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.

Marika Sandrelli

Sometimes some of the best therapy happens in a basketball game, with a coach. Sometimes the best conversations happen in a smoke pit.

Tony Skinn

Seeing him be so happy kind of motivates us to know that basketball is a game of fun. You get too serious and get too tense, you might have jitters on the court, so we're trying to stick to that mode of having fun. It works for us.

Mike Warrington

Ryan is a true competitor and does not back down from any challenge presented to him on the basketball court.

Stu Jackson

Ron has been exemplary this season in terms of his behavior on the court. My hope is that it is an isolated incident and that he'll continue to play the high level of basketball that he's been playing at.

Earvin Johnson

said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

Tom Woods

That's where toughness shows, on the defensive side of things. And I think that's exactly what happened tonight. I was real pleased with the defense, and the intensity level.

John Bliss

Our defensive pressure was a big part in the win. It kind of fueled our offense and gave us some relatively easy baskets.

Byron Scott

Terrible. I thought we started off terrible, no sense of urgency, no resistance on the defensive end. We played like the game didn't mean a thing. It's not everybody obviously, but as a team, collectively, we were awful. We looked more like we were scared than anything.

Kenneth Bacon

There are some signs that in recent weeks Saddam Hussein has been concentrating more on defensive measures rather than offensive measures.

Chris Richards

We're a defensive team. I think we can stop anybody.

Chuck Hardt

We had a few defensive lapses, but the kids found a way to hang in there and battle.

Dan McCarney

Dobbins can be much better than last year. At this time last year, we didn't know where Dobbins would play - whether it would be as a starter or a backup. We didn't desert him; we worked with him, and he ended up being defensive newcomer of year.

Alan Nicholl

Twenty-some shots is a tremendous game, offensively. For them not to score a goal, you have to hand it back to our kids; they put up such a great defensive effort.

Rodney Tention

The tougher team won. Right now, the defensive part of the game is not important to our kids.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Barbara Starr

A few moments ago, he stopped a truck full of National Guard troops ... and said, 'Point your weapons down, this is not Iraq,'

Kimberly Russell

A few minutes of poor judgement has set us back more than 50 years.

Linda Mitchell

A few may have slipped by. But if we missed one, we'll send it back ASAP.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Asa Butterfield

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Rodney Vigil

We had a strong second half offensively and defensively.

Jerry Rucker

Defensively our intensity level picked up. They went through a spell of about 25 possessions from midway through the second to about mid-third quarter where they only scored six points.

Sthefany Thomas

That's why you can never lay back. You can't play to the other team; you have to play with your own intensity that your team always plays with.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

John Lazicki

We've seen this team this year with the same level of intensity that they had, but we just couldn't match it tonight.

Kenny Carter

You have to have intensity for 32 minutes. It didn't happen.

Dan Dersam

We just turned cold, and we couldn't make anything. We were trying to live on the jump shot, and we lost our intensity on defense.

Mario Chalmers

We just tried to match the intensity they were bringing.

R. Ingram

We weren't really playing with a lot of energy, we told ourselves we have to pick up our intensity and pressure the ball.

Tim Wise

We haven't played with the intensity on that end that we need. That's where we'll put our emphasis.

Marek Hlasko

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

Gbola Amusa

The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Andrew Engel

I've never lost to Severna Park. Everyone says that they are the better team, but we've got to go out there and prove it every time we play.

Kevin Grace

The store manager of the Tacoma Levitz told me 45,000 people lost their money at Levitz.

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Gerard Hopkins

I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

Christopher Davis

It wouldn't be catastrophic if they lost it.

Dave Whelan

The whole system and pattern of play under Sven is flawed. We seem to have lost the plot,

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Tom Crean

We got our second wind under us when we started to make those shots.

Richard Branson

When people screw up, give them a second chance.

Maya Angelou

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

James Matthews

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Mike Sillinger

He always makes the right shot, the right move. He's a talented young player.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.