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.

Lisa Leslie

As a role model for young girls and women, I just encourage them to continue their education and set their goals. And for me, mine are just really high and I just happen to be a professional basketball player but I really am a stickler for my goals and I wanted to get my Master's.

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.

Emeka Okafor

As far as them believing in me, it makes me feel good.

Dee Brown

People raise their game at home. They're protecting their house. They just play well. ... I'm not scared of nothing. You just have to go in there believing you can win. It's all about confidence, no matter who you play.

Frank McGhee

People tend to say if it can make $11, then it can make $12. You start believing in the euphoria.

Michael Bay

People have a hard time believing I'd ever want to do a small movie, but I would love to do something funny and quirky.

Joey Skaggs

After years of people sitting on their butts in front one screen or another, looking at or reading about other people's lives and events, a multi-national corporation connected to a global political party manipulates everyone into believing that information derived this way is unhealthy.

Ray Harris

Once we got behind, it was hard to keep our confidence up. That first quarter took a lot out of our kids. I guess they stopped believing we could win. That was very disappointing as a coach.

Jerry Gillies

The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it

Marco Beltrami

The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.

Michael McKinney

I've always tried to steer the straight and narrow. That is the key - believing in the system and living within the system.

Dennis Fowler

Any time a team can win 20 games in one season, it?s something to remember for a long time. It says a lot for such a young team that they came together and won 14 of their last 16 games.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Art Hogan

An overly robust economy came to a screeching halt, so there's much more of a backlog of production capacity and inventory,

Johnny Gray

A sense of urgency came over the team. Once a team gets down like we did, you just have to keep doing what you're good at.

Jay McKee

As disappointing as it is to lose, there was a positive, and it was the third period. We gave ourselves a chance to win, just came up a little short, but that's certainly the momentum we wanted to end this game with.

David Silverman

As far as I know, the traveling of any mummies was not an issue in this exhibition. It never came up,

KJ Choi

As far as my putting, literally 10 minutes before I went out for my first round, this feel came back to me like in 2002. That same feeling came back to me. I was able to carry that throughout the tournament.

Mathias Kiwanuka

As far as motivation goes, if we didn't have it before two days ago, we definitely found it. I think that had a lot to do with why we came out so strong.

Randy Harrison

As far as mentally and being focused for the game, we definitely were riding a high coming in at 2-1. It was the first time ever they've had a winning record. And I think they came in a little complacent. Logansport was much more focused and they outworked us.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Salomon Torres

The momentum of the game, I liked it, ... Because even though we were losing, it was coming in our favor. The guys never stopped fighting.

Condoleezza Rice

The moment of truth is coming here, ... and it's time for the co-sponsors to get together and discuss it.

Ronnie Wood

During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.

Tim Bajarin

Dell is notorious for taking a wait-and-see approach, and then, if something catches on, coming in and dominating it.

H. Auden

Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.

C.C. Sabathia

Some people may not know us. But I guarantee you that in clubhouses around the league, they know who we are. We don't have to see our faces on TV every night. As long as we're playing in October.

Billy Joel

You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time . . . to be able to see a smile on some of these people's faces -- they've gone through so much, they've lost so many of their friends.

Brandon Sanderson

All right," Spook said. He reached to the ground, scooping up a pile of ash. "Let's just rub this into your clothing and on your face...." Breeze froze. "I'll meet you back ath the lair," he finally said.

Juvenal

The face, not the woman is the attraction.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

Thelma Houston

It's great, the number of people that I'm reaching through the Internet - I've done some wonderful interviews - but I miss touching the bodies. I miss shaking hands, looking into people's faces and saying, 'Hello, how are you doing? Thank you for playing my music.'

Charles R. Swindoll

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

Vladimir Vukcevic

We have identified all of the men from the videotape, including those whose faces could be seen and those whose faces could not been seen.

John Curry

I've never felt anything like that. That was the most incredible feeling I've ever had.

Mark Calcavecchia

After missing so many, I had a feeling I was going to make it. That's one of my better pars of the year.

Mark Calcavecchia

After missing so many, I had a feeling I was going to make it, ... That's one of my better pars of the year.

Tatiana Totmianina

Sometimes it looks good but you are not feeling comfortable inside. But if it looks good, it means it is good.

Steve Sparks

I started feeling better and better the whole way through.

KJ Choi

I've been feeling good with my putter and I haven't missed many shots.

Adam Haluska

I've been feeling good about my shot for the last two weeks.

Kenny Phillips

I've never had a feeling like this before,

Robert McGrath

You're going to be more stress-free if you concentrate on the material you're studying as opposed to feeling pressure.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Gary Hall

Any time it's Westfield-Herndon, South Lakes-Herndon, it's a little more intense. I thought our guys showed some great composure.

Dwyane Wade

Another win Wednesday will make us feel great about the way we're playing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

George Peters

As a resident I'm actually happy they're doing it, I think it's going to be great for the community.

Tracy McGrady

As a team, we had great intensity to start the game. I think if we consistently do that and play the way we played in the first half and to come out in the third quarter, then we'll be all right.

Russ Borman

As a team, we played fundamentally well. Our guys did a great job.

Jim Yurwitz

As a freshman, she had a great day.

Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Joe Sakic

As a hockey player, it's great to be a part of this race.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Mark Teixeira

I've never been more unhappy as a Ranger than the last two weeks. Nothing's going right. A lot of things are going on, and none of them are positive.

Robin Bhar

The ( zinc ) concentrate market is already so tight, this is the last thing the market needs.

Dennis Ruedinger

Things seem to be going very well. He had his surgery last year and everything I know is just fine.

Kenneth Brown

Things have progressed well in the last two years, which makes us feel good.

Carol Woods

The worst is when people come back for the last of their stuff. You know you'll never see them again.

Cristie Kerr

She's 16 now, so young, but she's matured quite a bit,

Trey Blue

We've matured over the year and they've been doing it all the time for us.

Craig Swartout

We've come a long way. I don't want to sound braggadocio, but the team has matured so much since then.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Robert Taylor

Australia is the same size as the U.S., but it's much smaller in terms of population. I've been working in the States off and on since the '80s, and the first time I played a lead here was in '91, I think.

Mikel Miller

At times we played pretty well; at times we were sloppy.

Jeff Brown

At times, we played OK. We have to go over there (to Heritage's arena) in two weeks or so. It makes things interesting in the Valley.

Dave Greenberg

Offensively we usually struggle. We played well in transition.

J. M. Roberts

After the first quarter we played right with them.

Dan Brown

Defensively, in the first half, we played really well.

Ross Browner

Detroit's where I played in my only Super Bowl.

Peter Forsberg

The Slovakian team played very well. The U.S. team played very hard. There's still more for us to give and more for us to do.

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.

Michael Finley

As a player and a man, I really respected him saying that. I took that to heart.

Bob Haffele

(Rayfield) got them going early. He's a tough player to stop.

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.

Jaime Moreno

No one wants to see a player that young retire. He's a big weapon we have.

Tomas Vokoun

A player like (Parker) shouldn't be in the NHL anyway.

Bill Belichick

Anything any other player would do, that's what he's going to do

James Grant

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

Lou Lefevre

I've never been as proud of a player.

Jim Miller

I've always been very proud of Robbie. Every time I see him on Sundays, it's an amazement.

Robert Wise

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier, ... When I talk to people, I tell them that.

Holly Ismail

Samantha was phenomenal. She's done everything for us all year, and I'm really proud of her effort.

Dan Walker

Put it this way, speaking for myself, I'm a proud man, ... I'm very proud of what I did as governor.

Nelson Wolff

proud of what we're doing in San Antonio.

Georges Goven

The Russians are real fighters. They are a united team and are so proud to represent their country.

Robert Horan

I've seen a lot of killers, but this is the only one I've tried who was proud of what he had done,

Chris Oliver

I've very proud of her. Most of these words I couldn't even spell myself.

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Milan Baros

We were down psychologically after that second goal, but there was still so much time to play,

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.

Waverly Person

A quake of this size has some pretty serious effects,

Vilasrao Deshmukh

The situation is serious but totally under control.

Bob Metzler

It would take something pretty serious for that to come about.

Candace Corlett

is serious stuff that is on people's minds. This is a worry.

John Newcombe

Things will get pretty serious if he (Philippoussis) doesn't get something going by the end of the year.

Sam Brownback

This is a serious matter, ... but I think you go on with the agenda.

Linda Viola

This is not a joke. We are very serious about doing this for the City.

Frank Vargo

This is not what we wanted, and we have serious concerns.

Nicole Williams

This is serious business. Just take the time to do this.

Derek Waugh

As a team we don't have it. Whatever it is, we don't have it. If we had it, we could be pretty good. But until we get it, we're not.

Josh McCown

As a team we went out and got a win when we were 0-3 and that's what it's all about," ()

Gerald Henderson

As a team we understand we can get so many buckets at the rim. We've been working on that, trying to get better at it in games.

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.

Casey Todd

Our team trusts Erin with their lives. She?s our general.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Jay Thomas

Northwestern has always been a tough team to play, and we have to play them on the road, which will make it tougher.

Ryan Harden

Northeast, I think is the team to beat.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Barbara Mikulski

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Jane Green

Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Cesar Chavez

Together, all things are possible

Dennis Crowley

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

Deepak Chopra

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Deepak Chopra

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

J. Lewis

Everything we've done has been put together that way,

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Richard Wright

There's one word for it -- carnage. It's horrible.

Geraldo Rivera

What four-letter word do they have in mind? ... Hero?

Rae Tyson

We just thought we should get the word out there in the meantime.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.