like much of a tournament. For the most part, it's a good move and it's one they needed to make.

LAKSHMI or wealth accrues by fair means as well as foul; money is earned by gambling, by various forms of deceit; by highway robbery; by high and low; by all and sundry.

We've earned the right to take it to the next level.

Tom Renney

We've earned the privilege of feeling good about what we've done. But we have won nothing. We know we need our A-plus game in the playoffs, and now is the time that you make sure you're there when the time comes.

I think we earned some respect by getting a sixth seed. And if we didn't, we'll go out and try to earn some more.

I think we earned it. We grinded it out and we earned it.

I think we earned a 2-seed. We put together a nice win streak to end the season and improved.

Ron Guidry

He impressed me so much. I've got a lot of respect for him, and he earned a lot from me. He knew he had to go down and pitch on a regular basis.

He earned that one tonight. He had a lot of shots, and some quality shots, down low, scrambles in front, he seems to get in the way of them.

He earned that one tonight, ... He had a lot of shots, and some quality shots, down low, scrambles in front, he seems to get in the way of them.

He earned some time tonight, that's for sure. He's obviously back in the mix.

He earned my respect. He played with more passion that the rest of the team combined.

For most of our near 40-year history, we have earned in excess of 90 or 95 percent of our income. But now the job is just too big for us to handle alone.

Julie Foudy

Given what Brandi has done for this sport for the last 17 years, I feel like she's earned the right to at least be given a look. I think this is a big mistake.

Barry Bonds

I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.

Dan Rooney

We're the last people who were here during that time. It's really great to see this new generation come on, this generation of players, generation of coaches, it's really an exciting time. They've done well and they've earned it. I look at this as a separate thing; this is not one for the thumb, it's one for these guys.

Akshay Kumar

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

Jarome Iginla

We weren't as ready as we should be. If we take 'em, we've got to kill penalties. They had pretty much the whole first period in power plays, and they earned that.

To some extent, granted they weren't in the A-10, but they had earned an opportunity to be ranked that high after making the NCAA Tournament the last few years. Nobody in the A-10 had done that. They put themselves in position to be looked at that way.

Why not? I reckon we will have earned a nice long holiday by then.