Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Don Hogan

West Georgia is very athletic, and you have to earn everything because they play great defense. We must take care of the basketball and play smart.

Don Meyer

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

Dave Brubeck

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

David Halberstam

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Andy Murray

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

Avi Rubin

It is a complete and devastating break of the security of wireless networks.

Bruce Marthaller

We made some mistakes, obviously, but I thought we competed well the whole time. They had some big breaks go their way.

Samaresh Jung

I didn't go there to break any record. The focus was only on the matches and I'm happy.

Woody Leak

He had me lean over the back of the chair and hold onto it with my hands underneath the seat. He hit me once and I cried. He let me be for a while. Then he said, 'If you don't hurry up and move your hands, I'll break your finger.' By the fourth or fifth time I didn't feel it anymore, but each time it was hard enough to move my chair forward.

W. C. Fields

It is funnier to bend things than to break them.

Zoe Wanamaker

Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.

Vladimir Putin

Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.

Trent Reznor

If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.

David Viniar

Our businesses are quite diverse, and there's no single item that would make or break us. This was a broad-based gain, with every major business contributing.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Bobby Bayliss

We expected a tough match. It was a tough match. We were able to win the close matches and that was the difference.

Chuck Smith

You get to a point where you identify everybody you can by conventional means, and we've really pretty much gotten to the end of the road on that. The fact that we have been able to identify close to 90 percent of these people working under these conditions is nothing short of remarkable.

Derrick Landrus

We talked the other day and some of our goals are close to the same. We'd like to be fighting for the conference championship. Mount Zion is going to be tough. They won it last year and have everybody back, but we want to be in it until the end. We have a lot of guys to replace, but these guys have been pretty successful in the past and they are working hard.

Jim Donahue

We want to acknowledge the good deeds of Good Samaritans -- from professional rescue workers to passersby and everyday people -- who helped save the lives of people very close to us.

Roy Williams

The fact that the score was close is not something you worry about. You just have to play.

Brian Williams

What we saw has come as close to indescribable as any journalist will ever come,

Stephanie Aquila

We have a very close team and the girls have been working very hard. I like it when they are proud of themselves.

Larry Ellison

We have a very close relationship with Dell.

Bobby Carter

They (Terre Haute North) execute so well. To be able to win 14 games in the conference they play in (Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference) shows how good they are.

Matt Watson

You don't want to lose any conference games. We're just trying to get some wins in the conference. We're going to try to turn it around.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Alec Baldwin

There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.

Mark Richt

We might have the only kickoff team in the country that doesn't have any linebackers running down there,

Doris Lessing

... it is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it ...

Don Young

We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

Clara Barton

The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.

Claire McCaskill

I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

Clive James

A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty.

Clive James

Freedom and diversity guard each other, and if a country could form the whole of one's character, Napoleon III and Victor Hugo would have been the same person... if national identity means anything, it means something that comes with you wherever you go, and stays with you no matter how long you stay away.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Rachel Laws

Regardless of the fact that it's Senior Day, we have to win our last home game because we haven't been winning lately and we really want to stop this streak.

Katsuya Okada

Our policies weren't wrong, but I have to reflect on the fact they did not get across.

Jim Mott

Part of it is losing to Herkimer and part is the fact that we're 1-3 now and really need a quality win. Hopefully the kids are mad and will come back ready to work tomorrow.

Michael Lynton

Part of this is the fact that the movies may not have lived up to the expectations of the audience, not just in this year, but in years prior,

Mark Shapiro

Part of what makes Peralta even more valuable to us is the fact that he plays up the middle.

Matt Hayes

In the playoffs it comes down to the fact you have to keep scoring runs. We have to stay hot with our offense and make our at-bats count.

Mark Vitner

In the past, that (increase in work week) has pointed to fact we'll see strong job growth in next few months.

Derek Fisher

In the past it's come up maybe in the middle of the year, after we'd lost some games, or been frustrated. The fact that we haven't played a regular-season game yet makes it different.

Graham Nelson

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.

Linda Evans

Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.

Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Peta Todd

I've been supporting Help for Heroes for many years - I actually rode in their first-ever official fundraiser back in 2008. I have witnessed the great work that Help for Heroes do to support those who have suffered life-changing injuries and illnesses, and I want to do all I can to help raise as much as possible.

Peter Gould

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can see into the heart of all your characters. Usually, when there's a writing problem, it's because you aren't doing that.

Peter Forsberg

Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

Peter Uihlein

As long as you can find a place to develop as an all-round player, then you're doing great.

Paul Coffey

You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique.

Patrick Wilson

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

Merritt Patterson

Being outside and being in the sun is great for me.

Maisie Williams

'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Tom Slater

Up and down the lineup, we didn't have enough quality at-bats.

Alexandra Adornetto

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember

Rich Conover

We didn't get enough quality shots off inside. We were kind of relying on the three-pointer.

Shelby Lynne

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.