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.

Pat Riley

I've seen a lot of plays like that. I coached Magic Johnson.

Mike Lonergan

I've played a lot of games in my life and coached a lot. I never felt so helpless on the sidelines, to watch a team that I thought was playing pretty good defense just continue to give up offensive rebounds.

Andre Williams

It was the worst shooting game we had in the three years I've coached here.

Andy Scott

I've coached in this tournament for four years now and this group seemed to come together better than any we've had.

Greg Cronin

I've coached hockey for 18 years at every level conceivable. This group has worked harder than any group I've coached.

Kevin Lenz

I've coached him for four years, I've been here for nine years and I've been in coaching for 15 years and I've never been around a player who has worked harder than Matt. He plays every sport and in every game, every single practice, in the weight room, he is always trying to make himself better.

Jim Ring

I've coached at Kennedy for a long time and I think we'll have to wait a while to watch a player have the type of season Rashad had here this year. He's special.

Sara Schopper

I've coached a lot of these girls since they were in sixth grade. So they know me. I know them. The transition was real easy.

Larry Brown

I've coached a lot of great kids, but he's at the top of the list. He told me he wanted to get better. He's tried to do everything I've asked.

Mark Lewis

The tickets are a way to get creative, get some extra money in fall and winter.

Craig Whelihan

The three games we've played this season, turnovers have been our nemesis. We're losing possessions and giving that team an extra possession.

Roger Clemens

I've always told him, 'I'll be there, Roger,' ... There are some times you just don't let your kids down. You make that extra effort, because they want you there.

Mark Shaw

I've already talked to our night keepers and night security people, and we're going to see if we can get some extra patrols in the area.

Paul Clarke

A family has a car, a motor home and a boat. They want to take everything with them, so you have extra vehicles on the road, which contributes to the delay.

Paul Clarke

A family has a car, a motor-home, and a boat, ... They want to take everything with them, so you have extra vehicles on the road, which contributes to the delay.

Michael Blythe

So we suspect that it won't take much to give the RBA that extra shove toward tightening.

A.J. Burnett

No matter how good I feel I got to take that extra day. It's been mentioned to me and I know for a fact that I'm needed down the road as opposed to now so however long it takes.

Mike Sweeney

Sort of puts an extra hop in your step.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Rob Hayward

Predictions that pubs will be open for 24 hours were wide of the mark.

Greg Oden

It was two hours of that, ... Pizza and Nickelodeon.

Nancy Sudduth

These were people working hours each day, who'd never done anything like this before, and then hurrying back to do their jobs.

Jeffrey Archer

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

Roland Herwig

Things are back to normal after about two hours of special security activity.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Bob McKenzie

Crews will be working 24 hours a day.

Margaret Murphy

Crews were able to get that back on within two hours and that's really the only weather-related outage we've seen,

Terri Swaney

They had a phenomenal season. There's no reason they shouldn't feel proud of themselves.

Steve Ziemba

It's surreal right now. This is a phenomenal time of my life. I didn't think we would win. I just thought we would get in the top five.

Flip Saunders

They're a different team with Tracy. He was phenomenal tonight.

Dan Scanlon

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

Kareem Rodriguez

The shots that usually go down weren't going down. It was one shot and out for us.

Tom Tupa

I've taken shots for it. It hasn't worked. That's disappointing.

Doc Rivers

That three was the difference. For most of the game, we were able to take that shot away from him, but that shot killed us.

Chris Woods

That shot was amazing, and everyone was disappointed it didn't go in.

Tara Reid

you would think my boob had popped out and shot Gandhi!

Hines Ward

We thought we could take some shots in the air. We're an experienced team and we took our chances.

Ryan Longwell

We had no shot of making that one. It was just out of sequence.

Janis Burklund

Florida's nice, but let's get real. The show was called 'Dallas,' right? It took place in Dallas, right? So the movie should be shot in Dallas, right?

Sanja Tomasevic

Everything they told us would happen, did. They would have their big shots and their power. But we could play with them if we were patient.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.