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.

Lindsay Bowen

That's not how we wanted to come out in the second half. We talked about focusing more on defense and coming out focused in the second half. It came down to possession basketball and we didn't take care of our possessions well at all.

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

Suzanne Isidor

Temple came in last year and went right at us; we'll learn from last year's mistakes.

Mark Williams

(Temecula) came out with a lot of emotion and hustle in the first half, and used up a lot of energy. So we did what we do in the second half, but we just fell short.

Devin Johnson

Sometimes, people get caught up in how many points you scored that night. It's the little plays that make great players great. I just came to play.

Jim Rogers

Seeing his parents walk in, the first people I saw, I didn't know them, they just came up and hugged me and started crying. That was a big reminder. I have three kids. They have three kids.

Robert Brown

Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight was a path of gold for him, And the need of a world of men for me

David Fox

Ryan got some good looks and compliment the other guys, because that came off some pretty good action.

Eric Swanson

Ryan came up big in the second half. He took over when we needed him to step up, like a senior who's played for four years should.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Dale Jr

The target is to run as good as you can every week. Everything else kind of takes care of itself.

Randy McClure

The thing that I'm most proud of, is tonight we got five kids in double digits. It's what we've been doing all year long. They don't care who scores and that's what I'm most proud of. They just play ball." ()

Henry Martyn

Seldom a day passes but I thank God for the freedom from earthly care which I enjoy.

Ryan Smith

Rusty did a good job of getting the first takedown. There's not much you can say. He took care of business. It will be a huge match (today).

David Magley

Sacrifice - they worked hard. They didn't care who was the leading scorer. That sets the tone. When you've got unselfish seniors, that sets the tone for the guys. And we're very, very happy with what they've done.

Darin Erstad

Run scores, we win. I could care less about that stuff.

Theo Epstein

said a beaming Faxon, his smile Kennedy-like in its width and charismatic luster, ''which I don't really care about.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Jason Simmons

The sack, it fell on me. Dunta (Robinson) had the sack. (Buffalo quarterback J.P.) Losman stepped up in the pocket, and he didn't see me coming from the back. I wish I could tell you it was a Reggie White move, but it wasn't.

J. M. Roberts

The scores were going so low all week. You just have to keep your foot to the floor on this golf course. Fortunately, I made a lot of good putts coming into the house.

Susan Hazen

The science on PFOA is still coming in, but the concern is there.

Susan Hazen

The science on PFOA is still coming in.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Ed Sennett

Our defense took them out of it. It looked like their kids were a little tired. They played three pretty hard games in a row. We put the defense on them, got ahead, and when you're tired, it's hard to come back.

Jack Siedlecki

Our defense stood up each time we turned it over.

Chris Carlson

Our defense played tough. I just thought our zone did a really nice job on them.

Bill Womack

Our defense is still shaky. It's not where we need it to be or where we want it to be, but we were resilient and made the plays we needed to make.

Greg Thomas

Our defense is really playing well up to this point in the season. I'm glad we played West Craven tonight because they're a physical team, and we needed that to help us get better.

Mike Ortner

Our defense has been outstanding all season long. Our defense definitely keeps us in games. The defense kept it tight and let our offense do their thing.

Don Trentham

Our defense has been great. But we need to score more goals. We have to put more shots into the back of the net.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Matt Hasselbeck

We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.

Hillary Clinton

There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.

Dave Redden

We focused our better individuals in the relays to get some points, and that really helped us out. Our relay teams did very well.

Doug Boyer

With our half-court defense, we focused on turnovers.

Bob Sanders

The only thing we focused on was going out and playing the way we play: physical, smart, fast,

Vince Sortino

We were very upset to lose in the first round of the playoffs last year, but it happened, so we moved on and focused on getting ready for this season.

Craig Sherman

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Kaz Matsui

I feel my role right now is to get on base, ... That's all I'm really focusing on.

Hanna Salonen

I went (back) to Finland, and stayed there and the only thing I was focusing on was how I wanted to come back.

Zina Garrison

I am focusing on the team I have, in my mind they are the top team.

Tom Julian

It's really about the simplicity of the approach, focusing more on the quality of what you give Mom.

Bruce Braley

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Michel de Montaigne

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Mark Grudzielanek

We talked a lot and we had to get comfortable,