Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adonal Foyle

I wanted to give Mike an opportunity to create but I realized the clock was running down so I heaved the ball up.

Jordan Zuppe

I wanted to get the ball and make the foul shots. I knew I had the confidence to make them, and, luckily, I made them.

Jeff Malone

I wanted to get more athletic. We need to get back to defending, and I really want to get the ball down the court. We really need to do that more.

Greg Allen

A few years ago at (The Raven) we hit the ball in places I didn't even know existed.

Kathy Bocock

The one thing I told them was to not let the ball come to the middle because that's where they want to get it.

Lin Stadler

The one thing I thought we could do is run the ball on them and we just couldn't run it.

Chris Enge

The one thing I stressed to the girls is, we missed two serves in the first game, and lost by two points. We missed three serves in the third game, and lost by two points. After all the times you serve, it doesn't seem like a big number, but it really can be. We just couldn't put the ball down, and they have very good team. Both teams had tremendous heart, and gave tremendous effort. But that's always when these two teams meet.

Alexander Paris

The ones that are successful with it think it's good, ... These people are shooting at very frequent golfers; if there is a new club or ball out there they will try it.

Mike McCarthy

The one glaring statistic we need to improve on is third-down production. The most important statistic running the ball is how many attempts. We need to be up in the 25s and 30, moving the sticks and getting rid of the three-and-outs.

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.

Michael Jordan

I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.

Quincy Lewis

No, not initially it wasn't the shot we wanted. But we wanted to get into a situation going to the basket and when it came down to the last five seconds, that's where we wanted it.

Kraig Terpstra

Give North credit, they were tough under the basket and played great defense. We just never looked like we were comfortable tonight.

Gu Yuan

Global funds are increasing holdings of a basket of metals. Copper supply and demand fundamentals haven't changed.

Bryan Tucker

If that were the case, wouldn't you think the younger one would be on the varsity? Look, Marcus is a great kid and a very hard worker with a huge upside. But Jeff he's one of the best high school basketball players I've ever seen.

Rick Stansbury

He was around the basketball all night long.

Shawn Almond

We didn't play defense very well tonight. That's one thing we've relied on, one thing we've keyed on and we didn't do a good job.

Marisa Bush

We didn't play defense as well as we usually do. I thought we let No. 22 (Thompson) get too many good looks.

Scott Leggett

We didn't play as well as we should have but we won, and that's what counts. The big layoff slowed us down a little. We still played pretty good defense with just a few mistakes.

JaJuan Smith

We didn't play as good on defense as we wanted. But sometimes we were just right in their face and they made tough shots, so you've got to give them credit.

Jake Plummer

We didn't make the most out of the opportunities we had. When you play a defense like that, you can't miss opportunities.

Jamont Gordon

We didn't make their defense work. We stood around too much on the perimeter.

Bruce Cook

We didn't lose because the effort wasn't there. We just didn't execute on the offensive end; their half-court defense was tremendous.

Steven Hill

We didn't hit many shots. But we played defense the whole game.

Tim Duncan

We didn't have the edge we needed tonight. They shot 50 percent from the floor. We need to shore up our defense right now going into the final few games of the season.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Swami Vivekananda

All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.

Tony Blair

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

Tom Petty

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

Simone de Beauvoir

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

Simone de Beauvoir

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

Simone Weil

It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

Simon Pegg

I realized that if I went snowboarding, you can't think of anything else when you're snowboarding. You can't hesitate or think about anything other than not falling off and breaking your neck. If you want a holiday where you're not gonna think about work and you're not gonna think about anything, snowboarding is the best way to do it. Or skiing, I guess. I don't ski, so I don't know.

Annika Sorenstam

I'm very proud of the way I played and I played four solid rounds of golf,

Scott Burzynski

I'm very happy to come up here and play four games and come away with the fifth-place trophy.

Claudia Pechstein

I'm very happy about this gold medal. I heard it was a record. I know I have four (gold) medals at home.

Bible Bible

And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs, / Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.

Soichi Noguchi

Steve, we trained for four years; you're going to spend the next four years signing autographs.

Richard Citta

They wanted to have more than four functions. They wanted to have 10. Ten rods got to be too big.

Henrik Zetterberg

It was a big win. From the start, Ozzie helped us out a lot. He had a lot of good saves, three and four in a row. We couldn't get the puck out and he saved us.

Lou Adler

Johnny Rivers is underestimated as an artist. We had four top 10 singles.

Kevin Costner

I like four-hour movies.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Carroll O'Connor

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Jody Bass

It was a huge win for us. We got on a good run in the third quarter.

Lynn Meger

These seniors were great leaders. They were all good students and great people.

Marshal Cohen

Is it a challenge, but the good news for them is that it has been a sleepier brand, so it's not as if they are trying to maintain a property at its peak.

Craig Krenzel

I showed up at the team meeting (Saturday) and nobody told me to get out, so it's good news,

Caroll Spinney

I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an awfully good job that there's not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can't do it anymore.

Matt Lee

I should be happy but right now it doesn't feel so great. It's a good accomplishment but I know it could have better.

J. B. Smoove

I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Morgan Wootten

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Joe Morgan

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

Joe Namath

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

Joe Namath

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season, and we struggled. We're looking to next season. We're looking to make a noise now, and I wanna kiss you!

John Green

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

Mike Richards

Hopefully someone on their team addresses it, because, uh, I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but something might happen to him if he continues to be that cocky.

Landon Donovan

I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

Lionel Messi

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.