Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

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

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.

Tony Parker

Definitely difficult to lose him. He was coming back very well. He was starting to play very well. He was playing good basketball so it is hard to lose him again.

Chris Grinde

A foot injury is tough to overcome in basketball. You are pounding it on the floor, jumping and landing on it. It will be interesting to see if he can endure the pain.

John Jones

The one thing I think is that we're an improved basketball team. The things (Monterey does), the pressure man-to-man, I think we saw enough of it that we'll handle it a little better.

Gary Williams

The one thing about going early is you'll get more families with little kids. I've seen more little kids out there. That's nice if you can get kids interested in basketball this way.

Kevin Bookout

The Oklahoma basketball program is built on playing hard and tough and competing on every possession. For us to come out here and lose in the first round, that doesn't bode well. We're supposed to win these games.

Lute Olson

After long and serious deliberation, the men's basketball staff has dismissed Chris Rodgers, effective immediately, from the team. It should be noted that Chris has earned his college degree in three and a half years and that we wish him much success in all future endeavors.

Ken Chevalier

After playing a brutal schedule and dealing with injuries and overtime losses, we finally started to play some consistent basketball.

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ed Belfour

I've let in a lot of weird goals, ... Fluky ones, whatever you want to call it, but they're ones I don't normally let in. There are a lot more shots coming at the net and guys are just shooting it at the net because they have more time and pucks are going in off legs and feet and shoulders and heads, so you might have to play out a little further on the shot and hope it hits you.

Jimmy Chamberlin

I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.

Jon Favreau

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

Roosevelt Newell

I've always let my catchers call pitches. If she gets into a pattern, I may step in. But I think it helps keep their mind in the game.

Daryl Hall

I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation.

Eddie Van Halen

I have selective hearing.

Scott Krugman

From what we've been hearing Saturday was a huge day for sales and a huge day for traffic,

Chrissy Teigen

A lot of people are always striving for bigger and better. People are always wondering if the grass is greener and then they'll​ start hearing things or meeting other people.

Brandon Gray

I'm hearing that 'Shark Tale' is unoriginal and uninspired,

Pat Robertson

I'm hearing from the Lord that it's going to be like a blow-out election.

Rick Moore

That's very, very disappointing. My frustration is we can't get a hearing and can't get the subject matter on the floor.

George Herbert

Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?

Georg Brandes

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.

Vonetta Flowers

He's much more vocal. Everything is so new to him. He was operated on just two months ago, so he's hearing and responding like a 2-month-old baby.

Erik Zabel

The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Lee Humphrey

That's not a lineup that we've played with a whole lot during the year. But we kept the lead. That's what we wanted.

Bradley Morgan

The reason I kept this season going is because I've got 10 seniors who've been playing since the seventh grade,

Joe Girardi

Too many 2-0 counts. But he kept us in the game.

Greg Genske

I wouldn't say that. I'd say he's kept an open mind.

Judd Gregg

She was a very pleasant young woman. She might have kept it and for all I know it might have been the winning ticket,

Mike Ramsey

She's got no case. Never has and never will. If Ms. Pirro had kept her mouth shut, none of this would have happened.

Chamberlain Oguchi

Shooters keep shooting. I'm not going to make every shot, but I kept shooting and I knew it was going to fall.

Dr. Beebe

Cheryl was my friend. She kept looking for me (whenever she didn't see me).

Doug Flynn

We had back-to-back negative years in the market, and this mimics the market. It's very discouraging for people.

Patrick Stump

We wanted out of it. It was the most negative thing in the world.

Donnie Yen

Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.

Abdul Kalam

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Erwin Schrodinger

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

Farrah Fawcett

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

James Cornish

People look at it in a negative way. It shows things were worse than we thought they were.

Barry Mann

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Gigi Hadid

There were a lot of times where I didn't get any shows and even until recently got a lot of kind of negative commentary from social media about my runway walk.

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.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Boris Spassky

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

Cameron Sinclair

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Jamie Redknapp

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

Nate Jackson

I've been staying in it mentally. And they'll work me in as they see fit.

George Carlin

Surround yourself with what you love.

Phil Donahue

We'll be staying right here in the neighborhood,

Felipe Alou

He's a tough kid. We're staying with him.

Mari Adam

The trick is staying in the game. If you opt out, you lose.

Gary Brackett

It's exciting. But I'm not one to get content. I'm one for staying hungry. I think we can play better.

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.

Archibald MacLeish

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

Barbara Kingsolver

When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

Busy Philipps

I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

Alan Lightman

I go live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.

Ajay Naidu

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

Jami Gertz

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

Bruce Dern

From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sound loves to revel in a summer night.

Brenda Jones

Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,

Eugene Wilson

We all were where we were supposed to be,

John Pike

We're supposed to be in winter, but it doesn't look like any winter weather is coming.

Jeff Garcia

I don't know if I was supposed to,

Dwight Howard

Man, we're supposed to get wins like that, ... That's a tough loss.

Michael Gartenberg

It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.

Roy Hall

I think for us it would be more satisfaction than any other year if we won the title. We are not supposed to win and that is what makes it more exciting.

Manny Acta

I think we can play a lot better. I think we could have scored at least 12 runs. We didn't do the things we were supposed to do.

Kenny Rogers

You want to do what you're supposed to do here. But it's a long year.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.

John Thomas

By this afternoon, I'm sure there will be some emergencies.

Larry Coker

I think he's ready. Will he make some mistakes? I'm sure he will. He is also a big playmaker. He'll make you make some mistakes, also.

Jack Morris

I sure wouldn't want to have to do that,

Jerramy Stevens

I sure wish he'd make more catches like that in the real games.

Todd Abernethy

Winning at the end would be big. I don't think it wipes everything out ... that's a lot of games. But it sure would help. It would give us a winning season, and that's better than I've ever done here.

Craig Monroe

If I had stopped, set, and then thrown, we wouldn't have had a chance. I wasn't sure it was going to work, but it did.

Rafael Palmeiro

I am not sure when I'm going to play.

Shana Martin

I am not a perfectionist, I just have to make sure things are done right.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Richard Butler

After I said that to him, Aziz replied: 'then we can't talk any further.'

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Craig Ferguson

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Barbara Jordan

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Barbara Park

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Brenda Ueland

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Calvin Coolidge

The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.

Bryant H. McGill

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Lyle Thomas

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Heather Dougherty

If someone wants to play catch-up fast, that's the way to go.

Ivan Rodriguez

He's the manager. If he wants me to DH, I'll DH.

Irving Layton

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Adam Sohn

He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Tim Howard

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,