Roller Quotations

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.

I was very fortunate to be raised with an 'if not you, then who?' mentality, and I count my blessings every day to have the support of my family and especially my wife. She's got a front-row seat on the roller coaster.

Although I'm a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I'm actually amazed that I survived. Barely.

The 'science' behind hormone replacement therapy has put women on a medically engineered, press-fueled, big pharma funded roller coaster ride.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

For decathletes, our event goes all throughout the day so you're trying to go up and down and up and down emotionally and physically and you know mentally you're just on a roller coaster.

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're with other people all skating in a pack, it's a whole different sport.

There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.

Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.

I graduated from public high school. I went to the prom. I did it all. But I also worked on 30-million dollar movies with roller coasters and Michelle Pfeiffer. It's been a very interesting and blessed life for sure.

Momentum can change so much in the NBA and if you keep playing things can happen for you. I think the 3-pointer lifted us in the overtime. We had the momentum and we carried it through. The game never stops. We were down and then we came back. It was a roller coaster ride.

Since it has been such a roller coaster, this moment definitely feels really good. It doesn't get much better than helping your team win a big game. I'm going to savor it for a long time.

means we're in for a roller coaster ride.

Men recognize marriage is going to be a roller coaster. But they're willing to ride it out because they like the company.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I feel like I'm going on my first roller coaster ride.

If it comes down to me leading them in the fourth quarter and putting the ball in my hands, I'll take my chances. I'm an older guy, and we have a lot of new guys. Hopefully, they will listen to me so we won't be on the roller coaster ride that we were on last year. We have to change our state of mind.

Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.

Today is an emotional roller coaster for us here. We are trying to stay focused, however, on putting out the best newspaper we can tomorrow. We have the opportunity and obligation and privilege to write our own obituary. We are in the process of trying to figure out how we are going to do that.

He was offered a sign-on bonus, a higher salary, a big year-end bonus and stock in the company for a job across the bridge. They know we have done a lot for this guy, and yet he still got all these other perks. So they fear that it's like a roller coaster on its way down ? it is hard to stop.

Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.

Regrets? Well, certainly I regret that I did that which got me into jail, ... Other than that, no. I've had a very roller coaster life, very roller coaster. And except for that -- which, of course, I regret exceedingly -- boy, no, I don't have any regrets.

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight. My one sister is a motorcycle freak, my other sister is a Holy Roller evangelist and my brother is running for president. I'm the only sane one in the family.

Man, that was a roller coaster. We were puttering along for a half, and then we got on a roll and scored three times, and then we went right back in that valley again.

I think this industry got drunk on roller coasters. Big roller coasters simply do not get the return on investments that they used to.

It has nothing to do with whether I'm the best or whether I'm a rock and roller or whether I'm a blues singer or whether I'm none of those things. I'm part of history.

Job-cut announcements have been on a roller coaster ride this year. The lack of any discernible trend in corporate downsizing is indicative of the uncertainty associated with the current economy.

It is no longer factual. It is an emotional roller coaster.

It is kind of unique. It's been a weird story this season, it's been a bit of a roller coaster. But it is a possibility, it's part of the profession and it happens all the time.

Life's a roller coaster, but I feel a change.

Like most budgets, it's a roller coaster, ... We will strap ourselves in and see how many loop-de-loops there are.

It is an emotional roller coaster, ... It's my faith that gives me hope, but when I see how people are responding to those in need, it's renewed my hope in humanity, as well.

I think they've taken away a little bit of the battles. It's part of hockey. If not, it's kind of roller hockey. Roller hockey, that's not good.

Our game tonight was like a roller coaster. We were up at certain points in the game and at other times we were down -- we were down to close out ball games.

It has been a very significant journey, a roller coaster at times,

Today was an emotional roller coaster to say the least. I felt we should've won both games against St. Pat's and Minden before an emotional win against Hershey.

To go from the high of Thursday night -- which had been a great opening -- to the disappointment of Friday's reviews to Saturday packing up our stuff to leave the theater to Saturday night saying, 'We're going to run' -- it's been quite a roller coaster.

Most of my fans know I love video games. I say it in every interview, so they know. But one thing that I like doing is skateboarding, I like jet skiing, skydiving. It's like a huge roller coaster ride. Like forty seconds of free-falling. That's some of the stuff I love, daredevil stuff. I like horseback riding.

We haven't sold out tickets as quickly since we were in one of the national championship games. Our fans certainly were on a roller coaster this year. We were 6-0 at one time, then there were three losses in a row and everyone was ready to take arsenic. Then we beat Virginia Tech and everyone began feeling good again.

My career's been filled with ups and downs. As a freshman, I played a lot. Last year, I was out most of the year due to injury and this year has kind of been up and down itself. In some games, out some games. It's been a big roller coaster. I've just tried to deal with it the best I can.

We've been getting used to each other's style of play. Hockey is a game of communication. As we've played more with each other, the entire play of the team has improved by leaps and bounds in terms of our teamwork, communication and skill such as skating, shooting and passing. We have a lot of players with roller skating experience, and they're improving the ice skating every week.

We have nothing to be ashamed of. This year has been a roller coaster. It was a constant adjustment.

When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.

We have to prove that we're for real, that we're going to be around. I had to do that with the ABA, too, but I also had to fight the NBA. What's nice about roller hockey is that the NHL hasn't knocked us. It sees us as a continuation of its season.

Without a doubt, it was a roller coaster ride. But I couldn't be more proud of the team. They did everything we asked them to do.

That was our first (MLS) game in 17 days, but little by little, things are coming together. We have minimized our mistakes. It has been a roller coaster, but I'm giving credit to whoever is stepping in.

We're playing good ball. The last two or three weeks have been a roller coaster. I'm hoping now we're on the uphill swing.

We're looking to try and put the first half behind us. There were highs and lows and a little bit of a roller coaster ride early on. We want to take lessons from that experience and set goals for the future. But really we try to focus on - not to be cliche - a shift-to-shift, period-to-period, game-top-game basis and not worry too much about what's happened or what's in front of us. I think the future will take care of itself if we just work hard every day.

There is a synergy here that has to happen. The business can't be about roller coasters.

Toyota is like a huge stream roller that moves slowly, but make sure that it does well in the markets it wants to be strong in.

We're learning how to win by doing the little things. The season is a roller coaster ride, and the key is not to get too high or too low. We're not where we want to be, but if we keep playing the way we've been playing, we'll be where we need to be.

We recommend, depending on if you have a lot of foot traffic, that you roll it with a regular sod roller every six months, but that's it.

We practically have enough for our own roller hockey team.

We are riding the temperature roller coaster here,

We learned this weekend that you have to be consistent by doing the little things and focusing on the process. This year has been like a ride on a roller coaster, and it's important for us to be consistent and better every inning.

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all.

When I was in fourth grade, my family, we used to always go to the roller skating rink. There was this cute boy there that I liked. It kind of influenced me to keep going.

Consistency is a big priority for us right now. We're not on the roller coaster we were a few weeks ago.

This year has been such a roller coaster. I want some stability. I just can't find that in my career right now.

I've been fishing as a pro for 25 years, and never in my life have I had so much excitement. It's been such a roller coaster this last year. I've been way down, and I've been as high as you can get. This last year was one of the best I ever had. I won that big FLW tournament last year, finished in the top 10 in BASS and in the top 10 at FLW.

The whole season was emotionally trying. We went through so many ups and downs, on such a roller coaster. It was a season that had a lot of scenarios, good things and bad things. But the end result is we had a winning record, and that's a positive.

When we start, we start them with a very flat roller and therefore the bike will virtually stay up on its own.

When the fans are on me, they have every right to get on me, because I wasn't playing up to par. To me, I just kept getting more and more frustrated. It has been an up-and-down roller coaster for me in the Big Leagues.

I've seen it the last few years, it goes up and down, up and down. Is that we want to do with our children, take them on a roller coaster ride?

The room I'm now teaching in used to be where my history class was, and I made my first skateboard out of roller skate wheels and a slab of wood down the hall in shop class.

It was a little bit of a roller coaster ride. They started to hit their shots and got the crowd back into it. It was kind of a little chaotic.

It was an emotional roller coaster -- going from Christmas, then your aunt dies, and then all the stats come out and you might get all these records. I've been asked, 'How do you feel?' Tired. I'm really blessed we do have this week off where I can kind of grab a hold back to reality.

It was an emotional roller coaster. They had their highs; we had our highs. I think our conditioning was the main part, and we took good shots in overtime.

You get ready for (the surprise) almost like you're going up a roller coaster.

You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.

Very smooth. His range is not as good as it once was, but you saw him charging in on a slow roller and making it look very, very simple.

We don't want to ride a roller coaster where it feels good for five days and then it feels bad for five days.

You'd use recorded effects and then they'd have to come off discs. So we tried to make our own, and we used to have all sorts of things. We used to have roller skates for making train noises over rails and I remember once trying to effect the noise of someone's head being chopped off. I used a cabbage for that, it was very effective.

We'll head to Iraq around December 23rd and stay over there until after New Years, because it's hard for soldiers to get entertainment during the holidays. I'm not doing that so people think I'm doing something great, ... I'm doing that because I know what it's like and I remember being there during Christmas and not having anybody from home. It's a very emotional, roller coaster ride for me when I'm there because there's times when I feel so grateful for what I do (now), and times that I feel guilty for what I'm doing because I'm not working there (as a soldier).

We all know that roller coasters and other amusement park rides are fun, fast and thrilling, ... They are supposed to create the illusion of danger, without putting people at risk. But the increased number of deaths and injuries tell a different story.

We've had a long chat about it. We've been on a huge emotional roller coaster in the last week.

The old joke around here is we'll play the Russians on roller blades at the mall for a chance to keep playing at this time of year.

Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you're still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It's the life achievement period of your career.

As an Olympian, I know I have to prove something extra, ... In the Olympics, I was having fun. Before the fights, I was yelling and stuff. Everything just felt like a roller coaster. It was so exciting and fun.

American audiences, when they sit down to watch TV, like to be taken on a roller coaster ride. They don't like subtlety.

They've gone in with a steam roller in an area which is extremely pro-Taliban and pro-al Qaeda.

Roller hockey helps a lot in just keeping you in shape for ice hockey. Roller hockey is more tiring. I think it's just the friction with the roller hockey wheels. It's harder to get going faster. So you get more tired out.

Roller hockey is considered a no-contact sport. There's no checking. You have to be a good skater.