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.

Joakim Noah

As a basketball player this is your dream -- to play in the national championship game. It's just such a great feeling that it's finally here. There's been so much hard work and so much sacrifice. There's so many moments that I can go back to -- being a little kid, walking to practice. Now I'm finally playing in the game.

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.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want the chance to do. We just did what we've been doing all along.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want. It's been an exciting, exciting week for us.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want a chance to have an opportunity to do.

Gary Williams

As a college basketball coach, I'm upset for the future of game. Somebody has to be accountable. You can't blame just one group of people for this, unfortunately.

Craig Shoemaker

The boys are excited. When we do put four quarters of basketball together, we're a pretty decent team.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Tyler Hansbrough

Definitely it was fun in the second half when we started coming back and making a run and started stopping them defensively. That was a big key in the win.

Brandon Lincoln

Definitely. He's opened up another side to us that he hasn't opened up to many people. If people take the time to get to know who he really is, then it'll be easier to see where he's coming from.

Joe Sakic

Definitely four years ago, you had the names and you went with them. Now some of those guys got older and a lot of young guys are coming in, and it is tougher for sure. But I'd like to think that's a good thing for Canada, you can't really go wrong. There's going to be great players left off the team.

Billy Wagner

Definitely coming from a different organization and taking a big step, I want to get comfortable and not be living out of a suitcase for the whole spring training and having my family do the same. It was a move that I felt was good for me and for my family.

James Mulva

As an industry we feel it is not a good precedent to fund a government program.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Kristian Ghedina

People think I'm making fun of the sport.

Karen MacNeil

People get it immediately. It's a fun way of remembering.

Buddy Bell

Offensively, it was fun to just sit back and watch our guys hit as opposed to scratching out every run.

Tim Kaine

Often, money is taken out of that fund for other projects. I'll make sure that stops.

Marcus Giles

Oh, he's ready. It's going to be fun to watch.

Steve Robertson

Cocaine trafficking, the profits involved that are immense and terrorist organizations, just like any other organization, have to fund their organization.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Kathy Miller

Originally we were going to find a home for him, but people would look at him and go, 'Ooh.' He looked so terrible.

Jim McGowan

Of course, we're retired, so we're usually home -- if we're not volunteering.

Horace Horace

Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying

Andrew Baird

Normally we think of our home ... as a safe haven. (The suspect) made it a mausoleum for Mr. O?Malley.

Dan Parker

No sir, we don't have a home left.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

John McPherson

Do you want your home to be a museum, or do you want to live in it? ... We're not trying to do a museum.

Sam Harris

Como's probably never going to stay the same. This is home though. And I can never say that I'm going to a better place. We'll survive.

Willie Randolph

The team's been playing well and we'll just start another streak tomorrow.

Paul Marsh

Something has got to give. They are playing too much and there's too much travel.

Shawn Lewinski

Once we scored that first goal, I thought we were going to get going. Unfortunately they actually settled in, they started playing their game. I think we relaxed, and that was a big mistake.

Larry Stevens

So much of what we're doing is playing catch-up.

Marc Crawford

Right now Todd is playing so well, we could probably play him in net.

Ed Coyle

Quincy's getting better and better with every game. Right now, he's playing well. He's playing like a senior.

Dereck Whittenburg

Psychologically for us, we're the underdog every game. So Xavier (today) will be like playing on the road. We're used to that.

Doug Gottlieb

I've never sensed in all the three years I was playing for him and the six years since I never once suspected that (Sutton) was back drinking.

John Higgins

It would be fantastic to have the two top-ranked players in the world playing out of the same club.

Brandon Roy

It would have been really special if he had come here. We would have been really good.

Christian Maraker

They all feel great. This one is special in its own way.

Charlie Warner

This is a special group. They never quit.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before. We don't know how much we'll be getting or how it will be dispersed.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before,

Melanie Sloan

That, to me, would be special treatment that he doesn't really deserve.

Jan Karon

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

Bon Scott

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Jim Edmonds

Now it's even. We've just got to go over there and try to win a series.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I want to win more than ever.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Alexandra Bodemann

I've been in a slump, and to come back and win something like this is awesome.

J. J. Johnson

The win is more important than how you do it.

Alicia Molik

The way I win is by being aggressive, very pro-active and I wasn't today.

Richard Myers

This is a win strategy, ... In a sense, things are going well.

Mark Ritter

This is a really big win for our kids.

Paul Duca

This is huge. It's not the end of the world if you don't win this series, but you want to.