Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Stallings

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

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.

Marcelo Enriquez

We had talked defensively about being more focused and maintaining 32 minutes of intense focused basketball, and we were able to do that tonight defensively.

Rick Hartzell

We will not, in this program, take a back seat to anybody. We've had the best basketball program in the state of Iowa over the last three or four years. We have nothing but plans to keep that going.

Donald Hall

In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.

Donald Glover

You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

Kerry Collins

The whole season has been disappointing, but I am proud of the way guys hung in there and fought. I know that guys came to play tonight and it was unfortunate that things didn't work out in our favor.

Luis Sayavedra

The win came at an opportune time for us. I'm pleased with how everyone played. We were able to spread the scoring around.

Milan Hejduk

The whole third period we spent in the penalty box. It was frustrating. I'm glad we came back. It's a big difference to be 1-1 or 2-0 for us.

Cindy Johnson

They all came in cheerful, ... Our kids are loving school.

Todd Blythe

The way it came down to double overtime and with all the chances we had to win it, this one is going to sting.

Maxine Waters

The way I see it is they came to his house, uninvited, ... They had not only the force of the embassy but the Marines with them. They made it clear that he had to go now or he would be killed.

Chris Neil

The way he came back, it was unbelievable. That's all I can say about him. His focus was right on the game. It was a way for him to get away from it all, even if it's for three hours. The guy is the leader in this dressing room and has been an important player.

Jose Oquendo

These are very proud people. They are proud of their heritage and haven't forgotten where they came from. I don't know how it will be received here, but it is something big in Latin America.

Donald Lipski

These are some of the challenges of living in New York and having the piece manufactured in Sparta, Wisconsin, ... I've made five or six trips here and we e-mailed images back and forth. Still, I came here and the final piece has some things that ought to be changed.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Bobby Frasor

Coach Williams from Day 1 was always preaching how good we could be. We could surprise everyone in America, all the analysts; we could be the darlings of America.

Chuck Long

Coach Elliott and I will figure that out. We'll determine that at a later time.

Andy Roxburgh

Coach education is very important for UEFA. If you educate good coaches, they in turn produce good players. So each country is enthusiastic about the training of its coaches.

Robert Waller

Coach (Eddie) Durrence is the master of small ball. If he gets them on, he'll steal, bunt, whatever, he'll get them home,

Gary Brackett

Coach (Dungy) does a great job installing his defense and communicating how he wants us to play. There's a lot of teaching and emphasis on the little things.

Geoffrey Boycott

Coach Duncan Fletcher reckons he already knows 10 of his likely World Cup side. The problem is that half of them are not in India at the moment. For the past two years England have been a poor One-day team and that is because they haven't been able to field a settled side. We keep losing players to injury, illness or paternity leave. You don't know from one game to the next who is going to take the field.

Cameron Long

Coach Dorsett kept us enthusiastic during that last timeout. He told us to keep our heads up and not let the game get away from us. We started running our plays effectively.

Lee Humphrey

Coach Donovan told me at halftime to keep shooting.

Bobby Vinton

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Don Rickles

My style is my personality. It's always been that way. Being a wiseguy and having fun. It's always been that way for me, when I was in high school, and in the Navy. It's not something I rehearse.

Don Rickles

An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

Cris Collinsworth

Get your calculators out, this will be fun!

Creed Bratton

I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.

Criss Angel

We are thrilled to work with Fun and share the same sentiment that we want do some really exciting and innovative things for the magic community.

Craig Thompson

Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.

Constance Jablonski

Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. Id rather be outdoors having fun.

Corbin Bleu

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Robert Griffin III

I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I'm going to be excited to play for that team, and I can't wait to see myself in 'Madden' on that team.

Richard Lloyd

Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.

Sammy Hagar

Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer.

T. Boone Pickens

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

Suzanne Yoculan

All the hands, hearts and minds of the individuals collectively contribute to the team's success. (listen to your team, watch their body language, share your expectations . . . work together.)

Scott Adams

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.

Ray Rice

One thing we said as an offense is we want to start games fast ... we want the other team to play catch-up to us.

Marilyn Monroe

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.