Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michael Jordan

I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.

Quincy Lewis

No, not initially it wasn't the shot we wanted. But we wanted to get into a situation going to the basket and when it came down to the last five seconds, that's where we wanted it.

Allen Iverson

I was struggling. I couldn't really go to the basket as quick as I wanted to. When I did it was real painful.

Jody Conradt

I got tired of seeing her shoot one-foot shots. Let's put her at least 15 feet from the basket and see what she does.

Tom McDonald

She's a tremendous basketball player. She's the whole deal. She has her body under control more than last year. We're undersized in the post and she was getting it (ball) in spots where we couldn't stop her.

Bill Scarlata

She did a real nice job handling the ball, knowing when to take it to the basket and when not to. Those are things kids have to learn by experience, and we've struggled with that over the last couple of years. She learned tonight. She was a big time player at the end of the game.

Ken Miller

Carders typically buy high-value goods like computers and jewelry so they can resell them,

Jake Plummer

But fans buy a ticket, they can boo, cheer, call you names, say good things. We've got to go play ball.

Reggie Fowler

But at least you gave me credit for getting the right people to buy the team from Red McCombs,

Homer Simpson

Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!

Madelyn Flannagan

Because they no longer live with their parents, they'll need to insure their car on their own. They may find that insurance is very expensive. College grads tend to want to go out and buy new, sophisticated cars. They don't realize the cost of insuring that car. There are huge increases to move to big cities.

Charles Bradford

China may be one of the last places where you can buy things on the cheap.

Tohru Sasaki

China is letting the yuan rise in very small increments, so the need to buy dollars remains. So long as it continues this policy, the pace of buying will remain constant, and its reserves will keep rising.

Liu Jianchao

China has very strict regulation and monitoring concerning the exporting of military products and we will not buy any military products from clients that could not offer legal documents.

Keiichi Sano

China didn't buy much oil last year. That could be the reason.

Ron Jones

We didn't have that five-minute lapse of making mistakes to give the other team the opportunity to win. With the exception of the second half of the South Plains game (a 71-62 loss on March 2), I thought we've been playing hard. We just had those possessions on offense and defense where we hurt ourselves and we didn't do that (on Monday).

Vance Arnold

We had several guys step up and hit the ball. Sixteen hits and we played great defense and earned some respect.

Fisher DeBerry

We had several breakdowns where the players didn't execute the defense that was called.

Oleg Kalugin

We had scores of sources throughout the Indian government ? in intelligence, counterintelligence, the defense and foreign ministries and police,

Charles Williams

We had poor shot selection, turnovers, no rebounding and just poor defense all the way around.

Marvin Emerson

We went smaller at the end. For years, we've said that defense wins championships, and we played pretty good defense in the last minute and a half.

Kawika Shoji

We went into the game knowing it would be our team game that was going to stop him and not one individual. It was a great team defense that was the key.

Eric Keller

We have experience at several positions, but truly lack depth. We must stay healthy in order to compete. The defense will have to mature in a hurry to be ready for NLL play.

Ted Kerner

We have experience and leadership up the middle. Braden directs the defense plus he hits in the middle of the lineup. He is a big part of why were successful this fall. He does a lot of little things that you don't see him do that makes everybody better.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Adam Dunn

I've been seeing lefthanders good all year. I know my numbers stink. I think I've been overly aggressive, trying to pull everything. I'm not doing anything different -- just hitting it more.

Jason Craft

I've been saying all year long we've got some good shooters on the team and they're going to keep us in the game. We just did a good job of staying with what we do and executing.

Jason Craft

I've been saying all year long ù we've got some good shooters on the team and they're going to keep us in the game. We just did a good job of staying with what we do and executing.

David Lewis

I've been referring to it as a three-ring circus, but in a good way.

Sherry Ragan

I've been there 20 years and (morale) is as good now as it's ever been.

Preston Clark

I've been taking good at-bats lately. I've been a lot more confident.

Dan Hughes

I've been with a lot of teams, some successful and some not as successful in their records and by and large, this team competed all year. We grew in ways I hope will be helpful in 2006. We have a lot of work to do in the off-season, but we have a good beginning.

Matt McCoy

I've been waiting for 17 weeks. I've had a lot of time to watch the guys and see how they play, and hopefully I can go out there and use what I've learned. ... It's been a little frustrating, but it's also been a good learning experience." ()