Art Modell quote: "If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years."

I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best.
ART MODELL

I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either.
ART MODELL

I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore.
ART MODELL

I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move.
ART MODELL

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.
ART MODELL

I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through.
ART MODELL

I do want to go out on top, as a winner.
ART MODELL

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
ART MODELL

He was an extraordinary man of impeccable character, integrity, honesty, compassion and fairness. He...
ART MODELL

I think it's imperative that revenue sharing remains a part of this league. I think it'd be a sad da...
ART MODELL

The silver lining is that he's back with us, and I gave him a bonus for coming back. But I'm determi...
ART MODELL

That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams.
ART MODELL

I think undergraduate signings are a disgrace. Kids don't belong in the sport. They're not emotional...
ART MODELL

Johnny U. was the father of modern football, so all of us, including my father, who enjoyed particip...
ART MODELL

Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. ...
WALTER MODELL

We never met another family with this condition, and Jeffrey never met another child with it.
FRED MODELL

It's very good news for patients because there is a choice available to treating physicians.
FRED MODELL

The more choices -- the more opportunities, the better life for patients is going to be.
FRED MODELL

There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists ...
ART MALIK

I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam.
ART MALIK

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
ART LINKLETTER

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and e...
ART BUCHWALD

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better ...
ART BUCHWALD

It is an honorable calling that you have chosen. Some of you will soon be defending poor, helpless i...
ART BUCHWALD

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you d...
ART BUCHWALD

Put yourself in Hamlet's shoes. Suppose you were a prince, and you came back from college to discove...
ART BUCHWALD

People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a ...
ART BUCHWALD

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.
ART FETTIG

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
ART BUCHWALD

The best things in life aren't things.
ART BUCHWALD

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on thin...
ART BUCHWALD

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the pape...
ART BUCHWALD

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
ART BUCHWALD

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have.
ART BUCHWALD

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.
ART GARFUNKEL

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.
ART SPANDER

Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chicken kept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.
ART MARGOLIS

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why peopl...
ART LINKLETTER

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
ART LINKLETTER

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a...
ART GARFUNKEL

I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.
ART DONOVAN

People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But ...
ART DONOVAN

I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes...
ART MALIK

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an internati...
ART GARFUNKEL

And they're all looking for that type of guy.
ART VALERO

That's just Mike. I'd buy some of those arms if I could. Mike is ready to go. He trains himself very...
ART VALERO

For him to touch the ball 20 times a game is not enough. Put the ball in No. 24's hands and let him ...
ART VALERO

That's as big a reason to report on time as anything. It gives you time to learn from the veterans, ...
ART VALERO

Most people just drink beer with Mexican food. She's starting to promote wines which go so well with...
ART TORRES

It's impossible to think that he couldn't find one Latino to put in his Cabinet,
ART TORRES

I don't think that he's a racist. I don't think he's anti-Latino, ... I just think some of his comme...
ART TORRES

I don't see any others forthcoming, ... But Arnold has two very formidable opponents.
ART TORRES

We just didn't get started. They got in a rut and never got out. We got down on ourselves.
ART THOMASON

She continues to attack the basket. She also can back it and make the 3-pointer. She destroys defens...
ART THOMASON

It's hard for teams to match up with her. She's only 5-foot-9, but her reach is much longer than tha...
ART THOMASON

At this point in the season, there aren't many sleeping giants left. It doesn't matter who you are p...
ART THOMASON

The Japanese are starting to get worried about the Korean brands for the same reasons the domestics ...
ART SPINELLA

She got out of tech stocks a year ago and bought a new Beetle. She paid cash for it, and now she's l...
ART SPINELLA

We believe this kind of data is important in a consumer's selection of transportation. Basing purcha...
ART SPINELLA

It would have to be an entry-level model, like the Hyundai Excel. It would take low price and some s...
ART SPINELLA

Floor traffic has dried up. And thatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s not just for the Big Three, ...
ART SPINELLA

Somebody was going to do it. Mitsubishi is in dire straits. This is as good an idea as any.
ART SPINELLA

Do I want to see a subdivision or a gun club? Honestly - I would want a gun club.
ART SPINELLA

She got out of tech stocks a year ago and bought a new Beetle, ... She paid cash for it, and now she...
ART SPINELLA

The difference between what Detroit goes through and what Toyota goes through is that for every sing...
ART SPINELLA

Flood vehicles can be sold for their parts. There isn't a single vehicle that came out of Katrina th...
ART SPINELLA

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you ap...
ART SPIEGELMAN

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybod...
ART SPIEGELMAN

Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. B...
ART SPIEGELMAN

Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.
ART SPIEGELMAN

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guy...
ART SPIEGELMAN

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain ...
ART SPIEGELMAN

There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen.
ART SHELL

Should we have won more championships, more Super Bowls? Yes, we should have. But I don't think you ...
ART SHELL

It's coming home to finish what I started. I left coaching, but I've never left the game of football...
ART SHELL

I just want to get back to the point where ... when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here....
ART SHELL

All I can say is Kerry Collins is an outstanding quarterback. As a matter of fact I spoke with Kerry...
ART SHELL

When you walk out there, when you into that stadium, you walk out there with a presence. Mr. Davis c...
ART SHELL

We may have hit bottom in Asia but it may not get better anytime soon.
ART RUSSELL

The Nasdaq has largely been immune to the pullback in the Dow recently. Some of this response is ove...
ART RUSSELL

The PC stocks should do well in the second half of this year.
ART RUSSELL

The challenge is to integrate Digital and have an effective enterprise solution strategy going forwa...
ART RUSSELL

I get the sense that [Microsoft] would like to settle the case on the right terms. The contract lang...
ART RUSSELL

No surprise on the pre-announcement here. We know the PC industry has been weak.
ART RUSSELL

From a purely technical standpoint, we could see the Nasdaq falling to 2,500 levels in the near term...
ART RUSSELL

The software license revenue is widely viewed as a healthy barometer of their business. I think most...
ART RUSSELL

The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.
ART ROONEY

Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.
ART ROONEY

I think numbers-wise we were satisfied. We went into it wanting to keep as many of those guys as we ...
ART ROONEY

The demand for club seats has proven to be very strong since moving to Heinz Field.
ART ROONEY

Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.
ART ROONEY

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.
ART ROONEY

It was time for him to prove he was not in the pocket of the Chamber of Commerce and the big corpora...
ART PULASKI

He's rethinking some of his takeaways. We're relieved that he is.
ART PULASKI

We're all for flexibility. But the far more frequent experience is employers who are trying to cut c...
ART PULASKI

We don't want more short-term, politically expedient solutions. We must increase and index the minim...
ART PULASKI

Wealthy companies set new records in political contributions to buy this veto. Schwarzenegger bends ...
ART PULASKI

Las Vegas is the perfect host city to bring new energy to the Miss America Pageant. It should make f...
ART MCMASTER

We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.
ART MCMASTER

the pageant's continued vitality and growth.
ART MCMASTER

Atlanta is a nice city, ... I'm sure they would have the facilities.
ART MCMASTER

One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
ART LINKLETTER

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove...
ART LINKLETTER

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent ...
ART LINKLETTER

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people lo...
ART LINKLETTER

Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of r...
ART LINKLETTER

A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.
ART LINKLETTER

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence
ART LINKLETTER

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
ART LINKLETTER

It appears to be highly subjective. This survey is giving more weight to words over action.
ART LARSON

We're going to examine this report and carry on a dialogue with this organization. But we feel that ...
ART LARSON

On some days, the plant has been operating at a full load. The steam you see is normal.
ART LARSON

Our target market for this project is Idaho and the Pacific Northwest.
ART LARSON

If and when we are, we intend to immediately seek dismissal of it as being improperly brought before...
ART LARSON

We invite the public to speak. That's democracy in action, ... But I will not have any more recommen...
ART JOHNSON

Kids just lose a lot over the holidays, ... To think students are going to study for exams and do pr...
ART JOHNSON

It's clear arts education work drives student achievement. We need to be in the business of doing th...
ART JOHNSON

The point is, the Legislature has not met its constitutional requirements.
ART JOHNSON

Hopefully we can have a true home-field advantage, have a good crowd and create as good a college ba...
ART INABINET

It is good competition and all six teams are good quality baseball teams. We always have wanted to d...
ART INABINET

We needed to figure out who needed to be playing, and when we figured that out, those guys have gott...
ART INABINET

One of our goals is to make to the Peach Belt Tournament. This format will help us get ready because...
ART INABINET

[Hogan also likes Intel for a position in the semiconductor industry.] Intel we like because semicon...
ART HOGAN

Compaq is weighing down the Nasdaq, but we're getting a rotation into Dow stocks, ... It (the electi...
ART HOGAN

I would take oil as a front-burner issue, ... Yesterday [Tuesday] was the capitulation day for the t...
ART HOGAN

I think 50 basis points (one-half percentage point) is a credible consensus estimate for what the Fe...
ART HOGAN

I think that we just ran out of steam after a couple of hours. I am glad that we held on our gains f...
ART HOGAN

But if I had to venture a guess I think we'll start trending higher up until the Fed meeting on Tues...
ART HOGAN

I think this market can hold on to this rally and start trending higher.
ART HOGAN

I'm thinking the Fed will leave the rates unchanged, ... We've ramped up pretty higher into this mee...
ART HOGAN

Next week we really kick that (warnings) season off. There's going to be more Gateways out there, an...
ART HOGAN

It sends a signal that the U.S. economy has weathered some pretty harsh storms over the past few yea...
ART HOGAN

With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am e...
ART HILL

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international...
ART GARFUNKEL

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be...
ART GARFUNKEL

I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quit...
ART GARFUNKEL

Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
ART GARFUNKEL

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a...
ART GARFUNKEL

Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I ...
ART GARFUNKEL

To the extreme. Dylan was the coolest thing in the country. If you were a young person at that age, ...
ART GARFUNKEL

We're aware that it has resonance for the times, yes. But we chose it because it was the first hit w...
ART GARFUNKEL

We're aware that it has resonance for the times, yes, ... But we chose it because it was the first h...
ART GARFUNKEL

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going ...
ART GARFUNKEL

Right now if a Toyota (plant) came together, there'd be 16 people fighting for them. Competition can...
ART COLLINS

Looking ahead, Medtronic is exceptionally well-positioned to maintain its growth momentum, ... Signi...
ART COLLINS

We believe that we are picking up the majority of whatever business Guidant couldn't fulfill because...
ART COLLINS

The new product pipeline has never been stronger as we plan to introduce significant new therapies t...
ART COLLINS

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder...
ART BUCHWALD

Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter say...
ART BUCHWALD

So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know ...
ART BUCHWALD

I don't know what's coming next and neither does anyone else. It's something that we do have to face...
ART BUCHWALD

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday, ... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn'...
ART BUCHWALD

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have ...
ART BUCHWALD

I worship the quicksand he walks in.
ART BUCHWALD

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better ...
ART BUCHWALD

It was good to get out here and see the players bounce around a little bit. We got out of it healthy...
ART BRILES

We appreciate their loyalty and thank them for what they've done at the University of Houston.
ART BRILES

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas,...
ART BRILES

Everything was clicking on both sides of the ball. ...and I think we rode the wave of momentum for a...
ART BRILES

He has come out of some great programs and he's been on some great defenses. He was at Alabama four ...
ART BRILES

Edwards wanted to follow Wadia and has been on the fast track for quite a while.
ART BOWMAN

Salvatore's extremely capable. I'm surprised he didn't get the job permanently.
ART BOWMAN

We are reaching a low point in the history of the profession. And as we eventually emerge from this ...
ART BOWMAN

Any of the four would be willing to do [a merger] if they were shielded from liability.
ART BOWMAN

The scenarios are basically the same. Andersen as we know it is dead whether there is an acquittal o...
ART BOWMAN

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.
ART BLAKEY

Music washes away the dust of every day life.
ART BLAKEY

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz....
ART BLAKEY

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
ART BLAKEY

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because t...
ART BLAKEY

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
ART BLAKEY

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It...
ART BELL

Toxic language creates a hostile work environment -- and that's now illegal, ... Just as sexual hara...
ART BELL

Toxic language creates a hostile work environment -- and that's now illegal. Just as sexual harassme...
ART BELL

I'd say we heard 30 shots or more. We all just got to work, put on some coffee, and as we were waiti...
ART BELL

We've been on a smooth downward trend.
ART AYRE

There is a weakening trend showing up in the numbers since June. It does appear over the last few mo...
ART AYRE

We produce data on average wage by industry, but the portion of compensation that we haven't had (in...
ART AYRE

What you can see just walking around Portland is evidence of what's going on in construction.
ART AYRE

This is generally more good news, a lower unemployment rate, additional seasonally adjusted job grow...
ART AYRE

Why would he come back?. He's proven himself. You only test the waters if you're a borderline guy.
ART ALVAREZ

I know Nike wants to actively pursue him and try to get him over to Nike. You know how the shoe war ...
ART ALVAREZ

He is a big-time steal for Duquesne. He will have an opportunity to come in and change that program ...
ART ALVAREZ

I think it's between Duquesne and Kansas State, but I know Pitt loves the kid a lot. He'll probably ...
ART ALVAREZ

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.
ART GARFUNKEL

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the Uni...
ART BUCHWALD

You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.
ART DONOVAN

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.
ART HOPPE

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always...
ART ALEXAKIS

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no j...
ART BLAKEY

My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourse...
ART LINKLETTER

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. ...
ART SPIEGELMAN

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of...
ART BLAKEY

When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a l...
ART GARFUNKEL

You can watch TV and see experts of all different colours and hues. But the minute you get past nine...
ART MALIK

I'm a Raider. Die hard Raider.
ART SHELL

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.
ART SPIEGELMAN

We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust"; Because, a...
ART HOPPE

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
ART HOPPE

Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetrici...
ART LINKLETTER

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

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If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

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