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.

Sam Bregman

The most important thing for us right now is for the people of Albuquerque to see the caliber of basketball team they have. It's going to be a great thrill for the city of Albuquerque. This is a big basketball city, and this is pretty cool that we are at where we are at.

Jim Hines

A couple of us spoke about our connection to each other and how important Mercer Island basketball was to us as young kids, and we encouraged kids out there to embrace this time.

Dane Bradshaw

A couple of more minutes of solid basketball and we're talking about the Sweet 16.

Doug Bruno

Something that coach taught us, basketball is important but basketball life and people involved with the sport are more important than the game. And no game can keep you from doing and having the opportunity to pay your respects to someone as great as coach Ray.

Eric Williams

Something's better than nothing. I just want to be playing basketball as long as I can. That's all there is to it.

Shannon Brown

Spartan basketball is playing with a lot of intensity, a lot of grit. We haven't played with it as much as we'd like to. But it's a new season.

Greg Gibson

Ramon has had some offers for colleges and every meet that he does well in is another feather in his hat. We're proud of him.

Steve Morgan

I've worked on my punting the most this summer, ... I'm trying to get my steps down because punting is all about rhythm. In college I've had to learn to kick it one way in one situation, then kick it another in a different situation. This year I'm definitely more comfortable with my punting.

Matt Young

The whole idea of designing a vessel like a sub in my first year of college really interested me.

Eric Myers

This program has been extremely successful and we owe recognition to the high school, the college and the community. This would not have gone off near as well without the support of each and every one of these groups.

Carrot Top

I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.

Charles Colson

The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.

Jason Biggs

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

Jason Blum

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

Howard Rubin

There are more college kids in IT-related programs, but universities still are not keeping up with industry demand. About 30,000 to 35,000 students will graduate this year in all computer science-related fields. But that represents a 10-1 spread between the supply of students and the shortage.

Marco Coleman

As far as health, that's just a blessing. There's just so much that's out of your control, that you don't know how it's going to go. Really, you've just got to be really fortunate. You've got to be lucky.

Jeff Suppan

That's how it goes. You can't control it.

Marcus Trufant

That's great when you control your own destiny and don't have to wait for that team to lose or this team to win. It feels pretty good right now.

Jim Gonder

That one was the most important of the home runs. (Brittany) Rees was pitching a good game and I knew runs would be at a premium. Up to that point, I thought we had control of the game.

Taylor Twellman

That game was just out of control from the opening whistle. But whatever... I'm going to get myself in trouble.

Brian Evans

A late-model Chevrolet truck discharged a firearm into the truck, striking (Morales), forcing (Morales) to lose control of his vehicle and wreck.

W. S. Gilbert

The mistake we had made was trying to control everything.

J. Horton

Zach will eventually have to win it (a world title) on the road, likely in Las Vegas, but when he's successful, we plan to defend the title here in Duluth. No matter how successful Zach is, we should be able to control where he fights. Why should Vegas get all the big money for their town?

Carla Thomas

Your offense, you can't really control from day to day. You can't control it if your shots aren't falling. But we didn't play to get stops on defense.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Ronald Zarrella

As far as theories, there's a lot of them, and we've run a lot of them to ground and come up with nothing.

Dweezil Zappa

As far as solo records, there's ten years between it. As far as other releases, there's, I don't know, four or five years between it.

Bobby Hatfield

As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs.

Warren Sapp

As far as me, as a teammate of mine? I love him.

Trent Green

As far as losing four in a row, I feel like we're a much different team. I think we have 15 new guys. We have a much different defense, a much-improved defense. We just have to find a way to step up and find a way to meet this challenge.

Mike Castle

As far as I was concerned, it was the opportunity of a lifetime. If it works, I'm ecstatic. If it doesn't, I'll be disappointed, but I'll at least know I tried.

David Bell

As far as injuries go, I feel ready to go. It's still spring training but getting hits and getting comfortable at the plate is still important.

J. M. Roberts

As far as I'm concerned, what I do is not a crime, because I'm only making people laugh, ... So I'm only being naughty, like a naughty boy. Anything is open to streaking. As long as you perform it in the right way, in the right context.

Chad Cluver

As long as we kept the lead and made them have to guard us, we knew we were quicker.

Ashley Watkins

North's got two players that are hard to guard man-to-man, so we got in that zone. It was working, so we stayed there.

Tom Izzo

Pretty soon, we'll want the National Guard out around things.

Larry Brown

Same old, same old. We can't guard anybody.

Lori Ulferts

I've seen tape of Shaw and they love to shoot the three. Their three guards shoot the three more than we shot them as a team.

Andy Mangin

I've never had a point guard get a double-double before. He just keeps getting better and better.

J. M. Roberts

That's when I got my guard down. He was okay with going to my office and meeting people and being seen. That's how he got me.

Kelly Hawthorne

We have people who get us the ball. So many teams don't have someone who can get it inside. Our guards can handle the pressure.

Kiki Vandeweghe

Earl is one of the up-and-coming guards in this league. We're happy to have him.

Lori Ulferts

I've seen tape of Shaw and they love to shoot the three. Their three guards shoot the three more than we shot them as a team.

Kelly Hawthorne

We have people who get us the ball. So many teams don't have someone who can get it inside. Our guards can handle the pressure.

Kiki Vandeweghe

Earl is one of the up-and-coming guards in this league. We're happy to have him.

Hollis Zhao

We've hired 12 security guards to keep order.

Paul Andrews

We saw they couldn't match up inside. I told our guards that if they didn't get it inside, they weren't going to play. One thing I've learned in 30 years is that threatening playing time is something that always works.

Gina Jones

Now that the truth is out, I want justice. I want the guards and nurse to be arrested.

Adam Barrett

She's one of the top point guards in the state.

Patrick Cinotte

She scores well, rebounds well, passes well and guards well. She's a total all-around player and she makes others better.

John Jay

Shoot, he plays every position on the court. He's just a guy who hurts you in whatever position he plays no matter who guards him.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

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

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Seth Rogen

People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.

Susan Day

People really want to have things come back year after year.

Claire Forlani

People really relate to it. The response has been better than we expected.

Terry Riley

People really have stepped up to the plate.

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,

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,

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Michael Perkins

She is a versatile player, and she can do a lot of different things. She can post up as a guard, and she can shoot, too.

Junichiro Koizumi

My first priority will be postal system reform,

Flynt Leverett

It's an undeclared posture of 'regime change' on the cheap.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Jane Smith

You have to know where to look, it just takes a little practice.

Paul Tagliabue

But it really doesn't matter. If it takes 2 1/2 (months), fine. If it takes 5 1/2 (months), that's fine, too.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Lindy Ruff

The tempo we want to play at, he's able to pinch, he's able to get back; he has that mobility.

Bobby Collins

It was the tempo we wanted to play, but we didn't want 27 turnovers.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Jaime Gongora

I thought that we got just what we wanted. We were controlling the tempo of the game.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.