Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

Sherri Coale

I've never seen an 18-year-old kid do it night in and night out regardless of the circumstance, regardless of the venue. Kids get sick, they have tests, they have distractions, they have a bad night. There are a million things that happen to freshmen along the course of the season.

Billy Donovan

I've said it all along about this team, they derive a lot pleasure from moving and passing the basketball and playing together.

Keith Johnson

During the week, the pig races and petting zoo, along with the magician, were all crowd pleasers.

Jack Straw

Each is overwhelmingly Muslim and each, in their separate ways, is crucial to whether the world can be bound together, or fractured along deep political and theological divides,

Katsutoshi Inadome

Due to uncertainty over interest rates, along with the bull-run on the stock market, institutional investors are hesitant to buy debt paper actively.

Bill Cowher

Duce probably had his best day of work, but will still be questionable. Jerome is coming along quite well.

Larry Mowry

(Dr. William Gray) is saying that the chance of a major hurricane strike along the east coast is at 64 percent this year. An average season calls for only a 31 percent chance of a strike in this area. So, he has upped the chance of a major hurricane hitting the east coast.

Joan Johnson

Each village and area along the Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive has its own charms, historic sites, and delicious foods,

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Donald Glover

There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.

Darby Stanchfield

The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.

Adam Carolla

When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.

Abraham Lincoln

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Matt Lindsay

Everybody knew it was coming and nobody stopped it. Johnny is a heck of a a player. He made some big plays tonight.

Rich Williams

Everyone wants to do the first one. You do it right the first time, runners will keep on coming back.

Ernie Hartlieb

Every game is like a playoff game right now. This road trip is a grind, especially coming down the stretch. The guys have played so many games on the road already.

Lynn Franco

As the economic ramifications of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the coming weeks and months, and the number of layoffs continues to rise, the economy faces tougher times ahead. While consumers have managed to keep the U.S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon may no longer be the case.

Fabrice Santoro

At one point, it's great that it's coming so late. I've been playing since I was 16, and when your first quarterfinal arrives at 33, it's a long time.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Alan Nicholl

Twenty-some shots is a tremendous game, offensively. For them not to score a goal, you have to hand it back to our kids; they put up such a great defensive effort.

Finn Wittrock

I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.

Laurie Holden

I feel defensive about my character because I really love Andrea, and we share the same heart.

Larry Farmer

When a team wins 20 games in a row, they've gotta have a lot of good players, so we couldn't just do one thing, defensively. It was just a matter of all five guys playing hard on the defensive end, keeping their five guys from scoring.

Allen Iverson

We don't have an identity as far as how we play on the defensive end. We always score, so it's obvious our problem is in other areas.

Zenon Konopka

We didn't play well enough defensively. We're a pretty good defensive hockey club, and when you give up five goals it's tough to win games.

Richard Jefferson

We didn't do a very good job of playing through each other or through the people we should have been. And then we got cold. They were hitting shots and mainly it was a lot of defensive problems. But sometimes your offense is a part of the problem.

Patrick Kerney

We didn't do a good job getting to the quarterback. It's our responsibility to get there in three or four seconds. We can't put that much pressure on our defensive backs.

Walter Kirn

Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sheryl Swoopes

I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

Author unknown

The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

O. Singh

Through their stubborn mindedness, and by wearing their disguises, they are deluded, they suffer in pain from the love of duality.

Rich Beem

You have to play by feel and I love that,

Sylvia Earle

You have to love it before you are moved to save it.

Cynde Frankel

The one thing they share is a love of animals.

Daniel Barenboim

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Nate Longshore

We all love Steve. It was sweet watching him do his thing.