Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

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

Billy Donovan

As a basketball team you have to go through it. They need it. The game came down to our inexperience on the basketball court to their experience.

Michael Wong

As a group, we don't have the size and strength of other basketball players, so we try to create our own little world of basketball. We're not trying to lock people out because we're better. We're protecting our weaker status.

Jeff Davis

The bottom line is, we were beat tonight by a very good basketball team. I won't say better, but a very good basketball team.

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,

Don Allen

The bottom line is we're going to be playing onehopefully twovery good basketball teams. We're going to have our work cut out for us, regardless. A month-and-a-half ago, we were in the bottom of the barrel.

Austin Kirby

At times, we've stagnated a little on offense. We still haven't played our best basketball yet.

Terry Becker

A year ago, these guys were a long ways from being a good basketball team. But the great thing about them is that they worked hard and they listened and they learned.

Mike Lewis

Back east here, we were kind of basketball snobs. We figured we had to be better. That was our first mistake.

Chris Avery

BA is entering what we feel will be a tense six months for industrial relations as the pension fund deficit and the three-year wage deal come up for negotiation with the unions.

M. Wolfe

As of what we know, the better deal is Hilton. It's going to go up.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as we got the win. We gotta deal with that other (stuff) every night. But we fought through it and got the W.

Tom Freston

As per a part of the deal the director (Steven Spielberg) would produce...not necessarily direct four-five films for us.

Tate Casey

That was a big deal to us. It was his way of sending us a message that we were taking everything for granted. This is the University of Florida. It's a privilege to be here and a privilege to play football here. Some guys might have lost sight of that, but he has that instilled into everyone now.

Holly Veloso

That was a big deal for her, a big jump.

Richard Fisher

really a great deal of intolerance for their being stuck in the water and their inability to change.

E. Hurley

Privacy issues are very difficult to deal with. If government intervention comes into play, it will be ineffective at best.

Craig Cook

People think they need to be at a ski-in/ski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump on a shuttle.

Mike Trgovac

Definitely, I would. But until the league does something about it, they're within their rights to do what they're doing.

Pat Brisson

Savior is a big word. No one's a savior of the league at this point.

David Samson

That's not a problem. We had to get permission from Major League Baseball, so it's not a problem.

Orlando Hudson

That's me, baby. I talk on base. I talk when I go to the plate. I talk to the catcher, the umpires. It's all good. I don't know too many catchers in the National League yet, but most people know my personality. They just smile.

Glenn Thiel

You never know, this is the toughest league in lacrosse. There aren't any breathers.

Tom Hicks

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

Riley Wallace

We're 1-0 in the league and we're starting a new season now. You're in league play and that's what really counts.

Skip Prosser

Don't feel sorry for us. This league is a two-month ordeal.

Sherry Sealey

You can't do that and win in our league because we are pretty evenly matched. The first time we played them, we didn't have any errors.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Marc Walters

Erskine, they just overpowered us. They are just so much better than all of the rest of the teams.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Linda Bartoshuk

Turns out they are thinner than the rest of us, because there are a lot of things they don't like.

Terry Beauford

This week will give us time to rest.

Paul Morris

Everything went really well so we didn't have to do a lot of laps. We spent the rest of the day sorting out the new (adjustable) seat we will be using at Sandown and Bathurst.

Azita Ghanizada

Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail and information. They're a part of the story and they inform your character, as well. We all listen to the fans, and we love their feedback and the attention they give us.

James Wan

If I'm smart as an artist, I wouldn't be a snob and turn it down, because I'd look at it and go, this is great stuff, but I definitely do want to experiment in other genres, or make films in other genres.

Socrates

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, Average people from their experiences, Stupid people already have all the answers.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

Alain de Botton

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Janet Napolitano

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

John Avlon

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

Derrick Rose

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

Derrick Rose

I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.

Stephany Smith

As a team, we just stay strong and focused. Usually, we get it done. We trust each other.

Ann Fisher

As long as we stay together, we will be alright,

Brian Clarke

As long as I stay in town I will be fine,

Kurt Kutay

Some only have a dung hut to stay in.

Lillian Carter

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.

Nate Jackson

I've been staying in it mentally. And they'll work me in as they see fit.

Calvin Williams

I've been through a storm, and I ain't trying to get in another one. So I just try to stay to myself.

Lindsey Hunter

Things are going well, but it just takes time. It's all going well, so I just have to stay patient.

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Robinson Cano

It was tough to see. I didn't see it.

Willie Randolph

They are all tough, man, ... and this is tough as it gets.

Jimmy Johnson

The wind was really swirling. It was tough at times.

Li Na

The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.

John Skalko

These are tough times and we're in a fight. It's a tough fight.

Ron Thomas

This is not done without any real thought. There are tough standards.

Don Shows

If we win out from here and go undefeated ... I know they'll be undefeated. That could be a big gate.