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.

Jack Bicknell

And they have some wide receivers who can really fly, so we have our hands full, ... They pretty much dominated Wyoming and their offense is really dangerous.

Bob Hartley

Even though they've pretty much dominated us in the first three games, the good news is we're still right there with them.

Malcolm Boyd

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Carmen Schoolcraft

We had a good final seven-minute push in the second half, but that was about it. We dominated the first half, but we just couldn't put it in the back of the net.

Jim Tracy

We got pitched to death. He dominated the game.

Angela Merkel

My government will be dominated by a firm will to renew our fatherland,

Champ Bailey

My front seven just dominated the second half, ... Dominated.

Stephen Kenny

We dominated the match and Waterford had one shot - it is unbelievable we lost that game,

Mike Sais

We dominated the first half, but we let them have the second half. We just went flat and I don't know why. San Pedro was intense and played with a lot of pride.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Tim Couch

I wanted to come out and win this game more than anything -- more than any game I've ever been in. I thought I played well, but I just couldn't get it in at the end. Obviously this hurt us. We don't know what's going to happen.

Jon Judkins

I wanted a game between now before our league games (next week).

Tom Keane

A four-way tie going into the last game of the season, I don't think that's ever happened before. It's been a very strange league this year. There's just so much parity in the league this year.

Alex Hernandez

The one good thing is that we were able to tie the game up playing a man down,

Christy Nall

After Ashanti Jones hit that game winning shot the stands emptied onto the floor. It was like we had won the state championship. It was great.

Kevin Hartzell

After a game like he had (in Game 1) a goalie can feel invincible.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

Rick Carlisle

Anthony Johnson played a terrific game. He's playing with great aggressiveness and savvy and understanding the pulse of the team he is running.

Walter Cronkite

An incredible reporter and a great writer, but he had a terrible stutter, a terrible stutter.

Henry Mason

And that was a great help to us in selling Lance on Wisconsin.

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.

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,

John Gibbons

That's what this team does. This team is dangerous. They've got so much speed, they can do anything.