Eli Quotes

(to Eli Wallach prior to starting work on Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) ("The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly")) Never trust anyone on an Italian movie. I know about these things. Stay away from special effects and explosives.

Peyton would tell you that, too. Eli is a big, good-looking kid who can throw the ball well. The thing that separates Peyton is his work ethic and how he prepares himself. Eli went to Ole Miss and did pretty darn well without the best cast around him. I think he`ll do just fine. He`s just a very good athlete who can throw the ball extremely well.

I saw it on TV, ... and I thought it might be the end of the season for Eli. I couldn`t see him coming back up and walking off the field.

That five-year gap in age is big, ... When they played football in the yard, Eli was always the center. I`m sure there was something in Eli that said: `One of these days I`m not going to be the center. One day, I`m going to take a snap.`

In my first year, I always looked for positive things and kept working, ... The good news is the score is always zero-zero when you kick off the next week. I`ve told Eli to `keep sawing wood.`

A lot of the old philanthropy was devoted to helping schools do what they were already doing, ... The new group is saying, `Let`s try something different.` It`s a lot of young, active entrepreneurial people - Bill Gates, Eli Broad, the Waltons, Dell, Milken - who want to change the schools, who want to use their money to support specific school reforms.

A lot of the old philanthropy was devoted to helping schools do what they were already doing, ... The new group is saying, `Let`s try something different.` It`s a lot of young, active entrepreneurial people -- Bill Gates, Eli Broad, the Waltons, Dell, Milken -- who want to change the schools, who want to use their money to support specific school reforms.

A lot of the old philanthropy was devoted to helping schools do what they were already doing, ... The new group is saying, `Let`s try something different.` It`s a lot of young, active entrepreneurial people -- Bill Gates, Eli Broad, the Waltons, (Michael) Dell, (Michael) Milken -- who want to change the schools, who want to use their money to support specific school reforms.

(Matthews wonders if Google will go the way of Eli Whitney.) The cotton gin changed America, ... It revitalized the South and boosted the British textile industry, and had a thousand other effects. And this earned the inventor, Eli Whitney, almost nothing.

Pure guts. That`s Eli. I mean, he`s a Manning. He`s an incredible player. To be hurting the way he was '“ I know he had to have been hurting, but to get the ball down there 50 yards over the top of the safety for a touchdown, that`s Eli. You`re going to start expecting those out of him. He`s a great athlete.