Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

I was trying to figure out what the heck I was doing. I wanted to get in there and run and obviously play some defense. We've got a young team but that's not an excuse. We've got a lot of young players that just haven't grasped it yet but we'll get there.

Pat Metheny

I was totally involved in trying to figure out a way of doing things with my instrument that would fit the ideas that I had in my head.

I still love him to death. He just took that (job) and figured he was satisfied with his career. I hate it for him, but I think he's happy.

Joe Torre

I think Posada really was a key figure for us tonight in a lot of ways,

I think once we get the pitching thing figured out, we'll be a tough out.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. The problem is, we still have to exist.

It doesn't make sense to fix on a figure for the pay rise.

T. J. Miller

It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.

Channing Frye

It eliminates the things we're good at, but once we go over the film, we can figure out ways to still be successful.

Charlie Manuel

I think his velocity was down. I think we kind of figured him out.

Andrew Cuomo

It didn't take long for people to figure out that this was a way to scam the system,

It didn't take a genius to figure out what he had athletically,

Charlie Manuel

I stopped watching that one on the scoreboard. I figured it was over.

I stopped and said, 'Let's figure this out. You lived here. You can handle this.

I thought it was just a bruise, ... I figured I'd be able to shake it off. But it didn't get any better, so we X-rayed it at halftime. . . . We'll just have to see how long it takes to heal. They didn't tell me.

I thought it was funny. I figured it wasn't a rabid bat.

I think the Street's trying to figure out what is the long-term growth rate here,

I'm still trying to figure out what we did that night, but it's long gone. The kids have come back and, by and large, have played unified as a team.

I'm still trying to figure out what makes this happen.

I'm still trying to figure out how it happened. We've come back so well this season. Once we get the momentum going, we become a different team.

Julius Schwartz

I'm still trying to figure out how I got the idea, if I did, to revive the original Flash after five or six years.

Curt Schilling

I'm sitting there after the second inning and we're losing, 5-0, and I've shown no signs of being able to get them out. Like I said, after the second inning, I was at the end of my rope and I had to figure out which way I was going to go.

Bud Selig

I'm supposed to be neutral. I'll let you figure it out. My mood is pretty good.

I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out what their own roles are.

I don't know what the figures look like, yet, I really don't get into that. I just worry about producing on the field.

Ty Wigginton

I don't know what it is, and I don't want to try to figure it out. I just want to run with it, and whatever it is, it is.

I don't know what happened. If I could figure it out we would've stopped it.

Kevin Garnett

I don't know, man. This whole thing is an adjustment. I'm just trying to figure it out as we go.

Fred Funk

I don't know why it took so long to figure out. It looks great right now -- you hit yourself in the head and say, Why didn't we think of this before?' It really worked out well.

Nick Flynn

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

I always wanted to go to Yale. I figured out the only way to get there was to open up the shop.

Stephen Rea

I always wanted to be in movies but could never figure out a way of getting into them. There were none being made in Ireland at that time.

I am just disappointed that at this stage of the season we haven't figured out how to go about doing the things we need to do to win games.