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.

Ernie Grunfeld

Right now we're just focused on making sure he comes out of this okay, ... The good news is that it looks like he's going to recover from this . We'll worry about the basketball stuff later on.

Lorenzo Romar

Right now we need to put 40 minutes of intense basketball together. Right now that's the biggest monkey on our back.

Phil Jackson

Right now, we need to focus on who we are as a basketball club. I don't live with expectations, so there's nothing there I can say I expected. We're just out here kind of treading water as a basketball team right now. We're neither hot nor cold, neither fish nor fowl.

Chad Riessen

Right now the kids are playing good basketball as a team. We had high expectations for ourselves and now we're going to try to build on that.

Matt Thissen

San Diego isn't a hard place to want to go to school. It's a good school. Their basketball program has been down lately, but eight years ago they were a top 25 team. Their coach left to go coach her alma mater at Ohio State. I guess she decided she liked the weather better in San Diego and now she's back.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

Ira Schlosser

At worst Fields Corner deserves a better quality store than midland has proven itself willing to deliver. At best we deserve the opportunity to really work towards changing the way that property is used so it's more reflective of the neighborhood's needs.

Mark Shapiro

At Six Flags, our mission is to surround the best rides in the world with entertainment from the fields of music, theater, sports, film and television. We want to be about more than rides -- Six Flags must be about a wider, more fulfilling experience. We also look forward to recharging our broad relationship with Warner Bros. through such great brands as Looney Tunes and DC Comics.

David Thomson

A wireless phone is only as good as the network it's on. You can have the best price plan and the coolest-looking phone, and if it doesn't work for you, what good is that?

Sharon Versyp

A win tomorrow would separate us from the pack because there are about three or four teams that are dead center right now. We're just preparing to be the best that we can for the postseason tournament. We're just trying to set a precedent for a winning attitude.

James Anderson

Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going.

Jeetan Patel

Obviously it's a dream to play test cricket. I can hope. If I keep bowling well then I don't see why not. I've just got to keep pushing towards it.

Robert Hoffman

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David Harrison

It's an injury that I picked up from bowling a lot in indoor nets and, though I tried it out in nets on Tuesday, it's not right.

Kathy Davis

It's a great cause and the bowling pins are just beautiful.

Roger Clemens

So they gave me some medication and I'm going to treat it and that's all I can tell you from there.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Andy Reid

There are plenty of things to work on, but they gave a great effort.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Flip Saunders

The only negative was I wanted to play Carlos (Delfino) and I didn't. I think he could have probably helped us. We went with Mo, and Mo gave us energy.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Chairon Isenia

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

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.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Dave Warren

North Hills is going to be a tough game. They're a good team, but we should be able to play with them. Same with Baldwin.

Mike Whaley

Norman played very well. Taylor proved that he's a good quarterback. I also take my hat off to them defensively.

Bret Teutken

Normally, we're good free-throw shooters. We were lucky to hang on and get it.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

O. J. Simpson

It was tough. Some of the greens hold well and then some of them release. I think the greens are tough to putt, at least for me. I made my short ones, but those 15- to 20-footers are tough.

Nancy Walker

Mainly, we just want the green space with the openness,

Hannah Reiff

He told me I had the green light to shoot whenever I wanted. It's kind of a leadership role I had to take on. It's not like I was trying to get all of the points. That's just the way it worked out.

Carin Koch

I didn't putt like I did yesterday, but the greens were beautiful. If you get it on the right line, the right speed, the greens are really true. They'll go in.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.

Paula Creamer

I could not see it. People up at the green saw it.

Dan Green

What we do not get are the names of those people peering out from those lush, green trees.

Wayne Smith

Had results been fair, it is possible that we may have even seen a different government. The Liberals, NDP and Greens represent a majority, and together they would have held a majority of seats.

Tracy Sutton

I have some big shoes to fill. I am looking to hit it head on. Greenland has had a lot of success and I am excited.

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.

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.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.