Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

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

Billy Donovan

As a basketball team you have to go through it. They need it. The game came down to our inexperience on the basketball court to their experience.

Joakim Noah

As a basketball player this is your dream -- to play in the national championship game. It's just such a great feeling that it's finally here. There's been so much hard work and so much sacrifice. There's so many moments that I can go back to -- being a little kid, walking to practice. Now I'm finally playing in the game.

Michael Wong

As a group, we don't have the size and strength of other basketball players, so we try to create our own little world of basketball. We're not trying to lock people out because we're better. We're protecting our weaker status.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want the chance to do. We just did what we've been doing all along.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want. It's been an exciting, exciting week for us.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want a chance to have an opportunity to do.

Gary Williams

As a college basketball coach, I'm upset for the future of game. Somebody has to be accountable. You can't blame just one group of people for this, unfortunately.

Craig Shoemaker

The boys are excited. When we do put four quarters of basketball together, we're a pretty decent team.

Jack Bicknell

As far as their character, you can't beat either of those two guys, ... Both of them bring something and having two starters is a positive. You don't have to worry about the first guy going down.

Rick Stockstill

As far as the class, I'm not one to stand up here and talk about this guy and that guy and say, 'We beat this team or we beat that team on a player.' That's just not my style. We are excited about this class. I think the big thing in it is what I have said since I've been here, which is I want to surround myself with winners.

Guy Stout

As far as distribution goes, we definitely sell more wines here that are off the beaten path than we would even in Houston, because there's a demand for them here.

Jack Siedlecki

The bottom line is, their best player beat us. He made the biggest play of the game, and he beat us.

Emily Martin

The bottom of the order really came through for us today. When your last three hitters get seven hits, it should be a good day. Plus, we finished with 14 hits for the game. That should be more than enough to beat just about any team.

Todd Casebier

The bottom line is we gotta win. To get back to the playoffs we'll have to beat some quality teams at home and on the road and this schedule has that.

Samuel Johnson

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

Thomas Fuller

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be

Olga Klimova

A win would give us an easier opponent in the Big 12 Tournament. Everybody wants to win, and if we beat Nebraska, it will help us.

Marcia Gay Harden

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

Paul Grasmanis

Another very intense guy. He plays hard when he's in there. He plays violent. We call him 'Violent Gras.'

Sylvester Croom

As far as I am concerned they are just as good as Southern Cal last year. I don't see a weakness on their team right now even though they lost the game the other night.

John Hales

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

As California is home to more legal immigrants than any other state in the country, we would shoulder a disproportionate share of this federal funding reduction,

Tom Kotchman

A scout from California with the Texas Rangers said, 'Who's that kid? I said, 'He's a high school kid.' I didn't tell him he was my son. ... Other scouts said, 'You know how to evaluate everybody else but your own kid.

Terry Fleck

As a matter of fact, I'm going to call the governor's office right now to encourage that.

Sian Jones

The call would go out: 'Who can drive a bulldozer?' and inevitably someone would raise their hand.

Bill Cowher

The call was made to try to get us a spark and get us another possession. That's my decision. If it works, it's a good play. If it doesn't, you're open to second guessing, which is the nature of this business. But I have no second thoughts about that, I really don't.

Jacques Rogge

Athletes, I turn to you now. This is the moment you deserve to enjoy,

David Thornburg

Any teacher that can be replaced by technology deserves to be.

Chuck Wagner

The starters want to stay in and play, but they're not selfish. They know we have some seniors and a lot of underclassmen that deserve to play.

Bud Selig

These media reports and rumors are totally, and completely inaccurate, and do not deserve further comment.

Patrick Quinn

The secretary acknowledges unevenness in how these duties are handled, ... The families that raised them deserve the honor of proper notification.

Thomas Martin

The spirit and letter of the law should be equal, and this is not even close. Sixty-seven thousand does not equal 2,000. I am an American; I deserve free and fair elections.

Tim Chiodo

The teams that won deserve mention, for sure. That's not really what this is all about. It's all about helping kids with cancer.

Dick Umile

The team deserved this win. They played hard, and this is a tough place to play - as we all know. The guys played a real solid game.

Jami Finan

The team deserved it. We played hard and our record doesn't show it, but they totally deserved this one tonight, especially the seniors.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Bill Richardson

North Korea will return to the talks in early November unconditionally,

Brian Grun

Again, we didn't execute very well early and that frustrates me. It was just a matter of having more talent, being taller. Marvin's kids played real hard. It wasn't lack of effort on their part.

Brian Gionta

Once we got up early on them with those three goals, we just stuck with what we were doing.

Jay Haugland

Once we get that first goal, we seem to flip on the switch. That's why I like for this team to get early goals.

Jeff Cole

Actually, it's too early to speculate. We do have some long-term commitments to some organizations. We'll have to see how that plays out.

Russ Miller

The monarchs have started early this year; two weeks before Labor Day. They'll last into the second of third week of October.

Peter Velappan

During the early years of the J-League, there were a lot of foreign stars, ... But this lasted only two or three years. Now it is the Japanese players who are the stars.

Andy Warren

During the '70s and early '80s there were places for people with views like mine in the Republican party. Today, my views are not welcome at the Republican table.

Bill Castle

We've got a bulls-eye on us. I think we're ranked because of tradition and our past. Everyone comes after you.

Regina Rogers

We were pumped. They're ranked third in the state, so it was a big test for us.

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Don Shuler

Christiansburg's ranked nationally in the top 10. They don't have many weaknesses. They're strong from top to bottom. Fortunately, there's only one of them in each weight class.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Jonathan Lewis

The season is not lost. We're still Virginia Tech.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

Patrick Rice

As the season went on, she got better and better.

James Cox

We want to end the season how we started it ? by winning.

Kevin Reilly

This season may not see a turnaround for us.

Matt Fisher

This was it. As a senior, the most important thing to do is to win and keep the season going.

Mark Banker

We try to stay healthy. We try to get everyone to make it to the season, through the season and beyond.

Henry Hudson

We're trying to get another 1991 season going. This is just a stepping stone.

Mario Garcia

Automatically in the state of Arizona, if you're over 80,000 pounds, you get fined,

Don Stewart

Are we in violation of any state statutes?

Steve Kendall

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Mike McCurry

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Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Robert Hansen

The state is already telling us what to teach

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mark Johnson

This isn't about us wanting something now. This is about what we want our state to be 50 or 100 years from now. If we wait another 50 to 100 years, it'll be gone.

Kyle Miller

This is really for the state of Texas.