Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian O'Driscoll

Until you win a series, it's difficult to place yourself in that elite group of great Lions players. It's not enough to produce one-off performances or be nearly-men.

P. J. O'Rourke

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

Shawn Johnson

Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going.

Alice Waters

If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.

Ethan Zuckerman

When you look at the 'New York Times,' you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very wealthy nations and the nations we've invaded.

P. J. O'Rourke

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

Penn was not a 'mid-major' then. Penn was an elite program.

Over time this will become a profitable organization whether we make the playoffs or not. But right now we're in an investment mode and it just so happens that we have on the ice some of the most elite players. Most teams don't have five or six elite players the way Ottawa does. For us to keep them and people waving around a lot of money, is tough.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.

Chris Duhon

Some of your toughest games come in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight. Usually, this is where we feel national championships are won.

Texas and Texas A&M, for a longer period of time, have been elite teams in the conference, and that's not to take anything away from Baylor right now, but they've been playing at that level longer.

It demonstrates the politically elite will fight to obstruct reform in order to protect their backroom property tax deals.

I thought he was at least the co-MVP in the league last year. It looks like he's stronger and he's running harder than he did a year ago. He's an elite player, and he's got a nice group of blockers in front of him. He's powerful, fast and he can cut. He's got the whole package.

Dee Brown

Last year I said they were gonna make the Final Four. This year I know they're gonna make the Elite Eight, just because of the style that they play.

Willie Anderson

Regular guys don't have that kind of attitude. Only elite guys have that temperament.

Gilbert Arenas

You know, it happens. I'm playing like an All Star, and I know I'm one of the elite players, so if I don't get picked, in my mind I'm still one of them. If I don't go, then I get to work out.

I was really hoping to make it to Saturday, because then you know you're making it to an elite stage.

The problem is, when you think about it, saves are the only stat where 100 percent is the benchmark. And the elite make it look so easy. There is so much to it.

(Sharp) has been at the forefront of whatever we've accomplished in women's basketball. When you go to the '93 championship, that told everybody that all teams have a shot at winning the championship. It was no longer a championship for the elite or the few. I just think she's one of the giants of our game.

That's elite territory, and that's where we want to be.

Power elites weren't that interested until the little people started exercising their rights under it.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries.

Helen Zille

This government's preoccupation with race has nothing to do with empowering those disadvantaged by apartheid. It has everything to do with empowering a small elite through cronyism and patronage.

Thirty wins usually only comes with a real No. 1 guy. You have to play a lot of games to get to 30, obviously. That puts me in a real elite group.

The year that we went to the elite eight, we ended up 10-6 in the league. So, it's been done before. It's just a matter of how we're going to play.

Lofa Tatupu

You can't let this opportunity pass. You've got give it everything you've got for the next month. Man, that's an elite group to go to the Super Bowl.

Michael Bush

It's a big game for the school. It'll get a lot of recruits in. It kind of lets people know that we're trying to be one of the elite teams in the country, just like Virginia Tech is. I think this program can go all the way to the top. We're getting a lot of good players in and great coaches. I don't think we're too far off.

Ben Howland

He's the patriarch. He is why this program is where it is. It's one of the elite programs in the country, and has been since he started that job in 1948.

LeBron James

The third quarter was a disaster. They put pressure on us and we couldn't make shots. If we want to be an elite team, we can't let teams come back like that.

The Texas relays is one of the premier meets in the country-we've got a small squad here, 25 athletes-our elite group.

James Garner

I've always wanted to work with Gena because she's such a wonderful actress. She's one of the elite in this business.

It was an elite feeling, just knowing this is your alma mater. We took the kids to heights unknown at this school.

The big thing for Texas is that it's an elite class. They selected more than they recruited in state. I can't remember saying that about any teams in the state of Texas.