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.

Joakim Noah

As a basketball player this is your dream -- to play in the national championship game. It's just such a great feeling that it's finally here. There's been so much hard work and so much sacrifice. There's so many moments that I can go back to -- being a little kid, walking to practice. Now I'm finally playing in the game.

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.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want the chance to do. We just did what we've been doing all along.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want. It's been an exciting, exciting week for us.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want a chance to have an opportunity to do.

Gary Williams

As a college basketball coach, I'm upset for the future of game. Somebody has to be accountable. You can't blame just one group of people for this, unfortunately.

Craig Shoemaker

The boys are excited. When we do put four quarters of basketball together, we're a pretty decent team.

Jack Bicknell

As far as their character, you can't beat either of those two guys, ... Both of them bring something and having two starters is a positive. You don't have to worry about the first guy going down.

Rick Stockstill

As far as the class, I'm not one to stand up here and talk about this guy and that guy and say, 'We beat this team or we beat that team on a player.' That's just not my style. We are excited about this class. I think the big thing in it is what I have said since I've been here, which is I want to surround myself with winners.

Guy Stout

As far as distribution goes, we definitely sell more wines here that are off the beaten path than we would even in Houston, because there's a demand for them here.

Jack Siedlecki

The bottom line is, their best player beat us. He made the biggest play of the game, and he beat us.

Emily Martin

The bottom of the order really came through for us today. When your last three hitters get seven hits, it should be a good day. Plus, we finished with 14 hits for the game. That should be more than enough to beat just about any team.

Todd Casebier

The bottom line is we gotta win. To get back to the playoffs we'll have to beat some quality teams at home and on the road and this schedule has that.

Samuel Johnson

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

Thomas Fuller

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be

Olga Klimova

A win would give us an easier opponent in the Big 12 Tournament. Everybody wants to win, and if we beat Nebraska, it will help us.

Ken Williams

I don't think it is the appropriate or proper thing to do. That's not me. I talked to Ozzie about it because not only do I want to win, but I want to do it in a very respectful and classy way. There's a way to win and a way not to win. And being boastful about it is not the way.

Richard Courtney

She was excited to be able to hire such a big name. And she made it very clear to Cory: 'This is a classy event. Don't be vulgar.' Of course, they didn't show that.

Isiah Thomas

I can't say that I've met a more classy individual in the N.B.A.,

Will Ferrell

How classy is it for me to wear these pink tennis shoes with my tux?

Doug Mitchell

He's at the top with all of them, and he's done it in such a humble way, such a classy way. He goes down in history as being the dominant player on one of the most dominant teams, in modern days anyway.

Flip Saunders

I have only been here three months, and I took offense to it. I just don't think that's right ... especially in our league right now. Commissioner David Stern has made a statement that he wants this league to be classy and to clean things up. To do something like that was uncalled for.

Bill Keefer

Any game without a strikeout, I'm happy with.

John Chaney

Any game we win is an ugly win.

Ron Dayne

Any road game is going to be tough. We just have to get our mind right and be ready to play.

George Khoury

Any poultry on sale in an unregulated market and any pigeons or game are now culled.

Bill Belichick

Any players that haven't been in the playoffs need to do everything they've done before and more to try to prepare. You can't simulate a playoff game in practice. You can't simulate it anywhere.

Clint Hurdle

as good a game as you will see here

Kevin Osnes

As a team, we have to understand that the game starts inside-out.

Curt Grottenthaler

As a team, it was a real good, solid performance to start the season out. It's good to get on the positive side of things in the first game and start getting a little confidence.

Jonte Flowers

As a team, we stay loose and really take it one game at a time. We know how important each game is. We just go out there and have fun.

Gary Hall

Any time it's Westfield-Herndon, South Lakes-Herndon, it's a little more intense. I thought our guys showed some great composure.

Dwyane Wade

Another win Wednesday will make us feel great about the way we're playing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

George Peters

As a resident I'm actually happy they're doing it, I think it's going to be great for the community.

Tracy McGrady

As a team, we had great intensity to start the game. I think if we consistently do that and play the way we played in the first half and to come out in the third quarter, then we'll be all right.

Russ Borman

As a team, we played fundamentally well. Our guys did a great job.

Jim Yurwitz

As a freshman, she had a great day.

Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Joe Sakic

As a hockey player, it's great to be a part of this race.

John Barnes

Another thing would be just leave and go home. You know, pick another day that you can come shopping.

Rep. Zuckerman

The big question is will he leave the seat unfilled.

Jeff Lenard

People price shop. There is no loyalty. They will leave you for a penny a gallon.

Pierre Corneille

Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.

Jim Beattie

Defensively, it would be a big uplift. He plays hard. He bounces off walls. He doesn't leave anything out there.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Mark Harris

After a while, it's kind of demoralizing. You train someone in, and then they leave for better pay somewhere else.

Brian Butler

Some people were already trying to leave and others were just sitting there going 'Yeah that's great!' and I remember that statement because I was like, 'This is not great, this is time to leave.'

Mel Tillis

So when I leave here at the first of the year it'll become... well, it's already open on Sundays as a church. But it'll be a full-time church.

Sammy Morris

Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just wanted to say something, and the team was able to respect that.

Laura Harper

Definitely, I don't think the respect is there for our team.

Jim Calhoun

Any team that's won 20 games, we're going to have respect for.

Ryoji Noyori

The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs.

Jonathan Todd

Spanish authorities need to respect the Commission's competence.

Mark Ryan

I understand and respect his position, and I respectfully disagree,

Frank Johnson

I seen it as him being my friend, showing respect for me so I can know what's going on.

Sandra Langley

That's great, isn't it? I told them all that it's time to step up and show (the league) another side of you. I don't think they respect you.

Ron Sisler

You respect the program, you respect their accomplishments.

Gerald Henderson

As a team we understand we can get so many buckets at the rim. We've been working on that, trying to get better at it in games.

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.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.