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.

Doc Sadler

I've always thought this team had a chance to be pretty good. The thing that concerns me is offensively, I don't know how much we can win without shooting the basketball better.

Jeff Ruland

I've actually yelled at kids from a basketball purist standpoint. I don't want to see a kid shoot the ball every time down the court. It's disgusting.

Joe Johnson

I've actually been enjoying myself but I've just got to get the basketball side going. It really feels like back home. When this thing turns around, it really is going to be crazy.

Vincent Grier

I wanted to do whatever it took to win this basketball game, and that's what it was. They feed on Daniel Horton getting off, because he has so much freedom in the offense. You have to limit the fouls, because he's a great free-throw shooter and great all-around player.

David Grewe

I wanted to do it in the worst way, and it just worked out. I think it's going to be special, kind of like hockey did and basketball did.

Jamie Pollard

I wanted an individual who had a sincere passion for being the next Cyclone men's basketball coach. One coach emerged as the clear cut favorite . . . (and that's) Greg McDermott.

David Waters

As he put it, 'the biggest nightclub in central London'.

Daniel Yergin

Depending on what we learn in the next few days, this may be the biggest oil-supply shock since the 1970s. We are now in the days of reckoning.

Graham Nelson

The single biggest is to stop the player from getting stuck and getting bored; always think like the player as well as the designer.

Jeff Pentland

Sometimes the biggest successes aren't the guys you hear the most about.

Briana Mackey

Sometimes it is the number of rooms (available) and sometimes it is the rate, because we need to make sure the rate is falling in line from a value perspective. So far, the biggest stumbling block is the rate.

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Mohammed Amin

This is a new experience for the new Iraq, ... Iraqis now are watching the biggest man, Saddam, being tried in an open trial.

Mike Viola

This is huge. This is the biggest tournament west of the Mississippi ... we need to carry this momentum into league.

Andrew Preston

This is huge, this is the biggest game of the season, ... it doesn't get any better than this.

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Laura Harper

Our confidence in overtime is out of this world.

A. Johnson

Once we didn't hit a couple of shots, for some reason our girls' confidence went down. There were shots we should have made that just rolled out tonight. East played great defense, but I thought we had some good looks.

Bob Kummer

Developmentally, we still are growing. We still need to learn how to play together and gain confidence together. But we are more hungry and knowledgeable, I think, this year.

Gabe Gross

I've always had great confidence that I can hit at this level - not only hit, but do very well at this level. Hopefully, this good start can lead to good things and a good year.

Vaughn Taylor

A day like (Thursday), you make nine birdies and it's really tough to go out the next day and do the same. I still rolled it pretty well, still have confidence in my putting. I've just got to give myself some more chances.

Kelly Scott

It was the only shot to make and we made it perfectly. We saw that spot a couple of times earlier in the game so we had pretty good confidence on how it would react. We had luck on our side with the way it reacted.

Roar Ljoekelsoey

The win in flying and the victory in Japan will give me a lot of confidence in the Olympics.

Ben Watson

The win gives (the players) confidence to know we can come from behind. It lets the team know the game is never over till the end.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as we got the win. We gotta deal with that other (stuff) every night. But we fought through it and got the W.

Randy White

Dealing with something like that is tough on anybody. I knew she really wanted to perform well. That was one of her incentives.

Robert Hill

dealing with illegal people movement, fishing breaches, transnational crime.

Tony Ridder

Dealing with a drummer isn't that much different from dealing with someone from IT.

Joanne Dobson

Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract,

John Evans

The size of the property and the magnitude of what we're dealing with is amazing. But we're planning a community, not dealing with a plot of land.

W. S. Gilbert

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

John Riggins

The story really is, in a way, Joel -- doing what he did while dealing with this illness,

Rick Barnes

The teams that mess up are the ones that play not to lose. You don't want to be the first game of the tournament. You'd probably want to be in the middle, but you just have to deal with it.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

John Riggs

Antonio had a great tournament. There were two escapes, one by each guy, and then a stall point was the difference.

Chris Finwood

Antone is a great kid. He can hit. He can run, so he's got a chance. At that level, it's all about how much you hit.

Dana Altman

Anthony worked his tail off. He had a great spring, summer and fall. So he's had some success because of it.

Jeffrey Johnson

Dr. Lee should live up to his promise.

Janet Reno

Dr. Lee is not a hero, he is not an absent-minded professor, he is a felon,

Bobby Bowden

Lee was missing them so far, I had to take him out.

Paul Ellis

Lee has talent. It takes us 10-to-15 plays to score. It takes them one or two.

Josh Cammack

Lee has been a lot of our offensive power.

Linda Brown

It does help. But when Lee Memorial must pay $11 million a year to the trauma center, $1 million is only a small help.

Dennis Lillee

I'd pair Lee with Tait. They could be sensational.

Bill Clarke

I am proud of our guys. We needed to work on some things. Lee played us tough.

Chris Brown

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

Brian Tracy

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.

C. S. Lewis

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

Booker T. Washington

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Brene Brown

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

Brene Brown

When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness—the feeling that we are enough just as we are and that we are worthy of love and belonging. When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don’t fit with who we think we’re supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving. Our sense of worthiness—that critically important piece that gives us access to love and belonging—lives inside of our story.

Blaise Pascal

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Eckhart Tolle

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Eileen Caddy

Don't force anything. Let life be a deep let go.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

John Gallagher

Do you want performance level one or performance level two,

Dwayne Slay

The talent level is rising around here. It's going to be a surprise next year.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Landon Donovan

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. We have an obligation to do that and most people take that seriously.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Jake Goebbert

(The state tournament) is a different level of basketball. We need to come out a little harder.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Aimee Mann

You pay to get radio play, pretty much, ... and you get what you pay for. It's not really a level playing field.

Alan Dershowitz

There are many levels of truth.

Christina Dahl

Defensively, our shooting wasn't very great. We stepped it up defensively and we were able to stop them.

Bob Scott

Sometimes we have to tell her to shoot more. She's a very unselfish player.

Erica Hallman

It was time to shoot and I shot it. Bonnie just told me to be more aggressive, and fortunately it went in.

Tom Curle

You shoot 58-percent, you're going to win some games.

Joe Sanchez

He's like a horse. You'd have to shoot him.

Lucy Johnson

I think they're doing as much as they can b/c they're not just going to just stand there while someone shoots somebody or stabs somebody and do nothing about it. They can't be at the same place at one time.

Lindsay Williams

I was just shooting to get it off of my foot.

Zoe Kravitz

This might surprise you, but I do feel like I have, because the shooting of all these films was spread out, for the most part. They just happen to be coming out at the same time.

Kelly Golob

In those times I always feel like I'm going to be able to make that shot. Why not shoot it?

Christina Dahl

Defensively, our shooting wasn't very great. We stepped it up defensively and we were able to stop them.

Lindsay Williams

I was just shooting to get it off of my foot.

Zoe Kravitz

This might surprise you, but I do feel like I have, because the shooting of all these films was spread out, for the most part. They just happen to be coming out at the same time.

Joe Laud

In our guidelines, it should have been a shooting emergency.

Jake Johnson

I'll be honest, I like shooting 'New Girl.' I like the people. The show is still new to me. I've never done TV like this before.

Jose Padilha

You're looking for the best way of shooting it, but sometimes the best way of shooting it is changing the script.

Mary Brown

It's pretty bad, they've been shooting a lot.

Dirk Nowitzki

We were right there, but it was just a tough shooting night.