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.

Tony Parker

Definitely difficult to lose him. He was coming back very well. He was starting to play very well. He was playing good basketball so it is hard to lose him again.

Herb Kohl

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.

Ernie Grunfeld

Right now we're just focused on making sure he comes out of this okay, ... The good news is that it looks like he's going to recover from this . We'll worry about the basketball stuff later on.

Lorenzo Romar

Right now we need to put 40 minutes of intense basketball together. Right now that's the biggest monkey on our back.

Phil Jackson

Right now, we need to focus on who we are as a basketball club. I don't live with expectations, so there's nothing there I can say I expected. We're just out here kind of treading water as a basketball team right now. We're neither hot nor cold, neither fish nor fowl.

Chad Riessen

Right now the kids are playing good basketball as a team. We had high expectations for ourselves and now we're going to try to build on that.

Matt Thissen

San Diego isn't a hard place to want to go to school. It's a good school. Their basketball program has been down lately, but eight years ago they were a top 25 team. Their coach left to go coach her alma mater at Ohio State. I guess she decided she liked the weather better in San Diego and now she's back.

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Robert Long

I wanted something for this boutique that would reflect Manhattan, New York, which is my favorite place on the planet, ... Allure's boutique is really something different. It is fashion-forward. It brings things up to date, because the New York fashions are traditionally years ahead.

Vance Law

These were two big wins for us and it brings us closer to .500. Our younger players are coming through for us in big ways and we've had some outstanding pitching from our starters.

Brady Quinn

The way he handles quarterbacks is much more intense, a much more hands-on kind of approach, and you see the intensity not only that he brings to practice, but that he brings with the quarterbacks,

Michael Hayes

This is a nice event because it brings people together. It's radiant. You feel real Christian values.

Dave Pauli

That's what keeps us going. Every one of them brings a tear to your eyes and makes these sleepless nights worth it.

Emmett Shear

Our app for Xbox 360 brings Twitch video to the television and into the living room of millions of Xbox Live members for the first time. The app will let every Xbox Live gamer find and watch streams of their favorite games from their couch.

Yossi Beilin

brings us closer to making peace within a time frame that is not long.

Ed Rendell

brings home the crushing reality of this war.

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.

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.

Jeremy Mayfield

Coach Sampson was a major, major, major part of me signing.

Mike Bibby

Coach said it was the first time in 20 years he had seen that.

Alex Guerrero

Coach Pete has been the man here for quite awhile, it's just that he hasn't been in the front seat. Now that he's in the front seat, he's going to do some magic around here.

Duane Brown

Coach Pearman is more humorous in his meetings, a little more laid-back. Coach Stinespring is a little more ... uhhh ... fiery. I've learned to take criticism a lot better since I've been (in Stinespring's meetings).

Dane Bradshaw

Coach Pearl was telling me about a game versus Wisconsin he had. He said that was one of the few leads he's lost in his coaching career. We're picking up on the coaches' mentality, and it's starting to become contagious around here.

Ryan Swanson

Coach Pearl has had a tremendous influence on me. What they'll do is play nine guys, maybe 10. They will press full court. They'll pick up a variety of defenses, mostly full-court man. They'll make you play faster than what you want to play. We'll play that way every game and we'll play it every day in practice.

Hosea Berkley

Coach (Paul) Hatcher said the streak had to end sometime. I just wish it wasn't tonight. But everything happens for a reason, just like we won 85 games in a row for a reason.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Nick Zito

It was tough yesterday. I just had to leave really early. It all just got to me with High Fly. I've got a headache right now just talking about it. But that's the way it goes.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Dan Lankheit

As I said, the head on this thing was unreal.

Eric Snyder

This weekend is really important. It's one of the weekends we've been working from the very first practice for, and this is where all the training and work we've done all season will pay off. We're one of the top teams heading down there, so we'll just hope we do enough to move on.

Robbie Bennett

We think it is his knee. But we're still not sure. That's where we're headed now.

Stephen Chick

We think Home Depot is headed for a stall.

Mark Waggoner

There's going to be these lingering problems. There's still too much uncertainty in the New Orleans area. I think we are headed back to $70.

Elizabeth Campbell

We just had to keep our heads up and not quit.

Barbara Stocking

One year after the tsunami, we are seeing an impressive recovery.

Dale Davis

If we make it there, the most impressive thing about that list is that most of those teams went on to win it.

James Johnson

I'm not surprised; he's a tough young man. He was just an impressive young man, even then. He had a can-do attitude.

Erin Hertzog

It's something impressive because it's something we could use in Arizona.

Pat Dowling

For a while anyway, it is not going to be that visible a project. There is no one day that will be more impressive than another.

Bob Costas

If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?

Dikembe Mutombo

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

Stephon Marbury

Im the best point guard in the NBA.

Scott Brooks

The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.

LeBron James

You lose in the Finals, they're all disappointing. Doesn't matter if I'm playing in Miami, Cleveland or on Mars. You lose the Finals, it's disappointing.

LeBron James

They jumped on us. They were the aggressor. They had us on our heels from the beginning.

Donnie Walsh

Reggie is the one who made our transformation to the NBA real.

Brad Byerson

I wanted to show the NBA scouts what I could do. That's my dream, to play in the NBA. That's always been my dream.

Carmelo Anthony

The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

Cobi Jones

This has been my most satisfying, my most gratifying, my most content year, and to culminate this way is perfection. (on the Los Angeles Galaxy's 2005 season)

Cobi Jones

Being out in the heat for two weeks can definitely drain your energy.

Aly Raisman

There's nothing better than going out there and seeing USA on your leotard.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

Rush Limbaugh

The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.

Jeremy Jackson

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

Harry Belafonte

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

Diane Watson

The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

Al Neuharth

USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.