Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Burnette

Any time somebody was bouncing a basketball somewhere, he wanted to be around.

Rob Judson

As hard as this is, our group is instilled with character and we will rise from this. There's a lot of basketball left.

Doc Rivers

As a staff, you get to see how your guys handle playoff basketball, and I think it's easier to evaluate in playoff games what you need for the following year than it is in the 82-game regular season.

Jeff Capel

As crazy as it is, with only 2.6 seconds left, we had a chance. We got a great look. Nick had an outstanding shot but just missed it.

Tony Skinn

As college basketball players at a mid-major level, it's a great feeling. You couldn't ask for a greater script to this season.

Tod Kowalczyk

As a player you want to be one of those guys that's indispensable, someone you need to have on the floor at all times. He's a freshman and he's going to be a good basketball player.

Andy Booth

As an outsider you hear about how much passion there is in the community, but until you're in the spot it's hard to imagine there's a community that cares more about girls basketball than this one. I embraced it. What more can you ask for? You have kids who want to get better, and I can't think of any better spots to be in.

Clyde Drexler

As a young guy, he probably said and did some things that were perceived as being selfish, but he's a winner. All he's ever tried to do is play hard and maximize his talent on the court. He's a basketball junkie and when a guy is that talented you've got to love him.

Israel Idonije

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

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.

Troy Hudson

Any situation you can put me in, I've been there. You just leave it up to the coaching staff and be ready when called.

Skip Bertman

As far as I'm concerned, John is going to be our coach for a long time.

Mike Ryan

As far as leadership, I have never coached a better kid, who comes to practice and games ready to play. Her desire to win is unmatched.

Wayne Morgan

As far as what's going on in the coaching world - my focus is on Oklahoma State and Oklahoma State only. If we're fortunate enough to win that game, we will go back to the hotel and watch film of our next opponent.

Frank Hadden

As far as captaincy is concerned I will be speaking to my fellow coaches when we gather for the first time on Sunday night,

Charles Wang

As everyone in this room knows, Steve is one of the finest gentlemen you will ever meet in any walk of life. Steve gave us everything he had -- first as a coach of our prospects in Bridgeport and later leading the Islanders. He has been very instrumental in the development of so many of our youngest players. It is my hope that Steve will stay in the organization.

Justin Griffith

As fullbacks, we're coached to make our reads like we're the runner, so we make our cuts where we see the hole forming. We just don't have the ball.

John Shaw

As a result of his condition, he will be unable to perform his head coaching responsibilities for an indefinite period of time.

Bud Lachel

Competition is a good thing to have, but you have to keep everybody happy.

Kevin Roe

Competition continues to be intense in wireless. This is yet another example of that.

John Rowland

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

Dan Glickman

Despite increasing competition for consumers' time and entertainment dollars, theater-going remains a satisfying constant in people's lives.

Rick Meckler

The story you'll start to see people talk about as rates go up around the world is, what type of competition will there be for stocks.

Mark Cooper

The simple fact of the matter is that competition is good for consumers.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Adam Scott

The teams are named, and we're ready to go. It's going to be some good competition. I'd like to get my hands on the trophy and look forward to the Sunday night celebration. We did a pretty good job celebrating last time, and we didn't even win the thing.

Polly Schulze

The team is very excited to get on the road and test themselves in a competitive atmosphere. This is our first competition of the season and in light of the fact that we have the most experienced and most talented team to date, we are pretty fired up!

Tim Ruskell

As a scout you have to look at the hands so the guy doesn't come off the field when it's a passing situation.

Mike Reilly

As a competitor, you want to be on the field when the game is on the line. So no, it wasn't fun from that standpoint. We were all just pulling for our defense. We were all just trying to get out of this thing alive.

Richie Zisk

A veteran can provide leadership not only on the field but in the clubhouse. They're really invaluable.

J. Horton

A year ago he was just trying to play and not make mistakes. This year you've seen not just his improvement on the football field but in the other intangible things also.

Steve Spurrier

As long as his play on the field is good he doesn't have to be a vocal guy.

Eric Trudo

That play got us going. We marched right down the field and scored.

Marc Williams

That's where the fields come in - to be able to host a tournament and get in the revenue and help out with the little things,

Nasser Hussain

Rachael has a good head on her shoulders and has played a huge role off the field in helping Freddie become such an outstanding performer. Long may it continue.

Doug Young

Anything that we didn't water didn't do well. Field tomatoes were way off, cucumbers were way off.

Norman Ornstein

This is a major fork in the road for him.

Hanan Ashrawi

Barak is going to the other extreme, he is giving the settlers too much influence, too much power.

Kasey Kahne

As Mark was reeling me in, I was doing all I could to go fast. I was giving about all I had those last 30 laps.

Ron Gardenhire

Radke is going to be in the rotation, Silva is going to be in the rotation, Lohse is going to be in the rotation and we're just trying to get them through it. We're in the first month of the season, so you've got to keep giving these guys the ball. What they've done around here and how well they've done around here for such a long time, you just have to keep giving them the ball.

Patricia Fripp

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

Donna Karan

No question about it. I think she's told us that. You know it's not about us dictating, just giving her tools for her to do it.

Emily Francis

Northwestern has been scoring a lot of goals, so I think they will be a handful for our defense, but they also have been giving up of a lot of goals. If our backline comes ready to play and our frontline starts scoring some goals this weekend it will be great.

Debbie Murry

The money from the foundation, is not only giving us money for the extras - it's helping us with the necessities.

Michael Landis

Aren't they great? We've been giving them out to our customers.

Bobby Smith

Stuff like that happens in baseball. We have been playing well and when you are giving it all you have sometimes there is just nothing you can do about it. You just have to get ready for tomorrow and get back to playing well.

Fernando Bryant

Any receiver that says they don't think about going over the middle when you have a guy like a John Lynch or a Kenoy Kennedy or a Donovin Darius , they're lying.

Cofer Black

a second-tier guy but one who knows things.

Ted Farrell

As developers, we like open source because we feel as if it's the little guy sticking it to the big guy. And it is true to some extent.

Cameron Crowe

Ashton was one of the guys I talked to who I really liked.

Larry Taddeo

Ashton is one of the hardest workers I've ever been around. The other guys have seen that and they've seen how it has paid off for him. I would say that's rubbed off on guys like Evan.

Rob Ciarlo

As a purist I don?t like it. Put nine guys out there and let them play.

James Arness

As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your target. Often the first guy that shoots misses.

Galen Hall

As an assistant, Joe would be the only guy I would go back to work for.

Alain Vigneault

A win is a win, but the guys weren't happy -- they would have preferred to do it in regular time. It's a big win for us and I liked a lot of parts to our game.

Ed Smart

As hard as this has been for our family, the response has been overwhelming.

Clive Barnes

As hard as the nails on a crucifix.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

Domanick Davis

As a running back, it's hard trying to be like someone else. You have to roll with the skills you have.

Joel Kinnaman

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.

Reggie Lee

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Dick Jauron

A very tough guy, hard working guy, loves the game, studies the game. He's very, very into football. It's important to him.

Chris Whitaker

Away from rugby if your head's not right then it makes it pretty hard to concentrate on rugby.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Randy Carlyle

Our expectations are that we're going to try to play an uptempo game, and our players seem to have responded positively to that.

Dottie Pepper

Other players find out if you're not doing that sort of stuff. You don't want to take the 'I'm special' attitude.

James Grant

The teams they've come up against, individually, you probably say have better players than (the Tigers),

Mary Pinkowski

Some teams have 6-3 players who play like our guards.

H. Hart

Some players ... they're better unprepared, maybe. Just go out there and wing it. That's how he is.

Daniela Hantuchova

Some players prefer to play one point after another. I prefer to take more time. There's nothing you can do about it.

Felipe Alou

Some players leaned on them. It should be a lot more relaxed.

Dave Esquer

Some players have to play and have to play well for us to be the team we want to be.

June Daugherty

These AAU teams are amazing. They practice all year. They're well coached. They play a lot of games.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Brian Tracy

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

Jan Karon

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

Carl von Clausewitz

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Calvin Coolidge

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.

Alain de Botton

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Alain de Botton

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Dan Brown

If we aren't practicing now we're going to be in trouble in April.

Shannon Flaherty

It is his right, and he has been practicing that right.

Spencer Gardner

All that practicing catches up and a lot of shots just fall.

Jeff Judkins

You can't kill a team by practicing too much.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Mahmoud Abbas

The most important step after the withdrawal will be how we protect, rebuild.

Mickael Pietrus

It was tough for us tonight and we're really going to try to step up on Wednesday and try to get a W before the break. It's very important to get a win on Wednesday.

Bill Worsham

This is a really significant and unexpected step in our development.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Janet Napolitano

This is a step in the right direction, but we really need more resources.

Richard Hasen

This could be an important first step toward undermining (the 2003 ruling) without overruling it.

Tom Blake

That's where your upperclassmen and tri-captains step up. That's what they're supposed to do.

Bruce Dern

Track and field has always interested me.

Deepak Chopra

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

John Norris

Everything is on track and going very well.

Stephen Stanley

We are still on track for a blowout quarter.

Giuseppe Gattino

The track is challenging. It is not particularly risky.

Ashley Pride

We just need to keep doing what we've been doing and things will get back on track for us.

Claude Chabrol

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Donald Trump

Don't get sidetracked. If you do get sidetracked, get back on track as soon as possible. Ultimately sidetracking kills you.

Ann Coulter

My track record is pretty good on predictions.