Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Jerry Graybeal

Reaching 500 games is a great accomplishment. That's a lot of games for any coach. She's a great example of stability in our women's basketball program and it has translated to success on the floor. Carla has been a great representative of Weber State as a player and coach for more than 25 years.

Tony Parker

Definitely difficult to lose him. He was coming back very well. He was starting to play very well. He was playing good basketball so it is hard to lose him again.

Jamie McNeilly

Coach said we needed to play 40 minutes of basketball tonight and we only played 36. We had a lot of turnovers and they capitalized on them.

Scott Strickland

Coach Rupp was kind of an iconic figure. He led the greatest basketball program in the country and was an easy target for those who say he didn't do enough. Whether he did or didn't can be argued.

Amanda Fleischman

Coach just told us that we were the best basketball team to come through Woodinville, girls or boys. He told us we brought a lot of joy to his life. He told us to stay in touch.

Luther Suggs

Coach Grieves is a man who cares about the team and the program. He's going to do whatever's in his power to get us back in the gym. I feel like we had a little more time to work on our game, get in condition, stay focused on basketball and not think about the hurricane.

Cary Groth

Coach Fisher taught me how to drive. He was also my brother's basketball coach.

Ben Howland

Coach watches every game. I knew that and embraced it. He's the greatest coach in the history of basketball. What he did in college basketball will never be repeated. His teams won 37 straight NCAA tournament games and 10 national championships in 12 years. You know how everyone wants to be like Mike -- Michael Jordan -- as a player? Every coach wants to be like John. So I don't feel a shadow. I embrace it.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

John Davis

As an incumbent, Marty has to show that she has done a good job and she has done the best job possible with the situations she faces, ... He has got to prove that she has not been a good leader and he has to prove that he is a good leader and can take her place. That's the tough job. You just can't tear down the other person.

Johnathan Frakes

As an executive producer who's not a writer, my responsibilities are obviously to hire the best people for the jobs and to contribute notes to the scripts and then to the cuts as the shows come in.

Lyssa Dennard

As a team we never give up. We made that run at the end. The excitement was there. We had the momentum. We did the best that we could. It just didn't work out for us.

Zach Puchtel

As a team, we need to play the best defense we've ever played. We just need to be tough, we need to control their offense and not let them feel comfortable at any point.

Jane Jackson

The big thing is it's brought us closer to friends from 40, 50, 60 years ago. They're calling and sending notes.

Danny Thompson

People saw we had kids and they brought us a canopy and a tent,

Jill Soloway

Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring them with you onto your television show. I just brought every single person with and expanded my little indie film world.

Jay Rockefeller

Any line of questioning that has brought us too close to the White House has been thwarted, ... We have been undermined, avoided, put off and vilified by the other side.

Norv Turner

Some we brought on ourselves. Three times we had enough yards for a first down, and we had penalties that knocked us back, so that we were facing either first-and-20 or second-and-20. The environment we were in - a real good football team, and a team that can pressure the quarterback - we were playing into their hands.

Jeremy Rifkin

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

Clare Short

The US was pressing Chile, Mexico - enormous pressures were brought to bear. What's remarkable is that these countries didn't break.

Mike Timlin

That's how we have to play. We brought it down to the end of the season like we usually do. We've been fighting for first place all year long.

Kenneth Koch

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Amanda Smith

Our emotions were high and momentum was on our side. We wanted to win. This game was special for our coach (Tim Smith). We wanted to win this one for him at Germantown.

Marshall Strickland

The month leading up to coach resigning, it just seemed like we were walking into every game down 15 points. Ever since then, guys have come together and we just feel like we can win. It's just a completely different attitude, but it's something that all of the guys are feeling.

Janell Burse

Defense is key this year, Coach D told us that from the very first meeting we had. Everybody is focused on that more than our offense, and that's a change. I like it better because we can protect the paint a lot more. It's easier to help, and it's just more realistic.

Rob Hummel

Definitely, when you see a coach Painter or coach Alford, that's going to stick in your mind. It's a big deal. (The head coach) is the guy.

Rick Bell

Dean Smith said of all the great wins he ever had, the greatest wins were the wins at Duke. Coach K said the greatest wins he ever had were the wins at Carolina. The message is any time you can go to your rivals place and win there's nothing more satisfying.

James Blake

Dean is doing a great job. He's extremely laid-back and an extremely knowledgeable coach, which I think fits great with our team. He's there to help if we need it. He also knows not to probably go overboard; we all have our own coaches, we all know kind of what we're working on in our games, and he just is there to help keep our focus there this week and keep our spirits high, I guess.

Gary Carr

It was a long day. But the girls learned a lot and they're trying to find their way.

Edward Herrmann

I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.

Marianne Bretschneider

We've talked about it in the past. We've had some girls who are up 6-0 and then the next thing you know it's 7-5. Now they're starting to really put it together.

Jeremy Burk

The only way to go from here is up, and all the girls agree. We've got a great squad and all of the girls are very experienced at golf.

Sarah Clarke

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

Gary Stanglewicz

Breckenridge is a really good team and our girls stepped up and played really well in the finals.

Brooke Langton

The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me.

Lindsay Davenport

While we are getting more depth, if you go outside the Top 40 or 50, there's not tons and tons of girls that are really challenging the top players, ... There might be a few, but that's the way it goes.

Alex Sanchez

We wanted to do a jungle theme, but only the girls were into it.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Adelaide Anne Procter

One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Albert Einstein

I get the most joy in life out of music.

Stephany Smith

As a team, we just stay strong and focused. Usually, we get it done. We trust each other.

Ann Fisher

As long as we stay together, we will be alright,

Brian Clarke

As long as I stay in town I will be fine,

Kurt Kutay

Some only have a dung hut to stay in.

Lillian Carter

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.

Nate Jackson

I've been staying in it mentally. And they'll work me in as they see fit.

Calvin Williams

I've been through a storm, and I ain't trying to get in another one. So I just try to stay to myself.

Lindsey Hunter

Things are going well, but it just takes time. It's all going well, so I just have to stay patient.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,