Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rich Conover

She's a combination guard with good size and is a really good athlete.

Bob Scott

Mick was a good athlete. A 50-year-old guy looking at Mick had to love him. He was living the life they wanted to live but very few had a shot at. I don't think he had any desire to go pro, but there weren't any pros that he wasn't friendly with.

Bob Gaudet

Mike Devine has done a great job. He played all of 30-some odd minutes (34:22 to be exact) last year as a freshman. Coming into this year, we had Sean Samuel who looked like the goalie that was going to start for us. Mike kind of wrestled it away and got a chance and made good by it. He's a real calm kid, he's very athletic and the guys really enjoy playing in front of him. He's a guy that really hates to get beat. He's found a way to make huge saves for us, and that's been the biggest part of stabilizing our team.

Joe Fussner

William Paterson is a very athletic team. We put pressure on them. We made one mistake at the end when we left their shooter wide open.

Cassidy Freeman

I think I give off a strong energy. I'm 5'9, I'm pretty athletic and I'm pretty outspoken.

Lisa Walker

It ensures this person is educated, holds a degree and passes national boards to be a certified athletic trainer.

Jessica Uecker

It feels great. We worked hard for it. We've got a bunch of athletic girls on this team.

Tommy Felty

We're blessed with a lot of athletic kids, and it was nice to see all of them get on the field. Not only that, but they executed well and didn't make many mistakes.

Philip Knight

We endured many significant challenges in the second quarter, in particular, a soft U.S. retail market for athletic footwear and apparel. Despite these challenges, we met our bottom line expectations as we began to see an impact from our efforts to control expenses in a weak retail environment.

Tatum Bell

We've been working on it all off- season. I've just got to find a way to get in there like the coaches always say. . . . Can't make no excuses.

John Jones

We'll survey all the incoming coaches to find out how many (hotel) rooms they use and where they stay.

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Frank Thompson

Rockefeller College is one of the premier places in the country to study politics, governance, policy, and public administration,

Henry Giroux

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres.

Tom Rose

Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.

Julia Stiles

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Kim Harrison

Can we get back to how we’re going to kill Nick? And what’s this about a dead body? You’d better start talking quick, Ivy, ’cause I’m not going to play hide-and-seek with a dead guy in my trunk. I did that in college, and I’m not going to do it again.” A smile quirked Ivy’s mouth. “Really?” she asked, and I flushed.

Mark Twain

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Sandy Barbour

At the pro level, the mission is to win. At the college level, it's to experience success within the context of an educational environment. I don't have a problem going with a pro guy, but they need to understand the context under which they're operating.

Josh Radnor

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Terry Grant

They want me to play running back. Wherever you go, you've got to work to be the best. Competition is good.

Lily Collins

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

Laurence J. Peter

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

Lee Kuan Yew

India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

John D. Rockefeller

Competition is a sin.

Karl Rove

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Paul Davies

An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

Chris Moneymaker

The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.

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.

Quin Snyder

Tucker took the game over. No matter who guarded him, he was tough for us to handle.

Ben Olsen

Yes, yes a lot. I was probably more nervous for this game than I have been in a long time. Nerves help sometimes, though.

Bob Shinkan

Todd and I have already talked about this. This will be the game we play here every year.

Mike Davis

You can just see it in their faces. It's not the same team. Because we lost one game or two games on the road and it was like the end of the year. When you think about that, it doesn't make sense. At all.

Jon Raker

We wanted to be .500 at worst at this point (of the season), and now we're three and five. That makes it an uphill battle. You make it tough on yourself when you score 10 runs in a game and don't win.

Matt Creamer

We wanted to tempo the game defensively to get some run outs. We wanted them to play fast.

Gillian Apps

We wanted to take this whole tournament one game at a time. We knew, going into this game, that we couldn't take Sweden lightly.

Ernie Mejia

We wanted to shake off (the Nogales) game as soon as we could and show everyone else that we are going to be right there.

Bobby Bowden

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

Terri Lemos

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

Jim Morris

This one is hard for me because of all the mental mistakes we made. We should have won the game.

David Meyer

We are always working hard but having fun. I think that's why we are so successful.

Andrew Gordon

We are very pleased with the results. Their success was down to a lot of hard work by pupils and staff. They have done very well.

Kammie Michael

We are very pleased that there have been no murders this year so far, but it is hard to say why this has happened. Murders are hard to predict and hard to prevent.

Mark Phillips

We are very impressed with Patricia and Ryan. Those two are everything that we thought they would be. They are training hard and running well.

Eddie Jordan

We didn't play as hard as they did. They made shots. They played harder, longer. They're just a better team than we are.

Ron Beard

We didn't perform very well as a team tonight but they worked hard and I'm proud of them.

Merle Shain

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

George Wallace

Some might be here for three months. It's just whatever I want to do.

F. L. Lucas

Might was the measure of right.

F. H. Bradley

Another occupation might have been better.

Garth Brooks

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

Gena Showalter

What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her.

Terry Hoeppner

I said it to somebody in the spring, we didn't know if we were going to be able to throw the ball. We thought we might have to run every play. ... It wasn't Blake, it was the terminology and learning.

ASAP Ferg

I might be more satisfied seeing my friends really come up than myself. I'm really happy for my success, but I can't really see it, because I'm myself working. You can see it; everyone around me can see it.

Tom Coulson

I might also like to see the west and the Pacific Northwest. So it just seemed like it was time.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

David Christian

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

Alice Hoffman

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Andy Partridge

Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn

Cillian Murphy

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

Alfie Allen

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

Alfie Kohn

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

Alfie Kohn

When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

Alfie Kohn

The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.

Alfie Kohn

Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.