Debacle Quotes

What we had this morning was hope. By this afternoon hype, and now this evening it's a debacle. - Mark Durkan

We vaulted the best we have vaulted and probably ... had one of the best (floor) performances of the year. The debacle on bars and beam really cost us. - Ray Corn

To tell you the truth, I don't think it even entered my mind at first. But as soon as someone came up to me [after the Game 6 debacle] and told me that I might be doing it, I knew it. I knew they had me. - Andy Pettitte

This is for all the nay-sayers. This is for all the ones that said there's no way this can continue ... to the ones that are waiting for the next debacle. - John Smoltz

This is a case where the wrong man went to prison and the real person committed some awful crimes, all because of the utter incompetence of the HPD crime lab... This is the face of the crime-lab debacle. This is the human damage. - Barry Scheck

They're terrified. When you speak to someone for the first few minutes they're speechless. You now have two evils to choose from: do you live with a nuclear Iran, or do you trust the U.S. administration in launching a war with Iran, despite the whole debacle in Iraq? - Riad Kahwaji

They didn't listen to me until after the debacle. - Brett O'Donnell

There is no doubt that the recent rally is fueled by a lot of short covering from bears thinking the New Orleans debacle would cause jitters on Wall Street. - Tom Hougaard

There are so many outrageous things that have gone on in the context of the Enron debacle that the ordinary rules of logic don't seem to apply. - Mike Florio

The unfolding petro-nuclear Iran debacle laced with faith-based overtones is making the average investor quite nervous these days. - Jon Nadler