Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hockenjos

As for the rest of the year, of course I hope we'll keep hitting then ball and the pitching matures. And of course, we want to improve that defense.

Dan Sullivan

As for the fumbles, we run to the ball pretty well and when you do that well, that's what happens.

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Rocky Peterson

As a point guard, that's who you want to have the ball late in the game. He worked hard on his free throws over the summer.

Joe Lobendahn

As an individual, my goal is, of course, to have more (tackles) than I had last year. I still need to get an interception -- that's one of my goals, too ... and a touchdown, too. Honestly, as a defense, you're going to see us running to the ball more, everyone just swarming the ball.

Ernie Whitt

As a team we probably threw too many pitches. This is the first time they have thrown to hitters. Overall we were OK. We played errorless ball and swung the bats well.

Carlos Delgado

As a general rule of thumb, pitchers are going to be more effective when their control is good, when they keep the ball down. He's got good stuff. It's important for him and all the pitchers to throw strikes.

Dan Johnson

As a freshman, she could hardly kick the ball 10 yards. Now she really sees the field well. She had three assists in our first two games. She hustles and she's a worker. She always has been.

Tommy Dempsey

As a freshman, Rodney has shown great leadership qualities. He's really done a great job of getting the ball where it needs to go.

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Diana Taurasi

The bottom line is we've got good basketball players so we make good basketball decisions and play really good basketball and we just got to keep that same focus and intensity,

Allen Iverson

As long as you leave everything out on the basketball court, you can go into the locker room and feel good about yourself and that's important..............

Taquan Dean

Real college basketball begins. Now it's 'get after it.' The teams we played were great, but now the teams we're playing are much tougher. We have to be ready.

Steve McFall

Raven and Michelle are growing up big-time right now. They're finding out what big-time basketball is all about. They didn't go away. They kept fighting.

Jerry Graybeal

Reaching 500 games is a great accomplishment. That's a lot of games for any coach. She's a great example of stability in our women's basketball program and it has translated to success on the floor. Carla has been a great representative of Weber State as a player and coach for more than 25 years.

Chris Kelly

Ray's having an excellent senior year. He does everything we ask. He runs the point or he plays (shooting) guard. He's a good perimeter shooter, and he rebounds well. He's just an excellent all-around basketball player.

Steve Holmes

Ray's basketball IQ has gotten better and better with each passing season.

Megan Mahoney

Personally, I haven't been playing that intense basketball for a while. Iceland was good competition, but it wasn't that intense. It was a good first day.

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Bernie Williams

As long as we've got his presence there, that's the most important thing, because being the D.H. doesn't bother him,

Kyle Whittingham

No questions asked. Just bring them back and go on your way. I won't even bother to worry about who did it or why.

Tarek Fatah

an under-class of underprivileged people who can go into their ghettos and deal with issues and not bother them.

Jim Goodnow

The thing that bothers me is that companies claim to be patriotic. Then they turn around and make a profit on the war.

Grover Cleveland

Sometimes people wouldn't bother calling me back. They'd think it was a prank. My dad's side of the family -- big Democrats.

Tomas Holmstrom

Schneider has been joking around and shooting pucks at me for a week now. He's been trying to get into my kitchen but I have a real short memory, and I don't let it bother me.

John Hiatt

Put yourself in that position. To hear your song on the radio or on someone's CD or record -- that somebody would bother -- is great. It's nothing but a compliment. Plus you get money in the mailbox.

Malik Rose

It was tough for me sitting next to him and hearing (the fans), so, I can imagine what it was like for him. It's like somebody two feet tall just punching you and punching you, and you can't hit them back. It's so frustrating, but Al never let it bother him. Some days were better than others, but he never complained about it. It was just the price of fame.

Tom Woods

That's where toughness shows, on the defensive side of things. And I think that's exactly what happened tonight. I was real pleased with the defense, and the intensity level.

John Bliss

Our defensive pressure was a big part in the win. It kind of fueled our offense and gave us some relatively easy baskets.

Tramicka James

Normally I play a more defensive role on our team. But my teammates did a good job of putting me in the position to score.

Byron Scott

Terrible. I thought we started off terrible, no sense of urgency, no resistance on the defensive end. We played like the game didn't mean a thing. It's not everybody obviously, but as a team, collectively, we were awful. We looked more like we were scared than anything.

Kenneth Bacon

There are some signs that in recent weeks Saddam Hussein has been concentrating more on defensive measures rather than offensive measures.

Chris Richards

We're a defensive team. I think we can stop anybody.

Jim Wiscombe

We're a better defensive team when we play full-court pressure defense.

Chuck Hardt

We had a few defensive lapses, but the kids found a way to hang in there and battle.

Norm Eash

Eric has natural instincts and we think he can be a top defensive back in the conference.

Bill Gerstenmaier

At this point, ... it's so uncertain, there are so many variables out there, I think it's foolish for us to try to speculate on a particular launch date.

Matt Maldre

So many of us speak foolish when we should be speaking english.

Pastor Nicholls

God is not interested in our small mentality and our foolish perceptions. God is interested in the people of this nation.

Greg Hampton

If we stop making those foolish mistakes, we'll be fine.

George R. R. Martin

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

George Eliot

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

Casper Dien

I think it would be foolish to think we are the only life forms in this universe.

Iain Glen

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

Horace Walpole

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

Tom Malone

As a punter, you get ready to go on third down. This year, we don't even get to third down very much. It's ridiculous how good the offense is. It's crazy. Some games, I didn't even punt at all.

Howard Wolfson

As a strategist, he's as good as they come. I think of guys like him and Mike McKeon as the A-team when it comes to Republican politics in New York.

Bob Howry

As a setup guy, if people are talking to you, obviously you did something bad. Otherwise you go unheard of. I guess that is a good thing.

Brian Thornton

As a senior it hurt not being out there with my team. I would have been good for something -- maybe helping out with (J.P.) Batista.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Michael Boyd

As an operating airline, Independence is as good as dead.

John Connell

As a team, we've got a lot of character. I'm very happy with that. They work hard and have a history of being good students. I feel very comfortable with this group of guys.

Jim Lee

As a gamer, I like to go up and look at people's faces and see how good of a job they did.

Derek Brown

As a framework, it's about as good as it gets.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Tom Lochner

Probably the most important thing was the educational process those students went through. Our role in the state symbol was to help those students have that experience.

Nita Lowey

are not penalized at the workplace for the help they provide.

Andruw Jones

A record's a record. When you're done playing, those records can stand. Right now, I'm going out there and playing to help my team win. I'm not worrying about any records.

Fred Williams

Anything we can get is a help to get people out of the noise area.

Stuart Freeman

Anything that makes investors feel comfortable with the inflation level and the way short-term interest rates are going is going to help the market.

Ed Andes

The second half, we seemed like we picked up the pressure more and once we did, it seemed like it slowed them down to help us score a lot more.

Royal Bank

The story there is more positive, not just from the current-account surplus, but also from the interest-rate side and growth. These will help the baht.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Thomas Jefferson

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

Will Anderson

They wanted us to stop so they could do the cha-cha slide or something,

Naomi Judd

An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.

Bill Lee

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Andrew Harrington

Zinc is a lot stronger in terms of supply characteristics than the other metals.

Barbara Kingsolver

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Augusten Burroughs

But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it something better to do. Feelings are fluid and dynamic; they change frequently. Feelings are something you HAVE, not something you ARE. Like physical beauty, a cold sore, or an opinion. Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you have to change your thinking to be free of them.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Ayelet Zurer

TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers want to have their voice heard, so they'll go somewhere else, and everyone goes to TV because their voices are heard.

Aubrey McClendon

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Hugh Hopper

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

Joy Fielding

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

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.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,