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.

Herb Kohl

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.

Matt Thissen

San Diego isn't a hard place to want to go to school. It's a good school. Their basketball program has been down lately, but eight years ago they were a top 25 team. Their coach left to go coach her alma mater at Ohio State. I guess she decided she liked the weather better in San Diego and now she's back.

Lamar Butler

I've played football in a gym but I've never played basketball in a football stadium.

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

Ken Carter

These young men will play basketball maybe, if they're lucky, another two or three years, ... But if they don't get a decent education, it's a lifelong thing. We're going to have some problems.

John Whisenant

These fans have just jumped on. I think it's great for women's basketball and this city. We've got great pro sports fans here, and it's shown. I think this is a great step for the future of the WNBA.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Bob Gainey

Our team was stumbling and bumbling and we didn't have a player really who was committed to doing what they needed to do.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

P. Herbert

It would be a failure if we don't come up with something and do something, ... The governor and I are committed to taking the information received here (at the summit) and putting together some sort of transportation initiative.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Anthony Zinni

I sense everyone is committed to get out of this terrible situation. I think in the next few days we can start on my mission and the implementation of the plan that we've brought.

Jim Doyle

The ripples of Hurricane Katrina will touch every state and I remain committed to do all that we can to help minimize the devastation ... and restore hope,

Christopher Hill

The United States is very much committed to this diplomatic process. We want it to work and we want full participation in it and we want it to succeed.

David Gill

We hope to make one or two very big signings this summer - and we are already committed to that.

Gail Evans

The more credit you give, the better it reflects on you.

Cate Williams

A credit score is a snapshot of an exact moment.

Steve Ricchiuto

Sales ex-autos were decidedly stronger than people had given credit for. This is an important piece of information on where the economy was prior to Katrina.

Jim Rogers

The whole world works on credit and the state Legislature can't, ... We need to get in the credit business.

Curt Shaw

Dillon, Jared and Tom deserve a lot of credit.

Bill Cowher

We didn't lose after the bye last year. But that's all right. I get enough losses around here, so I just try to make sure I get credit for some of the wins.

Dave Hubert

You have to give them credit. South hung in there and did not quit when things were not going very well for them.

Wendell Jeffries

You have to give them credit for taking Shaun out of the game. We didn't force-feed Shaun. We thought the other guys would step up, and they just didn't step up.

Mark Headley

You have to give them credit for not driving Humvees.

Tom Goldstein

As a result of our investigation, we've determined the information did not reach its destination, and is missing and presumed lost.

Josh Teeples

Determination. I was just determined that I was gong to do it this time.

Charlie Brotman

The starting time of the parade is actually determined by the length of time of the traditional brunch,

Toni Chovanetz

After interviewing the passenger, it was determined to be appropriate to release him at this time.

Saeb Erekat

so the truth can be determined once and for all.

Susan Page

This is an event where the planners are really determined to get on TV -- not in the old-style newspaper that gets published 12 hours later.

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.

Loretta Lynch

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.

Bennett Miller

For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Dreaming big is always a good way to go about things.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Bobby Robson

I didn't take the Hearts job for personal reasons.

Nanci Griffith

...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.

Dennis Hastert

Our hearts and prayers go out to him,

Garrett Williamson

We left our hearts on the court, and locked them up on defense.

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Kirsten Nelson

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

Kristin Gore

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

Gerry Anderson

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

Josh Duell

We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.

Rashad Anderson

We didn't want to lose. I just knew if Marcus (Williams) got me the ball, I was going to knock it down, no matter what. We weren't going to lose this game.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Claude Julien

We're putting ourselves in that situation. Over 82 games, once in a while, you like to find ways to make it easier.

Rick Adelman

We've put ourselves in playoff position now, we're right there. There are expectations, and this is good, but there's no time to relax.

Jean Fontaine

Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves

Jim Waggoner

We're setting ourselves up for some kind of rally.

Carl Edwards

I got a trick up my sleeve for when we really need it so we'll just get ourselves in position, and we're going to be alright, guys.

Dick Whittington

If we recycle the trees, we give ourselves a present.

Randy Foye

If we're going to make this program go, it had to start with us. We took it upon ourselves that we've got to do this.

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.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Suzy Bogguss

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

Ray LaHood

Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

Ruta Sepetys

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Tiger Woods

I started changing my swing in late 1999.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing along. (Tabitha)

Pat Metheny

I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomatic thing any more...To me, if jazz is anything, it's a process, and maybe a verb, but it's not a thing. It's a form that demands that you bring to it things athat are valuable to you, that are personal to you. That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn't have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J.

Jay Bryson

Obviously, this quarterly swing is a one-off event.

Mike Trapasso

He's got to swing better than he's swinging, that's for sure.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.

H. Hunt

That was a big victory, having that provision stopped.

Demarcus Ware

There aren't any moral victories.

Chris Evert

Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

Brian Littrell

In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.

Eduardo Galeano

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Dick Durbin

This was a victory for the American people,

Tessie Moton

Victory makes you want to keep going. When you see that you can do something in little steps, it's very motivating.

Donald Freed

In politics, victory is never total.

Brian Gionta

I just worry about the wins right now.

Pat Riley

You've got to have some wins like that.

Baba Kalyani

In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.