FastSaying

I tried to treat it like a regular game, and not stress too much about competition or the fact that these guys are Triple-A ball players. I just wanted to come in here and have some fun, and I still wanted to have some quality at-bats before this weekend.


Matt Foote

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I just tried to come out and have some fun today. Obviously these guys are pretty good competition a...
MATT FOOTE I definitely thought about that and wanted to have a good showing. I still know a lot of people at C...
COREY PARKER I wanted to come out today and get the run game going. I found out before the game that Davis wasn't...
JONATHAN WELLS Matt is just a tremendous worker in every sense. We have guys on this team like Matt who can really ...
BARRY JOHNSON I just wanted to get out and have some fun, look like an athlete.
CONNOR HUGHES I didn't worry too much about that but just wanted to come out here and play hard,
BYRON JOHNSON This kid is great. The fabulous four minutes at that Greece Athena game just overwhelmed my players....
OREST HRYWNAK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I'm feeling pretty good at the plate. I just wish it would have come in a win. I had quality at-bats...
JOE MCEWING I'm having fun here, taking it all in. I just wanted to come out here and make the best of it. It wa...
MATT GARZA I like the fact the teams are mixed (with players from different organizations). A lot of guys in th...
KURT SUZUKI To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-...
DAVE WINFIELD We just knew that we wanted to get our offensive bats going from the very beginning. I think I wante...
CHELSEY BROWN I talked to (assistant coach) Rich Preston and expressed some interest. I knew I wanted to come back...
JASON WIEMER Aside from the game, I was looking forward to today the most. I always wanted to come to Disneyland ...
AHMARD HALL [In the weeks before the taping, Brown did not study because he was unsure of the topics that he wou...
COLIN BROWN I wanted to come out here and let people know how strong a skater I am. I'm excited about next year....
RYAN SHECKLER I'm out of my head about this. I cannot believe we got all these guys. We got basically everybody we...
AL BORGES There was not much we could do (last season) because it wasn't our team. It was frustrating at times...
AL HORFORD Some players may have had a drink too many the night before the game. I didn't have that problem bec...
GORDIE HOWE I listen to some Hank Williams before I go out. I tell some jokes. I have fun. I don't waste too...
DEAN AMBROSE I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or ju...
PAUL AUSTER Believe it or not, we had fun playing the game, too. And I don't see that so much anymore. It's grea...
HARMON KILLEBREW We talked about closing on Wakefield at the half. He was hurting us. We just wanted to force other p...
CHRIS MARTIN I don't look at it like that. I look at it as a process ... We're expecting Matt to come in and make...
JAMES HARRIS I wanted to win so badly this weekend or Panther (Racing) and the guys at Chevrolet, ... I was able ...
TOMAS SCHECKTER Kyle?s in better shape than a lot of these guys here and that?s what I pointed out to them. A guy wh...
MAURICE CHEEKS I would think about it. I don't know if I would do it, just because I committed and it's something I...
CHIPPER JONES With some of the questions we have in our major-league bullpen, we wanted to acquire as much talent ...
DAYTON MOORE I just don't like giving stuff away. I am not taking anything away from Ball State, we just did not ...
DOUG SCHREIBER I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, o...
PAUL AUSTER The day before our last scrimmage, I started thinking about it. But before that, I tried to not thin...
PAUL THOMPSON I'm glad it's over. I just wanted to be here with the other guys and meet with everyone. I knew that...
JUAN ENCARNACION I wanted it to be big, ... Not about a person or a career but about the time. ... I wanted to use a ...
JANE LEAVY I just don't think we were prepared to play at such a high level. Mount Royal played really well and...
LOREN JACULA From the beginning I just wanted to play confident and have fun out there. That's what I wanted to d...
LAURA HARPER I just wanted to make some money and have a job since I'm not old enough for another job, like in a ...
CAROLYN ANDERSON We have some juniors on this team and I challenged them this week. I wanted them to use this game to...
DICK ISAACSON I have so much fun with Matt LeBlanc that whether I love it or not really makes no difference to me ...
DREA DE MATTEO One reason I wanted Osgood is that he understands the expectations of playing here. Some people have...
KEN HOLLAND (Cameron's) grandmother used to come to games. His grandfather was there, and it's very emotional. S...
JOSE REBIMBAS I really wanted to make this event a place for everybody to come. Just bring out everybody, no matte...
ANA GUERRIERO We weren't really trying to go that hard. We didn't care about winning or losing; we just wanted to ...
EDGAR SOSA (The Cup) was very important to me. This was one of the biggest things that I wanted to do. I'm happ...
MORGAN PRESSEL I just enjoy getting out here. It's just fun to come out here on a day like this, do some harvesting...
LARRY BAUM I wanted to be an announcer that spoke to the everyman. I did not want to be a golfer who held his a...
GARY MCCORD I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business...
BARRY ALVAREZ I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget...
CASSANDRA CLARE There was no other reason to come back, just basketball. I wanted to win and have fun at the same ti...
SHAY DORON I wanted to go to the underdog team - I wanted to build something somewhere like a lot of the other ...
STEFON DIGGS Some people will say it doesn't matter, but I think it was a pretty important win just because of lo...
BRAD LIDGE Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD This is the time, after the majors, that I'll try out some equipment. I putted pretty well with the ...
PHIL MICKELSON I think the mood in the locker room before the game was pretty loose. We just wanted to go out there...
DREW LEBLANC I expected this. This is what I came back for. I told these guys that we wanted to be unbeaten now, ...
CARL KRAUSER I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o’clock in...
KATE MOSS Joe wanted to go. A couple guys wanted to go, and I think you need (prior) approval, and I didn't wa...
JOEL QUENNEVILLE To be fair, I really don't know much about the Iceland team but I am aware that they have some quali...
DWIGHT YORKE I talked about what offense we wanted to run and I talked about making some defensive stops. We just...
COACH LIZ RICKETT We've acquired some players because it was an area we felt like we needed to improve and whether or ...
SEAN PAYTON I wanted to get a good drive through the whoops section, but I missed one of them (whoops) and crash...
RICKY CARMICHAEL All he wanted to do was work to help our parents. We don't have much. We are poor. ... I think he ju...
JAIME MENDOZA I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I lik...
EDDIE TRUNK I wanted to go. I wanted to get in some game situations and face some shots. Practice shots are a lo...
SCOTT CLEMMENSEN That's what I love so much about this team. We have some warriors here. We have some guys who go out...
BRIAN DAWKINS This year, I've wanted to go out and play like (the) U.S. Open champion. I put too much pressure on ...
SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA Everett made some adjustments during Spring Training. He's got a much better approach at the plate, ...
MORGAN ENSBERG Sometimes I come up here at night...just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is on...
BRIAN SELZNICK Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highes...
ALLAN SHERMAN This was a fun night for the guys. This was our last home game, so it was important for everyone to ...
JONATHAN ANDERSON I'm going to try my best to treat it like it's a regular game and not get too excited.
EVAN BROCK I wanted to bring track and field to Southern Utah to showcase some of the athletes we have. We have...
ERIC HOULE This is the best feeling ever. I came to the game and the butterflies were all there. I just wanted ...
MATT LOVELAND I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I The guys we have coming in have had some quality playing time already this year. It's not like we ha...
BRENT ALEXANDER As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started p...
MARY ELLEN MARK I wanted to make certain that every one got a break. It was 90 degrees and these conditions are not ...
JIM PENDERGAST Jen did some good things for us tonight. She needed a game like this to test her and to see what she...
KATIE DOUGLAS Kari and I did this for the players. We wanted the guys to have a first-rate building to call their ...
BOB HALL Yeah, I'm a vegetarian - but still, some things are just nasty. I like salads. But sometimes, th...
PRINCE FIELDER I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something ...
CAROL SHIELDS I can't even tell you how bad we wanted to win this game, all of us. After losing to them at home an...
AMY SIMPSON I'd just as soon retire and let a younger guy have a job, not like some of these guys here who are n...
DALE JOHNSON I'm not as enamored with actors as I am with musicians, especially like these guys, ... These are so...
KEVIN BACON We have to treat every game like a playoff game right now because they are. I think the guys have, a...
JASON ALLISON I tried to be a serious student and not procrastinate, but I was still somebody that would be descri...
MICHELLE OBAMA I realized that when I came in here, Matt had some receivers he was used to playing with. I just fel...
JOE JUREVICIUS We had a rough season with injuries and do not have a deep bench. We used seven players all year. I ...
RAY BIELIZNA I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of p...
O. HENRY Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the hi...
ALLAN SHERMAN I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs t...
BUCK OWENS We've always come out strong in the first against them, but never really put it away. We let them st...
ABBY WORLAND Some people do not have houses or homes, and they still wanted to give to help people.
KATHY AYCOCK I still enjoy doing the job. And I have some projects that I would like to see get done. I still hav...
MAYOR GENE CAREY But I was well enough to play about 75 percent last week, so I told Coach (Art Briles) that I wanted...
ANTHONY EVANS I like the fact that I went to school, had a career, had some fun. But I think I started thinking ab...
BETH ESPY I'm not going to lie, I was nervous, ... I knew he was open, and I just choked. That's all there is ...
STEFAN LEFORS We need some pitchers to step up and take charge and want the ball when the game is on the line. I t...
BRIAN SHIPLEY We're hoping our players do well and make it into the finals at the national tournament. But the one...
FLOYD ROCKHOLT

More Matt Foote

You have to go up there and just battle. I found some holes today and managed to get a couple hits. ...
MATT FOOTE I just tried to come out and have some fun today. Obviously these guys are pretty good competition a...
MATT FOOTE One through nine, we don't have a guy in the lineup that is an easy out.
MATT FOOTE When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE Death and the dice level all distinctions.
SAMUEL FOOTE My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always ca...
HORTON FOOTE Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would nev...
SHELBY FOOTE He's going to be a scary player. He's young, he's learning - and that was a big goal for us.
ADAM FOOTE We showed a lot of character coming back tonight. This team really wants to win and if we can put aw...
ADAM FOOTE Having come back like we did, I think it showed a lot of heart. We played an open game. I think we h...
ADAM FOOTE Having to fight back like we did I think showed a lot of heart. We played an open game tonight and I...
ADAM FOOTE It seemed like they wanted it more.
ADAM FOOTE We should play desperate all the time -- why not? This team is so hard on itself that sometimes we p...
ADAM FOOTE We needed to get a win and get some confidence. We had a long week of practice going over some thing...
ADAM FOOTE We showed a little frustration. We looked a little scrambly on power plays. We didn't play together ...
ADAM FOOTE The first thing he (Callan) asked was, 'Can I bring my Zamboni bed?' I said, 'Sure, you can bring th...
ADAM FOOTE It's OK. We've got a lot of young guys. We'll grow together. We'll see what we can do.
ADAM FOOTE I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. B...
SHELBY FOOTE He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in other...
SAMUEL FOOTE Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from rea...
SHELBY FOOTE Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd, And mother Eve the humble distaff held, Who then ...
SAMUEL FOOTE Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE I never cared what kind of grade I got.
SHELBY FOOTE So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a grea...
SAMUEL FOOTE I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.
SHELBY FOOTE I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone els...
SHELBY FOOTE I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask...
HORTON FOOTE If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. La...
SHELBY FOOTE I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both...
SHELBY FOOTE He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE Longevity conquers scandal every time.
SHELBY FOOTE I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typew...
SHELBY FOOTE A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don&...
HORTON FOOTE Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is goin...
SHELBY FOOTE Obviously, this hurts. It?s a huge letdown. For people in Canada, if we?re not there in the final, w...
ADAM FOOTE All these games are kind of a finals. There is no room for errors.
ADAM FOOTE Obviously my first job is being ready for the Blue Jackets, and I knew if I got dinged again with th...
ADAM FOOTE I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
SHELBY FOOTE Somebody was in front and made the defenseman concentrate on someone else, ... I just whacked at it ...
ADAM FOOTE When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregati...
SHELBY FOOTE The great Panjandrum himself.
SAMUEL FOOTE When house and land are gone and spent,/ Then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE Death and the dice level all distinctions
SAMUEL FOOTE Born in a cellar . . . and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE They all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gun powder ran out at the heels of...
SAMUEL FOOTE I'm from Detroit, but I haven't had the great career that he has. He deserves all of the applause an...
LARRY FOOTE A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
SHELBY FOOTE It was closer than the score indicated and we just wanted to make sure that we didn't let anyone beh...
ADAM FOOTE If everything in my life is going smoothly, then obviously I know I'm doing something wrong. Life wa...
AMANDA FOOTE We were frustrated at each other. We started cussing at each other. And when we lined up we took our...
LARRY FOOTE I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spir...
HORTON FOOTE I was the ultimate bachelor. I was a young guy, so I did what I wanted to do. Now my day revolves ar...
LARRY FOOTE Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
SHELBY FOOTE And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thin...
SHELBY FOOTE I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now...
HORTON FOOTE This defense could be one of the best you've seen. For a long time.
LARRY FOOTE I want to get better, that's first and foremost. Mr. Rooney and the organization paid me so I gotta ...
LARRY FOOTE The guys always remind me of that. I wasn't ready. I think it was more physical but that was a long ...
LARRY FOOTE Through high school, college I've always been known as a heady football player. (At Michigan) we ran...
LARRY FOOTE I've always been smart but you know how it is just doing enough to be in the middle of the pack. But...
LARRY FOOTE They might not think that this guy is very intelligent.
LARRY FOOTE It's true. They do have a lot of new guys. But they still have Steve McNair. With Steve McNair, they...
LARRY FOOTE Trash talk? Oh yeah, I can handle my own. I come from Detroit. That's all we do. I can talk with the...
LARRY FOOTE Anytime Joey Porter comes back on any defense, it's going to be a positive. He's one of our leaders ...
LARRY FOOTE Before he met me, he didn't have any tattoos.
LARRY FOOTE It wasn't big things, just little things. Some nights it was missed free throws, some not getting ke...
DOUG FOOTE But I have no complaints. The kids battled. They played hard. How many times does a team with only f...
DOUG FOOTE We lost the game because we lost our focus on defense at critical times and turned it over on offens...
DOUG FOOTE It'll be a real test of character.
DOUG FOOTE When you don't have a lot of low-post scoring, you've got to hit some shots (elsewhere), particularl...
DOUG FOOTE We changed our offense a little. It's a motion offense. It's penetration and pitch that we implement...
DOUG FOOTE Our biggest problem when you look at this team is 15 out of 19 kids are freshmen and sophomores. We ...
DOUG FOOTE We've got to make some free throws. We've shot ourselves in the foot time and time again at the foul...
DOUG FOOTE Grove City is very structured. They run a 2-1-2 set offense. They pass, pass, and pass.
DOUG FOOTE We've played a brutal schedule and we've played seven of nine games on the road, so getting some hom...
DOUG FOOTE My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second print...
SHELBY FOOTE And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 2...
SHELBY FOOTE I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incident...
SHELBY FOOTE I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a...
SHELBY FOOTE I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third v...
SHELBY FOOTE But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every n...
SHELBY FOOTE I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be qui...
SHELBY FOOTE Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
SHELBY FOOTE I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wo...
HORTON FOOTE I haven't seen him drop one. Not one.
LARRY FOOTE On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to c...
SHELBY FOOTE Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come m...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardsh...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when ...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It ...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
GEORGE W. FOOTE Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
MATT CAMERON If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting...
MATT KEMP I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.
MATT KEMP When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes...
MATT KEMP I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.
MATT KEMP I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with jus...
MATT KEMP I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking...
MATT KEMP I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community....
MATT KEMP I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, ...
MATT KEMP Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.
MATT KEMP If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the pur...
MATT KEMP We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.
MATT KEMP Dirty martinis and music - that's the big motto in our family. We get the booze going, and the m...
MATT HARVEY I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father?
MATT LAUER It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
MATT DAMON I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, inc...
MATT CAMERON Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switc...
MATT CAMERON I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path f...
MATT CAMERON Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.
MATT CAMERON A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard tim...
MATT CAMERON Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship j...
MATT CAMERON I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to ...
MATT CAMERON When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgard...
MATT CAMERON For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.
MATT CAMERON But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what'...
MATT CAMERON My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
MATT CAMERON I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.
MATT CAMERON I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like t...
MATT CAMERON I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't...
MATT CAMERON I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
MATT CAMERON So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked be...
MATT CAMERON If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her.
MATT CAMERON Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming a...
MATT CAMERON In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was f...
MATT CAMERON I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.
MATT CAMERON I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
MATT CAMERON I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hy...
MATT CAMERON I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic...
MATT DILLON I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,...
MATT GROENING The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
MATT BLUNT Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failur...
MATT BLUNT If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increa...
MATT BLUNT The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be le...
MATT BLUNT Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.
MATT BLUNT In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent elec...
MATT BLUNT In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an...
MATT BLUNT The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good...
MATT BLUNT We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and lib...
MATT BLUNT Public education is an investment in our future.
MATT BLUNT With 'Futurama,' I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our or...
MATT GROENING Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
MATT GROENING Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature ma...
MATT GROENING Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two hal...
MATT GROENING You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.
MATT GROENING I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.
MATT GROENING People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're ...
MATT GROENING I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it...
MATT GROENING Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I...
MATT GROENING I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody fel...
MATT GROENING I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encou...
MATT GROENING The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on ...
MATT GROENING I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd eve...
MATT GROENING The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the R...
MATT GROENING My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitio...
MATT GROENING If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, ...
MATT GROENING Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
MATT GROENING Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
MATT GROENING If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.
MATT BOMER I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.
MATT LAUER A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it w...
MATT APUZZO I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are gr...
MATT DILLON Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.
MATT MULLENWEG Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly wi...
MATT BOMER That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere...
MATT DAMON Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
MATT DAMON Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing peopl...
MATT DAMON I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets...
MATT GONZALEZ I was always taught that the first rule of bunker play is to just get the ball out. When you have a ...
MATT KUCHAR It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
MATT HAIG I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and i...
MATT HAIG What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business in...
MATT TAIBBI Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nost...
MATT RIDLEY I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as w...
MATT BOMER The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. It's a fantastic model that eliminates risk fo...
MATT MICKIEWICZ If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your ...
MATT BEVIN 'The Kids Are All Right' is amazing. The performances are insanely good. Julianne Moore is g...
MATT BOMER Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear.
MATT MARTY I've always been a guy that's liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I'...
MATT KUCHAR Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed dow...
MATT HAIG I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think t...
MATT DAMON Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in t...
MATT BELLAMY If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.
MATT LANTER 'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms -...
MATT GROENING I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a ...
MATT GROENING This administration will have no tolerance for the type of brazen disregard that Planned Parenthood ...
MATT BEVIN If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; th...
MATT HAIG I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a t...
MATT RIDLEY In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats d...
MATT TAIBBI Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
MATT GROENING There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress...
MATT MULLENWEG When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn&...
MATT MULLENWEG I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
MATT GROENING A group of adventurers is known as a "party," and not just because they like to celebrate their succ...
MATT FORBECK If you can't spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
MATT DAMON