Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

Earl Monroe

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Michael Owen

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Rest if you must, but never quit.

Jesse Ventura

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

Katarina Witt

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Richie Benaud

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

Alan Rudolph

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

David Suzuki

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.

Calvin Coolidge

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

Edward Gibbon

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Edward Gibbon

The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

Bryan Huie

We never had green grass until the last two weeks (of the season), because it was bermuda.

Joe Randa

We had him. We talked about it on the mound -- 'The grass is slow here, so hop off' -- and he did. He got there, but he was just a little too quick.

H. Hunt

The problem it had is that it was way before its time. There were no grass roots, no youth programs like there are today....There's no such thing as an instant major league.

Ray Lewis

We spoke out on the grass to a group of people, consoled them, let them know we understood this was a traumatic, life-changing situation. Some had tremendous reservations about relocating to a state they knew nothing about.

Robert Brown

We're still a youngish program. We're having to grassroots our tennis. We're laying the groundwork and being patient.

Laura Fraser

It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.

Ricky Gervais

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

William Greene

We're a grassroots organization. We're not funded by big donors. If we're sending 2 to 3 million e-mails a week, paying a penny per e-mail will price us out.

John Byrd

It allows the grass to regenerate unto itself.