Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Adam Morrison

That's just a sign of a great program and great people. They had enough guts as a man in their moment of victory to pick another man up off the floor. That's more than basketball and I would thank them if I could.

Beth Young

That's great for Plano. It shows how much basketball talent we have in Plano.

Maurice Cheeks

That game was a prime example of a team effort and a team really trying not to lose a basketball game.

Chris Kuhblank

That game right there is how basketball should be played.

Harris Smriko

That game hurt. I remember everything about it. They were very big and played like a basketball team. They scored two of their goals on long throw-ins in front of the net to several players who were at least 6-foot-4 and headed the ball in.

Jim Calhoun

Albany was magnificent for 30 minutes. We were equally, if not better or more magnificent, the last 10 minutes of the basketball game.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Mike Burns

That was just an effort run. They just gave a greater effort than we did.

Brian Seymore

That's the kind of effort we need to come out of the locker room with every week. It shouldn't take a big play from Levi to get things going, our guys should all play with that kind of emotion.

Frank Beamer

We got back to Virginia Tech football in the second half. We knocked off the penalties and played good, tough football ... I thought our kids gave great effort and kept battling, and I'm proud of that.

Rick Allen

We had an excellent effort tonight. We lost facing one of the top pitchers in the area. We made a lot of contact, but we just couldn't get hits when we needed them. We did a good job defensively. If we keep that kind of effort we will win some games.

Herschel Sandler

We had a lot of guys take second. It was a total team effort to win the championship. We have tough individuals.

Dave Tuttle

You can always put plenty of effort in, but if you're not good enough you go down.

Hugh Dancy

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

Ken Kramer

This is the first example I can think of that gives the natural state of the coastline back to the people, rather than taking it away.

Rand Paul

For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops.

Jack LaLanne

If you want to change somebody, don't preach to him. Set an example and shut up.

Scott Lang

one more example of this mayor being out of touch with the neighborhoods.

I think there should be something in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect.

Karen Johns

Jessica is the true example of a Virginia student-athlete. Her passion and love for the University of Virginia and the softball program is unmatched. Her leadership will be greatly missed when she leaves.

Larry Bird

Some guys can lead and some guys can't. I have a lot of trust in Jermaine and I know he wants to be a good leader. But to just throw him in there and say, 'OK, you're our leader,' that's tough, especially when you're injured a lot. You lead by example and not with words, and when you're not out there every day in practice and games, it's hard to lead.

Perry Miller

I think this is a good example of the township taking a proactive stance rather than reaction, ... I think this is an excellent example of what we should be doing to take the township into the future.

Maxine Clark

We've talked to other zoos. This will be a great example.

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.

Dana Ferry

This is obviously very big for us. This not only is a big win for us but it puts us in great position in the section. This is always a huge game for us and tonight was no different. Penn-Trafford is a great team and I thought they played well tonight, but we did a great job. I'm thrilled with how the girls played tonight.

Mick Durham

This is obviously an important game. The winner stays in the hunt.

Chanda Gunn

This isn't the game we wanted to be playing in, but we pulled together as a team.

Jessie Davis

This isn't going to give us big heads. This game is going to help us slowly but surely get ready (for the playoffs) one game at a time.

Scotty Nichols

This is pretty much a must-win game for us.

David Hendler

The whole game now is just playing the yield curve.

Bill Snyder

The whole game is played out of the press box, when you get right to it. Spectators on the sideline don't get to see very much.

Graeme Smith

The whole game could have been different. Those were key moments. If we'd held onto our chances, we might have had a lead of 100.

Ozzie Guillen

How can you be a choker or a loser when you've won 91 games?

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Jesse Ventura

It's going to be a tragic loss when Warren goes, because we're going to lose a tremendous talent and somewhat of a conscience,

Stephen King

Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

Romeo Crennel

It's one of 16. If you can win the first one, you can't lose them all.

Kevin Martin

They're not going to lose two. And you can write that.

S. Walker

We're still at a point where we don't want to be. Obviously, we've got to come out and really lose a lot of the penalties.

Tim Finn

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

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.

Jay Wright

When you play a seasoned team like that, and you get a lead, you just know they're going to get a run.

Sebastian Telfair

Tonight as a team we went out and didn't give any effort.

Nichole Beall

To me it doesn't feel any different, we're all teammates. You look at the team as a whole, not as individuals.

Kevin Garnett

We've got a lot of new faces, a lot of variables, ... Can we win? Can we not win? What kind of team it's going to be. Our identity. How different things take shape. We'll find out pretty soon.

Bret Bielema

We will be a role-playing team at that position.

Ben Lamanna

This weekend showed our immaturity. We're not the team that we thought we were.

Seth Rice

This team worried me. That's a much better team than their record.

Douglas Coupland

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

Donald Trump

I express myself very strongly it`s groveling, I`m trying to show groveling, but all of a sudden I found that I was mocking somebody.

Donald Trump

Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make a deal to be on The Apprentice,.

Adam Savage

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

Adam Sandler

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.

Adam Sandler

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

Ani Difranco

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Andy Goldsworthy

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

Amy Lowell

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.