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.

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.

Tom McDonald

She's a tremendous basketball player. She's the whole deal. She has her body under control more than last year. We're undersized in the post and she was getting it (ball) in spots where we couldn't stop her.

Jerry Jones

Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and baseball. Particularly. Not to demean football, but it's a baseball state and a basketball state.

Eric Williams

I played baseball, and thats pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so thats why I probably play it the way I do.

Harrison Ford

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

Larry Walker

He's the first (Pea Ridge boys basketball player) to sign in quite a while. We are proud and thankful for the effort he has given us over the years he's been here.

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Tom Rose

Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.

Charles Hamilton Houston

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

Michael Kirst

We knew that supply will go down of college-educated and technically educated students from the community colleges. 'But we didn't know that the demand is going up.

Sheila King

We knew she was a good player. And wow. She's a heck of a player. Great shot. She's a winner. I know she's going on to play in college and she'll be successful. A lot of heart.

Tom Currence

We kind of grew up together. We went from kindergarten all the way through college together.

Jeff Long

We thought Dave would be a great fit, and he's done nothing but prove us correct. With our current and former players, with the community and with all of Pennsylvania, Dave has served notice that Pitt is back in a major way on the college football scene.

Michelle Singletary

Why are so many of us penny poor before our next paycheck comes? We're not good stewards of our money. ... It's crucial to save for what you say you value: a home, college and retirement.

Hannah Arendt

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

Tim Barrera

It is a great opportunity for our players to compete in what should be a fun tournament. Each school will have two teams and play four games each and the winners of the two brackets will play for the tournament championship. Everyone will get a lot of playing time and it is a great way to start off the spring.

Darius Kasparaitis

We want to show that we can compete with the good teams and we can be there and we're (in this position) not by accident. I think tonight's game proved it, that we can play at a high level.

Bella Thorne

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Source Unknown

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Alber Elbaz

I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then who needs a dressmaker? So I started designing spring like a plastic surgeon - everything stretchy and nude. But after three weeks, I was so bored with myself and the world, I began adding diamond butterflies and chiffon and colors. I realized that fashion is not about second skin. It's not the perfect white shirt or camel jacket. What women need is a dream.

Anais Nin

It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you feel the poorer for it. But then you have not thought that this dream is planted in others, others begin to live it too, it is shared, it is the beginning of friendship and love. How is this world made which you enjoy, the friends around me that you love? They came because I first gave away my stories.

Anais Nin

In my dreams I sleep with everybody.

Anais Nin

gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

Anais Nin

The dream has to be translated into reality.

Anais Nin

The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it's surprises, varied expressions, and mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.

Anais Nin

This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

Mike Reed

Linux is now the fastest-growing software and powers eight of the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world.

Wolf Blitzer

I will work enthusiastically for any of the non-Lieberman eight who might get the nomination.

Kim Clijsters

I won't be the only one in shape there, ... Lindsay has been great, too. It is the last tournament for everyone in the top eight and they all will give it their best.

Aaron Small

I was thinking about my career, and it's been eight years since I've come back to Spring Training in consecutive years with the same team. It's nice to come in, people know you and you know them. It's a little more relaxed.

John Kane

I think picking Georgetown helped me out a lot. I was sweating that Villanova-Arizona game big time. The thing is everyone is going to suffer some upsets. The key is still having six or seven teams left in the elite eight or three in the Final Four.

Jim Boeheim

We really should be thinking, like, eight or 10 more teams get in.

Dave Huppert

We got eight hits today. We just couldn't get the big one we needed. They got the hit they needed. That was the difference.

Joel Allen

We got down too much too fast. They just outmanned us and had too much team speed. At times, it was like eight of them out there at once.

Brandon Lane

We finally made the film eight years later.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Curt Young

With his mentality, he knows how to dominate. He takes his game to a different level every time he throws a baseball. He loves to compete, and he's learned his trade.

Greg Bowers

You hate to lose a game that way, but if not, we might have been playing here all night.

Gary Kendall

You hate to lose a game like that when the pitching is that good.

Mike Anderson

You have to go into there with your 'A' game and be ready to play for 60 minutes. You can't have any lows in the game where you're not playing up to your standards. You can't slack off for a quarter.

Steve Koehler

You have to get to the end-of-game situations to learn how to win, and at least we're getting there. When we learn how to manage those situations, we're going to turn this thing around.

Jim Gilligan

The pitcher they're going to throw at us in the first game is a transfer from Texas A&M. He has a pretty good arm. He has good velocity, and he puts good stuff on the ball.

Jeff Horvath

This year he has his game going. As a senior, he is giving it his all.

Ted Astolfi

This would put us more in the game if we had this land designated for it.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Steve Case

And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.

Suzanne Collins

There are much worse games to play.

Suzanne Collins

Ladies and gentlemen....." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

Suzanne Collins

I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. “Katniss…he’s still trying to keep you alive.” To keep me alive? And then I understand. The Games are still on.

Suzanne Collins

Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?

Suzanne Collins

I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

Suzanne Collins

I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you.

Suzanne Collins

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Russell Simmons

America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. Not only because there are more mixes of people, but because people are more open-minded about each other. So I think in the future, America has a great, great opportunity, and mostly because of hip-hop.

Russell Simmons

You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.

Russell Simmons

Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.

Starhawk

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

Starhawk

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is what makes the ritual come alive and have power. If you aren't willing to be changed by the ritual, don't do it.

Stefan Molyneux

So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything.

Stafford Cripps

We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.