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.

Chris Grinde

A foot injury is tough to overcome in basketball. You are pounding it on the floor, jumping and landing on it. It will be interesting to see if he can endure the pain.

John Jones

The one thing I think is that we're an improved basketball team. The things (Monterey does), the pressure man-to-man, I think we saw enough of it that we'll handle it a little better.

Gary Williams

The one thing about going early is you'll get more families with little kids. I've seen more little kids out there. That's nice if you can get kids interested in basketball this way.

Kevin Bookout

The Oklahoma basketball program is built on playing hard and tough and competing on every possession. For us to come out here and lose in the first round, that doesn't bode well. We're supposed to win these games.

Lute Olson

After long and serious deliberation, the men's basketball staff has dismissed Chris Rodgers, effective immediately, from the team. It should be noted that Chris has earned his college degree in three and a half years and that we wish him much success in all future endeavors.

Ken Chevalier

After playing a brutal schedule and dealing with injuries and overtime losses, we finally started to play some consistent basketball.

Gary Roberts

Joe did a great job getting position in front of the net. I threw it in front and he's got pretty good hands, so he was able to deflect it in.

Susan Wilson

He fought it with humor. He always used humor to deflect it off him.

Jeff Corey

A guy went down and I just shot it on net, hoping it would go in or hit off someone and deflect in. Fortunately, it went right in there for me.

Rob Hummel

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

George Osborne

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Boris Spassky

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

Cameron Sinclair

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Jamie Redknapp

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

Christina Dahl

Defensively, our shooting wasn't very great. We stepped it up defensively and we were able to stop them.

Bob Scott

Sometimes we have to tell her to shoot more. She's a very unselfish player.

Erica Hallman

It was time to shoot and I shot it. Bonnie just told me to be more aggressive, and fortunately it went in.

Tom Curle

You shoot 58-percent, you're going to win some games.

Joe Sanchez

He's like a horse. You'd have to shoot him.

Lucy Johnson

I think they're doing as much as they can b/c they're not just going to just stand there while someone shoots somebody or stabs somebody and do nothing about it. They can't be at the same place at one time.

Lindsay Williams

I was just shooting to get it off of my foot.

Zoe Kravitz

This might surprise you, but I do feel like I have, because the shooting of all these films was spread out, for the most part. They just happen to be coming out at the same time.

Kelly Golob

In those times I always feel like I'm going to be able to make that shot. Why not shoot it?

John Jones

We're going to try to use solid technique.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

David Ritchie

All this means. . . we have a really solid footing.

Mike Donahue

Once again, we had a solid third period.

J. J. Johnson

We are solid up front. It has just taken some time to feel comfortable in our system.

Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Sherill Baker

We just tried to be the aggressor. We were trying to get some steals to set up our scoring.

Jesse Jackson

I had to steal to survive.

Pablo Picasso

If there is something to steal, I steal it.

Barbara Corcoran

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

Leonard Bernstein

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

Jean Harlow

Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.