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.

Dick DeVos

As a state, we have to engage the global marketplace. There is no alternative, no choice but to go out and win. The antagonists to this position see it as either/or -- either you invest in China or invest in Michigan. Most businesses do both. If your sales increase in any part of the world, the folks back home benefit.

Allan Ray

The brace was really good, it eliminated the pain. Even if I was on the bench I was still going to cheer the guys on. Just to play was very special.

Jamie Dixon

At worst, we're 90 percent, and we'll likely be at 100 percent by the end of the summer. When Ben and I got here, we understood the numbers, and we knew what our priority had to be. This has been a constant point of emphasis for us.

Turkish Proverb

A twig is bent while it is green.

Chinese Proverbs

A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it

Chris Roche

That was a big blow. He was just kind of in the wrong spot at the wrong time tonight. He ignites much of what we do and to have him sitting on the bench made it tougher for us.

Austin Ligon

Our third quarter used car sales growth reflected increased traffic compared with last year's third quarter, as well as continuing strong execution. We were able to sustain positive momentum even as the cross-shopping benefit from this summer's new car employee pricing programs waned. Subsequently, new car sales and traffic levels dropped significantly, reflecting the limited model year close-out vehicle availability that resulted from the success of the employee pricing programs.

Matt Damon

People forget that Ben is a terrific actor,

Howard Davidowitz

The name of the game for Ben and Jerry's is to get someone to taste the product. If this promotion can get more customers in the doors, there's a reasonable chance that many of them may return later (when they charge full price).

Carole Theriault

A new chain letter has entered the charts claiming that the MSN will be closed down unless the bogus email is forwarded to family, friends and colleagues. As always, these chain letters are best deleted as they waste bandwidth.

Frank Murkowski

Any increase in oil production will just go to meet increased demand that has already taken place, ... Thus, any increase will not result in significant price reductions to consumers ... at best it will just keep them from continuing to spiral out of sight.

Gregory Craig

Any proceedings from this date forward only serve to delay the final resolution of this matter and run counter to the best interests of the Congress, the presidency and the American people, ... We remain convinced that the national interest is best served by ending the process in a way that is fair, speedy and bipartisan.

Ken Hitchcock

Any player who thinks he is owed anything is wrong. You talk about the best players in the world, and they understand that. They always think they are a week away from going into the stands.

Kurt Warner

Anquan reminds me a whole bunch of Torry: the way they run routes, their strength to the football. Larry's a big young receiver, continues to grow. Those two guys I played with in St. Louis are the two best receivers I ever played with. The guys here have the same potential.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Mark Sanchez

As far as the Jets go, I'm competing to play. It will be a heated competition between Kellen and me, and I'm excited about that; I will do it in a respectful way. I have the utmost respect for him because he's a great player. Whatever's best for team will be best for the team and the coaches will decide.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Martin Brodeur

As far as I'm concerned, he's the best hockey player that I've played against.

Darren Kimball

Automakers' extremely generous incentives in recent weeks have simply drawn forward industry demand.

Robin Lanier

As long as they're extending the contract, I think that's a signal there will be no slowdown. Perhaps there will be a very long drawn out negotiating process that will give us a lot of gray hair.

Preston Beckman

Ratings for an event like the Olympics aren't necessarily drawn from the usual prime-time television audience. For us to suddenly program differently for those two weeks would be a mistake for our network.

S. Hughes

Prices are going nowhere and homebuilders are using a whole range of incentives to try and draw people in -- free carpets, furniture, legal fees, deposits -- you name it.

Keith Wilbur

Our team was fired up from the get go. They wanted to play well for the seniors. We had a good game plan drawn up from the last time we faced them and we executed it pretty well.

Christopher Abbott

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

Jaime Winstone

I've always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I'm drawn to more classic looks, though I'll still put my own twist on them.

Meg Wolitzer

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

John Brantley

I've always been drawn to Texas. I just want to go on the visit, see what they're trying to do. Everything I've heard from people is that they like Austin.

Mark Freeze

Back in May we were worried. We thought we'd be lucky to win eight or nine games.

Todd Bertuzzi

Pronger said I couldn't have 44 until 2010. I said I wasn't going to be around until 2010. Eight is too small a number so I thought I'd go to the next four in the line.

Thomas Gardner

Our shots just weren't going in. But we were still able to hold them to 28 points and only be down eight at the half.

Bob Hilmer

Our eight seniors have played hard for three years, so I wanted to let them have some fun today. We wanted to give as many people minutes as we could while still being competitive. They got away from us, but I think our kids still enjoyed themselves.

Tim Bayard

People don't want to come out. They say they have enough water and food to sustain themselves. They don't understand. It's going to take six to eight weeks before the electricity comes on.

Ed Mitchell

Of the eight sitting judges, I've helped elect five or six of them.

Suresh Kalmadi

Of the eight new venues, five will be outdoors and three indoors.

Dave Smart

Of our top eight guys, two are first-year players, three are second-year, and two are third-year ... There will be some experience issues.

Mike Hogan

Of our five kids who placed from our section, three are seniors. We had a pretty young team here. I think eight of our wrestlers were first-time sectional champions.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Condoleezza Rice

The northwest is very different from what I could have imagined.

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.

Robert Taylor

Australia is the same size as the U.S., but it's much smaller in terms of population. I've been working in the States off and on since the '80s, and the first time I played a lead here was in '91, I think.

Mikel Miller

At times we played pretty well; at times we were sloppy.

Jeff Brown

At times, we played OK. We have to go over there (to Heritage's arena) in two weeks or so. It makes things interesting in the Valley.

Dave Greenberg

Offensively we usually struggle. We played well in transition.

J. M. Roberts

After the first quarter we played right with them.

Dan Brown

Defensively, in the first half, we played really well.

Ross Browner

Detroit's where I played in my only Super Bowl.

Peter Forsberg

The Slovakian team played very well. The U.S. team played very hard. There's still more for us to give and more for us to do.

Dwane Casey

As long as he is playing at that level, he is our starting center.

Robert Ramos

Railroad tracks aren't anything to be playing with.

Bronson Arroyo

Probably as soon as I turn on the TV and see the Red Sox playing and I'll be playing somewhere else.

Carl Jackson

Oh, he was playing terrible before the tournament.

Dan Anderson

Northbrook was playing pretty tough today and we struggled out there (but) there's no time for us to get upset about today because we have to get right back at it in Two Rivers.

Daniel Gibson

After the first half, we got the jitters out of the way. We started playing basketball.

Bob Schaefer

After we went up 10 we stopped playing the rest of the half. They were more aggressive. We took a 10-point lead, and we were down (eight) at halftime.

Nobuhiko Matsunaka

After seven years, I'll be 39, but I want to keep playing until I'm 40.

Paul Troth

Defensively, we're making tremendous strides. We're playing smarter and better.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Toby Hall

It's a new route we need to take,

Devon Sawa

For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.

Dick Cheney

I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.

James Beattie

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

Frances Chaney

It would be just too embarrassing if we won again.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Dan Svirbly

Brian's ready, he's excited. He's been there before and has won a match. That should take off some of the pressure.

Vince Young

There's no disappointment. We just won a game, ... They're doing their job, we're doing ours.

Vince Young

There's no disappointment on my part. We just won a game.

Tyler Harris

We won it two years ago and wanted to get back to that level.