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.

Tony Parker

Definitely difficult to lose him. He was coming back very well. He was starting to play very well. He was playing good basketball so it is hard to lose him again.

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.

Steve Kerr

So much youth basketball is being played around the world, in countries everywhere. And the sheer volume of kids means that Winthrop and Monmouth can get some pretty good players.

Carly Syverson

Sometimes in basketball you don't think, you react. That's exactly what I did.

Joe Morgan

Teams draft mostly college players now, ... and a black kid from a poor family can't go to college unless he gets a scholarship. He can get one in basketball or football, but not in baseball.

Karl Hobbs

Temple played a fantastic game. The elder statesman showed that he still knows how to get a team up and prepared to win a basketball game.

Brian Hill

Sometimes the light goes on a little bit later. Maybe this is one of those situations where we just realize if we play together and share the basketball and play good defense and force some turnovers and get out and run, we can be pretty good.

Jennifer Egan

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.

Mark Hyman

Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.

Woody Allen

A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

Doug Ellin

The show has always been about the shallow moment-by-moment existence of life in the business. But we keep discovering subtleties, like, in Hollywood, even a guy who makes $5 million is constantly insecure and struggling.

Terrence Roberts

The summer was just horrible after that because you're constantly thinking about that game and you can't wait for the next season. We definitely don't want to go out like we did last year.

Mike Nichols

The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.

Mike McGann

The thing is with Sauk, is they do have some holes. They're constantly moving their lineup around and it's hard to keep sync on what they are going to do.

Larry Davis

Teams go through ebbs and flows during the season. It's rare that a team goes start to finish constantly climbing.

John Hagel III

Rather than constantly questioning and challenging our beliefs and being willing to think differently about the opportunities that are out there, we withdraw into what we've done before. And in a world that's rapidly changing, that's a formula for vulnerability.

Johann Lamont

I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.

Tessanne Chin

I want to make the music that people remember, and it doesn't need a trend; it doesn't need to be constantly hyped. There's no time period for it. That's the type of music I want to make.

Roma Downey

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.

John Sutherland

These are six extremely different novels, all of them good in a very different way.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Shane Valdez

Luke is extremely hard to score on. He's got good solid takedowns, he's solid on top and he's very hard to take down.

Mike Bossy

I'm always extremely honored to be applauded the way I am when I get back here and have any kind of liaison with the fans. I'm humbled by it.

Shanna Briggs

I felt like we started out extremely flat. And we didn't do some things well defensively that we wanted to, and that's when they went on their run.

J. Taylor

Hiroshi is an extremely technical player with his passing and dribbling, ... He'll be a good player for us.

Jay Foreman

He stepped up big for us. They had put a lot of good shots on goal. He was solid in net. His reflexes are good and he is extremely athletic. He showed me a lot stepping in a tough spot like that.

Peter Castro

He's extremely concerned. And she's extremely grateful for that concern.

Michael Bennet

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

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Chris Bell

Some people have an ongoing poker game. We had an ongoing Twister game.

Phil Jackson

Some players, you say at the end of the game, maybe it'd be a higher percentage. But he hasn't shown he makes that shot at the end of the game.

Jorunn Christoffersen

Some people think it's horrible to treat the matter as a game but we see things totally differently.

Skip Bertman

So we got our night game, but not on Saturday night. Our preference was to play on Sunday night if not Saturday. We weren't going to move this game (to another location).

Tony Travis

(Southwest) looks very tough on film. They are fundamentally sound. We will need a mistake-free game to have a chance.

DeShawn Stevenson

So we've got to go out there and play every game like it's a playoff game and play together like we're doing. We're doing a good job.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Source Unknown

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Godfrey Reggio

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Rod Schwarz

It's real disappointing. I think it shows a lack of preparation and a lack of concentration. We just weren't ready to play.

Gerhard Schroeder

It's cold, it lacks solidarity and it's inhuman,

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Eric Butterworth

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Robert Kiyosaki

I'd rather be a victor than a victim.

Clive Owen

I was very keen on playing a victim.

Daniel Sunjata

I certainly dont feel like Ive been the victim of typecasting.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

In the end, life makes victims of us all.

Gillian Anderson

We can only make ourselves the victim.

Thomas Hardy

Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!

Margaret Atwood

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Joel Osteen

Be a victor , not a victim.

James Ragan

They're kind of a victim of their own success.