Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Mark Slotsve

That was a big basket that turned the tide. It only gave them a five-point lead, but the way the game was going it felt like a 20-point lead.

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.

Patrick Beilein

People think of West Virginia in a whole different way now. They know, if you're going to play West Virginia -- football or basketball -- you better be ready.

Norm Roberts

Our thought our guys battled hard, played hard throughout the whole game. They couldn't make a basket there at the end...pretty close to, but just couldn't put any in. It definitely was not a 16-point game.

Farris Lowery

Our team surprised me a great deal this season, and of course, I love when that happens. It was great to see all those girls develop into really good basketball players.

Jason Hanson

Our defense has played OK. If we would play better offensively, that would help our defense. Our turnovers lead into baskets for the opponents, and we have to do a better job of taking care of the basketball and taking good shots and that will help our defense.

Perry Patterson

People said in high school that I was a good passer in basketball because of football,

Leonard Perry

People talk about his improvement, but he was good when he got there. He has a high basketball I.Q. I don't think there's a better guy in the country that finishes around the hoop. He's extremely valuable to (Utah State's) offense.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Steve McKinney

The thing you notice about Domanick, like all great backs, when he's in there, he makes things happen. The line is blocking the same as they do with other backs, but for some reason when he's in there, you gain yards.

John Timoney

The one fortunate thing in this very tragic situation is that when it was happening, there were two officers from our SWAT unit just a block away, so they got here quite fast and were able to evacuate people from the scene,

Grant McCasland

South Plains has a talented wing in Harley but it looks like they've had other guys step up and play better for them. They're a team that can only get better. Our recipe for success no matter what is to get to the block and play inside-out.

Don Andrews

So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your face into a concrete block, if the concrete block was doing 40 miles an hour back at you.

Chet Faker

Sometimes I have to deal with trolls, and I just block them. But most of the time, Twitter's heaps of fun, actually.

Tom Hayes

Now, it's a block and a half away. When you're limping, that's a long block.

Jonny Moseley

Now he's got it even worse because everybody wants a piece of him. But I think he should just block everything out, show up and finally win that thing.

Mike Cavic

No two pools are the same and at Stanford, we'll have to get used to the feeling of the starting block and what the wall looks like when we're coming in.

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Alvaro Garcia

Producers need to consider that trying to save a few dollars worth of gas when ensiling their crop could later cost them hundreds making up for forage quality losses. The objective when we ensile any crop is to maintain its quality as close as possible to that of the original forage. We will never be able to have a better product than what we started with and we can only expect to reduce losses to a minimum.

Sung Sohn

Probably the overall (CPI) number will be somewhat higher than anticipated, but like PPI, the core-number should be close to forecasts,

Daniel Briere

Probably after the Olympics I should be close to returning.

Bill Schneider

People thought the election still might be so close that he could make a decisive difference in some states, and he very nearly did. But the states weren't quite that close, the way Florida and New Hampshire were in 2000,

Paul Patton

Our desire is downtown. We desire close proximity.

Mark Dinger

Our consideration is the safety of the public. We don't want to arbitrarily close the highway if we don't have to.

Steven Ross

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

Darrell Arthur

(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. That's pretty far from home. I probably wouldn't have gone there even if Mike Davis was there. It's really far, and I'm trying to stay closer to my family.

Sally Shurtz

It was very emotional for the seniors and for the coaches. Every game that the seniors play, they know it's getting closer and closer to their last game.

Mike Singletary

It was tough to hear that (I needed surgery) at first. I'd played through the summer (in an AAU season) with my knee giving me trouble. I thought I could work past it or put it off. Then they went in and took a closer look and saw that there were a lot more tears than what they originally thought.

Dave Esquer

It was tough today. On days like today this park can keep games a lot closer than they should be.

Gary Doherty

It was tough not having those kids, but I saw some good things from the kids that filled in for them. We made (Walpole) earn everything, but they just executed on their passing game. The game was a lot closer than the scoreboard indicated.

Gail Patton

It was a lot closer than the score. That was the longest match of the day.

Steve Wilmot

It was a lot closer than people thought.

Sam Salamone

It was a lot closer than I wanted it to be.

Bill Castle

It was a lot closer than 35-7. Venice deserves a lot of credit. They are well-coached and I respect them. They played us down to the wire.

S. Walker

Ashton's just a workhorse. To have one touchdown on offense, one on defense and one on special teams really says a lot.

Doug Wojcik

As a team, we play defense well and our kids listen. Memphis did a poor job at the free throw line (26-of-41) and that really kept us in the game.

Michael Lambert

As a human being I was incensed. As a defense attorney, I was incensed.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Jim Darling

Our defense was amazing, they rose up and shut them out in the second half.

Jeremy Trill

Our defense was a little shaky at the start, but it was the first game of the year.

Heather Earls

Our defense was a definite let down. They played better defense than we did and that was the difference.

Bob Faduski

Our defense very well stymied Hamilton most of the evening and never really gave them a good shot on goal.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Jimmy Chamberlin

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

Stephen Murphy

So we found out what else they were interested in, ... sound tracks for people's lifestyles.

Steve Ridder

Right now we're a good team, but not great. We're not a special team yet. We think we can get there. This game is going to help us in the long run because we found something that we have to work on.

Mahmud Abbas

President Mahmud Abbas on Friday November 11, 2005 laid the foundation stone of the mausoleum of the late president Yasser Arafat,

Leonard Sonnenschein

These are all types of turtles found in the Mississippi.

Rudyard Kipling

I've taken my fun where I've found it / An' now I must pay for my fun.

Austin Spare

It was the straying that found the path direct.

Tanith Lee

I started a version of my French historical novel... I found it utterly fascinating.

Pat Hurst

I saw after nine holes (Creamer) was 6 up. She's our rookie, and she was unbelievable.

Tuesday Weld

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

Carlton Fisk

I'm a six-handicap but those two holes scare me every time,

O. Singh

I'm just not playing well enough to win on Sunday. There are too many mistakes. I play two or three holes that really put me down. That's what's been happening.

Stuart Appleby

You can't run away from the pack if you aren't running away from it. Running away would be six shots up with six holes to play. That would be pretty much a run away. There is a lot of golf, 25% of the tournament still left out there.

Felipe Alou

People overlooked him because he doesn't throw hard. They didn't know the kind of man that was inside that body. They know now.

Larry Sabato

People don't react to all these things like they are inside the Beltway.

Barry Trotz

Defensively, we were real good. We had inside position. We battled one-on-one. We limited their chances.

Mike Patrick

Defensively, we need to keep the rebounding in a position where we can keep them to one shot and out. For us to have success, we have to get contributions from all three of our inside players.

Dave Marsh

The song sounds like it was recorded inside 'Animal House.'

Terrence Tumpey

Once you get the plasmids inside the cell, the virus assembles itself.

Jack Cloonan

Now how do you do that unless you've got support inside the building? How do you do that? It's impossible.

Alan Wiggins

I've been working out a lot and doing all kinds of work on my perimeter and inside games. It's all paid off.

Brian DeJong

Things wouldn't be where they are without our inside game. Kristin makes it all go for us.

Barry Manilow

I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.

Roger Franks

That's the shot we wanted them to take. We just didn't want him to make it. There's not much more Justin could have done defensively.

Jorma Taccone

Justin Timberlake puts you to shame, having that much talent.

Ralph Fiennes

Justin sees something in Tessa. She's getting at him,

Adam Richman

Back in the day, I used to watch 'The Cajun Chef' with Justin Wilson. His mixing would go one way, and his stomach would go the other.

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Kirsten Nelson

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

Kristin Gore

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

Gerry Anderson

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

Abby Wambach

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

Josh Duell

We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.

Rashad Anderson

We didn't want to lose. I just knew if Marcus (Williams) got me the ball, I was going to knock it down, no matter what. We weren't going to lose this game.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Kevin Johnson

Ray really starts with the customer. He looks at things 'outside in,' as he says, not technology-out.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Matt Walton

These low numbers may make us look good, but it also looks like we're not telling everything. Penn's numbers may look bad, but at least you know they're telling you everything.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Brian Jacques

Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

Cesar Chavez

Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

Alain de Botton

The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

Mike Richards

That's when we needed to make a run, right there. That's when we needed to make the plays to get it closer.

DeJuan Blair

That's what we needed right there. That's why we're going to states. When somebody is down, another person steps up.

Joe Crede

That's what the playoffs are, capitalizing on other people's mistakes. They executed when they needed to.

Don Money

That's why we picked him up this year. We needed some pop.

John Blanchette

That taught me a lot of things I needed to do to stay healthy.

Willie Randolph

That's his spot and he needed the work.

Tom Glenn

that needed to be ironed out with the U.S. State Department.

Mark Holden

That needed to be 11 and that was nine.

David Kopp

You still got to go out there and pretend it's zero-zero. I think the team needed this a little more than I did.

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.

Hines Ward

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

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.

Edgar Bronfman

between very long shots and very, very, very long shots.

Ronald Reagan

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Susan Estrich

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

John Wayne

I never shot nobody I didnt have to.

Helen Darling

He said we need to get more shots up. We're getting used to it.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Kendall Jenner

I feel really productive. I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler. I'm always trying to keep everything together - I'm very OCD and very organized.

Kenneth Blackwell

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

Cardinal Richelieu

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.