Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carroll Dawson

After a decade of starring in this league, Dikembe established himself as one of the league's top reserves last season. Deke gives us rebounding and defense off the bench and he also serves as a personal mentor to Yao Ming. He is a valuable contributor as well as a great teammate.

Malcolm Deans

It was a lack of defensive intensity. But I would like to praise the intensity of the bench in the fourth quarter, they had desire.

Pat Casey

This is the best conference in the nation from top to bottom without question. It is a great benchmark to have that we are not happy that we didn't sweep Arizona. That is the way we feel about ourselves. As a club, we thought we should have swept.

Phil Edmonston

The way to fight is just simply send a registered letter or an e-mail (to GM). If your vehicle is not reasonably durable and has a mechanical defect, any judge on any bench -- small claims up to the Supreme Court of Canada -- can make that company pay.

Flip Saunders

The way this team is built, our bench guys are meant to play together in clusters with our main group. When you put all five guys on the floor, they're not as effective as when three of those guys play with a couple of starters.

John Eastman

All are very strong judges. The one who's probably best prepared for the role of state Supreme Court justice is Vance Raye. The others are highly regarded. Morrison England is a relatively recent appointment to a court. For him, a little more time on the bench would be useful.

Trey Blue

All 15 guys on that bench can play defense. (Curran) gives us that desire that we can do this.

Scott Johnson

Alix deserves his chance to start and we have gone for Dafydd Jones on the bench for the energy and impact he will be able to offer.

Mike Kemp

You're scrambling around and they went up 3-1 and then we scored, but then gave it right back and I think that was a turning point. That took any momentum we got away and then we gave another one up real quick. All the sudden we were down 5-2, 6-2 and it snowballs. Our bench sagged pretty dramatically after that point.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

Marc Chouinard

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

Philip Virgo

The big raids will be for project management staff so you need to ensure these staff are content and that means providing clear career paths and training opportunities. Many firms haven't been doing this because over the past few years they haven't felt the need to, but that is going to change with all these public sector projects.

Ron Hill

a very good example of a company that cares deeply about their community.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Roger Levering

As long as she'd go with me, I didn't care where she'd say, we're going.

Kelly Green

As long as we take care of us, we figure we'll be fine. I just want to see us play with intensity. We're going to make mistakes; I know that. But as long as they're effort mistakes, I'm OK with it.

Kevin Keen

As long as we take care of business, we can't do anything worse than tie.

Rick Clausen

As long as we put six points on the board, I couldn't care less. A lot of people are talking about the big plays and things like that, but we haven't had many to this point. So in essence that means we're due.

Tom Woods

That's where toughness shows, on the defensive side of things. And I think that's exactly what happened tonight. I was real pleased with the defense, and the intensity level.

John Bliss

Our defensive pressure was a big part in the win. It kind of fueled our offense and gave us some relatively easy baskets.

Tramicka James

Normally I play a more defensive role on our team. But my teammates did a good job of putting me in the position to score.

Byron Scott

Terrible. I thought we started off terrible, no sense of urgency, no resistance on the defensive end. We played like the game didn't mean a thing. It's not everybody obviously, but as a team, collectively, we were awful. We looked more like we were scared than anything.

Kenneth Bacon

There are some signs that in recent weeks Saddam Hussein has been concentrating more on defensive measures rather than offensive measures.

Chris Richards

We're a defensive team. I think we can stop anybody.

Jim Wiscombe

We're a better defensive team when we play full-court pressure defense.

Chuck Hardt

We had a few defensive lapses, but the kids found a way to hang in there and battle.

Norm Eash

Eric has natural instincts and we think he can be a top defensive back in the conference.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Andrew Brunette

This game was played in spurts. If we could've kept it tied with five minutes to play, we could've gotten a win tonight.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Paul Kenny

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

John Steffensen

Everything I'm doing at the moment is focused towards the Commonwealth Games and running the sort of time which could help me win an individual medal.

Nicolle Rubino

We just told ourselves that we're a good team and we've got to come out like we're a good team. We were trying to stay focused after the two losses we had, and I think we did.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Henk Bekedam

Roughly half of the new infections are sexually transmitted. The other 48 percent comes from intravenous drug users, and the remaining 2 percent are vertical transmissions from mother to child.

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Carlos Alberto

Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead,

Fatos Nano

The Socialist Party has a mission of peace,

Nastassja Kinski

Something very important is missing from my life: consistency.

Shawn Marion

Sometimes we have a team down 20 points and then start missing some shots. That's when we need to clamp down on defense. It's not easy, but at the same time we've got to do it.

Ron Artest

I've said it a thousand times. Referees miss calls. They missed that one, too.

Darcy Rigsby

It was a perfect Senior Night. All the seniors played well and contributed. They are a special group, I'm really going to miss them.

Susan Mitchell

These recent seizures demonstrate that our officers are aggressively and effectively pursuing our traditional mission of narcotics interdiction.

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Jerry Miller

This is a people business. That's the thing I'll miss the most, the people.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Adam Sanders

Sam hasn't played for quite a while but he's right in the mix.

Larry Usher

Sam didn't play like a sophomore tonight. He played a lot like a seasoned senior.

Barret Jackman

Sandy played great. We let him make that first save and he made a ton of them tonight.

Elena Dementieva

I've waited a long time for this moment, ... I've played three finals, but this is the first I've won.

Grady Sizemore

I've never played in the postseason in the big leagues, so I can't really say what it will be like,

Lance Berkman

I've never played in that ballpark. It's going to be fun.

Juliet Landau

I've never played an attorney, and I'd like to do so on a show like 'The Practice' or 'Law & Order.'

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

Jim Calhoun

Brandon Roy, in my opinion, is one of the top two or three players in the country.

David Noel

Big players show up in big times games. That's the type of player he's been all year.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

O. Henry

We want to get players into the NPC as soon as possible,

Nik Antropov

It was tough. They are all playing in the N.H.L. It wasn't balanced.

Elena Dementieva

It was another Williams today. She was playing different tennis today.

Arnold Palmer

I've been playing there since 1955, but now I'm not so sure.

Sherri Turner

I've been playing pretty good. I just haven't been making any putts. ... I'm very pleased. That's the second time I've shot that score on this course. It's probably been about 10 years since I've shot it, but I remember doing it.

Dennis Quaid

I've been down to a 1 twice, and every time I get down there I start playing badly. I'm playing like a 13 right now. I have no idea why. It's all between the ears.

Caleb Holmes

It would have been weird not playing on the same team.

Cristie Kerr

The whole team is playing well. We're psyched to play.

Chris Johnson

The whole situation just makes you value playing that much more.

William Hazlitt

The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime.

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Milan Baros

We were down psychologically after that second goal, but there was still so much time to play,

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.

Barbara Mikulski

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Jane Green

Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Cesar Chavez

Together, all things are possible

Dennis Crowley

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

Deepak Chopra

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Deepak Chopra

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Anna Jameson

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Ron Hill

See? We've watched; we took that little insurance. You didn't like it, but we took it back away.

David Pyper

It was a little disappointing that it took that long.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Julie Taylor

We got shots, but we took them too quick. We didn't take our time.

Romain Massaro

Everything was very different then. But when Owen took over the team, I really had a much better year.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Bob Kendrick

He took it a whole lot better than I did; I'm still mad.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,