Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Smith

We've always wanted to play positive, winning cricket, and if we can win this series, it means we can put a tick against this summer.

Bill Bryk

We've always preached winning. Winning is a part of development. We've always preached that. You try not to sacrifice development in order to win.

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. I think the men's team will continue to get stronger and stronger and we'll be winning many gold medals in the future.

Jim Hendry

We've always had a lot of respect for him. He pitched so well against us for Houston. He went out there last year with some discomfort and gutted out his starts in Boston. He's a winning-type guy. He's a winning pitcher who, when he's out there, he wins you games.

Scott Downs

We're missing five starters. We need them back, but we're winning games now with guys I didn't expect to get much playing time this season and that's good for our depth later in the season.

Gregg Brandon

We respect Omar's decision and we support him. Any coach would love to have an Omar Jacobs for another year, but we know his desire is to play professionally. We really appreciate his efforts in helping us re-establish a winning tradition at BGSU.

Randall Godfrey

We're going to hang tough. The majority of it is mental. Once you start winning you get confidence going. You can't get used to losing.

Bob Castellini

We're going to give you a winning team.

Keegan Bradley

The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.

Bruce Sterling

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Jane Fonda

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

C. Wright Mills

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

Bill Keller

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

Arnold Palmer

The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.

Derek Jeter

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

Derek Jeter

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

Denis Waitley

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Bret Easton Ellis

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

Ed Schilling

We had 100 kids in each age group and, when the coaches spoke, the players' eyes never left us. These kids were practicing eight hours a day doing all the drills we used to do in the U.S. And it has paid results. Lithuania is a nation the size of Indiana with probably fewer people and they got back-to-back silver medals in the Olympics. That experience got us motivated to teach fundamentals.

Joe Crawford

We're motivated to prove everybody wrong. We are a good team.

Ben Wallace

We're motivated to keep this up because we want home-court advantage, after losing Game 7 on the road at San Antonio last year. That will help us get back to being champions.

LaDainian Tomlinson

We're motivated just on the schedule we have: having a tough schedule and wanting to prove to people that no matter if we have a tough schedule or not, we're a good football team, and we're going to win games. I share the record with Lenny now, and I'm not a greedy person. If we can win the game and I don't get a touchdown, I'll be fine with that.

Luciano Spalletti

We face a very strong and motivated side but we really want to win this trophy. It is very important to us.

Peter Ryan

We're a well-trained organization, highly disciplined and highly motivated .. very technologically advanced here,

Al Lewis

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

Frank Miller

Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe.

Amy Jo Martin

I'm addicted to change and therefore I get bored easily. Results have always motivated me, which has led me to developing ways to measure things that historically have not been measurable.