Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

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.

Rick Barnes

There's no question. They're not going to take Penn lightly. They know better than that, and they know they're going to have to play good basketball to be successful.

Marilyn Coddens

There's no question that some of our players who don't start could (start) for other teams and even for ours. But, I think they like where they are and they know every single one of them is important. I also think that they enjoy the type of basketball we play and winning is contagious.

Gregg Zenerovitz

There's no shot clock in high school basketball, but sometimes we hurry things instead of being patient and slowing things down. We do play with a lot of energy at times. Sometimes it's too quick and too soon. It was nothing Princeton did in the second half. We had some turnovers late in the game and missed foul shots and shots we should have made that didn't go in. Hopefully, we can continue to learn from this. We're not learning from our mistake as quickly as we need to. Certainly, the effort is there from the girls.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Scott Holste

We will be informing our clients, the Department of Corrections, of this stay. We will continue to defend the state on this matter.

John Pierce

We will be filing later this spring after we continue this public-input program and we are still working on a lot of the technical input.

Scott Jones

This week was different from last week as we were running with top teams and top runners in the country. She was able to run a good race and handle the pressure very well. She is running with expectations of being successful and she should continue to improve. Overall, she is just an overall good runner at any distance and we are lucky to have her.

Mike Butters

Those three guys shined especially in the later stages of the season. They're the kind of guys who are really looking to continue in their hockey career.

Tony MacAulay

You have to start periods strong and finish periods strong. All is not lost here. They?re going to continue to keep battling. It?s all part of the learning experience. It?s salt in the wound when you lose, but it?s murder if you don?t learn from it.

Ken Mayland

Fed members are worried about inflation. To raise the fears of inflation is in effect telling us they are going to continue to raise interest rates. Probably not just once more but repeatedly.

Linda Smith

There's still an opportunity on the House side, and so we'll continue to work with the House members.

E. B. White

The town has been firm but fair, and I would pray that they would continue to be so,

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Jennifer Humphrey

I put more effort into doing it. I know I can do it now. I'm a lot stronger than I was when I got here. I have more energy and the motivation to do it now.

Jim Tracy

His makeup is off the charts. He gives 100% effort on every single pitch. He's one of the real up-and-comers in our game. There's nothing not to like about him.

Tom Halbmaier

I'm was really pleased with the overall team effort of my girls. They never gave up. They could have thrown in the towel when we got down 10, but they just kept on fighting.

Stephen Prince

In an effort to manage it, six of us signed our names as plaintiffs.

Bill Laimbeer

I'm not unhappy with our effort - Connecticut just played very well. They just made shots.

Larry Robinson

I'm not worried, but concerned, ... with the way we're playing and the effort that I'm getting.

Andy Kelly

I'm happy with the effort and the performance,

Janice Kruger

I think I love the energy in the gym,

Harry S Truman

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

Manu Ginobili

I struggled in the first half. I was very upset, I just tried to play with more energy.

Miguel Tejada

I think he has a lot of energy and a lot of talent. He struggled last year but I think he could come back and play two or three more years.

John Stack

I think high energy prices will be devastating especially for corn,

Jeff Lebo

I thought Moses and Brett were terrific. They're guys who haven't played much, but they gave us some execution and energy and got us back in the game.

Lou Belken

John's a high-energy player. But obviously he needs to use that energy more constructively.

Joaquin Phoenix

Johnny moved on stage in very specific ways, he had a specific guitar strum that contributed to the energy of his performances.

Tom Serratore

You just hope if you're playing with energy it doesn't matter. We had no jump.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

John Johnson

This game will help. I lost my dad. I lost my 9-year-old niece.

Bobby Engram

This game will be different from our first playoff game; it would be ridiculous to say anything different. But at the same time, you have to find a way to come out and try to make plays in the game.

Steve Simmons

This game will be a good measuring stick for us.

Gary Forrest

This game we hung in there, we fought, ... They gave it all they had.

Pete Fenson

This game was why we were here, you know?

Drew Bledsoe

This game was very, very important for us, not only to win it but to win it the way that we did.

Jae Seo

This game was very important to my team, ... because this was a game that could start us off to the playoffs.

Peja Stojakovic

This game was very important for us with the playoff seeding. The last game is going to be important, too.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Jack Kornfield

There is no higher happiness than peace.

Craig Venter

Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.

Renee Ellmers

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

Anthony Chan

I think they feel the inflation risks are inching higher, but I don't think they're inching so much higher to suggest we have a serious problem at hand,

Maureen Allyn

Just as a warning: People better start bracing for higher oil prices later in the year.

Yuji Saito

Japanese investors are still looking for higher yields overseas. That's weighing on the yen.

Peter Cardillo

Last week, we encountered an ugly week for stocks as the market discounted higher interest rates,

Will Rogers

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

Bobby Cox

Every once in a while he tries to overthrow out there. He throws 100 (mph) instead of pitching.

Garrick Phillips

We set the tone late in the first quarter and then more so in the second.

Stephen Harper

I would prefer to do it sooner rather than later but not immediately.

Cristie Kerr

I'm playing so well lately that I have a lot of confidence,

David Briggs

That seems to be the latest reason to sell.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Barbara Mertz

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Lucille Ball

When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

Rick Scott

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

Rick Riordan

It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. -Hephaestus

Tristan Tzara

We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.

Torii Hunter

I want my teammates to see that I'm following Christ. But, I'm also human, so there are times I slip and make mistakes but I know Christ forgives me.

Tony Snow

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

Steve Winwood

If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.

Vince Flynn

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

Alex Kingston

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

Alex Grey

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

Albert Shanker

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

Debi Thomas

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

E. L. Konigsburg

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

E. L. Konigsburg

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

E. M. Forster

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

Drew Carey

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

Doug E. Fresh

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.