Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herb Kohl

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.

Matt Thissen

San Diego isn't a hard place to want to go to school. It's a good school. Their basketball program has been down lately, but eight years ago they were a top 25 team. Their coach left to go coach her alma mater at Ohio State. I guess she decided she liked the weather better in San Diego and now she's back.

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

Kevin Stallings

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

Bobby Cremins

I've been blessed. I got to live the American dream when I was coaching, and I continue to live the American dream. Without basketball in my life, I don't know what I would have wound up doing.

Mike Predmore

They are a great group of guys and a great group of young men. I'm not taking anything away from them as basketball players, but they really are great people. I can't say enough about them as people. In the long run, that's probably more important than anything else in life.

Lee Bennett

This is a really good win. That's a conglomeration of really good basketball players over there.

Todd Hansen

This is a nice win because it puts us up two games over three teams. We've been winning games, but could only get a one-game lead. Now we've got a little cushion. I thought our kids played a pretty good basketball game tonight.

Gary Williams

This is a pretty resilient team. They have great attitudes, ... It's still great basketball

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Benito Mussolini

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

C. S. Lewis

One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

Bryant H. McGill

The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.

Bryant H. McGill

When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

Bryant H. McGill

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

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.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Erik Anderson

Defensively, we're as good as we have ever been.

Paul Kariya

Defensively we didn't do a very good job. But over all it was just lack of a 60-minute effort.

Mark Francis

Defensively we did a good job. I thought we had a good performance all around.

Kraig Clifton

Defensively we did a good job. But offensively, we just weren't smooth. We had turnovers and didn't execute.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Paul Allen

The Super Bowl. Wow! It's mind-blowing if you're a fan, how great it is to think of your team winning the Super Bowl.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

J. J. Johnson

The thing about Mike is he's so explosive. And he's going to make plays because he's got great quickness and great pad level.

Vic Wolffis

The thing about Kyle is that you can't say he hasn't only looked for himself. He's done a great job of getting other people involved. We've done this as a team.

David Whyte

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Petter Solberg

What can we do? Loeb just keeps taking every stage from us and no-one can keep up.

Todd Hays

If Brock keeps pushing the way he has, we're going to be just fine.

Mike Williams

He pushes me a lot. That's what keeps me going. I like when he pushes me. It shows me I can do anything I put my mind to.

Ted Jr.

He's meant everything to me. That's Pops. He keeps me based.

Keith Richardson

He keeps switching the names of the owners on the deed,

Hank Haney

He just keeps getting better and better and better. I don't think there's a 'there' there.

Marianne Williamson

Spiritual 'exercise' keeps your mind in shape the way physical exercise keeps your body in shape.

will.i.am

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

Bat for Lashes

I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.

Rod Smith

The season is nowhere near over. We just can't go undefeated. That's the only thing.

Ron Zarrella

Don't look for any number near this in July,

Baha'u'llah

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

Earl Steele

You have to be able to get them near you before you have to worry about them seeing you.

English 15th Century Proverbs

Near is my kirtle, but nearer is my smock.

Kelly Clarkson

I always get bored, and I like to do different things, but it isn't something I'm going to do in the near future.

Stephen Flynn

If I had to rank in order 10 things I'm worried about as it relates to security in our ports, the ownership of the lease of a terminal here in the U.S. is near nine or 10 on that list.

Tony Butler

I don't see any pressure on them to settle in the near term.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

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.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Demetri Martin

There is no I in Team, unless you count the vertical part of the T.

Clive Woodward

Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team.

Brian Dawkins

I'm playing this game because I'm blessed and want to help this team win the Super Bowl, ... At the same time, I want to be considered the best safety that has ever played the game.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.