Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

John Wooden

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

John Wooden

Build shelter against a rainy day.

John Wooden

When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.

Michael Jordan

I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.

Nick Taylor

Nobody sees Granite Hills as a basketball school. But we're the real deal this year.

Scott Bauman

If this were women's NCAA basketball, this would be like going into Tennessee - there's nothing like it. We're fired up for this; when you walk out and there are 15,000 people screaming and the walk-out is like the NBA finals - hey, it this doesn't get our kids ready nothing will.

Alan Green

This does turn the convoy into a bit of a farce,

As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!

Kimi Raikkonen

Coming into the last part I ran a little bit wide and locked the rear end so I lost some time but I knew I was quick enough on the first part,

John Clemmow

Commodity prices have come off (recently) and there is a perception (in the market) that mining companies have run a bit far and a bit fast.

Rod Parsley

Concerning the brief 32 year history of this nation (The Bahamas), my heart wanted to rejoice and I do rejoice with you, but I trust that your heart will feel just a bit saddened with mine.

Valentino Rossi

Did the fact that 2004 was so (relatively) easy to win the championship make Ferrari a little bit more complacent going into 2005, and following on from that, does this year being so difficult, make the team tougher and ready for 2006?

Anthony Crescenzi

Corporate treasurers are getting a bit nervous about the equity market, ... They are probably concerned about some spread widening that could come with a deeper decline inequities.

Sean Lennon

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

Steve Sabol

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Li Na

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Paul Tagliabue

Our goal is to play some games in the Superdome in 2006. It's too early to say what will happen in 2007.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

William Collins

When Music, heavenly maid, was young,While yet in early Greece she sung.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Kristen Kovesdy

We weren't pushing as hard as they were. We didn't realize how hard we had to play on defense.

Dave Colley

We went hard and we really work on strategy. Then we started to taper down. We don't push the kids. They know when I'm serious that it is time to get to work.

Dawn Chriss

We had the mindset that we were going to play hard from the beginning. We were not going to get down by 20.

Jessica Collins

We women are way too hard on ourselves. I don't know who some women are dressing for, but we should be celebrating our bodies.

Brent Bartlett

We still accomplished some things, but it was hard to get intense.

Scott Walker

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

Nicole Ohlde

Losing a player like her was hard because she does so much on and off the court.

Jerry Stackhouse

Last year, we had a letdown. We didn't want to work as hard as we did this season, then give it away. Now hopefully we can do what we did on the road last year.

Marsha Sharp

We got a little fatigued on the boards, and they started hurting us right there.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Angelique Kidjo

Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

Claes Oldenburg

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

Cindy Sheehan

I raised four kids in six years.

Cindy Crawford

I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.

Cindy Crawford

Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals.

Cillian Murphy

I hope that I have gained some wisdom, but I don't know. I have kids, and that certainly puts things into perspective. I think I'm a more patient person. I hope I'm a more patient person. I'm a little more relaxed about the peripheral side of this business, which I used to find very confusing and alarming.

Cillian Murphy

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

Chuck Norris

It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure kids that get out there and fight. It's the insecure kids.

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.

Morgan Wootten

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Joey Logano

My reputation is different among different groups. You have your fans, your non-fans, your team, your crew, your family, your friends and then you have your peers. I think they're all different and each of them have their separate opinions about you.

Joey Logano

My friends and family and team know who I am, and they have my back. So I don't let someone who doesn't know me affect me.

Joey Logano

I’m really proud of my team. They have given me great cars all year long. Today, we finally got to show what kind of cars they have been giving me. We were up front, leading laps and showing how good this No. 22 Ford is. Once again today, my team showed they have my back and that will only make us better going forward.

Joey Logano

It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.

Joe Sakic

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

Joe Nemechek

There are a lot of other things I could be doing out there, but I love to race. I'm fortunate to have the opportunity, to have the team and to have the resources to be able to do this.

Joe Mauer

I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Tammy Blanchard

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

Sarah Hall

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.

Taissa Farmiga

It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.

Angie Harmon

I work 90 hours a week. I work 5 to 9, it's not 9 to 5.

Bob Newhart

I know Chuck Lorre personally, and am familiar with his work going back to 'Roseanne' and 'Cybil.'

Alejandro Urrego

We still work as a team. We're always bonding.