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.

Chris Duhon

Coach was the male influence in my life when I grew up, ... He taught me a lot about basketball and about life. That was the type of guy he was.

Sammy Willis

Coming out of basketball we missed two meets going into the second week of playoffs. She jumped into the first meet, and it was like she was in the middle of the season. Her techniques are well right now.

Sean Organ

Despite not winning, a game like this will only make us better. As long as I can remember, Averill Park hasn't won a girls' basketball championship. We're looking to change that. Our motto is, 'One practice, one game at a time.' And that's not going to change.

Jim Calhoun

Denham is playing the best basketball of his life. This is the guy we had while winning the Maui Invitational. Denham had some roadblocks but thank God he stayed with it all season. But that's the story of this season. It's all about who can persevere.

Norm Roberts

Anthony is getting better every game. He can really shoot the basketball, and he's coming into his own as far as putting it on the floor, rebounding and playing with energy throughout the whole game.

Ron Price

Any MAC win on the road is brutal. To steal one on the road, I couldn't be more proud. It was a great basketball game. It was a tale of two halves.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Amanda Smith

Our emotions were high and momentum was on our side. We wanted to win. This game was special for our coach (Tim Smith). We wanted to win this one for him at Germantown.

Marshall Strickland

The month leading up to coach resigning, it just seemed like we were walking into every game down 15 points. Ever since then, guys have come together and we just feel like we can win. It's just a completely different attitude, but it's something that all of the guys are feeling.

John Eubanks

Coach tells us once you get tired, it's all in your mind, so we'll get ready to play every week. If we have to play four on the road, that's what we're going to do.

D'Awvalo Turnipseed

Coach tells us if we're open, take the shot. You don't know what will happen unless you shoot it.

Buddy Garcia

Coach tells us a lot - since we don't have any seniors, we have to have leaders. It's not just any one person. The whole team has to be leaders. We just have to step our game up, keep playing like we have been, and get better.

John Whisenant

Coach T. drives me somewhere between half to three-quarters nuts, ... I'll be (on the sidelines) telling him, 'No, no, no,' and he just says the same thing a different way until I yell at him to stop.

Henry Rollins

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

Maeve Binchy

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

Maryann Keller

These were people who grew up inside those companies,

Corneille Ewango

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

Scott Weiland

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

Joy Hollingsworth

It would have been nice to play for the Huskies. I grew up watching them. It would have been nice but things didn't work out that way. I'm happy where I am.

Tim Thomas

That's what you want as a player, to play the way you grew up on the playground and YMCA. Look around here. Guys here are loose.

Mike Grell

That's not even a question. You go with what you grew up with.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

Jeff Jensen

I wanted to be the Public Information Guy (PIG) but they wouldn't go for that.

Miguel Rodriguez

Sometimes, you know, he could be reckless, but he was a happy guy who loved his family.

Drew Brees

Sometimes you get in those situations, you try to do too much, try to say, 'I'm the guy who has to make every play and it's my responsibility to do everything,' which it's not,

Rocky Bernard

Sometimes, when rookies come in, the vets don't want to take you under their wings because you could be the guy who takes their job. But one thing about Johnny, he's a big Texas guy, and I'm from Texas. So he liked me, and he wanted to help me and he just showed me the way.

Clint Hurdle

Sometimes I play a guy just because I want to play him.

Larry Beightol

Teddy Cottrell is one of the original 3-4 guys in the league. He's a legitimate 3-4 guy. I don't know if that's the route he wants to go, but they played well.

Jay Gibbons

Ten you can get away with as a team. You can do without a guy for 10 days, but 20, you're kind of hurting your ballclub, too.

Brint Russell

Team before me. That's the philosophy I've put into this team. With the guys back from last year, I feel that will rub off on the other players and will make us successful.

James Frain

Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.

John Vessey

You have to set your "shove-it" tolerance someplace. But you also have to recognize that you, too, may be wrong, and that in two weeks' time you'll be "old what's-his-name" and won't be able to influence the situation at all.

Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Curtis Hanson

Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

Ambrose Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Robert Harris

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Tony Robbins

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Thomas Harris

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

Scott Weiland

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

Steven Morrissey

You are bound to pick up influences.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Amanda Waldenmaier

Seeing everyone else around me looking like someone killed their dog, I tried to be my own self and get some life into the game.

Richard Hatch

Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you've ever had in your life.

Joe Lhota

Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.

Chelsea Clinton

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

Carly Rae Jepsen

Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

Linda Gholston

Sanctuary is not going to be a place of doom. It will be a place of life and living.

John Dewey

School is not preparation for life, but school is life

Tracy Morgan

'Saturday Night Live' was the joy of my life.

Edward Abbey

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

Douglas Adams

Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

Plautus

Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.]

Marnie Stern

I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.

Jerry Reed

She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male.

Gloria Steinem

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

Walt Whitman

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

Warren Farrell

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

Trisha Yearwood

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

Juvenal

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Coco Chanel

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Tom Robbins

You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing.

Neil Gaiman

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

Plato

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Mark Twain

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

Michel de Montaigne

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

Ada Huxtable

She taught us how to look at blocks.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Chris Mack

That's not a 3-point shot, but it's a game-clinching type rebound.

Lykke Li

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Ryan Kavanaugh

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alfred North Whitehead

I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.