Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sue Wicks

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

Stuart Law

The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

Stu Jackson

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

Steven Weinberg

If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, but not about its becoming false. We will go on teaching Maxwellian electrodynamics as long as there are scientists.

Steven Weinberg

Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious beliefs from contradiction by science. They used to do it by prohibiting teachers from teaching evolution at all; then they wanted to teach intelligent design as an alternative theory; now they want the supposed "weaknesses" in evolution pointed out. But it's all the same program - it's all an attempt to let religious ideas determine what is taught in science courses.

Steven Tyler

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.

Robert Burns

Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.

Robert Burns

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

Robert Burns

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

Robbie Wine

Splits just keep us where we are and we can't do that where we are. We don't wanna stay there. We wanna move. I'm sure Indiana is saying the same thing. ... Every team in the Big Ten is going to say the same thing. That's the reality of it.

Robbie Lawler

I just started training with the best fighters in the world trying to get better. I was a pretty good athlete so I did pretty well with the team and that gave me confidence that I would be able to compete with people.

Robbie Keane

I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.

Robbie Keane

I had expected to be playing in the reserves and, all going well, that I might get a chance in the first team towards the end of the season. But it has all happened much faster than I could ever have thought.

Robbie Keane

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

Ricky Ponting

I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that-and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.

Ricky Skaggs

I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.

Ridley Scott

Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.

Ricky Williams

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.

Ricky Williams

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

Richard Stengel

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

Richard Simmons

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.

Richard Simmons

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

Richard Simmons

I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.

Richard Moran

My parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife-everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. Well, it finally dawned on me that my reflection in others' eyes was the truth once removed.

Richard Mitchell

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.

Richard Griffiths

I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.

Richard Hell

I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.

Richard Hamming

Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.

Richard Hamming

Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture. For example, in education, a teacher might say in the next class he was going to "explain Young's modulus and how to measure it," rather than, "I am going to educate the students and prepare them for their future careers".

Richard Armour

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Reed Hastings

Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

Raymond Carver

That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

Raymond Carver

But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.