Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herb Kohl

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.

Matt Thissen

San Diego isn't a hard place to want to go to school. It's a good school. Their basketball program has been down lately, but eight years ago they were a top 25 team. Their coach left to go coach her alma mater at Ohio State. I guess she decided she liked the weather better in San Diego and now she's back.

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

Bobby Cremins

I've been blessed. I got to live the American dream when I was coaching, and I continue to live the American dream. Without basketball in my life, I don't know what I would have wound up doing.

Mike Predmore

They are a great group of guys and a great group of young men. I'm not taking anything away from them as basketball players, but they really are great people. I can't say enough about them as people. In the long run, that's probably more important than anything else in life.

Todd Hansen

This is a nice win because it puts us up two games over three teams. We've been winning games, but could only get a one-game lead. Now we've got a little cushion. I thought our kids played a pretty good basketball game tonight.

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.

Taquan Dean

This isn't like any other conference. If you want to go to the conference tournament, you've got to earn your way there. So that's what we've got to do. We need to go knock some people off and play good basketball and earn our spot.

Bruce Forsyth

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

Brian Weiss

I was on in two.... then again on four...

Ben Hogan

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

Ben Hogan

Good golf begins with a good grip.

Ben Hogan

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

Ben Hogan

If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?

Alistair Cooke

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

Alistair Cooke

Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems and alarmingly generous wads of folding money.

Alistair Cooke

It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.

Ben Howland

We have a student who helps out with the video -- he tore his ACL the other day. That's how it's been.

Zach Woods

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

Gary Keith

If this thing passes it helps Rick Perry.

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Elena Dementieva

I like to play first, it helps me with my preparation.

Robert Toth

It helps us understand what pi is, not just food.

Aya Traore

(It helps me by) staying in shape. (It also helps me by) not being winded (during the drills).

Steve Wilson

I really look up to him. I watch how he wrestles. He's quicker than I am, so I watch how he shoots and moves. He helps me work on my speed.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

Steve Ron

We all have to wait. We're in a similar situation.

Michael Zenker

There's a geopolitical overlay that's going to look similar to oil.

Shigeru Omi

I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Abraham Lincoln

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

Dean Martin

I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.

Dan Rather

I don't want to be argumentative, Mr. Vice President.

Erin Heatherton

Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a great thing to know your vices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

Ed Rendell

You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

Geraldine Ferraro

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.