Poorly Quotes

A poorly conditioned football team gets penalties, a poorly conditioned football team holds, a poorly conditioned football team turns the football over. The other way to look at it is, if your not in shape, you can lose games, so I think being in shape is a must. You need to have stamina ... you need to have some staying power in the fourth quarter to win football games and if you're not I think you're going to lose. - Sean Payton

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written. - Isaac Asimov

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. - Jim Rohn

[Though some believe a possible Vartan exit could be the result of on-set tension between him and his former girlfriend, Jennifer Garner , Weisman insists things are nothing but friendly.] They're friends, and they're professionals... Whatever is written portraying them poorly, I think it's just people trying to gossip and write something just to write < - Kevin Weisman

[Many players are convinced that owners are attempting to divide the NHLPA. The owners' latest proposal called for players making less than $800,000 to maintain their current salaries while players making more than $5 million cut their salaries by 35 percent. If owners want to splinter the union, they're not going to be successful, Brendan Shanahan said.] The hockey mentality is that when we're challenged, we grow tighter together... One player or two might speak out and it might reflect (poorly) on the union, but 99 percent of the union will band together. - Brendan Shanahan

[And not a moment too soon, figures Colbert (the gifted humorist-performer, that is not the make-believe blowhard who shares the same name).] My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned, but an idiot... So we said, 'Let's give him a promotion.' - Stephen Colbert

[After handing in the editorial to the newspaper Friday,] the president himself noted that that was a very poorly worded sentence, and we changed it... This Week. - Joe Lockhart