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.

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.

Jeff Davis

The bottom line is, we were beat tonight by a very good basketball team. I won't say better, but a very good basketball team.

Diana Taurasi

The bottom line is we've got good basketball players so we make good basketball decisions and play really good basketball and we just got to keep that same focus and intensity,

Don Allen

The bottom line is we're going to be playing onehopefully twovery good basketball teams. We're going to have our work cut out for us, regardless. A month-and-a-half ago, we were in the bottom of the barrel.

Austin Kirby

At times, we've stagnated a little on offense. We still haven't played our best basketball yet.

Terry Becker

A year ago, these guys were a long ways from being a good basketball team. But the great thing about them is that they worked hard and they listened and they learned.

Mike Lewis

Back east here, we were kind of basketball snobs. We figured we had to be better. That was our first mistake.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Whitney Frament

After the first or second time (Rookie of the Week), teams started to realize what I could do. Some games I didn't score as much, so I had to have assists and rebound more.

Curt Smith

Again, we gave up a run in the first inning. That's three games in a row we gave up a run in the first. Hopefully, that won't happen (today).

Gao Zhidan

The National Games is a warm-up for the 2008 Olympics. A good result at the 2008 Olympics is our ultimate goal.

Warren Spector

Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

Clint Dempsey

The more games you get, obviously the more comfortable you get. When he's scoring goals like he did, that lets you know he is comfortable.

Vince Carter

The more games we let slip away, we're letting other teams have a chance. It's important for us to be who we are and win. It doesn't matter how ugly or how lucky we are.

Rich Brooks

The momentum will really get going when we start winning games. I think we've turned the corner, but we've got to get to the straightaway and accelerate.

Red Berenson

(The momentum) gives them the advantage. Their team is in sync, especially after giving up one goal in two games last weekend (against Alaska-Fairbanks). They are much better than they were at the start of the year, when they had all of those injuries.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Jin Yan

Safety and quality of all the Olympic venue projects are under control.

Don Kardong

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Andy Murray

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Shaun White

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Shaun White

I didn't understand how big a thing the Olympics are until I showed up here.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

W. S. Gilbert

I saw rowing in the Olympics and I said, 'I want to do that. That's my sport,' ... I had always been a swimmer, but when I saw rowing, I said, 'That's it.'

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Carl Willis

Tell me the youngest person you have ever seen play this game.

Felix Sabates

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Claire Foy

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Robert Williams

I've never seen anything like this in Detroit. It's different for sure.

Todd Pratt

I've never seen anything like that, ... You just sit down and go, 'This is unbelievable that this is happening.'

Doug Graham

I've never seen (a case) where they've taken the vehicles together.

Benjamin Bequer

The store is something you've never seen before.