Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Don Hogan

West Georgia is very athletic, and you have to earn everything because they play great defense. We must take care of the basketball and play smart.

Don Meyer

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

Dave Brubeck

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

David Halberstam

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Andy Murray

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

Eric Wortman

I'm excited to come back next year. Well, hey, I qualified.

Phillip Woods

I'm excited to be back on the home court. We always play well at the House.

Sam Martin

I'm excited to be at the primary level and know when the kids leave Aux Sable they are going to be prepared for the junior high. I get to work with the students, parents and teachers from day one of their schooling.

Chris Hanson

I?m excited to be a part of the new branch, and I have great team to work with.

Judy Thompson

It's a wonderful facility and we're really excited about it.

Joan Winter

We're really excited about this. The goal is for every family to have one.

Chet Reed

We were a little excited and started getting fatigued.

Matt Holliday

We're at that level of knowing we can play here and play well at this level. You hate to get really excited ...

Tom Coughlin

We're excited about this pick. It's truly a valuable pick.

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.

Simon Mainwaring

Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version.

Rick Riordan

Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?

Rick Riordan

Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.

Rick Riordan

Are you guys busy?" Juniper asked. "Well," I said, "we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die." "We're not busy," Annabeth said.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.

Richard Branson

Don’t just play the game – change it for good.

Sam Snead

A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.

Rupert Murdoch

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Lugar

As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.

Samuel Alito

In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people, like my grandparents, had little chance to improve their lives, no matter their talents or willingness to work.

T. Harv Eker

Get really rich and then help the people who didn't have the opportunity you did.

T. D. Jakes

I think it's important that when you're bringing something to the table that you're sure has value, that you don't diminish yourself just so that you can have an opportunity.

T. D. Jakes

I have certain standards for myself so if something drops beneath that standard or if the opportunity doesn't fit who I am authentically at my core - I don't invest time where my brand isn't respected or where what I have to offer isn't appreciated.

Taylor Dane

To me, it was about finding new opportunities. I know my voice touches people. It has for years. I can't give that up.

Rick Santorum

I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.

Tony Blair

If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.