Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace Mann

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

I am very pleased with our first-quarter performance, which reflects solid same-store sales growth and excellent expense control,

I am very happy with the defense. They did an excellent job Saturday. People haven't been able to sustain the run. I'm real happy with the defense. That's why I'm so disappointed with that game.

William Shakespeare

How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

Mike Fratello

Hopefully, he can come back and give us some excellent minutes.

Hopefully (residents) will be comfortable now with this project, because I feel this will be an excellent project.

Hollywood's video marketers excel at making lemonade out of lemons.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Home teaching is an excellent preparation for missionary service.

Caldwell has some very fine guards, they just don't have the height that we have this year. We have some excellent guards as well, but fortunately for us we was able to get rebounds that they couldn't.

I'm very pleased with the way we started off, especially having four games in less than 24 hours. I thought the girls did a great job, and our conditioning is excellent for this time of year.

Individually we have excellent talent, but need to stay healthy because injuries will hurt us as a team.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent

Michael Strahan

I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.

Illinois State is an excellent team, and it would be great if we could step up and come away with a win.

I haven't played for a while in the league so it was nice to get back out on the field, but it was even nicer to get a result. ... Being 3-0 up, we knew that they were going to throw everything that they had and put us under pressure, but I thought that we handled it well and it was excellent just to get 3-0 up. We're playing well and scoring goals, but our game comes down to how we defend, so it was a little sad to give a goal away, but that's the game and we'll take the result.

He stayed within himself and I thought that showed a lot of maturity to relax and do what he's practiced. He's an excellent player.

It was a quality tournament. It was a good competitive tournament with excellent teams. The tournament is getting better year after year.

Lin Dan

It will be a hard match. Lee is an excellent player.

Bill Clark

It's a glorious old home, very much in excellent condition.

It's well deserved, he's a fifth-year senior. I think it's time for him to step up. He's an excellent player, I have faith in him, and I think everyone else does too.

I want to be able to be excellent and Georgetown showed us what that's supposed to look like. I was glad we got to be able to see what shooters, when they shoot to score, what that looks like, and passing and catching. We have the capability, we just need to make sure we hold ourselves accountable.

They weren't shooting particularly well, we were playing great 'D', however you want to say it, I was very surprised at the first half. I knew (Mansfield) had a lot more going and a lot more in them. I prepared them for the second half -- you are never really prepared -- but (Mansfield) fought hard. They are an excellent team.

They (her players) play well defensively when they come to play. We have excellent speed. They just need to come to play.

It was just an all-around excellent game. This was the first time our real team has come to play. I think we're getting to where we need to be.

They work very hard in practice and excel in the classroom. They're a very self-sufficient and positive team and it shows in the meets.

Orrin Hatch

It's good news for Utah and our excellent military installations, especially Hill.

It's a very excellent beginning, and that's what the pacesetters intended to do. Local needs and programs are increasing.

It's always good to have one of your players move onto the next level. That's what this league is all about, ... Matt had a great season and I know he will excel at the next level.

John F. Kennedy

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.

Ovid

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Quincy Jones

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit