Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Mullen

I'm a Vietnam veteran. I was here when there was no public support, not just for the effort in Vietnam, for the mission in Vietnam, but for our men and women in uniform.

Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

This was a big weekend for us. We got a lot of big contributions, a nice effort by the entire team to win this series.

Ken Hitchcock

What's disappointing is we had a lot of effort. We made some mistakes. You don't want to waste efforts like we had tonight.

Wayne Gretzky

What records show are consistency, and that's what he's shown in his career. When a guy gets that many wins it's from a lot of effort and a lot of hard work and a lot of hours. I know the players tonight wanted him to get this at home.

What people don't understand is that all of the events are valuable. Inner-tube water polo, Frisbee, they're all important. You have to put the same effort into each sport.

Walt Kyle

We got a lot of opportunities. I can sit here not happy we lost, but I'm fine with the way we played. If we have the same effort (tonight), we'll be in good shape.

We got a lot of good offensive effort from a lot of different people. Sarah played a great game today ... offensively, defensively, doing some nice things. This is the way that we feel like she's going to be able to play all of the time.

We got a chance, 40 minutes away from actually making it to the Tournament. We'll need even more effort (tonight).

We gave everything we had. I can't be more proud of the effort we gave.

We gave a great effort (Friday). I don't think we played exceptionally well on offense, but I think defensively we really competed.

We gave a good effort and we're working on getting better.

We just kept fighting out there. It was just a total team effort and we just made the plays at the end to get a win.

Joe Sakic

We just have to worry about Calgary and have a better effort there. We always seem to have a lapse at one point or another in the game. We just want to play 60 minutes and get a win there and start moving up in the standings.

You have to understand, it's a total effort from everyone to take a school to the next level.

Randy Foye

You have to go out there and give a great effort because if you don't, you're on a losing streak.

Brenden Morrow

We've had a lot of pressure on us. We've not met expectations. But now we're getting some effort back. We weren't getting any breaks, but now we are.

We'll have to have better effort than we had tonight. I know we will.

We're putting every ounce of effort into getting these power lines back up and running. We're doing everything we can to help Sierra Pacific.

We all kind of put in that extra effort to make sure the job gets done. It's getting progressively harder.

Steve Francis

Tonight we were just able to finish things off late in the game. They made their run and I thought we responded well. Malik Rose did a great job stepping up and hitting big shots. I thought it was a total team effort that helped us win the game.

Tonight's win was an all-together great effort from our girls. We really had players step up and contribute.

Tonight's a tough one with all that anticipation. It's kind of hard to fall asleep, and you get a little jittery, but I guess we are all mature enough now and have been through this enough. Hopefully, we will be able to relax, get off our legs and take those last final steps to have 100 percent effort (today).

David Blunkett

There is always an effort to link the public and the private.

Stephen Jay Gould

I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.

There can't be too much of this. It is going to be a long job to reach a whole generation perhaps two and embed the idea of conversation. If we make the effort now and keep on repeating the message, I am sure it will get through; tidy up after yourselves or even better, don't litter in the first place.

We had a great team effort again, using lots of different players to find the right mix.

We had a great race. I am pleased with how they ran. I did not expect to run a perfect score. I am really pleased with the effort by these young women.

We had a great effort by everyone. Thomas and Martinez each won two events and we had some good marks by our other place finishers.

David Brock

These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information.

The score doesn't resemble our effort. I'm proud of our effort. In similar situations this year we've laid down and let them kick us. Tonight we didn't do that. We played together, and I feel with our effort tonight we could do well.

I've seen them myself, and I think there's no merit to what you're trying to write a story about, ... It's all part of a systematic effort that the L.A. Times has undertaken to write stories about the Getty.

I've seen so many teams give up and fold in that type of situation. I've always been proud of my team's effort and the way they fight.