Brendan Witt quote: "We weren't going to win this battle. They won the last time. This is definitely an owner-friendly agreement. The owners want to make money. And now, if they don't, they don't deserve to have a franchise."

He's so calm, sometimes I wonder if he even has a pulse.
BRENDAN WITT

The game was played one way for 100 years or more, and now they are changing it.
BRENDAN WITT

Everyone needs some time to get used to the rule changes. We arrived late today so we didn't get bri...
BRENDAN WITT

I've heard Toronto all year through the media. But either way, I don't have a choice in the matter.
BRENDAN WITT

It was an interesting debut.
BRENDAN WITT

I'm not going to say anything. He sends a guy after me, and that's fine. Him and I had our words, so...
BRENDAN WITT

You have to learn what you can and can't get away with. Every referee is a little difference in how ...
BRENDAN WITT

It was an interesting debut. It would have been nice to stay with the guys.
BRENDAN WITT

I just reacted and unfortunately I had to leave. I didn't know if (Parker) was behind me or not. I j...
BRENDAN WITT

The refs are under a microscope. So we can't blame them.
BRENDAN WITT

I'm all for change. It's about excitement and entertainment, right? The way to do that is with more ...
BRENDAN WITT

We haven't gotten off to good starts, so that's important for us to do in both games. We want to com...
BRENDAN WITT

It helped him to go to the minors. He went down, worked on his game and got his confidence. In his r...
BRENDAN WITT

It's going to take time and patience with this group to believe in the system. We've got to keep wor...
BRENDAN WITT

I think it's a willingness to work. I think our work ethic is not very good in the third. And you ca...
BRENDAN WITT

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to...
KATARINA WITT

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the oth...
KATARINA WITT

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on...
KATARINA WITT

The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
KATARINA WITT

I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
KATARINA WITT

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
KATARINA WITT

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get alw...
KATARINA WITT

I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
KATARINA WITT

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
KATARINA WITT

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.
KATARINA WITT

Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rathe...
KATARINA WITT

Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have...
KATARINA WITT

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
KATARINA WITT

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and de...
KATARINA WITT

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to t...
KATARINA WITT

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
KATARINA WITT

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
KATARINA WITT

When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that y...
KATARINA WITT

I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I wa...
KATARINA WITT

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
KATARINA WITT

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
KATARINA WITT

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
KATARINA WITT

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because ...
KATARINA WITT

When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, ...
KATARINA WITT

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
KATARINA WITT

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

When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and ma...
ALICIA WITT

In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brow...
ALICIA WITT

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an...
ALICIA WITT

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to su...
ALICIA WITT

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a ...
ALICIA WITT

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as a...
ALICIA WITT

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard b...
ALICIA WITT

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all ...
ALICIA WITT

Flags of Our Fathers.
ALICIA WITT

It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real lif...
ALICIA WITT

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
ALICIA WITT

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind o...
ALICIA WITT

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also becaus...
ALICIA WITT

The FAA is now finding that the statutes as crafted don't fit. So now they have to be very liberal i...
STUART WITT

They're a resilient group, they're used to working outside, they're used to having this happen.
BARRY WITT

It's an opportunity to really see something special.
BARRY WITT

We set an all-time record.
BARRY WITT

The general area now accepts this as a very reputable event. We know more people came.
BARRY WITT

We don't go into these things lightly, or without being able to prove that this is necessary. Yes, w...
BEKKI WITT

It's a pretty critical line.
BEKKI WITT

It was heartbreaking. After [the second jump], she was so upset that she nailed everything out of an...
KATARINA WITT

She took a day of rest, which is fine. She is physically prepared, and maybe she doesn't need that d...
KATARINA WITT

When you're young, you travel with your parents. When you get older you bring your husband with you....
KATARINA WITT

After three days, it got nice and calm -- until the skipper announced we had been in a hurricane, we...
JOHN WITT

Optics. That's all your going to hear about for the next couple of months. You'll see herds of inves...
STEVEN WITT

He doesn't have any skeletons in his closet. He was young and naive.
KATARINA WITT

What I like is that she has been always a fighter. There have been so many young skaters coming and ...
KATARINA WITT

It would be irresponsible for this University to not enforce its rights under this agreement.
ROBERT WITT

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.
ALICIA WITT

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.
ALICIA WITT

We're still using many of the same parameters in evaluating a perspective student, but we're now giv...
DON WITT

This is a defining moment for UK. UK needs to make its mark with this issue.
DON WITT

It's very unfortunate that black freshman enrollment numbers declined. But we must use this as an op...
DON WITT

Ironically...at 300 takeoffs and landings a day, nobody asked us to ever do a tortoise check. But be...
STUART WITT

He has a strong spirit and he's a fighter.
ELLEN WITT

The sad part is this could have happened to anyone of you guys and anyone of us because he was just ...
ELLEN WITT

We're not going to talk about him our energy is all positive towards Sam.
ELLEN WITT

It's like a tiny surfboard on a giant wave. You try and do your homework, get on that surfboard and ...
STEVEN WITT

She was great. What a game to end your career on. She was unbelievable.
HILARY WITT

I knew she would be fine. We just tried to tell her to have fun. She played great.
HILARY WITT

We gave everything we had. I can't be more proud of the effort we gave.
HILARY WITT

When [Jacque] smiles, they work harder, and when she is in a good mood, then the team performs bette...
HILARY WITT

We had a lot of power play goals. That's a positive thing for us. We need to score on the power play...
HILARY WITT

Everybody contributed in one way or another. It was an all-around team effort.
HILARY WITT

They are really mature and know how to train really hard.
HILARY WITT

She's been playing really well for us. She's getting more confidence shooting the puck, and as a def...
HILARY WITT

She's a natural when it comes to blocking shots.
HILARY WITT

It's nice to get a win right away [after winter break]. We needed this one really badly.
HILARY WITT

She kind of acted like she didn't know. Some of us thought she needed 11.
IKEA WITT

It makes us want to keep going and do even better, to go as far as we can. We're not thinking about ...
IKEA WITT

There are so many things that the bus driver has no control of. We just happen to be at the wrong pl...
SONNY WITT

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment,...
DE WITT CLINTON

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is r...
DE WITT CLINTON

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It ...
BRENDAN FRASER

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speak...
BRENDAN MYERS

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I sa...
BRENDAN FRASER

I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't ...
BRENDAN DOOLING

...Actually, I'm a drinker with writing problems.
BRENDAN BEHAN

When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence,...
BRENDAN BEHAN

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society, except that which makes the road saf...
BRENDAN BEHAN

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for ever...
BRENDAN BEHAN

The English and Americans dislike only some" Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest...
BRENDAN BEHAN

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
BRENDAN BEHAN

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to...
BRENDAN BEHAN

I saw a notice which said, 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've just started.
BRENDAN BEHAN

I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy.
BRENDAN FRASER

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
BRENDAN GILL

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost se...
BRENDAN FRANCIS

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
BRENDAN FRANCIS

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
BRENDAN FRANCIS

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
BRENDAN BEHAN

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
BRENDAN FRANCIS

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks w...
BRENDAN FRANCIS

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot ...
BRENDAN BEHAN

No man can discover his own talents.
BRENDAN FRANCIS

In the realm of thought every person performs innumerable abortions each minute of the waking day
BRENDAN FRANCIS

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
BRENDAN BEHAN

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a m...
BRENDAN FRANCIS

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth dat...
BRENDAN MYERS

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and fr...
BRENDAN FRASER

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down...
BRENDAN COYLE

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could sho...
BRENDAN BEHAN

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN BEHAN

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likel...
BRENDAN BEHAN

I am a daylight atheist.
BRENDAN BEHAN

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
BRENDAN BEHAN

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
BRENDAN BEHAN

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
BRENDAN BEHAN

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
BRENDAN BEHAN

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of m...
BRENDAN BEHAN

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
BRENDAN BEHAN

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
BRENDAN BEHAN

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
BRENDAN BEHAN

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and som...
BRENDAN BEHAN

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
BRENDAN BEHAN

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
BRENDAN BEHAN

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day...
BRENDAN BEHAN

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's los...
BRENDAN BEHAN

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
BRENDAN BEHAN

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
BRENDAN BEHAN

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect ...
BRENDAN BEHAN

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in t...
BRENDAN FRASER

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.
BRENDAN GILL

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He...
BRENDAN FRASER

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you t...
BRENDAN FRASER

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not b...
BRENDAN FRASER

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than t...
BRENDAN GILL

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some...
BRENDAN MYERS

Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by ...
BRENDAN MYERS

We designed a number of features from the ground up, like custom display and optics technology with ...
BRENDAN IRIBE

Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my scho...
BRENDAN IRIBE

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks w...
BRENDAN BEHAN

There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ours...
BRENDAN MYERS

It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a ...
BRENDAN IRIBE

Most big companies work in stealth until they think they have a consumer product ready to go.
BRENDAN IRIBE

Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both forei...
BRENDAN MYERS

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an inte...
BRENDAN FRASER

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads saf...
BRENDAN BEHAN

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
BRENDAN FRANCIS

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
BRENDAN FRANCIS

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R'...
BRENDAN FRANCIS

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
BRENDAN FRANCIS

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
BRENDAN FRANCIS

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
BRENDAN FRASER

They're more genuine. We have some of the best neighbors around.
BRENDAN WISEMAN

I don't think the girls realized there's so much to do, taking care of all the animals. It's an all ...
BRENDAN WISEMAN

And then this became available and it got us out of the city.
BRENDAN WISEMAN

You don't have the hustle and bustle of the city. In town, everything is rush here and rush there. W...
BRENDAN WISEMAN

To me, they're some of the best neighbors there are right here. They treat you like you're family.
BRENDAN WISEMAN

It has added a little extra fire. We felt last year we should have been in the NCAA, but we didn't p...
BRENDAN WINTERS

We have a couple of guys on our team from Cincinnati, and they told us that Ohio State is basically ...
BRENDAN WINTERS

My name always gets paired with his. Everyone always tells me my shot looks like his. That's because...
BRENDAN WINTERS

I don't think we've been down by that much (17 points) to a Southern Conference opponent this year. ...
BRENDAN WINTERS

This year, we finished third in the league and we weren't happy about that. But I think that made us...
BRENDAN WINTERS

It was pretty frustrating. We haven't been down by that much against Southern Conference teams this ...
BRENDAN WINTERS

It was extremely frustrating. But for us to pull through it, makes us that much stronger.
BRENDAN WINTERS

We understand that 90 percent of the crowd tomorrow is going to be cheering for Ohio State. We're OK...
BRENDAN WINTERS

Coming in the tournament last year, we felt a lot of pressure. We felt like we had to win, we were s...
BRENDAN WINTERS

We got confused a couple of times on ball screens and he was able to get some open looks. I guess it...
BRENDAN WINTERS

The figures were fine, but didn't sparkle like Exxon's.
BRENDAN WILDERS

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly.
BRENDAN WILDERS

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly,
BRENDAN WILDERS

The figures were broadly in line with our expectations.
BRENDAN WILDERS

The management of Paladin has achieved an excellent price for investors.
BRENDAN WILDERS

The headline figures are very much below the market forecast even if you add the official unusual it...
BRENDAN WILDERS

The figures were fine but didn't sparkle like Exxon's... The dividend is a bit disappointing, becaus...
BRENDAN WILDERS

We try to give them a little bit of a heads up,
BRENDAN TAMAN

But, again, we're 2-6. You have to string some together before you go out and beat your chest about ...
BRENDAN TAMAN

They are both outstanding talents and they both want to further their careers in Canada.
BRENDAN TAMAN

Dispersal draft-wise we'll be ready. ... We've got two guys on the staff that know them pretty well ...
BRENDAN TAMAN

Gavin Walls was an integral part of last year's team and we are pleased that he will remain a Blue B...
BRENDAN TAMAN

Obviously, our plans are for him to be here beyond next year.
BRENDAN TAMAN

Upgrading our defensive secondary and special teams units was a priority going into this off-season ...
BRENDAN TAMAN

Cory is just starting to come into his own as a player. We expect him to be a good special teams per...
BRENDAN TAMAN

Halfbacks are very hard to find in this league and Anthony's one of the better ones in the league,
BRENDAN TAMAN

We weren't going to win this battle. They won the last time. This is definitely an owner-friendly agreement. The owners want to make money. And now, if they don't, they don't deserve to have a franchise.

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Brendan Witt

We weren't going to win this battle. They won the last time. This is definitely an owner-friendly agreement. The owners want to make money. And now, if they don't, they don't deserve to have a franchise.

Brendan Witt

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