Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Judson

As hard as this is, our group is instilled with character and we will rise from this. There's a lot of basketball left.

Tony Skinn

As college basketball players at a mid-major level, it's a great feeling. You couldn't ask for a greater script to this season.

Andy Booth

As an outsider you hear about how much passion there is in the community, but until you're in the spot it's hard to imagine there's a community that cares more about girls basketball than this one. I embraced it. What more can you ask for? You have kids who want to get better, and I can't think of any better spots to be in.

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.

Joakim Noah

As a basketball player this is your dream -- to play in the national championship game. It's just such a great feeling that it's finally here. There's been so much hard work and so much sacrifice. There's so many moments that I can go back to -- being a little kid, walking to practice. Now I'm finally playing in the game.

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.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want the chance to do. We just did what we've been doing all along.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want. It's been an exciting, exciting week for us.

Ernie Zeigler

(A new attitude) had to be developed. The first year was tough. It was hard for some of the guys that had been there three or four years (under Lavin) to buy totally into that (defensive) mind-set.

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Scott Johnson

As a regular guy who likes to buy wine, this is going to make it easier to get the eclectic things that right now are hard to get in Florida unless you pay triple the price in a restaurant.

Jeffrey Swartz

As a company, Timberland wants to make it better and the new packaging will do just that. Our goal is to reduce our impact on the environment while engaging consumers to take action. This packaging and labeling initiative should make our industry more transparent and give consumers the information they need to make smart buying decisions.

Keith Murphy

The buying experience for us was outstanding. We placed the order last November, and the press was installed within 30 days. The installation went quicker than we anticipated. It was flawless. We have many pieces of equipment from other manufacturers, and a smooth installation hasn't always been the case with other vendors. We are now tried-and-true Mitsubishi fans.

Melissa Williams

The buyer that makes most sense is the buyer that has a strong presence in the traditional retailing of toys.

David Berson

At some point in the future, California probably will have another big housing recession. It is possible at that point that prices will fall meaningfully, as in the past they have done. That is clearly a negative for people who own homes. But for those who don't own homes, that will .Ê.Ê. give them a pretty good chance to buy in the next up-cycle.

Steve Baker

Back-to-school tends to be a very different buying season than others -- much more focused on needs than wants. Productivity products are the big sellers because the money is still coming from Mom and Dad.

Jim Haslouer

Back then that (quarter) would buy you lunch.

Gavin Miller

That was a big shot. We really needed somebody to step up so we could get over the hump -- because we tied it a couple of times before that -- and get the lead.

Stephen Forrest

That was a big offensive rebound. That and a couple of big defensive plays may have turned it for us.

Vicki Carle

That was a big key to the match because, boy, if you give them an inch they'll go and get five or six or seven points. We held. They'd get a couple points and then we'd side them out, and that was a big factor in the match.

Norv Turner

Randy's struggling with some things, ... He got hit in the head pretty good. He's got some soreness. I'm pleased that we're getting as much out of him as we are. He gave us some life early, made a couple of plays. I'd like to get him back full time, but that might not happen as soon as we would like.

Bob Hill

Ray did what Ray was supposed to do late. He hit some big shots and we got a couple of stops that were real important.

Barry Hyman

Profit taking will be key words today (Thursday) and over the next couple of weeks. The Fed's rate cut yesterday bodes well for the longer term but near term it is an excuse to take profits. Cisco's story is another excuse to take profits in technology.

Lorraine Jones

Probably in a couple of years we might do it again.

Jason Kerr

Our tempo was good. We were willing to sit down and make a couple extra passes. It showed in our shooting percentage.

Brad Andera

Our seniors had a good couple of days, I'd like to congratulate them. And as for our underclassmen, it's time for them to start thinking about next year.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

Frank Anderson

Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention points because student-athletes have transferred when we were not able to renew their aid.

Rashad Anderson

People say we may lose this tournament because of lapses. It's not happening.

Larry Nicks

Originally, we were going to lose tennis but we're one of two schools with tennis courts. So we may end up with tennis and give up something else.

Carmelo Anthony

You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that.

Ingrid Seward

The only power they have is by the respect that the people have for them, and if people lose that respect they have nothing.

Sandra Gordon

The people of New Orleans have lost so much; we don't want to lose this.

Bob Hamley

You find out more about people when you lose than you do when you're winning. We're trying to find our identity.

Jay Hakkinen

There's just rules to what you're doing. No matter what's happening, you need to be aware, and if you lose that awareness, you shouldn't have a rifle in your hand.

Donald Trump

If you hang around with losers you become a loser

Robert Higgs

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Bessie Smith

I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.

Joseph Estrada

The victims here are the poor people, the squatters. So that is my top priority,

Joseph Estrada

The victims here are the poor people, the squatters, ... So that is my top priority.

Donald E. Graham

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

Anton Chekhov

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.

George Moore

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Marsha Kello

The poor little thing is so little that we didn't even notice.

Jules Shear

Erskine Caldwell was a Southern writer, Tobacco Road is really good, but it can get you a little depressed. It's about poor folks.

Jay Wright

We'll just toss it out as a poor shooting night.

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Milan Baros

We were down psychologically after that second goal, but there was still so much time to play,

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.

R. Robinson

Every day, he talked to us about being responsible,

Sandy Montgomery

We talked about it as a team once, and that's it. Now we have to go out, play, and see what happens.

Scott Ritter

How do I know this? I've talked to Bolton's speechwriter.

Tom Streicher

SWAT negotiators talked to him about an hour,

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Dan McDonald

We have talked about (going to state) every day this year.

Mark Grudzielanek

We talked a lot and we had to get comfortable,

Dave McDermott

I was worried about rebounding. We talked about that at halftime.

Robert Bennett

In fact, I even talked to the parents. They were there at the same time.