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.

Joakim Noah

As a basketball player this is your dream -- to play in the national championship game. It's just such a great feeling that it's finally here. There's been so much hard work and so much sacrifice. There's so many moments that I can go back to -- being a little kid, walking to practice. Now I'm finally playing in the game.

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.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want the chance to do. We just did what we've been doing all along.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want. It's been an exciting, exciting week for us.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want a chance to have an opportunity to do.

Gary Williams

As a college basketball coach, I'm upset for the future of game. Somebody has to be accountable. You can't blame just one group of people for this, unfortunately.

Craig Shoemaker

The boys are excited. When we do put four quarters of basketball together, we're a pretty decent team.

Pat Summitt

Another valuable lesson was handed to us. Our defense and ball-handling killed us.

Tommy Bowden

As far as the way we played, when our defense gives that kind of effort, we're a pretty good football team. It's been indicative of the way we have played all season.

S. Walker

Ashton's just a workhorse. To have one touchdown on offense, one on defense and one on special teams really says a lot.

Mike Hass

As an offense, all you can do is go out there and score every time you touch the ball. That's your goal. If the defense stops them, it helps us out. If not, then it puts more pressure on us to go out and get the job done.

Doug Wojcik

As a team, we play defense well and our kids listen. Memphis did a poor job at the free throw line (26-of-41) and that really kept us in the game.

John Abraham

As a defense we feel we can definitely pick it up more and we can hold teams down. I think we can win some games on defense, so that's something we're trying to prepare ourselves for if it has to happen.

Jim Collins

As a defense lawyer, it's harder. The office has become more professional and better at prosecuting crime. The deputies are working harder; there's more oversight. I think the (plea bargain) offers are getting tougher.

Jill Lepore

As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

Kelly Jennings

As a matter of fact, that's how we are, yes sir. We're not big names or guys with all this hype or anything like that. Everyone knows their role. Nobody tries to make all the plays and do everything. That way gets the defense messed up.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Gary Hall

Any time it's Westfield-Herndon, South Lakes-Herndon, it's a little more intense. I thought our guys showed some great composure.

Dwyane Wade

Another win Wednesday will make us feel great about the way we're playing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

George Peters

As a resident I'm actually happy they're doing it, I think it's going to be great for the community.

Tracy McGrady

As a team, we had great intensity to start the game. I think if we consistently do that and play the way we played in the first half and to come out in the third quarter, then we'll be all right.

Russ Borman

As a team, we played fundamentally well. Our guys did a great job.

Jim Yurwitz

As a freshman, she had a great day.

Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Joe Sakic

As a hockey player, it's great to be a part of this race.

Catrina Thompson

During the first match everyone always has nerves. And even though it is going to be tough, we will be ready.

Mike Thibault

Once we made that first run, they weren't able to match it.

Marcos Baghdatis

I've played him second round, third round, quarters. Now it's the final. So every day is different. I just go into the match and play my game, just try not to make a lot of mistakes, just try to make him play. I'll try to find a solution in the match.

John Corcoran

It was the pivotal match in the whole tournament and it was a big win for them and a big win for the team.

Bob White

It was very frustrating. The talent doesn't match the attitude.

John Rittenhouse

This is states, so every match is going to be a challenge.

Holly Brown

The way we've been playing, we're going to be a tough match for them.

Annika Sorenstam

That's just match play, ... That's what makes it so exciting.

Davis III

You see that in match play, and that's why we don't do it every week. It's a little too volatile to do it every week.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Robert Taylor

Australia is the same size as the U.S., but it's much smaller in terms of population. I've been working in the States off and on since the '80s, and the first time I played a lead here was in '91, I think.

Mikel Miller

At times we played pretty well; at times we were sloppy.

Jeff Brown

At times, we played OK. We have to go over there (to Heritage's arena) in two weeks or so. It makes things interesting in the Valley.

Dave Greenberg

Offensively we usually struggle. We played well in transition.

J. M. Roberts

After the first quarter we played right with them.

Dan Brown

Defensively, in the first half, we played really well.

Ross Browner

Detroit's where I played in my only Super Bowl.

Peter Forsberg

The Slovakian team played very well. The U.S. team played very hard. There's still more for us to give and more for us to do.