Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andy Murray

I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

Andy Roddick

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

Anna Quindlen

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off to Faulkner. He'll do the interior monologue. Hemingway will edit - no, don't make that face, you know you overwrite. And be nice to Cheever. He's young, but he's got a good ear. Wharton and Cather can't play - they're girls.'

Richard Roby

We haven't been playing our best basketball lately. We hit our peak, I think, in the middle of the season, and that's not good.

Peja Stojakovic

We haven't played good basketball all year. Hopefully, we will play better as a team as the season goes on.

Jim Calhoun

We are incredibly happy to be here today. We survived an incredible basketball game. Washington gave us everything we could ever imagine to handle. But we were able to withstand it and advance. And that is what you want to do in the NCAA Tournament.

Bobby Labonte

A top-five finish in the 150 is a good start. It gives us something to build on for Sunday.

Jerrad Jeske

We were probably a minute-and-a-half out of the playoffs. That was a heartbreaker. We hope to build on that. We're right there knocking on the playoff step. They can taste it.

E. P. Thompson

We were planning to build another hangar, but the cost of building materials has gone through the roof.

Gene Briggs

We lose or draw, what we cared about is that we played hard and took something from the match. I think we can build on this.

Ed Peters

What if in 20 years we say, 'small schools? What was that all about?' We're trying to build for a variety of uses because we know it's going to change.

Eugene McCabe

What we set out to create is a system that will support a one-touch supply chain. The goal is that you only touch it once, which is the first time you build it.

Mickey Levy

What we see is manufacturers are increasing production slightly but only enough to meet demand. They're not really comfortable enough to build inventories or hire a lot yet, but things are improving modestly.

Harold Christ

What we're trying to do in communities we build is do exactly that, build a community.

Tim Barrera

We have a very young team and the spring is a great time to help prepare our team for the fall. With 10 starters back, we want to build on our late season success.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Bobby Frasor

Coach Williams from Day 1 was always preaching how good we could be. We could surprise everyone in America, all the analysts; we could be the darlings of America.

Kris Sanford

You never know what to expect with a new coach.

Tate Casey

You never have to worry about motivation with coach Meyer. He always has that part covered. He's going to motivate you, he's going to get you going. If he can't, then nobody can.

Jack Cosgrove

Consistency is the word Coach Wilder has used. We didn't come out with a great start last week. We had a real run of explosiveness in the second quarter, but didn't finish some things after that. Play the play. Drive the drive. We have what we think is the makings of a good offensive football team. We need consistency.

Chad Lewis

Andy's wanted Lance to come and coach with him since he's been in the NFL,

Joseph Jones

Ever since then, I tried to do everything I can and coach G has been working with me and teaching me a lot of new things. I've just been listening to everything he has been telling me and taking it all in and just keep trying to repeat everything he tells me and try to put it in my game to take it to the next level every day.

Avraham Grant

Enough. I am tired of the demonic dance (in the media over whether I will be offered a third term). I will not continue to coach the national team.

Greg Peterson

Each coach on our staff will visit between 90-100 schools during the next four weeks as well as various combines located in our recruiting areas.

John Phillips

Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

Michael Ramsey

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

George Muller

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

George W. Bush

I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person.

George W. Bush

I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason I did so was because I was worried that activist judges are actually defining the definition of marriage. And the surest way to protect marriage between a man and woman is to amend the Constitution.

George W. Bush

I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.