Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Yaeger

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.

Duane Joubert

We played a pretty good game. We played consistent, and we did a great job shooting. Hughes Springs has some great athletes on their team, but we came out ready to play and we led the whole way.

David Pelletier

We probably have a different viewpoint. But the one thing we have in common is that we were all athletes being thrown into this mess together.

Matt Cooke

We pretty much have an open invitation to any athlete that would like to try it, free of charge.

Fumie Suguri

We pledge to do our best to win medals while making efforts to deepen exchanges with athletes of other countries and contribute to world peace.

Ban Ki-moon

Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.

Dennis Quaid

Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.

Hank Tierney

When I got here (at West Jeff in 2002 following a sterling career at Archbishop Shaw), I heard there was this great athlete at the school, but I couldn't get him to come out.

Jim Nantz

When Dale Murphy speaks, everyone in sports should listen. Dale led a model life during his career, and still does. This book is a heartfelt attempt to help every professional athlete and I guarantee it will.

Warren Bennis

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

William Billings

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

Vivek Wadhwa

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

Virginia Postrel

The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models.

Venus Williams

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

Abraham Lincoln

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Colin Angle

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

Connie Mack

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

Clive Thompson

Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

Seinabo Sey

I remember Alicia Keys and Usher had released a song called 'My Boo,' and my music teacher got me to sing a duet with a friend of mine, and I remember being so nervous because I loved to sing, but I could never fathom singing by myself. And when I did that, I remember how proud I was of myself. I was 12.

Bruce Rauner

I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.

Jan McDonald

We are not playing the rest of the season due to an insufficient number of players.

John Jewell

Wherefore your poor subjects' most humble petition to your highness is, that the laws touching such malefactors may be put in due execution.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

Jim Smith

There are three large refineries that have been shut down since Katrina that are due to come online at the end of this month. That bodes well for lower prices.

Richard DeKaser

There are not a lot of surprises here. We knew February will be a down month in spending after a torrid January due to mild weather. This is exactly what we got.

Michael Hughes

We have had a strong run, largely pushed by the miners and energy stocks. Perhaps these sectors are due to take a break.

Peggy Noonan

The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.

Gregg Popovich

The pieces have to fit around him. The fortunate thing for us is that it seems that, given enough talent, all pieces fit around Timmy. He figures it out.

Rene Locher

The overall figures are lower-than-expected, not only because of the catastrophe claims, but also because of the reserve additions.

Annie Lennox

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

Chuck Schumer

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

Brad Paisley

I love being an enigma. Every time I'm tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically - you know, someone who gets on the Internet and says, you're pro-gun, or you're anti-gun - I stop and say to myself, 'This is great; this is what I wanted. I wanted to be the guy you can't figure out.'

Don Cornelius

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

Todd Haynes

It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind of feel like you're naked again. You have to figure it all out from scratch, as if you had never done it before.

Vesta Williams

When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.

Kurt Vonnegut

A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

Terrell Owens

I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.

Mark Cooper

Tommy suffered the injury in training. He could be out for a month, which wouldn't leave much of the season left.

Bill Cowher

Tommy had the MRI and right now it looks like he has a non-surgical injury to his elbow. He will not be able to throw for six weeks and then at that point he will be able to start throwing and we will see where he is.

Jon Gruden

We've lost three starters ourselves, ... We haven't been totally injury free. I'm sure we'll be tested just like everyone.

Luciano Spalletti

Watching him walk today after seeing his injury really moved me.

Kim Clijsters

I really need three weeks' recovery time. I just want to have no more injury woes.

Philip Sidney

The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.

Kevin Johnson

The injury really limited his lateral movement and explosiveness.

Eric Milton

The injury is long gone. Everything is 100 per cent.

Eric Shanteau

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

Evan Sayet

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

Laure Manaudou

Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

Blanka Vlasic

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

Bill Toomey

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

Markus Gandler

This has nothing to do with the (National Olympic Committee) or the (Austrian Skiing Federation), this was rented for private citizen.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

Bonnie Blair

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

Jackie Chan

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Ian Brown

The patients are very disappointed with the outcome this morning.

Ludwig von Mises

The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

Lara Ramsburg

We'll do whatever we can to see they have a positive outcome for the workers involved.

John Wooden

Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.

Catherine Crier

The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

Earl Browder

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

David Mitchell

History admits no rules; only outcomes.

John Rawls

Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.

Mahatma Gandhi

You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

Donn Rubin

We'll print the petitions as soon as we can. It's time to get on and get signatures.

John Payne

We've never had so many petitions where there's been problems.

Felix Hernandez

I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

L. Lionel Kendrick

One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.

Arlen Specter

three possible verdicts: guilty, not guilty, not proved.

Yuri Andropov

Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

David Garcia

We're urging people, particularly on Padre Island, in the strongest possible terms to evacuate.

Mark Warren

We are doing everything possible to treat the water,

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

James Garner

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

Mark Spitz

I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.

Plato

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

E. O. Wilson

Marv is a very qualified individual, and I don't know whether that will take place or not.

Jack Warner

I still want to get (sophomore) Leah Kincaid regionally qualified in the long jump, and I would like to get the (400-meter relay) team regionally qualified.

Jack Ma

Don't hire the most qualified, hire the craziest

David Velasquez

To have those relays qualified this time of the season is fantastic.

Michael Zolensky

By this week, more than 200 samples will be circulating. Everyone who wants one, and who is qualified to do the analysis, will have one.

Elizabeth Dole

go for the most qualified people, but there's not going to be a litmus test.

Doug McBride

We have to have rules in place before we can do it.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Mayor Baker

My rules are simple. Treat everyone fairly. Treat everyone with respect.

Alan Dooley

We need to put the rules together very, very soon.

Kevin McGrath

We all have to live within the rules.

Grant Teaff

What will come out of this is there will be uniform rules set.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Katarina Witt

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

Johnny Weir

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

Michelle Kwan

Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.

Michael Peca

Our success comes with skating and being aggressive.

Jeff Buttle

I don't think it will be enough. And that's fine. I'm skating better now.

Priscilla Hill

He has no idea what his skating does to people.

Nancy Kerrigan

Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.

Nancy Kerrigan

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

Nancy Kerrigan

And I love what I do and I love skating.

Donald Norman

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

Bruce Beresford

There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.

Chase Utley

I don't really like the spotlight.

Lance Bass

Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.

Lisa Marie Presley

Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

Patricia Heaton

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

Harvey Fierstein

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Brian Eno

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Samuel Butler

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Louise Woodward

I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.

Lynn Coady

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Andrej Kiska

I want to re-establish the people's trust in the office of president.

Hines Ward

Yeah. But if he catches you he will end your career, trust me.

Peter Sis

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.

William Shakespeare

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Baz Luhrmann

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it