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.

Jim Calhoun

People had the misconception that if you have three 6-10 kids, all of a sudden you have a good basketball team. The game takes instinct.

Jerry Buescher

Offensively, we did too much dribbling and too much one-on-one stuff, and we're not good enough one-on-one to beat people.

Al Visconti

Offensive basketball is like the stock market it goes up and down. He had to reach that level of consistency on defense.

Rich Glas

North Dakota is not an easy place to win basketball games. I was proud to carry on from Dave Gunther and proud that we did it the right way.

Jeff Cohen

No one was given an offer, from my understanding. We wanted a big-time college coach. A proven winner that has a big-time track record, and I believe Kelvin Sampson is one of five guys who I would have been happy with as the basketball coach here.

Tim Pease

After the effort we gave, it makes it hard (after a game like this). It's hard to walk away with a loss when you give it your all, but we knew who we were playing. We respect them and we know they're a great offensive basketball team. We've got to get better.

Jim Calhoun

The name has magic to it. There's nobody in basketball that when I say the name Gavitt they don't respond.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Elaine Turner

As a registered nurse and community health educator, I believe that we need to do more of these types of events for people of all ages. With the technology of today, it's easy to forget the importance that exercise and healthy living play in our lives.

Jim Crace

As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.

John McFarland

Arson is a felony, and we are working hard to solve this case. We believe that we have information on a suspect that will lead to an arrest.

Mark Rush

As all of you know, and I believe Channel 4 reported, it is very expensive to defend oneself when the federal government investigates you.

Laura Bush

As a librarian and a lover of literature I believe it's important for Americans to visit the homes of our most loved and renowned writers.

Rob Thomas

The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

Benjamin Schachter

The bottom line is that, despite some longer-term issues, we think weak industry sentiment combined with some valid company-specific concerns have pushed the stock lower than is justified. We believe that the near-term positives outweigh the near-term risks.

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.

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

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.

Curtis Stinson

Our defenses confuse a lot of people. It confused us when coach put it in. Once we get it, the other team is in trouble.

Amanda Smith

Our emotions were high and momentum was on our side. We wanted to win. This game was special for our coach (Tim Smith). We wanted to win this one for him at Germantown.

Dan Labbate

Of course we had to do it, it was our new coach and we didn't want to not do it. We just went through the motions because we all knew each other already. By the end everyone was laughing and telling jokes about everyone.

Allison McNeill

No question she's got skills, some coach has to recognize it. One of the things she does is make other players better.

Stephen Wren

North Caddo is in its first year, playing with seventeen freshmen. They're very young and their coach said he's just happy to be here right now, but still it's the playoffs and everybody is 0-0.

John Ayers

Norman is the guy we've been waiting to sign. He comes from a quality program; Coach Emmanuel Davis does a great job in Headland.

Greg Gibson

Ramon has had some offers for colleges and every meet that he does well in is another feather in his hat. We're proud of him.

Candice Wiggins

I've never experienced back-to-back losses in college. It's difficult to handle a loss in general and this is harder.

Brent Miller

I've never been wild about two-platoon at quarterback. With one quarterback, you seem to have more team unity. I've seen college teams use two quarterbacks, and it usually doesn't work that well.

Billy Blanks

I've liked what I've seen so far, and I'm just trying to get used to the college level,

Kate Curran

I've been around the sport a long time and around college running a long time now.

Frank Beamer

I've always kind of liked it up there. I have up until you hear the stories that took place two years ago in the bathrooms and parking lots and all that stuff. I know it seems like a lot of our fans are worrying about going back up there, and that's not right. That's not college football.

Pat Massey

I've always been a Michigan fan growing up. My neighborhood at home -- drive down the street and there's always this weekend (when) you would have an Ohio State or a Michigan flag hanging off your front porch. Growing up, to me it was always the epitome of college football.

Robert Reed

The old restaurant, College Street Station, was really here to serve the hotel guests, and it wasn't making money. Last year, at the end of July, we lost money.

Chuck Anderson

After last season, I think that's when Drew really got interested in playing college sports,

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Carlos Silva

That's kids, and sometimes they don't know what to ask, so they repeat a question five times. Really, those are the types of things that makes it fun.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Jennifer Pahlka

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Capt. Moad

Some witnesses have given us information that leads us to say that could be a possibility. Until we get confirmation from a doctor, though, we can't speculate.

David Ferrer

Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.

Juan Cole

Perhaps that's why he was given such a good reception.

Atharva Veda

Satisfied and satiated, I remain steady within my heart, and now, I do not waver at all. The True Guru has given me the inexhaustible treasure; it never decreases, and never runs out.

Atharva Veda

Says Nanak, the Truth has been revealed to me. The Guru has given me the treasure; I have taken it and enshrined it within my heart.

Jon Gruden

The Saints have given us problems in the past.

Jack Kozuchowski

I've spent half my life here. And they've always given me a lot of space to do what I thought I needed to do. It's been a labor of love.

John Calipari

The thing about young guys is they don't think they will lose. They haven't been through it yet.

John Salley

The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.

Chris Richards

The thing about our guys is they don't need the money.

Mike Hargrove

the thing sat up and hissed at us, with those nasty teeth showing. We had guys running out of its way.

Lawyer Milloy

I've lined up next to many safeties. I've lined up next to at least 10 different safeties in my career. It's something that's not coachable. It's just two guys that just kind of get it.

Jeff Cirillo

I've never been to the playoffs and I'm running out of time. I know that I need to rely on those guys out there to try and make it to the playoffs.

Andy Santerre

I've learned that it's all about people, which I kind of knew that anyway. It's about treating guys right and getting the work out of them.

Mike Trout

I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I'd be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I'd hit a chopper that wouldn't even reach the shortstop, and I'd get a hit out of it. The guys would be all over me, but a hit's a hit. I'll take 3,000 of 'em.

Brandon Williams

I've always been a big sports fan, and when I'm hanging out with my friends we always talk about sports, so I thought, why not put it on the air? It's just two guys who are very strongly opinionated about their ideas and we talk about it.

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

Robby Davis

We're happy with the jump we had. We've got work to do, but we're moving in the right direction.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Rene Portland

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

Hines Ward

We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Randy Nelson

We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

James Kelleher

There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring.

Tom Goguen

Sun has a proven track record of doing this.

Betsy Beers

On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

Bruce Dern

Track and field has always interested me.

Deepak Chopra

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

John Norris

Everything is on track and going very well.

Claude Chabrol

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Albert Einstein

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

Anita Loos

The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

David Filo

We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in.

David Perlmutter

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

Rick Ross

I scoop Emmy winners like kitty litter.

Jeffrey Gitomer

You can't be a winner if you're a whiner...wiener.

Chris Paul

I've been a winner my whole life.

William Arthur Ward

The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it.