Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

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

Billy Donovan

As a basketball team you have to go through it. They need it. The game came down to our inexperience on the basketball court to their experience.

Michael Wong

As a group, we don't have the size and strength of other basketball players, so we try to create our own little world of basketball. We're not trying to lock people out because we're better. We're protecting our weaker status.

Jeff Davis

The bottom line is, we were beat tonight by a very good basketball team. I won't say better, but a very good basketball team.

Diana Taurasi

The bottom line is we've got good basketball players so we make good basketball decisions and play really good basketball and we just got to keep that same focus and intensity,

Don Allen

The bottom line is we're going to be playing onehopefully twovery good basketball teams. We're going to have our work cut out for us, regardless. A month-and-a-half ago, we were in the bottom of the barrel.

Austin Kirby

At times, we've stagnated a little on offense. We still haven't played our best basketball yet.

Terry Becker

A year ago, these guys were a long ways from being a good basketball team. But the great thing about them is that they worked hard and they listened and they learned.

Mike Lewis

Back east here, we were kind of basketball snobs. We figured we had to be better. That was our first mistake.

Rick Adams

Offensively, ... we thought our size gave us an advantage. We wanted to pound the football all game.

Kevin Higgins

Appalachian really is a good football team. They run so much better than other teams. When you look at the league right now, these guys are playing better than anybody.

Sean Payton

A poorly conditioned football team gets penalties, a poorly conditioned football team holds, a poorly conditioned football team turns the football over. The other way to look at it is, if your not in shape, you can lose games, so I think being in shape is a must. You need to have stamina ... you need to have some staying power in the fourth quarter to win football games and if you're not I think you're going to lose.

Cedric Humes

The seniors took over. We knew that is not our type of football. We were out there getting personal fouls and things like that. We were just hurting ourselves. We had to get everything straight and just go out there and play football.

Dexter Jackson

The staff here does a good job of getting people who love football as opposed to people who play football.

William Jefferson

The spirit comes from football. If they won't come back for anything else, (the alumni) show up for football games.

Klaus Augenthaler

The team played football today the way I like to see it.

Bruce Reynolds

The thing that marked Bubba is that he was so well-liked. He had a great outgoing personality with a fun-loving nature. He was also a very good football player.

Tony Lewis

The thing about Reuben is that he's a great player, but he is so team-oriented. Winning the football game was more important that the yards he gained in it.

Harry Browne

A show's a show, and this is for a good cause.

Erica White

As good as this feels, we're not done yet.

Chris Nelson

As good as (Southern Nevada) is, to come in and win in their park, that's a good thing for Derek.

Robert Esche

As good as it may have seemed, we still lost the game. So, it wasn't that great.

Jay Bilas

As good as I thought they were going to be, and I thought they would be in the NCAA tournament, I didn't think they were going to be this good. I didn't think they were going to be this mature, this polished and this resilient.

Brad Skoglund

As good as catch, maybe better, than the one at state.

Louie Golden

As good a player as he is, he's so unselfish. He makes teams go. He makes it happen.

Jessica Springsteen

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

Madonna Madonna

She wears the same outfit every day to school until she learns her lesson.

Dennis Prager

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

Duff Goldman

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

Alicia Keys

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Thomas Sowell

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

Marilyn vos Savant

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

Dayton Moore

He's had a tremendous year. He comes to play every day and he doesn't give up a single at-bat. He's really shown a lot of maturity.

Fran Lebowitz

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

Erich Maria Remarque

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

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.

Don Baylor

I've always viewed it like this: If you take that player away from the team, where does it finish?

Sydnee Wyss

I've always been the smallest player on my team. I'm just used to it. I don't think about it anymore.

Chris Avellone

The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

Mark Franke

So the player tells the stewardess he didn't get enough to eat, either, and where was his $20.

John Fox

Sometimes players don't like to be reminded of their mistakes, at least not right away.

John Nash

Ruben's a very unusual player. I don't know that I've ever been around a player like him before.

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.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Strobe Talbott

These are tough issues, ... It's a work in progress.

Ayn Rand

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Cam Newton

You cannot make progress with excuses.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Derrick Bell

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

Daniel H. Pink

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

Booker T. Washington

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.