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.

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

Bobby Cremins

I've been blessed. I got to live the American dream when I was coaching, and I continue to live the American dream. Without basketball in my life, I don't know what I would have wound up doing.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

R. Robinson

So often space is wasted, or dead, in a house which the owners consider too small. First, you need to take away the name of the room, and then the space is liberated for a variety of new uses.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Nancy L. Johnson

This is not a play court, ... I would consider it unethical for you to raise questions without a factual basis.

Scott Carney

This is probably the first time I have considered it.

Patty Murray

All are considered money and all goes toward the grant,

Gavin Graham

You're still paying cold, hard cash, but because the product is considered better, it's counted as a price-cut.

Hilery Walker

People get excited when we tell them that we're going to send the money down to New Orleans.

Sean Coste

The seniors are excited about it. Our players are excited about it. We can finish with a win. It would be four in a row.

Mark Slough

Sammy is excited to be back and I think they're excited to have him back.

Torey Lovullo

I've opened up in this stadium and it's been a tough go. We're excited to be going South and we're going as far South as we possibly can.

Acie Law

The way they have been playing, they are a hot team, and we'll have our hands full. But we are excited to be here and look forward to playing well.

Skip Prosser

That's for you guys to talk about. We're excited about who we have back.

Cynthia Rowley

You see guys on the street, and they're obviously kind of experimenting and excited about new things,

Scott Gaffney

You're excited for the first two weeks then after a while it gets old.

Scoville Jenkins

This is big. I'm excited but I can't be too excited because I have another match to go tomorrow.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

Brenda Lee

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

Desiderius Erasmus

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Miguel de Cervantes

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

Calvin Coolidge

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Steve Sparks

If they had anything in that arena, it would be an honor to work for this organization.

Laura Miller

She's very conscientious about the work she does at school and always has been an honor student. She's very interested in more travel and knowing how other people live and the things they like to do.

Debbie Baker

A lot of the other teams that we play do have ladies that are, like, in their 50s.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Lord Palmerston

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

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.

Chad Greenway

Don't put this on the refs. They played better than us. That's what should be written in the papers.

Chris Masoner

We wanted this one going home. We played them well.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Andy Cerroni

Tonight, Scotty played with a lot of confidence. He was out there tonight. We didn't take him out. He's so strong with the ball.

Akeem Wright

We turned it on in the second half. We turned around and played like we played at KU. This is how we're going to have to play every game.

Neil Peart

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.

Andrea Smith

When I started at Hurricane, there was already a shortstop there. So, I played third.

Stephen Hess

No question about it. It is overwhelmingly the issue.

Klaus Wowereit

No question about it, it is a glitzy scene but that is also part of Berlin,

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Paul Reubens

I was Pee-wee Herman for so many years that it wasn't really a question that I didn't want to do other things.

Tim McCarver

There's no question that Roberts is in Gordon's head.

Mark Martin

There's no question that it has become more reckless.

Bob Schultz

There's no question that Indianapolis is excited. We're just about ready for these fans.

Todd Harris

There's no question that independent voters are an important part of our winning formula.

Jason MacDonald

There's no question it'll take some hustling, but these are professionals and they know what they're doing.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Robert Klein

They do not come to represent those institutions.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Sammy Morris

Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just wanted to say something, and the team was able to respect that.

Jane Haddam

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Baltasar Gracian

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Elizabeth Bowen

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Matt Giampietro

There is so much respect for that name.

Dick Gregory

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

Ambrose Bierce

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Anna Quindlen

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Mike Sillinger

He always makes the right shot, the right move. He's a talented young player.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Tom Chapin

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

Cobi Jones

This has been my most satisfying, my most gratifying, my most content year, and to culminate this way is perfection. (on the Los Angeles Galaxy's 2005 season)

Aly Raisman

There's nothing better than going out there and seeing USA on your leotard.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

Rush Limbaugh

The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.

Jeremy Jackson

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

Harry Belafonte

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

Diane Watson

The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

Al Neuharth

USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.

Arne Jacobsen

I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Charles R. Swindoll

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.

Charles Darwin

With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Baltasar Gracian

Leave your luck while still winning.

Craig Ferguson

The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.

Craig Ferguson

Scientists say over the next hundred years, the coast of California will sink almost five feet. So the presidential candidates need to do something. Mitt Romney is conflicted. On one hand, he denies that global warming exists. But if California is under water, he would definitely win the next election.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Julia Glass

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'