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.

Doc Sadler

I've always thought this team had a chance to be pretty good. The thing that concerns me is offensively, I don't know how much we can win without shooting the basketball better.

Jeff Ruland

I've actually yelled at kids from a basketball purist standpoint. I don't want to see a kid shoot the ball every time down the court. It's disgusting.

Joe Johnson

I've actually been enjoying myself but I've just got to get the basketball side going. It really feels like back home. When this thing turns around, it really is going to be crazy.

Vincent Grier

I wanted to do whatever it took to win this basketball game, and that's what it was. They feed on Daniel Horton getting off, because he has so much freedom in the offense. You have to limit the fouls, because he's a great free-throw shooter and great all-around player.

David Grewe

I wanted to do it in the worst way, and it just worked out. I think it's going to be special, kind of like hockey did and basketball did.

Jamie Pollard

I wanted an individual who had a sincere passion for being the next Cyclone men's basketball coach. One coach emerged as the clear cut favorite . . . (and that's) Greg McDermott.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

David Brock

These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information.

John Tortorella

That's not saying he doesn't have the ability, but he gets everything out of himself every night. And when he's not going, it's not working for him, you know the effort is going to be there.

Pete Hoffman

That's not really the effort I was looking for today. This group's been able to get up for some big games, but today they just didn't get up for it.

Toby Bickel

We've struggled the last half of the season off and on. I was pleased with our effort and our execution, for the most part.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Janet Guthrie

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Troy Ellerman

We're a rodeo association, not a bull-riding association. Our efforts should be focused on making our rodeos better.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Paul Hewitt

People seem to understand even in the NBA when a really good team loses its players it's going to be a struggle,

Gary Robb

People still need to use good judgement. The river is still pretty treacherous out there.

Jeremy Jaramillo

People are starved for this kind of service. The level of outreach we have now makes people feel good that they can say, 'I have answers.' It's immediate. You don't need an appointment or insurance.

Jack Mintz

People don't understand productivity but they do understand if you have a job with a good level of pay, it's better over the long run.

Phil Cowell

People don't need a good telescope. Just wander outside and look up.

Jim Jenkins

People don't have to wait here. She has a good method. If they're a regular customer, we already have their prescription filled.

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

Robby Davis

We're happy with the jump we had. We've got work to do, but we're moving in the right direction.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Rene Portland

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

Hines Ward

We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Randy Nelson

We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

James Kelleher

There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

Schoolboy Q

The more harder you work, the less you're out spending your money.

Brand Pretorius

Dealers pushed particularly hard in March in order to qualify for their quarterly sales incentive bonuses.

Paula Creamer

Annika's at the place I want to be. I think that's helping me. I have to work harder than her. I have to get stronger than her.

George Foster

Anything that's on the lower end of the pay scale would probably be harder to fill.

Don Cole

The situation is making it harder for our officers to do their jobs.

Joe Sabol

The third time tap it really hard and it will go right into the wood.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

Flavio Briatore

We were racing for a World Championship, we weren't playing around,

Brent Guy

We were playing well for the first quarter and 12 minutes.

David Brown

We were playing hard. They just had a little more speed than we did.

John Eberle

We were playing for keeps. We didn't say that we were. We didn't say, 'What are we going to do now?' We just went for it.

Anthony Johnson

We were playing for each other. That's something we haven't done in a while.

Tom Izzo

We were out of energy. Playing Thursday-Saturday is a joke.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

John Gibbons

That's what this team does. This team is dangerous. They've got so much speed, they can do anything.