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.

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.

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.

Tom Johnson

I grew up in Zionsville, about 10 miles south of Lebanon, so I know the history of the basketball program there.

Ben Gordon

I got off to a good start. Then I got plagued by foul trouble, and it kind of busted up my rhythm.

Joan Bonvicini

She was an incredible basketball player, but her truest gifts were her personality and love for the other people that she was with. Her voice, especially her laugh, could be heard for a block, and believe me, she was hilarious.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Joe Faraldo

This is a reasonable solution. We'll both lose some things through arbitration, but that's what a negotiation is.

John Hawe

That game was very well played on both sides.

Len Bone

That game jumps out at you because they're both top teams and they both expect to be playing on Saturday.

H. Hart

Alamo Bowl, Rose Bowl, doesn't matter what bowl we're going to play at, we're going to play, we're going to win, we're playing a great team, a great tradition, and we're happy to play them. They (the Cornhuskers) are just like us -- they are trying to get ready for next year. And this game is going to decide that. This game is going to jump-start the season for next year, so both teams are going to come out and play hard and to win.

Will Sheridan

Allan set a screen for me and (the defenders) both went for him. I would have done the same thing.

Richard Mitchell

A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. Themeditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouthutters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are thesame. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become themeditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of ourunderstanding.

Jennifer Lopez

A little of both is not bad, Every girl does come on girls, don't lie!

Shane Phelps

You're supposed to go before a judge with both sides walking onto a level playing field. This is a complete corruption of the way the process in a Texas courtroom is supposed to take place.

Bruce Summerhays

The day started out kind of bland, then I made a couple of good par putts early and got things going, ... You always feel good when you play like this. I'm going to have to put up some similar numbers the next two days.

Joe Glenn

He tried hard and ran hard. There were a couple of plays where I thought he should have trusted the point of attack.

Terry Floyd

I don't know if it's emotional but I will realize if we play great or poorly that there is only a couple of weeks left.

Tim Richards

We need all six players to play solid, ... Hopefully we'll get everyone here doing that in the next couple of weeks.

George Pipas

I think the next couple months will be pretty choppy. It will probably be November before we can think about trend sales rates again.

Jack Quatman

Other than a couple of incidents, he's been pretty good.

Kyle Cooper

Rising inventories are keeping a lid on prices. Inventories are back at levels we last saw in 1999, but the price is still a couple times higher. The market has been remarkably resilient because there are fears of supply disruptions.

Jay Mergenthaler

Our main goals are to finish over .500 and to win a couple of tournament games.

Shahid Ghori

Our leaders have been receiving threats for the past couple of months and we had informed the government about it, but no security was provided to our leaders.

Thomas Carlyle

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Frank Robinson

I felt like I had to take a shot early,

Rod Coleman

I felt like I had to make a statement in a situation like that. It was time to finish them off.

Sherry Phelps

I felt I was passing the torch from one generation to the next.

Matt Schaub

I felt I was inbounds; I tried to make sure I got my foot on the ground and dove, making sure to stay inbounds. The official called me out, so I can't really do much about it.

Brandon Hamilton

I felt I was getting stronger as the game went on. My stuff was working all night, and I felt good.

Larry Robinson

I felt I was being out of character.

Billy Gillispie

I felt it was very similar to Texas' zone. I thought that helped us.

Steve Rives

I felt it was time to move on. This was not a quick decision, and after laboring over it for over a year, I just felt it was time.

Billy Carlisle

I felt like we did have some missed opportunities. That's always scary in a big game. But it's also a good sign.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Matt Copeland

Turnovers were the killers tonight. One minute, it's a one-point game, the next minute it's seven points.

Shannon Sharpe

We don't score 30 points a game. We don't have a receiver who can go and get you 180 yards. We don't have a quarterback who's going to throw for 350. But I'll tell you what we do have: A team that's going to the AFC Championship Game. All them big-time offenses, you know where they're at? Home watching us.

David Gallop

We don't run the game for betting. To have it regulated to suit punters would see the tail wagging the dog.

Matt Koff

We don't really have any stars. But we do have some depth. Jasmine Green and Katrina James went into the game and made some big plays for us when we needed them.

Neil Roberts

You hope that every game is not close, but in this game it doesn't happen that way. The disappointing thing is when we give up two restart goals.

Byron Scott

You hope, sooner or later, the young guys understand and get it. When you have a lead like that, you can't come out in the third quarter and think the game is over. Maybe a loss like this, when we know we should have won the game, that will do it.

Marcus Ginyard

You hear that a lot. Maybe that's just the way people see it. But you can't really be worried about that. You've just got to get out there and play the game of basketball.

Chauncey Billups

To have those nerves to make those plays at the end of a game isn't something you really can be taught. It's instinct I think.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Natalie Purcell

Last year we were so disappointed, and now to win this year ... it's a little hard to describe.

Aaron Nida

Lee has been working hard this year. Hopefully he can improve and get some places.

Tommy Aldridge

Lee doesn't really have a go-to player now. They might have a hard time matching up. They'll probably have to spread their scoring around.

Deirdre O'Kane

Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way.

Erik Hoolahan

Scotty's a heck of a player. He works hard. He is the stereotypical Sewickley hockey player. He does what I ask. His legs never stop. He never takes a shift off. Every shift is going to be as hard as the last one. That's what I need from every one of these guys.

Wayne Newton

Several months ago, he went through some real hard times, ... He was depressed, angry, he wouldn't get out of bed.

Chris Alliott

Sentiment is likely to be hit hard ... Investors were disappointed by the warning in October, as it was one of the first operators to lower expectations. This second hit to expectations is only likely to raise more questions.

Gil Brandt

So hard to tell when you're looking at a player. You just don't know the competition.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Liam Payne

I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.

Libba Bray

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

Libba Bray

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.

Libba Bray

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

Lester Bowie

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

Frederick W. Smith

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Jon Ronson

Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

Jon Krakauer

the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.