Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Don Hogan

West Georgia is very athletic, and you have to earn everything because they play great defense. We must take care of the basketball and play smart.

Don Meyer

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

Dave Brubeck

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

David Halberstam

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Andy Murray

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Andy Stanley

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.

Gaby Hoffmann

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Herman Edwards

You can see he really studies the game. He doesn't just walk out there and play. He waits for his opportunity to make the play and when you think he's not going to make the play, that's when he gets you.

Bill Guerin

To score first is big. It gives your team confidence. Gets it out of the way. We can relax, get in your system and start to play.

Ryon Acey

We have been partnered with them for years, and the relationship gets stronger with each year.

Shaun McGinn

Song is making a very good impression so far. He's got a fastball, curveball and throws a changeup, but his split-finger is a true out pitch. He's got very good numbers.

Duncan Hunter

So my point is, you can have a good reform, but in doing that, you don't want to hurt the troops that are in the field.

Norm MacDonald

So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

Joe Tiller

Some years the schedule rolls your way and some years it doesn't. There are a lot of very good teams in the conference, so I don't think you can make any assumptions about any teams.

Don Norton

Some years it probably would because you're hit with a lot of injuries. Some years, it's probably not so good because you don't want to (break) your routine.

Jim Bates

Sometimes when you want inside push we'll use Grady. He's been a good pass-rusher in his career.

Mike Redmond

Sometimes I laugh when we talk. I'm 13 years older than he is. He's got a great grasp for what's going on out there. I don't think I've ever talked to a 22-year-old kid with as much of a good idea as he has.

John Adair

Teamwork is no accident.It is the by-product of good leadership.

Mike Devaney

Teams will give us a really good shot because we have a target on our back.

Pat Murphy

They're always looking to throw it downfield. We've got to get them to punt and get some turnovers.

Sonakshi Sinha

I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.

Erinn Smart

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

Angelina Jolie

We'll be on our way to Pakistan in a matter of days.

Eddie Griffin

Makes no matter if I'm performing in a grocery store, you're always gonna get 150%.

John Dryden

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

John Mayer

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

John Malkovich

Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.

John Malkovich

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

John Lydon

The only notes that matter come in a wad

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.