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.

Kevin Gardner

Our shots were not falling today. It was brutal shooting them, it was brutal watching them.

Richard Perle

President Chirac has said Saddam Hussein was his friend -- a friend, one of the most brutal dictators in this world?

Lawrence Powell

We've solved our crime problem in a brutally Darwinian way.

Nikki Sixx

And, you know, there's a brutality to us when we're together,

Jacob Lew

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.

Jean Racine

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

Quentin Tarantino

I wasn't familiar with him, and I thought the scene was too brutal for the song. So what do I know?

Mike Littlewood

We had a lot of intensity. The thing I liked about it was the conditions were brutal and we played through it.

Lee Sentell

For the most part, these stories are told with brutal honesty and I think tourists from outside the South are impressed and surprised at the candor of these exhibits.

Tom Daschle

as consistent or regular as I think they should be.

Chad Wintz

You're not going to hold them scoreless and you won't shoot 100 percent. We did a really good job of being consistent with our approach. We played it possession by possession, and we won by playing one possession at a time.

Jessie Stricchiola

We've seen a consistent downward trend in responsiveness to submitted activity.

Steve Schultze

We thought we could do it in a couple of years, but it finally happened and it's real exciting for the kids, for the community, for the school, for our program. Our whole motto this year is 'Nothing but greatness.' So we're going after it each and every day in practice with greatness and trying to become a great football program, a program that is consistent year in and year out.

Alec Stewart

England have been consistent in the past where if someone has made themselves unavailable for some of the winter, then they have been made unavailable for the whole winter by the selectors.

Holly Brown

Devin stayed within herself and relied on her mechanics. She's been one of our most consistent hitters.

Steve Gray

This number is consistent with our preseason estimate of the total deer population being down approximately seven percent.

Chris Smith

You have to have that consistent effort ... to win the game, period.

Bill Bavasi

This was a pretty high priority for us in the off-season. The signing for us is terrific because there's so few real quality left or switch-hitters that can operate in the middle of the lineup and be as consistent as Raul. We wanted to lock him up.

Randy White

Dealing with something like that is tough on anybody. I knew she really wanted to perform well. That was one of her incentives.

Robert Hill

dealing with illegal people movement, fishing breaches, transnational crime.

Tony Ridder

Dealing with a drummer isn't that much different from dealing with someone from IT.

Joanne Dobson

Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract,

John Evans

The size of the property and the magnitude of what we're dealing with is amazing. But we're planning a community, not dealing with a plot of land.

W. S. Gilbert

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

John Riggins

The story really is, in a way, Joel -- doing what he did while dealing with this illness,

David Morgan

The most important message for me is the theme of faith explored in the show. Dealing with faith and having faith in God, even though you don't completely understand what it is he has in store for you.

Jim Boeheim

Roy was a great motivator, a guy with great energy, ... He was a very good practice coach. He had a way of keeping everybody enthusiastic and fired up every day, and that's important when you are dealing with a long season like you do in basketball.

Aaron Rowand

After playing 14 innings, when my head finally hits that pillow, I don't think I'm going to have any trouble sleeping tonight.

Lauri Hakala

Sometimes it goes that way, sometimes it doesn't. I've been really mindful of my footwork. I'm happy it finally worked.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Pete Carroll

Tonight the offense was just rolling. We finally got rolling in the turnover situation. We've been quiet lately. Stanford has been such a stingy team. We wanted to turn that thing around. To get five and give none, we loved that.

Mikhail Youzhny

I am really happy because I finally won a tournament after two years, ... I had been playing well but, for some reason, I couldn't win a tournament.

Willie Randolph

I guess I finally made it, ... I'm legit now.

Kiaran McLaughlin

She finished second so many times, and I'm glad she finally got a graded stakes win. She's a very good filly.

Jeff Probst

I finally met someone who could teach me about love.

Brian Savage

I finally got some bounces to go my way.

Stephen Schwerdt

Sometimes these type of injuries are frustrating and more time is needed to get it right. We will now back off his training for two weeks and then reassess.

Fred Zimny

You're doing 80 and 90 mph sometimes, and that's unfortunately part of the sport. They happen, and 90 percent of the time there's no injuries or no serious injuries.

Jonathan Jackson

Every year we see needless and preventable injuries from fireworks,

Martha Washington

He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.

Jim Daley

Injuries occur and they are always unnerving and you always have to adapt. Sometimes, you have more notice than the end of the week.

Venus Williams

Injuries are part of sports, but right now, (I'm) solid.

Chan Gailey

It's OK. It's not where it needs to be. Most of that is because of injuries and not having enough time playing together.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

Joan Bonvicini

We were like playing 2 on 5 out there. I mean, really.

Jodi Manore

We won in spite of ourselves. We're not playing as well as I would like.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Darby Stanchfield

From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.

Alexander Fleming

I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.

Josh Boone

When you are a 16 seed playing a 1 seed, you've got nothing to lose.

Phil Garner

I've long said the schedule is the most favorable,

Arthur Bloch

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Mike Murdock

Your schedule and your spending describe what you really love in life.

Gil Scott-Heron

Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

G. H. Hardy

We're not willing to schedule more negotiating sessions.

Bob Hunter

It's a very tight schedule and it's a very tight budget.

Mark Few

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

Bryan Ferry

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.