Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Barnes

(Kelvin) lost some games when he didn't have his whole team there. Coming in (to the season) they were like us, a team that was up there. And they're a good basketball team.

Jamie Dixon

Keith penetrated and got to the basket very well. Defensively, he made them earn their points, forced them to take tough shots. He's also exceptional at finishing on the wing in transition, which we also saw a lot of tonight.

Matthew Parker

Just overall I felt that of all the schools I had recruiting me, they were recruiting me the hardest, ... I want to help with the rebuilding process they have going on with the basketball program. It was a hard decision, but of the schools that were recruiting me hard, I felt like they wanted me the most.

Doc Sadler

Just more little things. Making free throws. You've got to do the little things to win basketball games -- especially on the road.

Vance Downs

Jordan's been practicing with us since January, so he knows how to run our offense, and he's been getting better every night. We knew this last two to three weeks that he was ready. As far as basketball maturity goes, he's well beyond his years. He's a pretty cool customer.

Greg Anthony

Joe understands team. Basketball is not about having the five best players. It's about having five players that play the best together. It's a puzzle.

Brittany Hunter

I think in this setting it's a little odd because I haven't seem them in basketball gear in a while.

Scott Flemming

He was a huge part of this win. He took it upon himself to drive to the basket and score or go to the free-throw line and score.

Billy Donovan

He was a great guy. It was such a tragedy, what happened. He touched a lot of lives. I know with St. Francis, he and (athletic director) Randy Maris had a lot of plans, he wanted to give Bud the chance to build a basketball program and unfortunately it didn't work out. At least his family, his kids, will have something they can hold to and remember him by.

Scott Wood

There is no favoritism when it comes to run blocking or running routes, ... If all I'm going to do is run-block ... as long as the team wins, I don't care.

Marty Simmons

The guys worked really hard to get out and contest shots, and we did a much better job of blocking out. We got off to a good start, which is always important. We're just happy to come away with a win.

Jose Gomez

Their linebackers did a good job of blocking the middle, so we had the option to kick it out,

John Base

The city told me I need to move my boat. I don't know why. My yard is well maintained, and I am not blocking any sidewalks.

Paula Berg

It's not as simple as blocking out New Orleans.

George Gwozdecky

Stripping the puck, blocking shots and making quick passes up ice are more the things he brought to our program.

Robert Lambert

After the storm passed, those trucks were completely blocking Causeway Boulevard. The storm threw them like toys.

Kirk Hinrich

It's real frustrating. I got two blocking calls I didn't think were blocks. It's just frustrating, that's all. I really don't have anything else to say about it.

Jim Noonan

It's hard to get rebounds when they make all their shots. We actually did a good job of blocking out, but everything dropped through the net.

Kay Redfield Jamison

When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.

Roland Rust

I think it has a huge impact. It's become more important, rather than less, because mass media has become less effective. It's particularly more effective than an advertisement, because people's defenses are down.

Geoff Smith

We're officially retiring as Kurt Busch's apologists, ... effective today.

Jason Witten

I think we improved tonight. We really put an emphasis this preseason on the run and I feel like it was more effective tonight.

Flip Saunders

I am happy we won, but I am not overall pleased with how we played. When we don't play well, we hold the ball. Tonight, we held the ball. I know our schedule had something to do with it, but we can't be effective when we play like we did tonight.

Daniel Perez

Right now, that is the only tool that is effective in controlling avian influenza.

John Devenanzio

Paula was so effective at what she did. I just thought she was being mean, but she was doing everything in her power she could do to make sure she didn't see me with other girls.

A. Johnson

In years past, the offensive line hasn't been big here, but they've been extremely effective in the red zone. So you can't say that's the reason. They weren't big before and they were kicking butt.

Jane Martin

In respect for our girls, I feel like we need to be there and I want to be there. I don't know how effective my presence will be. I do know I will speak up.

Mike Holder

He's got some fairly serious injuries. He needs to get healthy. That's what we said in the press release.

John Nestor

I think it's fairly well known that the SEC for one is looking at Tyco, and looking at it very hard. When the SEC looks at any company, they are interested in talking to their auditors. And as part of their look they'd naturally be talking to us, and we'd be talking to them.

Jim Magagna

I think that's a fairly reasonable place to be.

Todd Spencer

I think we got a group with really good size and athleticism. These are big guys who can move. They've all got quick feet and are fairly agile.

Dr. Levy

I think that a lot of physicians really see drug testing as a fairly simple lab test when, in fact, it is not at all.

William Ford

If we want to do repairs next summer, we're going to have to get moving fairly quickly,

Chris Patterson

The main thing is still the humor. . . getting the jokes out there. Music is just something were fairly able at, sort of a carrier for the humor.

Chris Patterson

The main thing is still the humor . . . getting the jokes out there. Music is just something we're fairly able at, sort of a carrier for the humor.

John Hull

The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Joe Girardi

I would say that it is a good probability.

Charles Sanders

I would suspect the possibilities are good we would do that. That's the way you increase interest in the lottery.

Charles Sanders

I would suspect the possibilities are good we would do that.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Phil Garner

Their pitching is much improved over last year,

Kiki Vandeweghe

It's well deserved. He's just improved by leaps and bounds. I'm really, really happy... He really works to make his team better.

Robert Broadfoot

It really hasn't improved much in 20 years.

Lini Reading

They're going to be excited. They are a much improved team.

Natalie Taylor

We're getting to know one another. We've really improved from last week to this week. We worked as a team and communicated a lot more.

Doug Kelly

They are a much-improved team. They are the most improved team in our section. They don't have a lot of wins in the section, but they've battled a lot of teams close.

John Conyers

This is not a new and improved Patriot Act.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

John Caudwell

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Glen Smith

He viewed it as a job that had to be done.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Phil Garner

He just likes going out and pitching, doing his job and saying, 'Thank you very much,' and going home.

Taylor Hawkins

In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Marco Sullivan

I think it's great, personally. Now everyone's got to perform. It's another level of intensity. Everyone is kind of picking it up.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Karl Hobbs

I think we still have a way to go. I want to get to the point where we're playing at the level we need to play at. Because very shortly it's going to come down to one game, one play and that's my focus. We need to be at the level where its one play and your season is over.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Taizo Nishimuro

It is necessary to raise the level of screening for start-up firms when they are to be listed.

Henry Mason

He's done some things that get your attention. Just like any young guy, you're looking for a level of consistency. That's what we're trying to get out of these 15 (spring practices). We're going to keep him in there and we're going to see what he can do.

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.

Brent Sutter

I think what everyone underestimated about us was our skill level.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

Robert McCracken

We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

Henry Rollins

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.