Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Mark Slotsve

That was a big basket that turned the tide. It only gave them a five-point lead, but the way the game was going it felt like a 20-point lead.

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.

Chris Duhon

Coach was the male influence in my life when I grew up, ... He taught me a lot about basketball and about life. That was the type of guy he was.

Joe Densberger

Coaches are never satisfied. The overall grade of the game was an 'A,' but finishing at the basket was a 'C-plus' and our rebounding was about a 'C-plus/B-minus,' but in the overall context we played a really good game.

Tony Duckworth

Cole came through with several big plays. He had a couple late, making the basket and the free throw, that kept us in the lead.

Sammy Willis

Coming out of basketball we missed two meets going into the second week of playoffs. She jumped into the first meet, and it was like she was in the middle of the season. Her techniques are well right now.

Sean Organ

Despite not winning, a game like this will only make us better. As long as I can remember, Averill Park hasn't won a girls' basketball championship. We're looking to change that. Our motto is, 'One practice, one game at a time.' And that's not going to change.

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

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.

Bryan Pata

Coaches say the only way teams will start passing deep is if we're up by 21. Otherwise, they'll run, the ball, run the ball, then throw a quick slant.

Adam Haluska

Coaches have been doing a great job keeping my confidence level up. We've been coming in a lot at night putting extra shots in. That's been the turnaround in my game, in my shooting touch.

Al Groh

coaches don't. You can't win games without the ball. You understand that, you take it and you just move on.

Mike Rippee

Coaches can get a little skewed about wanting their kids to get bigger, stronger and faster. It's important you tell your kids to do it the right way.

Jason Richardson

The team depends on me every night, (and) the coaches depend on me to come out and give something. That's what I'm learning as a player. ... I was really pleased with our defense. It was better than when we played them last week. Our defense hasn't been the problem, and we're finally putting the offense together.

Ozzie Newsome

The third piece was the job that the coaches did last year, taking that young squad and developing some of those young players, and then being able to augment it this year. We looked at it and said, '03 and '04 were what we were shooting for.

Glenn Crooks

The thing you need to take into consideration and that you hear coaches talk about all the time is the fact that you need to perform for the entire match. I thought at times we played well and other moments we had breakdowns that cost us.

Wayne Pace

I like the position we're in within the context of the overall industry,

Christine Quinn

When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

Larry Garza

As for me, I'm single, and it hurts me 'cause he's not here and he won't be able to see his grandchildren grow up. He was always proud of his three sons finishing college, growing up and providing for themselves.

Lori Nelson

As a company, we're more focused on finishing Red Rock Resort than any of our future projects.

Tom Chicantek

Cody had a nice overall season, finishing with a 17-11 record.

Paul Woolpert

We're taking more individual accountability and taking more pride in stopping their man. We're getting very important stops and finishing it by grabbing rebounds.

Jean Todt

There is so much going on that I still feel the possibility of finishing much stronger at the end of the season.

Donnie Edwards

Marty has been talking about us finishing games. ... He has been stressing about making plays when you have to.

Brad Bevis

We had a lot of question marks. I had no idea what to expect. So, I'm pretty pleased with finishing third.

John Swenson

Remnants of the stone shed where they did the finishing work, ... the foundation is there.

Don Helvey

We're not finishing when we need to finish, but we finish when it counts. The kids know how to play the game and they've been taught that they need to stick with it until the last whistle.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Eric Bagley

The Montpelier-U-32 game is always a tough game. They're going to come out and play as hard as they can.

Andre Muse

Defensively, we really tried to shut them down. They have troubles scoring in the half-court offense, so we tried to slow the tempo of the game down.

Lauri Hakala

Defensively, he reads the game better than any other libero. He's very technical and he's very good all-around. He can pass all kinds of serves. He doesn't have any weaknesses that stand out so nobody can go after him.

Tony Parker

Definitely. It was tough in overtime. Maybe we ran out of gas. But we should've won the game before that. We had it.

Chris Gardocki

Cole is old enough that he'll be able to remember this when he gets older. Being able to take him into the locker room after the game was really cool.

Nykesha Sales

Any win on the road, when it's a three game series, is important,

Skip Harlicka

An indescribable feeling. I had never been involved in a game like that. Just 16 months before I had been in high school.

Jim Calhoun

And the Elvin Hayes-Jabbar game at the Astrodome, that was something I was thinking about for days.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Mark Rodgers

As long as we stick to issues and keep it civil, this (announcement) should be a good thing for our party.

David Wright

As long as we get these big two-out hits and keep scoring runs late like this, we're going to be in good shape.

Ron Zook

A specialist worked with him and we feel very good about him,

Bob Jones

As long as everyone uses good microphone etiquette, it should go fine.

Jim Rash

As long as a teaser saves some things, that's good.

Carlos Ghosn

As long as it is a good investment for Renault, we'll stay.

Jim Cummings

As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Les Paul

We're switching the sounds, not so much the tone of the instrument. And when things seem impossible, it's back to grade school, soldering, re-developing - always building.

Paul Morse

There's some guys looking at him, so he needs to get his grades in order. There are people that want him. He's just got to get the test score to get in.

Eric Johnson

I was terrible my first year. In 10th grade I was still bad, but the team needed someone that small. I knew that I just needed to stay off my back for the team.

Melissa McCarthy

Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.

Frank Brothers

He's still pretty green, but any time you win a Grade I at Saratoga, it's pretty good.

Evan Anderson

I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he really got me interested in the sport. He really thought that I could be something special.

Mark Johnson

If I had to open up a new third grade tomorrow, I couldn't do it, ... I don't have the room.

Bob Stanley

I knew him a lot of years in grade school,

Frank Raffone

That means more kids have passed it before getting to 12th grade and don't have it hanging over their head right now.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Pat Murphy

I'm disappointed overall in the play of the weekend.

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.