Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andy Murray

I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

Andy Roddick

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

Anna Quindlen

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off to Faulkner. He'll do the interior monologue. Hemingway will edit - no, don't make that face, you know you overwrite. And be nice to Cheever. He's young, but he's got a good ear. Wharton and Cather can't play - they're girls.'

Richard Roby

We haven't been playing our best basketball lately. We hit our peak, I think, in the middle of the season, and that's not good.

Peja Stojakovic

We haven't played good basketball all year. Hopefully, we will play better as a team as the season goes on.

Jim Calhoun

We are incredibly happy to be here today. We survived an incredible basketball game. Washington gave us everything we could ever imagine to handle. But we were able to withstand it and advance. And that is what you want to do in the NCAA Tournament.

Pat Flaherty

I think you've got to try to limit their touches as much possible which is difficult with their size. You have to try to keep them off the boards and out of the paint as much as possible, which is easier said than done.

Robby Reasonover

We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.

Jim Furyk

Winning two years in a row, pretty much being in control of this tournament most of the way, he's the guy to beat.

Deanna Gumpf

Heather did have one inning when they got some hits off of her, but she got back in control and buckled down.

Larry Brown

Health-wise, I'm better off than I was when I took the job, I wasn't in control of that. I want to retire here. I want to fulfill my contract, and I'd like to stay involved as long as they'll have me.

Michael Campbell

He played great on the first nine holes. That's good golf and you can't control that,

Sean Allan

He ran tough. We're still working on running under control early in the races. We're getting there. It's only his second year of running.

Scott Johnson

I don't want to register as a woman beater. I'm not a woman beater. I just had one incident of losing control for a moment.

Pete Sampras

He's got a big game and a big future. I never really felt I was in control of his service games. You're looking at the future of American tennis. He's a standout. He's got a big serve and grass is a surface he's going to get better on.

Chris Resop

I don't like to put pressure on myself that if I don't do well I'm not going to be here, I'm going to be in Triple-A. I don't think about that. All you can do is go out and take control of what you can control on the mound. Everything else that goes on, you have no control over.

Charles Bukowski

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

Timothy Simons

I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

Debby Ryan

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

Tony Fabrizio

The fractures were always there. The difference was the White House was always able to hold them in line because of perceived power, ... After Tuesday's election, it's 'Why are we following these guys? They're taking us off the cliff.'

Rob Schelling

That's the difference between a good and great player, and those guys are great players. When you can do that on your own, when other teams know about you and they're keying on you and you can still score, that shows what type of player they are.

Matt Watson

It makes a huge difference in the service we can offer. We can say it's a 15-minute drive time and we pay a premium to say that.

Charles Caleb

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Brandon Jacobs

This one was for the Duke. This game was totally for Mr. Mara. Mr. Mara was the heart of this team. We just went out and had to give this one to him.

Charles Richardson

This one could put us near the top, and it could also lead us to the bottom, because right now, you never know what's going to happen (in the conference) on any night. And also, when it comes down to getting into the Big Dance, we could look back at this game and have a real quality win over a good team.

Mark Schmidt

This next game is the most important for us for a number of reasons. We have lost three in a row. This is an important home game, and we are only three games out of first place.

Craig Jones

We should have scored a run in the first inning. We had a runner on third with one out and couldn't get him home. Then we gave them a run on a wild pitch. We should have won the game 6-4.

Kyle Whittingham

We should have put the game away long before that.

Jaroslav Spacek

We should have helped him a little more, got the win for him. It was kind of a tough game for us.

David Blackwell

(Vintage) was undefeated and had scored about 45 points per game, and we held them to six, so we did pretty well.

Jeff Barker

(Villegas) has a passion for the game that comes from living it. She does not get enough of it. You have to tell her to stop just for her to rest or she will be worn out. If she could play 24/7, she would.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Tony Parker

Every time we play Houston, we have a hard time scoring. Whenever you make the outside shot, it opens things up for us.

Louis Amundson

Every time we made a run, they'd make a shot. It's disappointing to not come out and play hard from the start.

George H. W. Bush

there's people from all walks of life working hard to protect the American people.

Laveranues Coles

There's only so much you can do,' ... 'Just keep playing hard and it will be O.K.'

Mark Parrish

There's got to be a sense of urgency. We didn't work hard enough to get the puck.

Jerod Uldall

There's only one other one (banner) up there. The hard work by these kids paid off.

Kevin Colbert

There's nowhere you can go, because you don't know what the situation will be. It's hard to speculate. You have to be prepared for the worst and hope for the best. We don't know the specifics as to where we stand. It's all speculation at this point.

Ryan Long

The time reflects the training that (Davis has) put them through. He's had them working hard with the idea of trying to use this meet as a springboard into the state meet.

Max Azria

The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.

Paul Desmond

We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.