Blame Quotations | Page 7

Often, things happen in clusters that have no explanation except a chance occurrence. People like to blame it on radio waves or something. It's a natural human tendency to want to connect the dots, but most of the time there are not connections.

Offensively, we've been struggling early in the year. We didn't have a lot of guys on base. When we do get hits, we don't have guys on base. We made a lot of mistakes and there were plays we should have made. We can't blame it on the weather. They made all the plays and we didn't.

After the emotional drain of last night, we really struggled to come out ready to play. I guess I have to take the blame for that because we were simply not ready. It was a good effort, we just weren't prepared at the start of the game.

No one wants to lose, and no one likes it. We've got some guys who are capable of doing some good things, and it's up to us to do it. We can't blame anybody but ourselves because we've got the talent to do some special things. We're the ones who have to start winning.

No self-respecting cow would graze here and I wouldn't blame her,

Someone told me his comments after the game was he put blame on himself. That's wrong. If anything I hold myself more accountable than I would hold him. The only thing I told him in that situation is not get ahead of himself and say, I probably should have called time out. That's probably what we needed to do. But hopefully next time he'll be able to learn.

With the athletes I have and our skating ability we should be winning. I'll take the blame for that. I should be able to get us over the hump. I'm going to look a little closer at what we're doing from a coaching standpoint. We've got to make better decisions. The girls left everything that they had on the ice. The next place that it has to improve is with the coaching.

While it is horrible that some children who take antidepressant medications commit suicide, putting the blame on medicines that help treat millions of persons with mental illnesses is irresponsible and is a blatant attempt to frighten parents, children and patients. There are risks to antidepressant treatment, but the risks of untreated depression are worse.

But now you have the Jesse Jacksons and the Louis Farrakhans and Al Sharptons coming down and inciting people to blame the Republicans in general and the president in particular.

The Government is to blame and they can't get away from it. If they ignore the Ombudsman, there will be hell to pay.

Saddam alone is to blame for his people's suffering. It is a myth that UN policy prevents the delivery of food and medicines. To export most goods to Iraq - including food, medicines, agricultural and educational equipment, and water and sanitation goods - it is simply necessary to notify the UN.

Now is not the time to blame students. Now is the time to analyze our curriculum and make sure we're teaching what we are being tested on.

Once you got a lead that late in the game you've got to do the smart things. I'll take the blame on that one. I turned it over and it ended up in our net.

Companies simply don't want to come to a state where they think they'll be the target of frivolous lawsuits, or even worse, won't get a fair shake if they are sued. Can you blame them?

As I traveled my home state last month, I heard from countless citizens who believe the oil companies are taking advantage of them, and can you blame them? ... It's hard for the people in my state as I am sure it is for the people in your home states to pay record high prices at the pump, while at the same time opening up the paper and seeing oil companies making record profits.

You should never blame the other woman, never. There is life after Kevin, and I'm living it!

You've got to shout to make yourself heard in this business. It's unfortunate, but true-if you don't spell everything out in your contract, you've got only yourself to blame for the treatment you get. Otherwise, whether it's having a caravan-a dressing-room trailer-on the set each day, or whatever it is, you don't get it.

That's not my style to blame the officiating, but the game was obviously called a different way than it was in New Jersey. Now it's up to us to make the adjustments.

As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise.

A lot of people used to blame him. But hey, don't get mad at me, you get mad at what went on during the week.

A lot of that was my fault. I got too caught up in the referees. I'll take the blame on that. I didn't put him down there. It's my fault.

Always blame it on the guy who doesn't speak English

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins toblame somebody else and stops trying.

They took the ball to the basket and consequently, they shot a lot of free throws. But you can't blame it on the free throws.

Put this one on me. Jo-Jo pitched his heart out, but I made two mistakes. I will take the blame for it.

Scared of the world outside you should go explore, pull all the shades and wander the great indoors. Though lately I can't blame you, I have seent he world and sometimes I wish your room had room for two.

San Jose was giving us trouble with their press coverage. Our receivers couldn't get off the line and get open, so you can't blame that on the quarterback.

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.

There's a difference between climate and extreme weather, ... Our scientists continually tell us we cannot blame any single extreme event, attribute that to climate change.

There's so much of it about. You have to deal with the bigger problem, not just blame her.

There's really no smoking gun. I'd like to blame it on climate change or global warming, but I can't.

Everything is more expensive than five or 10 years ago. I think it's inappropriate to pin the blame on higher rates on deregulation.

There's nothing he did wrong. No blame is pointed at him whatsoever.

There's nothing we can do now but play hard. If we don't make it, we don't have anyone to blame but ourselves.

There's no free will here. Oedipus acts out the script. How can we blame him?

There's no blame on the coaches for that aspect of it.

There's no question that the events of early this week were very harmful to us. But the blame can fairly be placed on the large police and army forces that came here forcefully two weeks ago to place eviction notices on Jewish-owned homes. In any event, we have said that things got out of hand and that we did not have total control - but when we did regain control, things calmed down.

Why do so many elderly people blame the youth on society's mistakes?

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!

This year we started strictly enforcing it as it was written, ... I don't know, maybe I take the blame for not making the administrators as aware of the need to enforce it, but I told them over the summer that there was no question about what it was and that it needed to be enforced.

The parties must stop hurling blame on each other and learn to be mutually tolerant in order to sustain democracy.

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse, and I don't think that I'm better than you but I don't think that I'm worse. Women learn to be women, and men learn to be men, and I don't blame it all on you, but I don't want to be you

We got happy just taking the threes. After a tough game (a 95-89 loss at Detroit on Friday), you may not have the leg strength. That was key. We were trying to penetrate and kick. The shots didn't go down. Just don't blame it on shooting. You can never blame a loss on shooting. It's what you do defensively.

We had a chance to win a road game; it's not that easy to do. You can't ever blame anything on one player, it's a whole ball game of things. We had other opportunities. They made a couple of plays and we didn't.

This group has slowly figured out that we can't blame it on anybody else, that we can't hang our heads. If we want to change this, it's got to start inside our locker room. I would say over the last week or 10 days, we've really practiced extremely hard every single time.

This bill that we are unveiling will replace the adversarial blame game with the kind of private sector cooperation that will get this problem solved in the best tradition of American ingenuity.

This family has had its differences and we've squabbled, but we've never had knife fights before, and I blame this house

This is a dangerous thing. And for them to say that, if somebody gets hurt, 'Don't blame it on us because they're public figures,' it's ridiculous ... Someone could hurt over it. You don't know who's reading it.

This is a case where two controllers made mistakes and now they're trying to blame the FAA.

You succeed at being a failure when you blame someone else.

This is because they don't want a debate on the issues, and they don't want to run on Sen. Kerry's record. I guess I can't blame them for that. We as a party cannot sink to their level. We must stick to the truth in this race.

You're dealing with human frailty, people are nervous, I don't blame them. And we're trying basically to accommodate their desires.

You're nervous. You block everything out except maybe for your father and your coach. There's no one to blame but yourself.

This is probably my least favorite arena to play in. We really can't blame it on the arena. The hoops are still 10 feet. You still have to put the ball in the hole. But I just never really liked it. That's just my own opinion.

This is scripted, and we can't blame you because you are acting on orders of your superiors.

Against Portsmouth we played well enough to win. In the Wayne game, what bothered me most was our lack of execution. I take a lot of the blame for that.

After the game we looked around to see who to blame it on, but when you shoot that bad, the blame can be found in the mirror.

I've got a lot of fans in my country. They are going to ask questions. I don't blame them. I want them to understand that I'm a third baseman.

I know people want to dump the blame on the corps, and that's fine with us, but there were a lot of design features we wanted on those canals that were ultimately accepted by sponsors.

I know that those guys (the officials) have a difficult job, and they're trying the best that they can. So I certainly don't blame them. But you know, film doesn't lie, I guess is what I would say.

I know we have great fans. I'm going to blame it on the weather.

I know the security in Chicago is doing a great job and when something happens so quickly, you can't blame anybody,

In fencing, it's just you and your opponent. You don't have teammates you can blame. You usually don't have a referee to blame. You either win or you don't. Every time you go out there, it's a test of your own skill and ability and how hard you work.

In a sense, I blame ourselves - together with the mass media - for what has happened in Watts, Harlem, Chicago, Cleveland, Omaha.

I partly agree with the underlying message that people should take charge and solve problems, rather than just cast blame on others.

I only spoke once and then I spoke again three months later. All the garbage in between was Major League Baseball. I blame them for that. I don't know who was leaking or whatnot ... but all this stuff, the back and forth, I would think that was ridiculous, too.

I only spoke (publicly) once, and then I spoke again three months later. All the garbage in between was Major League Baseball. I blame them for that. I don't know who was leaking or what not. ... All this stuff, the back and forth, I would think that was ridiculous, too.

If somebody gets an infection or something, they're going to blame somebody.

I'm the foul shooting coach, so blame me. We'll get better. I promise.

I'm having a good time,/ Please don't blame me,/ I'm knocking myself out/ Don't try to tame me/ Let me have my fun,/ I've got to have my fling,/ Some folks say I'm blowing my top/ Talk don't mean a thing, . . .

I'm happy to place the lion's share of the blame for this on FEMA and the feds. But I think a substantial dollop of the blame goes to the state and local level, and he deserves his share of that.

I'm not to take the blame for something that's not true.

If relations worsen, China should take the blame because they have ignored all our calls for improving ties.

If there's blame to go around, most of the blame falls on the tobacco companies,

If there is no money, you can't blame anyone but yourself.

I'm afraid our gas prices aren't helping things. We certainly can't blame the weather. The attendance is a little light.

I made a bad throw. I'm not going to try to blame it on anybody else. I should have planted my feet and made the throw.

I made a mistake on their second goal to give the puck up on the wall. I'll take the blame for that. They created the chances and created more opportunities and they got the goals.

I had some issues, obviously. But one thing I cannot stand and never will be able to understand is coaches who put blame on officials and whine about officials. I will never do that. That's just not how I'm built.

I'm one of the guys to blame for what's been happening here.

I'm just excited to be here, and this is not a bad situation for me. Frankly, it looked like the White Sox did not have a spot for me, and I can't really blame them for what they did.

In order to move forward to military action, it needs to be clear that Serbs are to blame

In the first inning, they were going back and forth. Fieldin told him it was enough and Randy says a lot to umpires about strikes. You can place the blame anywhere you want. Randy took it too far or Fieldin threw him out too quickly.

In the first term things went pretty well, you have to say. So I don't really put the blame on Andy; he's doing what he's always done.

Instead of taking action to bring down gas prices dramatically before the Fourth of July holiday, (Vice President Al) Gore, Browner and President Clinton are pointing fingers to blame everyone, but not themselves, for busting the summer vacation budgets of millions of Americans,

Instead of having a kind of blame game, with the countries which have targets saying to the others you're wrong not to accept targets, and the countries without targets saying to the others deliver your targets and we'll speak to you after - why not do our homework within Kyoto, but at the same time open up a broader process including everyone, in order to improve our capacity to work together?

If you look at why our graduation rates are low, it's because our high school students are inadequately prepared for college. But, I don't want to focus the blame on the K-12 school system.

If you looked at our season and the way we've lost, you could say the football gods didn't smile on us. We could be here saying we're 13-1. . . . We've shown flashes of being a great team, but we've let games slip away. . . . Whom do you blame? You blame yourself.

If you ever have to steal money from your kid, and later on he discovers it's gone, I think a good thing to do is to blame it on Santa Claus.

I've hurt a lot of people during this time and it was my mistake I mean I don't want to blame anyone else at the end of the day it was my mistake.

I'm not pleased with the job he's done so far. But I don't know that it's his fault. He's taking direction from City Council. So I can't really blame him at this point." ()

I'm not sure. I don't get the sense that consumers have fixed the blame yet ...I think we may be one event away or some catalyst away from that blame being pointed at Washington or the administration. I'm not sure it's there yet.

I'm in charge of signing the players, so you can't blame the coach. I talked to seven players today.

I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get bitch-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame them?

I'm embarrassed we had to do it, ... The blame starts with me. We made choices, and they obviously didn't turn out.

I'm not coaching my kids to take the initiative when the step onto the mat and I take the blame for that. I haven't instilled the desire in my kids to take the lead - and it was those close losses that ended up making the difference tonight.

I'm going to put the blame on both of us there. I dove underneath and got a little tight, and he didn't want to give it up, either.

I'm disgusted that we are engaged in a blame game. We needed a bill, and we got a food fight.

I kind of feel like I'm to blame for some of this because I could have done something, ... And I've had kids before I've known get hit by drunk drivers and things like that, and here's where I could have done something to prevent it.

I'm not here to be in a position of trying to blame that board or to second guess. What I am here to say, it was not the present board that went forward with the Harcourt contract.