Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Burnette

Any time somebody was bouncing a basketball somewhere, he wanted to be around.

Rob Judson

As hard as this is, our group is instilled with character and we will rise from this. There's a lot of basketball left.

Doc Rivers

As a staff, you get to see how your guys handle playoff basketball, and I think it's easier to evaluate in playoff games what you need for the following year than it is in the 82-game regular season.

Jeff Capel

As crazy as it is, with only 2.6 seconds left, we had a chance. We got a great look. Nick had an outstanding shot but just missed it.

Tony Skinn

As college basketball players at a mid-major level, it's a great feeling. You couldn't ask for a greater script to this season.

Lisa Leslie

As a role model for young girls and women, I just encourage them to continue their education and set their goals. And for me, mine are just really high and I just happen to be a professional basketball player but I really am a stickler for my goals and I wanted to get my Master's.

Tod Kowalczyk

As a player you want to be one of those guys that's indispensable, someone you need to have on the floor at all times. He's a freshman and he's going to be a good basketball player.

Andy Booth

As an outsider you hear about how much passion there is in the community, but until you're in the spot it's hard to imagine there's a community that cares more about girls basketball than this one. I embraced it. What more can you ask for? You have kids who want to get better, and I can't think of any better spots to be in.

Clyde Drexler

As a young guy, he probably said and did some things that were perceived as being selfish, but he's a winner. All he's ever tried to do is play hard and maximize his talent on the court. He's a basketball junkie and when a guy is that talented you've got to love him.

Ryan Hall

Any project under construction will continue to stay on track.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Marsha Blackburn

As far as the political landscape in our state, I think that what we continue to see is that Tennessean voters are more independent and more conservative, and they are watching issues very closely; they are watching votes very closely.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Hootie Johnson

As far as the golf course is concerned, we'll have to continue to evaluate that.

Stephen Mandel

As Edmonton continues to position itself as a major film location, it is important that the industry feels welcome and views Edmonton as a film-friendly, professional destination,

Sheridan Murphy

As Florida continues to develop rapidly, this issue will continue to come up.

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Kym McKay

As a team, our defense continued to shine and was even more exciting than it was last fall. Our new serve-receive system went very well and we are looking for it to continue to improve. We had a handful of moments that we looked extremely impressive and were firing on all cylinders. It was very exciting.

Jennifer Marusak

As far as the newspaper ads, the public education program ? you're not going to see that again.

Bill Clinton

As every parent knows, a good education is a gift that keeps on giving for a lifetime.

Giovanni Peri

As a consequence, they do not harm wages in law, education and the social sciences, where most native-born Americans thrive. Foreign-born engineers and scientists have particularly been interested in working in the U.S. In contrast, U.S.-born employees with doctorates are more likely to specialize in law, education and the social sciences.

The Assembly

a very solid, very realistic starting point for the discussions about education funding in 2006.

Mark Baldassare

As long as the governor has education in the mix, the public will be supportive.

David Naughton

That was a big part of my education, seeing such great actors night after night.

Everett Mitchell

The more involvement you have with students and raise expectations the better the education will be. When the expectations of the family are there with the expectations and accountability of the employees, then we will be where we need to be.

Marc Freedman

The money you inherit will come to you tax-free. Let that money be the money that funds education costs,

Bernadette Mansur

The money goes to education. It has nothing to do with gambling - the outcome of a game. It's a simple scratch-and-win.

David Carr

As far as the records go, that has to be thrown out the window for right now when I go talk to the guys when I'm trying to get them encouraged and get them pumped up and ready to play. We have to lock it up, run the right route. I'll hit you and then we'll worry about the record later.

Chris Smith

Probably the first and most essential thing is that it will encourage people to read the Bible.

John Dilts

Of course, we will hold plenty of dinners, mixers and other parties, such as the Maverick Supper Club(SM), to encourage our members to get together and have some fun. We enjoy each other's company.

Matt Swanson

Once we had this program ready and heard some encouragement from a professor, we thought this would be a great thing to go with.

Joe Donovan

The most important thing we can do is to encourage all of our students to take rigorous coursework.

Alan Keyes

Some people want to pretend we don't have an adversarial political system, but we do, ... We should not only tolerate it, we should encourage that kind of debate.

Dan Bucatinsky

Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.

Mark Cross

Sometimes we get none and sometimes we get a lot. We encourage it every month. We always let people know they can talk to the commission.

Justin Vernon

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.

Lisa Battaglino

As a result, a lot of girls go that path.

Mark Boggs

As a team, we have a lot of work to do. This was several of the girls' first varsity race. We were also missing two runners to illness.

John Given

The big thing is they have seniors and a good point guard. Those girls have been playing together for three years. They're an older team in our league.

Ryan Tritch

At some campuses, I know girls who can't go out a lot, or go out late, and feel safe. It think it's completely unfair and we hold women to a different set of standards.

Willie Thomas

That was a big change! It was a wonderful win. It was great to see the girls get out and be able to run some.

Mackenzie Steger

Personally I am very proud of each and every one of the girls. I knew we could do it if we each did our own part, big or small, and we were able to pull it off sooner than we expected.

Mike Simpson

Other girls on the team play a part in it. She is a great teammate. They love her and support her. They love it that she made it.

Ronda Rousey

People can say I am a terrible role model because I swear all the time or that I fight people. Look, I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. I want them to know that it is O.K. to be ambitious. I want them to know that it is O.K. to say whatever it is that is on their mind.

Dan Smith

After you get hammered like we got hammered last week, it's encouraging to have the girls come back and play pretty solid.

Mats Sundin

As a team we are scoring some goals, but there's still a lot of work to do,

Jose Theodore

As a goalie, you don't look at the number of goals, you just make sure there are no weak ones,

Luis Suarez

As a minimum we have to get to the second round. After that, a ton of other goals will open up. This is what we want the people to understand.

Linda Stone

Rachael was on her game. (All of the goals) were not completely her fault. There were marking issues.

Dale Carnegie

Really important goals are accomplished by people who will keep trying even when there seems to be no hope.

Lee Miller

People talk about goals, goals, goals but the important thing is to win the game. If we win 1-0 and it's an own goal we will take it.

Scott Hoyt

People feel rich because of their real estate. If they can meet their wealth accumulation goals just by watching their houses appreciate, why save?

Nathan Paetsch

Normally you're not going to throw a great run of goals together as a D-man.

Mikael Samuelsson

Actually, I didn't think we started off good at all. I thought in the second we tried to pick it up. (We) said to ourselves, 'Let's go.' We got three goals in the second and turned it around. It was good for us.

Dar Williams

And the only word for love is everybody's nameAnd that will always stayIt happens every day.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Jim Tracy

A day like today -- that's something that happens even with an 'ace' of the staff.

Ryan Madson

Stuff started happening pretty quick, and I wasn't thinking out there like I should have been. I was just out there throwing.

John Smoltz

Stuff like that just doesn't happen in other cities.

Pat Riley

Strange things happen when you think they're at their really worst. We needed the win, that's all there is to it.

Empress Michiko

something very special was going to happen on that day.

Lee Iacocca

Something's got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we're all going down the tubes,

Tom Cruise

Something magnificent has happened to me and something extraordinary, and I'm so happy I just can't restrain myself

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Bob Friend

This is not a pep rally. It's telling the miners and the mine operators themselves to work right and make the right decisions.

Anna Kournikova

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Terry Farley

There's no one in the mine at the moment. There has to be some rehabilitation work done at the mine for the underground investigation. The ventilation has to be restored.

Patricia Briggs

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

Troy Williamson

For real? Wow. That's crazy. Nah, I'm going to keep mine and put it in my house.

Ryan Newman

Mine was unintentional and his was intentional, and that's all I'm saying.

Angus MacMillan

Mine production is nowhere near what we thought it would be at the start of the year.

Rainbow Rowell

My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks.

Ben Jonson

Such sweet neglect more taketh me, / Than all the adulteries of art; / They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

Paul Kemp

That's what modeling does, it makes something real before it happens.

Robert Mintz

He was a model of contrition on the stand.

James Allan

It is a reasonable model which could be used in other ways.

Bill Belichick

I don't think this is the time to go sledding, go out and take on a lot of new projects and model airplanes and all of that.

Gigi Hadid

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

Wade Lange

It's really a model for how to do these things.

John Mozeliak

It may seem like it, but it's not a strategy. Is there a risk to running that model year after year? Sure.

Shannon Elizabeth

When I was modeling, I worked out every day or other day.

Toshizo Tanaka

The IXY model sold well without steep discounts,

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Michael Finley

As a player and a man, I really respected him saying that. I took that to heart.

Bob Haffele

(Rayfield) got them going early. He's a tough player to stop.

Randy Carlyle

Our expectations are that we're going to try to play an uptempo game, and our players seem to have responded positively to that.

Dottie Pepper

Other players find out if you're not doing that sort of stuff. You don't want to take the 'I'm special' attitude.

Jaime Moreno

No one wants to see a player that young retire. He's a big weapon we have.

Tomas Vokoun

A player like (Parker) shouldn't be in the NHL anyway.

Bill Belichick

Anything any other player would do, that's what he's going to do

James Grant

The teams they've come up against, individually, you probably say have better players than (the Tigers),

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.