Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Jerry Graybeal

Reaching 500 games is a great accomplishment. That's a lot of games for any coach. She's a great example of stability in our women's basketball program and it has translated to success on the floor. Carla has been a great representative of Weber State as a player and coach for more than 25 years.

Jim Calhoun

People had the misconception that if you have three 6-10 kids, all of a sudden you have a good basketball team. The game takes instinct.

Jerry Buescher

Offensively, we did too much dribbling and too much one-on-one stuff, and we're not good enough one-on-one to beat people.

Al Visconti

Offensive basketball is like the stock market it goes up and down. He had to reach that level of consistency on defense.

Rich Glas

North Dakota is not an easy place to win basketball games. I was proud to carry on from Dave Gunther and proud that we did it the right way.

Jeff Cohen

No one was given an offer, from my understanding. We wanted a big-time college coach. A proven winner that has a big-time track record, and I believe Kelvin Sampson is one of five guys who I would have been happy with as the basketball coach here.

Tim Pease

After the effort we gave, it makes it hard (after a game like this). It's hard to walk away with a loss when you give it your all, but we knew who we were playing. We respect them and we know they're a great offensive basketball team. We've got to get better.

Jim Calhoun

The name has magic to it. There's nobody in basketball that when I say the name Gavitt they don't respond.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Things are calming, ... But that doesn't mean it won't restart.

Dan Hawkins

The whole streak thing doesn't mean a lot to me, but when you win three in a row on the islands, that's impressive.

Brian Baird

The whole roof was ablaze within 10 minutes of the first sign of smoke. I mean it was gone.

Rick Jones

The work that these subcommittees have done is not being disregarded. Just because visioning subcommittee members were not (selected) does not mean the subcommittees are getting ignored.

Steve Fossett

This is not just another round-the-world attempt; we mean to succeed this time. That's a tall order.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Shay Doron

You would think that little number (No. 2 seed in the region) would mean something, wouldn't you?

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

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.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.