Best Quotes

In 1986, we gave it our best shot but we didn't get the run of the ball.

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others "you failed," you didn't fail.

My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.

Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.

The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?

You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'

People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.