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 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.

Lute Olson

After long and serious deliberation, the men's basketball staff has dismissed Chris Rodgers, effective immediately, from the team. It should be noted that Chris has earned his college degree in three and a half years and that we wish him much success in all future endeavors.

Ken Chevalier

After playing a brutal schedule and dealing with injuries and overtime losses, we finally started to play some consistent basketball.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Joe Novak

As a whole, this class is the best athletically we've brought in here.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

Stephanie Pincetl

The boundaries of the plan were actually developed by a scientific team without any kind of political pressure. Some of the very best scientists who know the Southern California desert ecosystems were involved.

Michael Wallace

The bottom line is, 'Who makes the best software?' ... If there are no compelling titles for the X-Box, then people won't buy it. What Microsoft needs to do is come up with some killer games. If companies just port existing titles over to the X-Box, then it's not going to work.

Mary Hazinski

The bottom line is, We think more people need to learn CPR. We have more and more evidence that good CPR works. We're doing our best to increase the number of bystanders that learn CPR.

Regg Simon

Your guys that have scored all year should be scoring in the playoffs, too. (Sioux Falls') two big defenders were doing a good job on them with hooks and holds, but they always find a way to score.

Andy Gray

Listen, if you're a defender, DO BETTER!

Benjamin Watson

He threw a great ball. They were playing man-to-man, and there's not much the defender can do when he throws a perfect ball.

Bob Macaluso

He's the kind of kid that could make a defender miss in a phone booth.

Bryan Winkler

He sets people up -- he gets in there and draws defenders and sets his teammates up very well. He's a good skilled player with a high work rating.

Jeff Guinn

I was thrilled that Matt won the defender of the week award,

Chris Abel

I dropped our very first pass, but the first touchdown was a perfect pass from Aaron. The defender had no chance. We got some more great pass protection on the second pass. Neff just threw it up for me to go get it.

Stephen Jackson

He's not as good of a defender as Ron, but he's an All-Star. I'll welcome any All-Star to our team. He's a great player.

Scholanda Hoston

I know I'm going to be the primary defender on her, but our team does such a great job of never leaving me out there on my own. You're not going to shut a player like her out, she's a great player. You just want to make every shot she gets difficult.

Pam Euton

In my mind, all three of those girls are deserving to be Player of the Year. All of them have been valuable in different ways.

Mike Fuller

I'm so proud to see him on the all-district list. Michael is very deserving of it. He's not the fastest or strongest player out there, but he makes the plays. He uses his mind, and he did things the way they're supposed to be done. He just loves to play, and it's very rewarding to see someone like that get honored.

H. Judd

People go, 'What the heck is this guy?

Tom Ryan

Is it adequate? No. Is it a heck of a lot better than it was last time? Yes.

Larry Terry

This is going to be a heck of a challenge. We just want to play well and start to find out what kind of team we have.

Steve Squyres

That's no Mount Everest, but for a little rover this was a heck of a climb,

Todd Abbott

Zach did a heck of a job on the mound.

Alan Trammell

You would like to hold them off as long as possible and to be honest, we did that. Congratulations to the White Sox. They've had a heck of a year.

Michael Brown

Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.

Tim Murphy

Warren had a heck of a night, ... She was our go-to player.

Phil Loy

The one thing we didn't want to let them do is go on that run. That hurt. To come back like that, that takes a heck of an effort. I'm very proud of them, we were right there. I like this team.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fools are without number.

Edward Snowden

There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

Brian Greene

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Ehud Olmert

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

Ben Kingsley

The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.

Dirk Benedict

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

David Bowie

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.