Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Diana Taurasi

The bottom line is we've got good basketball players so we make good basketball decisions and play really good basketball and we just got to keep that same focus and intensity,

Allen Iverson

As long as you leave everything out on the basketball court, you can go into the locker room and feel good about yourself and that's important..............

Taquan Dean

Real college basketball begins. Now it's 'get after it.' The teams we played were great, but now the teams we're playing are much tougher. We have to be ready.

Steve McFall

Raven and Michelle are growing up big-time right now. They're finding out what big-time basketball is all about. They didn't go away. They kept fighting.

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.

Chris Kelly

Ray's having an excellent senior year. He does everything we ask. He runs the point or he plays (shooting) guard. He's a good perimeter shooter, and he rebounds well. He's just an excellent all-around basketball player.

Steve Holmes

Ray's basketball IQ has gotten better and better with each passing season.

Megan Mahoney

Personally, I haven't been playing that intense basketball for a while. Iceland was good competition, but it wasn't that intense. It was a good first day.

Erin Campbell

The bottom line is this should translate into a savings of several million dollars for the people of Vermont.

Porter Bibb

The bottom line is there is a contract and the judge will opine that the contract remains in force,

Joe LaVorgna

The bottom line is the productivity numbers were very positive for the market and gives more evidence there is a 'new economy' in place.

Anthony Chan

The bottom line is, the labor market is going to continue to show further deterioration, not because it's getting worse, but because of mechanics. As the unemployment rate gets higher, the consumer is going to consider that.

Steve Atkins

The bottom line is that we will have to start spending some money.

Shane Nobles

The bottom line is that we've got to go to them on Friday. We don't have any reason we can't do that again. I don't care if it's 10-0 or 1-0. I want to get the win and get in to the playoffs.

Elaine Makatura

The bottom line is that we take enforcement of compliance with our regulations seriously, and we are concerned about the quality of life of residents in the area.

Jimmy Ray

The bottom line is that we don't pursue a lot of cases that other counties do. And that's because we don't take garbage up front.

David Reid

The bottom line is that this development is dangerous and unnecessary.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

Frank Anderson

Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention points because student-athletes have transferred when we were not able to renew their aid.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

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.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Bryant H. McGill

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

Tom Malone

As a punter, you get ready to go on third down. This year, we don't even get to third down very much. It's ridiculous how good the offense is. It's crazy. Some games, I didn't even punt at all.

Howard Wolfson

As a strategist, he's as good as they come. I think of guys like him and Mike McKeon as the A-team when it comes to Republican politics in New York.

Bob Howry

As a setup guy, if people are talking to you, obviously you did something bad. Otherwise you go unheard of. I guess that is a good thing.

Brian Thornton

As a senior it hurt not being out there with my team. I would have been good for something -- maybe helping out with (J.P.) Batista.

Chairon Isenia

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

Michael Boyd

As an operating airline, Independence is as good as dead.

John Connell

As a team, we've got a lot of character. I'm very happy with that. They work hard and have a history of being good students. I feel very comfortable with this group of guys.

Jim Lee

As a gamer, I like to go up and look at people's faces and see how good of a job they did.

Derek Brown

As a framework, it's about as good as it gets.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

Masayuki Ito

Sony's results look pretty much in line with market expectations, in that they didn't disappoint. The problem is that you can't see any pillar of growth.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Greg Rubin

I set the line and he just took off about 150 yards straight out to the middle of the lake.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

I've been shooting it well from the line this year. I was able to make them. Sometimes they go in and sometimes they don't. When they go in, it makes you look good.

James Williams

I've been waiting in line (for gas) for an hour.

Richard Briers

I used to make minor alterations and often shorten lines that were rather literary to make them more naturalistic. But my contribution was very small.

Rutina Wesley

I used to love Jem and the Holograms. I think if they were doing a concert, I would stand in line to see Jem and the Holograms.

Glenn Parker

The worst period ever for offensive line play? I completely agree,

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,