Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Allen Iverson

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

Allen Iverson

I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

Allen Iverson

I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.

Allen Iverson

Personally I just want to win a championship.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Derek Smith

We're at a fork in the road. You have a choice. You can go out and fight or you can lay down.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Jeff Greenfield

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

John Abizaid

We must fight the terrorists together so that we can have a free and prosperous future for the Iraqi people,

Rick Riordan

Normally, as long as I'm telling him what to do, he wins in a fight.

Calvin Lowry

In the roles that I do play in, there are a lot of opportunities for a person to make plays. Every time I do step out there and try to return a punt, I am trying to return it for a touchdown. Sometimes, I do get myself in trouble by trying to do too much, but that's just the fight and hunger I have to win the game.

Frank Zappa

In a fight between you and the world, pick the world

Larry Hawkins

If you ever once let this insect get established here, then you're going to be fighting it forever more.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Terry Allmon

No, we didn't shoot well in the second half. But that was mostly North picking up the pressure. They're good. They're just a really good team with a super coach.

Roberto Bettega

Now is a different time, is a different game, a different business. We are very good team. And when I say team I mean the management of this club.

Reba McEntire

Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Bobby Bowden

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

Dusty Baker

At this point, it's hard to imagine him not pitching forever.

Terri Lemos

(Diver) Ryan Jones qualified for State in El Dorado last weekend. So Cody is working hard so he can qualify for State.

Rob Sanderson

DirecTV is having a hard time getting compensated appropriately for what they've delivered,

Mark Greenberg

Could they be a little more aggressive? Yes. Should they be a lot more aggressive? It's hard to say.

Patty Griffin

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

Paul Arden

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.

Steve Buscemi

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it's very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.

Robert Allenby

Towels are the worst. They're hard to sign and the strings get stuck on the pen. Then the next one you sign is smudged.

Clarke Peters

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks much better than the one you've got, so why not mate for life?

Michael Finley

He looks good. He looks the same to me.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.

Richelle Mead

And you work for that demon, right? The one who looks like Matthew Broderick?” “John Cusack,” I corrected. “He looks like John Cusack.” “Whatever.

Truman Capote

I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

Rick Riordan

For once, I didn't look back.

William Safire

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

William Shatner

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.