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.

Jamie McNeilly

Coach said we needed to play 40 minutes of basketball tonight and we only played 36. We had a lot of turnovers and they capitalized on them.

Scott Strickland

Coach Rupp was kind of an iconic figure. He led the greatest basketball program in the country and was an easy target for those who say he didn't do enough. Whether he did or didn't can be argued.

Amanda Fleischman

Coach just told us that we were the best basketball team to come through Woodinville, girls or boys. He told us we brought a lot of joy to his life. He told us to stay in touch.

Luther Suggs

Coach Grieves is a man who cares about the team and the program. He's going to do whatever's in his power to get us back in the gym. I feel like we had a little more time to work on our game, get in condition, stay focused on basketball and not think about the hurricane.

Cary Groth

Coach Fisher taught me how to drive. He was also my brother's basketball coach.

Ben Howland

Coach watches every game. I knew that and embraced it. He's the greatest coach in the history of basketball. What he did in college basketball will never be repeated. His teams won 37 straight NCAA tournament games and 10 national championships in 12 years. You know how everyone wants to be like Mike -- Michael Jordan -- as a player? Every coach wants to be like John. So I don't feel a shadow. I embrace it.

Aimee Mullins

Whether it is your height, your weight or your skin, someone is going to pick on something and make fun of it. My legs were just a more obvious target.

Jerry Lawler

The only thing harder than Terry Funk's legs are his arteries.

George Bernard Shaw

If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

Kim Clijsters

My legs were like, oh my god, what's going on,

August Wilson

I'm standing! I'm standing! My legs stood up!

Frank Zappa

I'm in a big dilemma about my Big-Leg Emma.

Ryan Whitney

I went to put my stick between his legs and lift his stick up, but I just got him too high. I didn't mean to spear him. It was just an accident.

Novak Djokovic

No, I have something else between my legs.

Emile Zola

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Stephen F. Lynch

other matters have been referred to us, and we are taking a look at those matters.

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Brandon Cruz

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

Augusten Burroughs

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Augusten Burroughs

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Kohei Uchimura

I don't think my natural talent is much different to the other gymnasts. It is a matter of how I train and how I think about my training. I also give a lot of thought to my routines.