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.

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.

Ronald Steele

I wanted to drive to the basket and try to score and, if not, get a put-back, but it fell short.

Chris Grinde

A foot injury is tough to overcome in basketball. You are pounding it on the floor, jumping and landing on it. It will be interesting to see if he can endure the pain.

John Jones

The one thing I think is that we're an improved basketball team. The things (Monterey does), the pressure man-to-man, I think we saw enough of it that we'll handle it a little better.

Gary Williams

The one thing about going early is you'll get more families with little kids. I've seen more little kids out there. That's nice if you can get kids interested in basketball this way.

Kevin Bookout

The Oklahoma basketball program is built on playing hard and tough and competing on every possession. For us to come out here and lose in the first round, that doesn't bode well. We're supposed to win these games.

Steven Ross

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

Joe Gillis

What we've done is we've closed the units to outside visitors in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.

Dennis Green

We need the public to be patient and understanding. We want to get this project done as soon as possible. We realize it is going to be an inconvenience, but it is much better than what would happen if the road has to be closed during the ski season.

Jeff Allen

I can't even get in to watch it. I have been wanting to. But, it's a closed debate.

Cristian Zorzi

It didn't seem real, it seemed like a dream. I closed my eyes several times to try to see if I was dreaming.

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Gareth Williams

There is a flaw in the system that needs to be closed in the future.

Ed Bailey

We may have actually closed it early than it needed to be, but we picked a date that we knew would not be interrupted. We planned events all the way through to the end with a large plan for the last run up to the closing.

Toledo Blade

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.

Tom Harkin

so that my constituents and others will know how and why I reached my decision. I have nothing but disdain for and objection to the closing of the Senate doors on this vital matter of impeachment of the president.

Richard Kimball

Say you sold someone a round of drinks for $17.50, ... You'd ring in $7.50, put the $17.50 in (the register), and put a swizzle stick in the drawer as a reminder that the drawer is up by $10. At the end of the night, if you had eight swizzle sticks in there, you'd pocket $80 before closing out your register.

Khloe Kardashian

When I'm fidgety, and I just feel like everything is closing in, I go to the gym. You're building endorphins and feeling good about yourself. It's saved me.

Jane Smiley

I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.

John Jones

Brent Sullivan did a great job on DeWitt. The rest of our team did a great job of closing out on shooters.

Geoffrey Russell

There's really not much to say. We're just closing out the sale. There are 94 outs Monday so we should be done early.

Jeremy Paul

We talk a lot about closing out quarters.

Joe Franco

We understand that cost is going to be an issue with this, but we're just going to need to come to some type of compromise, ... This is too large of a University at this point to be closing as early as it is.

Harley Shaiken

Losing 30,000 jobs, closing 14 plants, has enormous consequences not just for the union, but for the future of their members. It is a major blow.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Art Linkletter

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Jose Manuel Barroso

I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.

Al Michaels

It would be a nice way for this whole run to end with the first overtime Super Bowl.

Jonathan Simon

It would be nice if I could come back to Auburn. It would be nice to give back.

Ann Beattie

It was very much a surprise. It's very nice when someone takes notice.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Glenys Bakker

We're gunning for that. It would be nice to end the season with another win.

Carey Mulligan

I'm not great at having my picture taken and I don't enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it's nice to have a reunion.

Ron Gardenhire

We've talked about it. He says he'd like to do more. That would be nice to see.

Janice Dickinson

I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.