Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's what people do, make excuses. Nobody in our locker room is making excuses at all. We're like, 'Yeah, obviously he's not here.' It's on us. It's on us to make a play.

Mark Dantonio

That's not an excuse. We've got to grow up in a hurry.

It was very tough getting it going. It was just a loss, but you have to take it. The field was a little messed up, but there was no excuse for the way we played.

There's just no excuse for getting that wrong.

Newt Gingrich

I spent 40 years of my life getting us here, ... The idea that I would be the excuse to cannibalize the majority is so sickening I couldn't risk it.

I sort of fell in with the wrong crowd. Things started getting twisted, and instead of facing my drug problem, I made excuses and justified getting away with it because I was maintaining a job and family.

I see no excuse at all for people not voting.

I use that as an excuse sometimes when people laugh at me. I say I'm a lefty, leave me alone.

We lost two players to grades and two others sat out for disciplinaryÊreasons. So we had to shift some players around to newÊpositions. But that's no excuse for only managing three shots on goal.

We lost two players to grades and two others sat out for disciplinary reasons. So we had to shift some players around to new positions. But that's no excuse for only managing three shots on goal.

Kit Harington

As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.

Julia Child

There are reasons, and then there are excuses.

Mikhail Lermontov

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

Jasper Fforde

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Michael Atherton

Inexperience can be used as an excuse or an opportunity. It is as an excuse that it is most often trotted out England's management ... India, throughout, this series, have used is as an opportunity.

Dan Quayle

It has to go back to the culture, to the family, ... I hope we don't try to use this as an excuse to go and take away guns. Let's focus on the behavior.

I just think it was errant thinking. They just didn't think well. I have no excuse there were a lot of unforced turnovers. Let's put it that way.

I just missed 'em -- there's really no excuse for it.

I just didn't make my pitches. It was about location. I won't make (excuses) why I lost the game. I lost the game because I walked a guy. I was feeling good and had all my stuff. But you can't walk the leadoff guy.

Bob Hill

I personally think we should have won this game. This is not a game you could just excuse. We've got to go back and take a hard look at this.

If you were looking for an excuse to sell, you got a few things pushing you towards that. I'm a little more cautious, a little more nervous.

George Washington

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.

Keith Brooking

But you won't hear any excuses in here. We're going to hold ourselves accountable. We'll look in the mirror and do what we have to do to get headed back in the right direction.

Matt Hasselbeck

Honestly, we're going to be OK, we're going to get over this game. Hey, we had an opportunity to play better and to be world champs. We didn't play well enough to be world champs and we all know that. People will make excuses, saying, 'They got you on a trick play,' or, 'The officials called that and it looked like something else.' As players, we're not going to make that excuse. Our excuse is we didn't play well enough, period.

But I don't want to use anything as an excuse.

I don?t think I fell asleep. You can?t use that as an excuse when you don?t get a lot of action. There?s going to be periods like that all the time. I hold myself accountable. I should have been a lot better.

Steve Perry

I didn't hear any excuses or any people say they weren't shopping like they usually would because of those reasons. We had a pretty good Christmas. All in all it was a pretty normal year.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

Marilu Henner

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

Andy Reid

It's unfortunate it happened. But it's no excuse.

Tom Izzo

You try to make excuses that are real.

Scott Johnson

That's out of our hands and nor will it ever come into our hands and nor will it be an excuse. We don't need excuse here and while I'm at the helm there will be no excuses.

That's terrible. I know you have off shooting nights, but there's no excuse for that. We weren't ready to play.