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.

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.

Jeff Davis

The bottom line is, we were beat tonight by a very good basketball team. I won't say better, but a very good basketball team.

Diana Taurasi

The bottom line is we've got good basketball players so we make good basketball decisions and play really good basketball and we just got to keep that same focus and intensity,

Don Allen

The bottom line is we're going to be playing onehopefully twovery good basketball teams. We're going to have our work cut out for us, regardless. A month-and-a-half ago, we were in the bottom of the barrel.

Austin Kirby

At times, we've stagnated a little on offense. We still haven't played our best basketball yet.

Terry Becker

A year ago, these guys were a long ways from being a good basketball team. But the great thing about them is that they worked hard and they listened and they learned.

Mike Lewis

Back east here, we were kind of basketball snobs. We figured we had to be better. That was our first mistake.

Lynn Sadler

The breeding population there is no bigger than that of the federally endangered mountain lion of Florida - the Florida panther,

Manny Acta

Back at home, everybody always thought that David was going to be big time. When he was in Minnesota, a lot of people thought that he was going to be a productive hitter there. But he's moved on to a bigger market and he's done what he's done, and he deserves everything that he's getting.

Jim Hall

A three-run lead right there is a lot bigger than a two-run lead.

Keith Hawk

That part is surreal. I still think that's a little high. It's an unbelievable opportunity he's going to have, but I don't think he'll ever think the NFL will seem bigger than Ohio State.

Li Zhi

Promising to float stocks at a premium means if companies want to sell more stocks, they must ensure their market prices are high enough. The move will give public investors a bigger say in the share sale issue.

Vicki Gottlich

Prior authorization is getting to be a bigger problem every day.

Tom Cooper

Private equity firms still have huge funds to invest. The boom will keep going and they will do bigger and bigger deals until the leverage market has a correction.

Sandra Miniutti

Our society is very focused on immediate gratification. Dealing with these bigger social issues takes a long time.

Michael Reese

Our slogan is bigger is not better, better is better. By that we mean we provide personal, professional, one-on-one service to our clients.

Jeanine L'Ecuyer

The simple reality when you have a crowd of that size there is going to some congestion and some delays as a result of it.

Ron Artest

Sac is different. I love Indiana, but it's different out here. The crowd is unbelievable. When I was in Indy, the crowd fed off me. Here, sometimes I wasn't even in the game, and they were going crazy.

Chris Rodgers

It was all about our intensity level, ... We tend to come out sluggish in games. I wanted to set the tone and get the crowd into it. We definitely are a second-half team. We have to learn to become a first- and second-half team.

Bobby Engram

It was a little weird (Wednesday) because we're usually the ones that get the crowd noise. But we welcome the change. That means we're playing at home.

Mark Williams

I've been nervous for two weeks. Of all the championships, I was more nervous for this one ... The expectations of a home crowd and No. 1 ranking were tough.

Sonny Lubick

Thinking back through 45 years (of coaching), I haven't seen one as exciting as that with the crowd (nearly full at 32,713), nothing when they were at the 1- or 2-yard line, four downs to go.

Minor Harmon

They always have a good crowd here and are received warmly.

Mark Spragg

This is one crowd I really don't want to disappoint.

Jason Aldean

That's kind of fuse for the show - those first 10-15 seconds you're onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd for the first time and they see you for the first time. The response and the energy that's going on right there - to me, that sets the tone for the rest of the night.

Rick Adams

Offensively, ... we thought our size gave us an advantage. We wanted to pound the football all game.

Kevin Higgins

Appalachian really is a good football team. They run so much better than other teams. When you look at the league right now, these guys are playing better than anybody.

Sean Payton

A poorly conditioned football team gets penalties, a poorly conditioned football team holds, a poorly conditioned football team turns the football over. The other way to look at it is, if your not in shape, you can lose games, so I think being in shape is a must. You need to have stamina ... you need to have some staying power in the fourth quarter to win football games and if you're not I think you're going to lose.

Cedric Humes

The seniors took over. We knew that is not our type of football. We were out there getting personal fouls and things like that. We were just hurting ourselves. We had to get everything straight and just go out there and play football.

Dexter Jackson

The staff here does a good job of getting people who love football as opposed to people who play football.

William Jefferson

The spirit comes from football. If they won't come back for anything else, (the alumni) show up for football games.

Klaus Augenthaler

The team played football today the way I like to see it.

Bruce Reynolds

The thing that marked Bubba is that he was so well-liked. He had a great outgoing personality with a fun-loving nature. He was also a very good football player.

Tony Lewis

The thing about Reuben is that he's a great player, but he is so team-oriented. Winning the football game was more important that the yards he gained in it.

Kerry Greenwood

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

Michael Schiavo

We're an intensely private family. I'm a very private person.

David Maroney

Months may go by when we don't have much contact, and it seems we aren't as intensely involved with the district. Just because it's quiet doesn't mean we're not doing anything.

Mike Kundick

She is probably as intense in the room as you want. She practices right with them.

Evelyn Waugh

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Fiona Apple

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

Cesar Cuevas

He's way more intense before playing Danny. He's more aggressive.

Darren McCarty

He's an intense guy. When we step on the ice, we know one way to play.

Jeff Carter

That doesn't surprise me. He plays a pretty intense game.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Bobby Knight

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

Joan Collins

I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it.

Anson Dorrance

The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival

Summer Altice

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

Michael Lewis

Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The human mind played tricks on itself when it relied exclusively on what it saw. There was a lot you couldn't see when you watched a game

Maureen Dowd

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

Misty May-Treanor

If you want to be in the best shape, diet is super important. You can exercise all you want, but if you're not eating the right foods, it's not going to equal out. You're not going to get the results you want.

Misty May-Treanor

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

Misty May-Treanor

Rest, rest, rest, rest, rest. Nutrition is obviously very important, but rest is equally important. At rest is when your body is trying to recover.