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.

Doc Sadler

I've always thought this team had a chance to be pretty good. The thing that concerns me is offensively, I don't know how much we can win without shooting the basketball better.

Jeff Ruland

I've actually yelled at kids from a basketball purist standpoint. I don't want to see a kid shoot the ball every time down the court. It's disgusting.

Joe Johnson

I've actually been enjoying myself but I've just got to get the basketball side going. It really feels like back home. When this thing turns around, it really is going to be crazy.

Vincent Grier

I wanted to do whatever it took to win this basketball game, and that's what it was. They feed on Daniel Horton getting off, because he has so much freedom in the offense. You have to limit the fouls, because he's a great free-throw shooter and great all-around player.

David Grewe

I wanted to do it in the worst way, and it just worked out. I think it's going to be special, kind of like hockey did and basketball did.

Jamie Pollard

I wanted an individual who had a sincere passion for being the next Cyclone men's basketball coach. One coach emerged as the clear cut favorite . . . (and that's) Greg McDermott.

Lawrence Eagles

As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is still strong justification for a premium to remain in the market until it is clear the situation is much calmer on the ground,

Mark Buehrle

Actually, I got out in the woods and kind of cleared my mind,

Michael Moran

A nomination does not mean it will have clear sailing to being listed. What gets listed on the national register, unfortunately, is subject to the will of the governor's office.

Michael Conforti

The surprise happens as you experience the building. This is clearly a reason why we thought Mr. Ando was the appropriate person for our landscape here.

John Shaw

After all of these interviews, it was clear to us that coach Linehan should be the next coach of the St. Louis Rams.

Oliver Luck

After it was clear we'd hit a raw nerve in the community, we didn't want to offend anybody.

Susan Lieberman

Sturgeon have been in dire straits for some time and it has been clear that something drastic had to be done to stop the rampant trade in illegal caviar.

Arthur Doyle

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

Dale Neaman

Some people decide never to have surgery to save a marriage or a career. They try to live with it in subtle ways: Wearing women's underwear, using clear nail polish or colorless lip gloss.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Hunter Adams

Coach Smith and I have very similar ideas as far as schematics go, I think we compliment one another as coaches very well. He has also become a great friend of mine.

Jeremy Mayfield

Coach Sampson was a major, major, major part of me signing.

M. Wolfe

Coach said to throw it as hard as I could, ... I didn't even see it, I was eating grass.

Isaiah Thomas

Coach said to stay with it and don't get frustrated. I knew later in the game my shots would start going in.

DeAndre Rice

Coach said to hit singles, hit singles and the home runs will come. In the second half we slowed down.

Gilbert Arenas

Coach said, 'Throw away the plays. 'Throw away the plays?' All right. That's like playing outside.

Marcus Williams

Coach said this is probably the toughest part of our schedule by far. We have to make sure we focus.

A. Hodge

Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.

O. Singh

A rapid reduction to operating costs, especially through job cuts in France, may not be feasible.

Henry Willmore

And the main reason for that will be the job cuts that enabled firms to do a more effective job of holding down labor costs.

Fred Lewis

The system is the problem. It's not the people. Whatever we paid them, it would be well worth it to cut them from being subsidized by private interests. It's wrong.

Wes Craven

I've seen the final cut and it's a lot of fun, ... It actually turned out pretty well and it ended up with everybody thinking, 'By God, John really knows what he's doing.' He pulled it off. Absolutely. He did a real, real good job.

Rick Wagoner

I've taken a significant pay cut this year, ... I think I'll have a 50 percent pay cut.

Greg Chalmers

I've only got to hit it about 200 yards there to have 95 or 100 yards to the green. I've tried to lay it up there three days in a row. It's the toughest shot for me because I don't cut the ball.

Andy Rothman

It would be a negative for Cathay Pacific because it would cut into the traffic between Taiwan and Hong Kong, ... But it would be a positive for the other carriers, who would see a significant increase in traffic on the cross-strait route.

Tysen Kendig

It would be foolish to think that the university isn't looking for every possible way to cut back costs. We've identified more than $100 million over the past decade in internal cost-cutting measures.

George Takei

And the 442nd (Regimental Combat) Team emerged from the European theater as the single most decorated outfit to return from Europe.

David Novak

When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.

Donald Lowe

The rapidity with which this has emerged over the last two to three years is probably unprecedented. When you look at the numbers, this way outstrips other so-called new infectious diseases.

Mark Rogers

We have gained significantly in the last few years. It?s only in the last few years we have emerged in Europe.

Drake Bell

I've been able to work with some incredible voice talent, most of whom I grew up hearing in my favorite cartoons.

Dave Bloom

The 'Wizard of Oz' is her favorite movie, and this past December, she was a part of the lullaby league in a production of the 'Wizard of Oz' in Flatwoods.

Kristin Gore

'Jitterbug Perfume' is one of my favorite books.

Ted Ligety

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

Anna Kendrick

My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

Betsy Brandt

I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal.

Jay Brown

This was my favorite shirt, but I don't even want it anymore,

Miguel

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

Pat Coyle

There's not a clear-cut favorite this year. Everyone can win it.

Ray Elliott

I've never seen an individual request more time,

Ron Messick

They all had their own individual abilities, but I could tell they were special players.

Masaaki Kanno

This is a new trend in Japanese politics. People are increasingly voting on the policies of individual parties. Now the manifestos of the different parties have become very clear.

Leonard Leo

that they were very interested in making sure that the president nominated a second individual who shared the philosophy of judicial restraint.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Geno Auriemma

We don't score on sheer individual talent. Sometimes we run stuff just to run stuff without an idea what we're going to get from it.

Robert Kiyosaki

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Rahul Dravid

We will not target individual players. We will play Pakistan as a team.

Andy Garcia

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Bar Refaeli

Have the passion and the magic will happen

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?