Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Bryan Pata

Coaches say the only way teams will start passing deep is if we're up by 21. Otherwise, they'll run, the ball, run the ball, then throw a quick slant.

Adam Haluska

Coaches have been doing a great job keeping my confidence level up. We've been coming in a lot at night putting extra shots in. That's been the turnaround in my game, in my shooting touch.

Al Groh

coaches don't. You can't win games without the ball. You understand that, you take it and you just move on.

Mike Rippee

Coaches can get a little skewed about wanting their kids to get bigger, stronger and faster. It's important you tell your kids to do it the right way.

Mark Gaynor

Coaches and players can sense when members want them and when they don't. We felt wanted here.

Dick Jauron

Coaches and players are pretty exhausted by this point, but you never look forward to it. You work so hard, and it seems like it goes so quickly and that last practice is on you, and you want it to keep going. You like being around a team. You like being part of a team.

Kevin Boothe

Coaches and others said I might have a chance, if I put in the work.

Will Morgan

We're here, we're not polar opposites, we're not competing for the hold of the city.

Jerry Sloan

We are still hanging in there, competing and finishing to the end.

John Temple

With her length, she can definitely be right there. By the time she's a senior, if she keeps working on her game and keeps improving, I could see her competing for a state title, or at least be playing on that level.

Rhonda Faehn

We're such a young team. Next year the sky is the limit. Two years ago our (current) juniors were just freshmen. They didn't realize how special it was to be in the Super Six and be competing for the national championship.

Alexandra Meissnitzer

We all know everyone was not competing in the same conditions.

Kelly Holmes

There is nothing like competing before a home crowd.

Kobe Bryant

This weekend is smooth for me. I'm looking forward to competing with these guys, getting out there on the floor and competing and trying to raise the game for all of us.

Gordon Gee

We intend on competing with the values of a world-class university.

Peter Berube

We implemented the testing so that we could set forth a level playing field for the horsemen and the wagering public and a safe environment for the competing horses and the overall integrity of the sport.

Connie Thomason

It provides money for shirts, medals and ribbons.

Ted Shaw

Things went as I expected. I think Roberts's opening statement was eloquent. I've seen him in court. But the question for me is who is he.

David Rakoff

I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.

Richard Read

You are really playing a positioning strategy here, ... You don't want to throw 'Chicago' out there while 'Lord of the Rings' is still going strong, or opening on the same weekend with blockbusters like 'Gangs of New York.'

Scott Podsednik

Every opening day is special, but this one is really special.

Dan Hedges

If they come away from your opening statement confused, you're in big trouble for the rest of the trial.

Carlos Arroyo

I saw an opening and I took it. It was important for us to get a win like this. Every time we win one like this it makes us stronger for the future.

Mark Buehrle

I think I'll be ready for Opening Day. I could go right now.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Peter Hall

I have to pour it on the opening weekend, then go back into battle.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Matt Smith

People think snow is the sole reason we go out, and it's a total misnomer.

Jennifer Lee

People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

Lauri Ward

People think it's going to make the room look bigger, but it's going to make it look worse.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Craig Newmark

Our sites are run by the people who use them. We just pretty much provide the infrastructure.

Jack Gillis

Our sense is that people don't have enough put away for a rainy day.

Lee Miller

Other people tend to value you the way you value yourself,

Barbara Kingsolver

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Baruch Spinoza

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

Ayn Rand

You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Brian Tracy

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

Brian Bosworth

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

Boyd Rice

Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-out unearned "rights" in an attempt to make its doctrine a living reality. In short: humanity is Democratic, nature is Fascist.

Jane Hirshfield

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

Stephen Jay Gould

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

Orlando Bloom

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

Paul Klee

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Dana Perino

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.