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.

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.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want a chance to have an opportunity to do.

Gary Williams

As a college basketball coach, I'm upset for the future of game. Somebody has to be accountable. You can't blame just one group of people for this, unfortunately.

Craig Shoemaker

The boys are excited. When we do put four quarters of basketball together, we're a pretty decent team.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Tyler Hansbrough

Definitely it was fun in the second half when we started coming back and making a run and started stopping them defensively. That was a big key in the win.

Brandon Lincoln

Definitely. He's opened up another side to us that he hasn't opened up to many people. If people take the time to get to know who he really is, then it'll be easier to see where he's coming from.

Joe Sakic

Definitely four years ago, you had the names and you went with them. Now some of those guys got older and a lot of young guys are coming in, and it is tougher for sure. But I'd like to think that's a good thing for Canada, you can't really go wrong. There's going to be great players left off the team.

Billy Wagner

Definitely coming from a different organization and taking a big step, I want to get comfortable and not be living out of a suitcase for the whole spring training and having my family do the same. It was a move that I felt was good for me and for my family.

Lloyd Carr

Some things happened at the end, but I'll have to wait and see on tape. I thought our players deserved better. I don't know how many people were on the field. I don't know how that happened.

Patty Moore

Some people didn't think we deserved to get this far, but I think we proved we belonged.

Ron Wilson

We deserved what we got in the second period.

Kevin Keegan

We deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half.

Guus Hiddink

We deserved this win but we should have scored more than one goal.

Ian Millward

We deserved the win and were really exciting in the first half. We have been improving week by week and tonight the players got their rewards.

Kyle Wanvig

We deserved that one. We hit three posts and missed two open nets. ... It didn't seem like it was meant to be tonight.

John Tortorella

This was a game as a measuring stick for us early in the year to see where we're at. We deserved that result.

Agnus Berenato

We felt tonight like we would make history. We thought we deserved it and worked for it.

Bob Sanders

As a defense, we want to go into every game and have our offense and the rest of the team rely on us. We pulled it off a second week in a row, and I hope we can keep doing it.

Greg Aiello

As a league, we have to ... protect our most valuable rights, which is game footage.

Mark Zimmerman

(The Burros) stay in the game and don't give up, so I'm please with how we played.

Rick Petri

The big test will be when he first gets in a game, and how he reacts to a game situation. That's when they start to grow, especially if they have a little success.

Al Thornton

At times, we've played a 38-minute game and lost by one or two. We have to go out and play a 40-minute game.

Jeff Probst

At some point, at least you know there are some things that are good and solid and you can rely on. Nobody in their right mind thinks Survivor is about survival ... It's a game show.

John Jones

(A win) makes us 1-0 in the second half. We've got to start right now with the first game like we're starting over.

Jay Paterno

A year ago if we run that, it's an 8-yard play. Instead, it's a game changer. We can do different things now. We have some flexibility.

Ivan Feinseth

Back in the day, there was only U.S. Steel. Now, everything is game -- nothing is out of reach.

Harry Browne

A show's a show, and this is for a good cause.

Erica White

As good as this feels, we're not done yet.

Chris Nelson

As good as (Southern Nevada) is, to come in and win in their park, that's a good thing for Derek.

Robert Esche

As good as it may have seemed, we still lost the game. So, it wasn't that great.

Jay Bilas

As good as I thought they were going to be, and I thought they would be in the NCAA tournament, I didn't think they were going to be this good. I didn't think they were going to be this mature, this polished and this resilient.

Brad Skoglund

As good as catch, maybe better, than the one at state.

Louie Golden

As good a player as he is, he's so unselfish. He makes teams go. He makes it happen.

Jessica Springsteen

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Jake Moreland

The way Lawson was playing, I knew a two-goal lead was going to be very tough to overcome. So you do everything in your power to keep it close.

Shea Hembrey

The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew... carpentry.

Bob Brenly

The veteran players wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing, that I was on top of things, that I didn't get flabbergasted.

Cameron Crowe

This is a personal movie that I knew I had to come here to make,

Paul Ballew

This is not where we want to be, but we knew it would be a very challenging start to the year. We need to pickup our sales pace going forward.

Paul Manning

The way we have all been riding we knew that a 1-2-3 was on the cards.

William Hoffman

That's when I knew we had our guy, ... Then Grady O'Malley steps into the picture, and it was about getting the indictment.

J. Horton

The old Highlander was great. It served us really well, ... We just needed something that was more functional.

Craig Stevens

Straight away there was pressure to give away the spot. 'Are you going to swim it'?. "I don't like taking sleeping tablets but it got to the stage where I needed to rest for my 1500m.

Drew Bennett

Somebody needed to make a play, ... And I couldn't make it.

Laurie Smith

Some people just needed permission to smile again.

Clarence Ehlers

Now it's 30 years later, and you're not needed anymore.

Mike Woodson

Sometimes it's like we are our own worst enemy. We have stretches where we don't shoot. We don't defend. When San Antonio turned up their defense, we needed to turn up ours.

Kevin Spillane

Schwarzenegger needed a victory, and he didn't get it. But it's not the end of the world.

Theresa Lisch

I've turned it more than once and it's pretty stretched out. All it needed was a quick tweak and it was OK.

Richard Seymour

It was time to pick it up. We've got a long way to go but we needed to get things rolling. Improving. We did that.

Craig Swartout

The most quiet 20 points I've ever seen.

Gray Davis

Some polls have had us 20 points behind,

Maria Sharapova

It was tough. I couldn't put two points together. I was tired from my previous match, and now I need some time off.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

David Blitzer

there's nothing here that really points to any near-term inflationary dangers.

John Tortorella

We just wanted to get two points (for the win). But we wanted to win it in regulation.

Bruce Thomas

We just got on a roll. Twenty-five points is sometimes as much as we score in three quarters.

Mark Smith

We'll take it any time. We haven't had a big win in terms of points like this all year.

John Moody

What we try to do is not shut out any points of view.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Jim Edmonds

Now it's even. We've just got to go over there and try to win a series.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I want to win more than ever.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Alexandra Bodemann

I've been in a slump, and to come back and win something like this is awesome.

J. J. Johnson

The win is more important than how you do it.

Alicia Molik

The way I win is by being aggressive, very pro-active and I wasn't today.

Richard Myers

This is a win strategy, ... In a sense, things are going well.

Mark Ritter

This is a really big win for our kids.

Paul Duca

This is huge. It's not the end of the world if you don't win this series, but you want to.