Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darryl Tapp

Teams are remembered by their last game. Our last game, we lost to Florida State, so we have to get that bad taste out of our mouths and go out there and do our job. We can be one of the greatest teams in Virginia Tech history and go out there and win 11 games. That's a big statement, so there's a lot on the line and we all know that.

John Gibbons

Ted (Lilly) has a bad back right now, something he felt the day after his last start (March 26). So we'll give him an extra day of rest and have Josh (Towers) start the second game and Lilly the third.

Chan Gailey

Tell me how bad the field was beat up.

M. Hopper

Sometimes my teams get a bad rap of hanging onto the ball too much. We're trying to score. It's just the way we play.

Linda Jay

Right now there's nothing too, too bad to focus on. As long as things stay calm in the Middle East, I think this continues.

Glenn McAninch

Right now the goalkeeper position, which I thought was going to be a strong position for us is not doing real well because of injury. It's just bad luck, sometimes that happens to a team. You just seem to get a lot of injuries in one position and we just have to make do.

Proverb Proverb

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Robert Esche

Pressure isn't a bad word. It's a great word. It gives you tunnel vision and let's you focus on the task at hand.

Brian Dobie

Pressure is a good thing. Pressure is not a bad thing. So if we were to win in Saskatoon that's all well and good -- and I want that to happen -- but I have no problem with us being in a pressure situation all the way down to the bitter end.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Andy Murray

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

Andy Murray

I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

Andy Roddick

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

Anna Quindlen

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off to Faulkner. He'll do the interior monologue. Hemingway will edit - no, don't make that face, you know you overwrite. And be nice to Cheever. He's young, but he's got a good ear. Wharton and Cather can't play - they're girls.'

Richard Roby

We haven't been playing our best basketball lately. We hit our peak, I think, in the middle of the season, and that's not good.

Peja Stojakovic

We haven't played good basketball all year. Hopefully, we will play better as a team as the season goes on.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Bobby Frasor

Every game we've progressed and we're starting to get things clicking, starting to turn the corner.

Brad Podevels

Every game we've had somebody step up. That's the great thing about this team. Today, it was Seth. He knew what his role was and did a great job.

Erin Aitken

Every game we had was important to stay in the hunt. We knew how important the games were. It wasn't until about the last game that we could relax a little.

Kyle Levins

Every game that we win, it's going to be less and less pressure. We've just got to sharpen up the sticks.

Larry Brown

Every game matters. At the end of the year, this is what they do: They put the wins and losses up. Obviously, we're not going to make the playoffs, but I think the important thing is you get better. Hopefully, that's what we're trying to do.

Kerry Joseph

Every game is important. We've just got to play better football. We let them take it to us.

Brandon Jacobs

This one was for the Duke. This game was totally for Mr. Mara. Mr. Mara was the heart of this team. We just went out and had to give this one to him.

Mike Bryant

This one didn't mean anything. Just us surviving. Tomorrow's game is for all the marbles.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Bella Thorne

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

Bobby Robson

Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result

Debby Ryan

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian) Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)

Max Azria

Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time - like going to a nice restaurant.

Gary Oldman

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

Ellen DeGeneres

I like sitting at outdoor restaurants; it would be nice to go someplace on the street and not worry about somebody taking my picture while I'm about to take a bite of something.

Norman Wisdom

It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.

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.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.