Famous Quotes & Sayings

I haven't been to Frankfort in nine years. ... These guys, all they want is an excuse, and quite honestly I'm a little tired of it.

I'm tired of people making excuses for them, saying they're young. They're young, but they've got talent. They have to come out and use it.

Eddie Jordan

I need to put you in the locker room because they're looking for excuses too,

I'm not sure it would have mattered. We didn't have her. There's no excuses. We needed others to step up and not enough did.

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.

His excuse is weak, he just wants to learn how to do it... That's pretty ominous and obviously suggests some sort of hijacking plan.

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

Marilu Henner

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

Larry Brown

You've got to be smart and your team has got to talk and you've got to adjust. We can make excuses about that but we have not improved that area. We have not kept people in front of us very well. It's something we've just got to keep working on and working on, because if we don't, you'll never be able to guard in this league.

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.

Ira Glass

Any journalist who doesn't stick to the day's news is sort of part journalist, part anthropologist. Once the excuse for the story stops being - it happened today - then you're square right in the other territory of journalism, which is just straight up documenting of how we live, and what we think of each other.

a poor excuse of a priest, I'll tell you that.

Alexander Pope

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

Sean White

Right now we have a lot of inexperience at the plate. We have had a lot of injuries, and we aren't going to start using that as an excuse. People aren't hitting in positions that they are used to. We just need to be patient at the plate.

After 15 years, there is simply no excuse to not having this kind of technology available.

Submariner like that, you don't see those kinds of guys too often. But that's really no excuse.

Now it's an excuse so that people can be late. I think it's become a crutch.

Scott Hartnell

Now I have an excuse to grow a beard.

Adam Archuleta

There's a lot of reasons, or a lot of ways you could come up with an excuse to shut it down. Or maybe feel sorry for yourself. I think this is a testament to our character.

At least we can look at them, and we shouldn't have any excuses.

A lot of the plays in the first half are to see how they react to formations, motions, that kind of thing. A lot of the first half is trial, but that's no excuse for us not moving the ball. The plays are still supposed to work.

They have at this point ceased to be a meaningful cartel at these prices. The only reason they hold these OPEC meetings is have an excuse to get out of their own countries, go to Vienna and go on a shopping spree.

They have at this point ceased to be a meaningful cartel at these prices, ... The only reason they hold these OPEC meetings is have an excuse to get out of their own countries, go to Vienna and go on a shopping spree.

This is the confessional season and the markets will be a lot more nervous, ... Technology stocks will come under pressure and it is a perfect excuse for big investors to sell down.

The weather is not a good excuse for not outperforming. One is always tempted to have their eyes glaze over when retailers talk about the weather but the (impact) is real.

Justin Smith

This game is over with, and we've got to move on. It really doesn't mean anything. There's no excuses, but we knew we were going to play next week. It's win or go home now.

Lloyd Carr

Thirty-seven points should have been enough to win. There are no excuses.

It really looks like there should be no excuse for not having a medal.

They don't know how to market it -- that's the excuse so far.

Mike Newell

They had a game on Saturday as well as we did so we can't use that as an excuse.

Jeff Bagwell

You don't want everyone to think you're soft or that it's an excuse. It's tough on younger players.

Richard Jefferson

You can't make excuses for missing a player. They just wanted it more and they were more aggressive.

There were no excuses at the end. We had a great dinner, but didn't have a great dessert.