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.

Herb Kohl

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.

Matt Thissen

San Diego isn't a hard place to want to go to school. It's a good school. Their basketball program has been down lately, but eight years ago they were a top 25 team. Their coach left to go coach her alma mater at Ohio State. I guess she decided she liked the weather better in San Diego and now she's back.

Lamar Butler

I've played football in a gym but I've never played basketball in a football stadium.

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

Bobby Cremins

I've been blessed. I got to live the American dream when I was coaching, and I continue to live the American dream. Without basketball in my life, I don't know what I would have wound up doing.

Paul Elliott

As a team, I think we're right where want to be (entering the conference schedule). I'm happy with our effort so far.

Jamie Dixon

Our conference has prepared us better than any other conference since I've been around the Big East. I'm not surprised how it has played out because of how many good teams there are here.

Brian Barber

Southmont is a conference rival, and it's a senior-dominated team. We know they're going to come after us. We're going to have to win three games to win it, so we have to go the long route.

Bill Fennelly

It would be a phenomenal upset for us to go real deep in this tournament. The conference tournaments were created to make money and give teams hope. The Big 12 can make the money, and we'll have the hope.

Derek Dougan

The way he pitched tonight he's looking really good. He's definitely going to be a factor in this conference season.

Joe Dumars

That's what we all have to live with, because we've set a very high standard here. We've been at least to the conference finals three straight years and we've been a 50-win team four years in a row.

Sue Johnson

There is no doubt in my mind that Ray would be the top player in the conference if she were healthy. But she?s giving us great minutes when she?s out there.

Steve Alford

Everybody thought they'd be a very, very good team, but it's kind of hard to duplicate what they did a year ago. And yet, here they are going into conference play undefeated again.

Katie Gravel

We were facing the No. 1 contenders for the conference cup, and we matched up with them well. Our defense, yet again, played really well and our offense pushed hard. Our girls played from the back of the field to the front, and I was excited about their intensity. We played through their physical game and stepped up to the challenge.

Jimmy Fennig

No -- we're still going racing because that's what we're here for -- we've still got eight races left,

Chipper Jones

I've seen a guy who may or may not pinch hit in the eighth or ninth inning pop two before the game and another in the fifth inning. It's part of their pre-game ritual. Some guys have to have it.

Lindsay Davenport

I've played four matches in New Haven, four matches here, so it's been eight matches in two weeks. Hopefully that's enough matches,

Ryan Ghere

You're happy with the tie because you were down by two with eight minutes to go, but you're not happy that you score five goals and only get a tie. Give our girls credit. We never quit.

Mike Flaherty

We're holding teams to less than 40 points, on average, during the last eight games.

Patrick Darby

We're happy from the standpoint we have eight in the semifinals and everyone is still alive. Everybody has shown pretty good enthusiasm.

T. V. Carpio

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.

Mark Dacey

Considering when we were 4-4 after eight games, for sure we were starting to thing a playoff spot might be out of our own grasp.

Bill Walsh

Don't look at his last game, or the one before that, or before that. Go back seven or eight games, or maybe a year or two, if you want to try to see tendencies, and even that won't help you.

Brendan Morrison

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

Dean Lombardi

I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net.

Angela Ruggiero

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

Saku Koivu

The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

Sterling Beaumon

I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well.

Ray Bourque

Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.

Sky Ferreira

I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.

Norm Crosby

Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game

John Tortorella

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Edward Snyder

People were worried that like Lucent and maybe a little like Ericsson things were softening up for them. But it doesn't look like that.

Michael Strahan

Maybe this upcoming week we will play like the Redskins played, with the same type of win-and-you're-in and lose-and-you're-out type of mentality.

Peter Schroecksnadel

Maybe they were scared of the police, we don't know. They got in touch and we're going to talk about it.

Chris Beatty

Maybe the senator should think about when he was 17 years old.

Bruce Myers

Maybe there were some answers, but they were not in the files.

Frank Sciolla

Maybe there was something today that was different. Maybe it was a momentum thing, but they had us so out of character.

Stephen Merchant

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

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.

Chad Greenway

Don't put this on the refs. They played better than us. That's what should be written in the papers.

Chris Masoner

We wanted this one going home. We played them well.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Andy Cerroni

Tonight, Scotty played with a lot of confidence. He was out there tonight. We didn't take him out. He's so strong with the ball.

Akeem Wright

We turned it on in the second half. We turned around and played like we played at KU. This is how we're going to have to play every game.

Neil Peart

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.

Andrea Smith

When I started at Hurricane, there was already a shortstop there. So, I played third.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Jennifer Morrison

I have seven scars from having moles removed. One was a melanoma, six were precancerous. Get your moles checked!

Ned Yost

I said, don't worry about it. He's only going to throw about 50 pitches. That's about six innings, and then he'll be done.

Tim Healy

That's the most assists we've had in six games.

Mike Shanahan

I think if you take a look at any of the six teams, any of those six teams could go all the way.

Lee Watkins

They'd been there for six generations and it was all gone.

Emiliano Zapata

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Darren Sharper

It's just not where I want it to be, but I've still got five, six days,

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Cadillac Williams

We want to be great. No question. Even more than that, we want our teams to be great.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Jamelle Cornley

We can play with anybody, teams know that.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Hosea Berkley

We know all the teams from here on out are good, and we need to play our game, not theirs.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.