Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Mike Predmore

They are a great group of guys and a great group of young men. I'm not taking anything away from them as basketball players, but they really are great people. I can't say enough about them as people. In the long run, that's probably more important than anything else in life.

Todd Hansen

This is a nice win because it puts us up two games over three teams. We've been winning games, but could only get a one-game lead. Now we've got a little cushion. I thought our kids played a pretty good basketball game tonight.

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Ron Artest

That's gonna be fun, ... I love the tension. I love when everything's going wrong ... In the NBA, they don't promote guys like me. They like guys who like Cheerios, good guys. But I find a way to promote myself.

Matt Young

The whole idea of designing a vessel like a sub in my first year of college really interested me.

Derrick Bell

I live to harass white folks.

Dennis Prager

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

Brad Dancer

Duke really had a fantastic crowd and made it tough for us to get a win on the road. It was a great environment for college tennis and I am really proud of the way our guys competed tonight.

Norm Johnson

What prompted it was concern that students knew that they are supported in the college. With all that happened, students have wondered where they fit. We wanted them to know that providing them a supportive, nurturing environment is a top priority.

Brandon Hoyte

We might have more people at the pep rally than some colleges have at their stadiums for games.

Thomas E. Mann

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

Stephen Hawking

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Shakira

Breastfeeding has been one of the best experiences of my life. I love it! I can't stop! I think I'm going to breastfeed him until he goes to college! I'm hooked!

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Leroy Franklin

These are two very big games for us. We have a young team that is really is starting to come on and we're getting better with each game.

Rien Long

These are the games d-linemen live for. We were grooving.

Jerry Stackhouse

This is starting to become who we are. We feel that we are going to win these games and have the wherewithal to sustain anything any team throws at us.

Jim Tressel

This is one of those games that I don't know that you have to worry about getting anyone's attention,

Marc Bulger

You want it to be more balanced, ... You're not going to win many games in the NFL throwing it 60 or 70 times. It might work in high school and sometimes in college, but in the NFL you've got to have a running game.

Andy Reid

You're not going to win too many games in the NFL with six turnovers. When you really get down to it today, that was the problem.

Arianna Huffington

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Greg Beals

Even though we lost the series, we didn't really lose ground to the leader this week. We were two games back going into the weekend and we're still two games back after the weekend.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Amir Salem

This verdict will go into the dustbin of history.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Mike Shanahan

Points will come. Yards will come. I think we've proven over history that we can move the football. So, maybe some day we'll get some yards and some points.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Guy de Maupassant

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

Nick Lewis

We went in a little too confident. We've got to realize it's tough to win on the road in any conference.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

Melissa McCarthy

I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

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.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Jamie Spencer

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

Mike Getkin

We did a lot of the little things to get the win. It was a total team effort.

Dwyane Wade

We have enough on this team to win games. We just have to go out and do it.

Mats Sundin

We got an experienced team this time around.