Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Karla Souza

I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.

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.

It was the hardest part of our schedule. Granted, there are no excuses for the way we played, but they were all top teams in our conference.

It was incredibly hot out there today. I'm not looking for excuses but I didn't have anything left in me in the final set.

It's a good start for us tonight. We want to win hockey games. We're not going to make any excuses about the way we played. We're just going to try to play better.

It's a good marketing opportunity for retailers -- it's a good excuse to reach out.

It was a great excuse to go to Australia.

It's time for a stronger open. Overseas gains will give local stocks a lift. But the rise will be moderate until the market gets a good excuse to move further up.

Charles Rhodes

They did a great job on me. That's all I can say. I can't make excuses for it.

They have probably heard every excuse in the book, so be straight with them and they'll help you out,

It was just an excuse. I guess it has something to do with the legislative session beginning.

It was hard. We make no excuses but we had no offense, we got into foul trouble and we did not get a lot of second shots.

Dennis Ross

It may give each of them an excuse to do something, ... They will not respond to each other. That much is very clear.

Mike Hargrove

It's the same old record and I'm getting tired of playing it. It's still early. We've got to keep telling ourselves that. But there comes to a point in time where that excuse no longer works.

Ryan Clark

It's the first game, but there's no excuses,

Tino Martinez

It's the greatest feeling in the world. Those teams we had in the late '90s and won the World Series, they just loved our team for the way we went about our business, the way we worked hard. We weren't real flashy stars. We didn't make excuses when things weren't going our way.

Joe Gibbs

It's kind of hard to put your finger on it. There are a lot of things that you could sit here and make excuses about or something.

It is very uncharacteristic. From what I understand, and this is just what I was told and I have no clarification, is that there was some name-calling going on and it escalated. And there is no excuse for that.

Karch Kiraly

I didn't want to use anything as a crutch and ever have excuses heading into a match.

Marilu Henner

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

Mikhail Lermontov

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

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

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.