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.

John Sarbanes

A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative.

Anna Tibaijuka

This is the first effort of its kind on behalf of Safer Cities and we are proud to work with Tim and UNFCU to continue to strengthen civic responsibility within communities, engage youth and prevent crimes.

Ken Williams

There should be no question about the respect this organization has for Frank and all that he has helped us accomplish, including a World Series championship. He is the greatest hitter in White Sox history. At the same time, it is my responsibility to make the best decisions I can on behalf of the organization. Our plan is to continue to speak with Frank and his representatives over the coming months as more information is known about his health.

Webb Hubbell

What I do know is that I don't know of any wrongdoing on behalf of the first lady or the president, and nothing the independent counsel can do to me is going to make me lie about them,

Les Kotzer

More often, it's the lawyers who have to work it out. And once a lawyer gets between your kids -- say the lawyer sends a letter to a sister on behalf of a brother -- their relationship won't be the same anymore.

Arthur Schlesinger

She was a quiet revolutionary on behalf of all women,

Mike Driscoll

He submitted claims on behalf of numerous individuals,

Jerry Donnellan

It is an acknowledgement of the veterans' service. The fact that the towns are going to the full capacity, it's money, but it's also a gesture on their behalf to thank the veterans for the time they put on a uniform.

Scott Graham

I think there's a lot to be said for kids coming forward because you don't see that very often. I'm very proud of that. We have a good group of kids. It speaks loudly on their behalf that they did this.

Jacques Chirac

I share the pain of those families who have lost a loved one, and I offer my deepest condolences and sympathy,

Jim Hall

This is a sad way to end his career. His family has my deepest sympathy.

Laura Lopez

This is the deepest snow we've had in a long time. I never thought we'd get this much.

John Tesh

for people who are (a) trying to find their purpose in life and (b) trying to find the deepest desire of their life.

John Eade

It has got the broadest product portfolio and the deepest pipeline of any drug stock.

James Pennebaker

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now or even your career. How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now?

John Dewey

The deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important

Gordon Richards

Railroading in a barn' was the expression they used, ... They'd get all the way here, and the view was shut out. The sheds were not very popular for tourism.

E. Hicks

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

Alexander Rumyantsev

I see this as a positive step and I express my satisfaction.

Aretha Franklin

On the sly, scoping for love.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.

Charles Darwin

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

Jim Yong Kim

One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.

Trent Duffy

There are different views expressed, there's no question about it, ... As the president said on Tuesday, most of those he meets with express support for going forward in the way and the manner in which the president has laid out. But there are those who have different views.

Bob Dylan

The executioner's face is always well hidden.

Alexei Kovalev

This is really big. I can't imagine what's going on in Russia right now.

Brendan Fehr

I've never been overseas. I can only imagine what that's like.

Stephen King

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

Kim Martin

I have always imagined that I am Jim Craig.

Dawn Brown

I can't imagine life without him. He completes our family.

Vivian Stringer

I can't imagine him not coaching. I just can't imagine it. It really puts everything in perspective for me. I never saw that day coming.

Brian Roberts

I can't imagine a stronger start to this year.

Jerome Bettis

I can't imagine anything better. I'm going home.

Dakota Crow

I can't imagine a new team will do a lot better, at least not right away. I think they went after a short term solution. I wish they would've worked with us for a long term solution.

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Don Stewart

Are we in violation of any state statutes?

Steve Kendall

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Robert Hansen

The state is already telling us what to teach

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Ariel Sharon

What Palestinian state are they intending? ... What Palestinian state are they talking about?

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

Mitchell Moore

(Ramsey) was a little upset at us at halftime.

Denny Green

Things have to go the way you want them to go, and I think that's probably what upsets me the most as a coach.

John Brady

There have been a lot of similarities with our progression. We upset a No. 1 as they did 20 years ago.

Patricia Cornwell

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

Mignon McLaughlin

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

Erwin Rommel

He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.

Mike Maroth

He's upset about today. That's obvious. We should be upset about it, too. (Losing) 10-2, it wasn't a pretty game.

George Sand

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

Jim Hughes

When it comes to penalties, I'm not upset with our team's discipline. But, yes, we can play more intelligently.