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.

Herb Kohl

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.

Steve Kerr

So much youth basketball is being played around the world, in countries everywhere. And the sheer volume of kids means that Winthrop and Monmouth can get some pretty good players.

Carly Syverson

Sometimes in basketball you don't think, you react. That's exactly what I did.

Joe Morgan

Teams draft mostly college players now, ... and a black kid from a poor family can't go to college unless he gets a scholarship. He can get one in basketball or football, but not in baseball.

Karl Hobbs

Temple played a fantastic game. The elder statesman showed that he still knows how to get a team up and prepared to win a basketball game.

Brian Hill

Sometimes the light goes on a little bit later. Maybe this is one of those situations where we just realize if we play together and share the basketball and play good defense and force some turnovers and get out and run, we can be pretty good.

Desiree Kiesel

The team may be small, but they are a dedicated group of kids. I love working with each and every one of them.

Spike Manton

The theater is dedicated to producing Midwestern plays.

E. B. White

A dedicated funding stream doesn't necessarily mean it has to be a new tax. It could be from dedication of an existing source.

Jim Denker

The most important thing for us is that we're playing well going into the playoffs. Some teams are satisfied just to get there, but our kids are excited. They've worked very hard this season and dedicated themselves to getting better.

Jim Keyes

These workers dedicated their lives for the national security of our nation and were unknowingly and possibly intentionally exposed to hazards.

Gaylen Freeman

I've been so tied to education and (have so) dedicated myself to it for 43 years that I want to get out and enjoy it now.

Shelly Williams

I've dedicated 22 years to my research and now I won't be able to finish it and that hurts.

Michelle Snow

I've been doing this for 20 years. I've seen hundreds of kids. Monica is dedicated to music. She's got perseverance. She's one of the few that will actually make it.

Bill Veeck

The White Sox had long ago tested the loyalty of their rooters; the weak and faint of heart had fallen by the wayside and only the strong, the dedicated and the masochistic remained. If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan freed a man from any other form of penance.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Carlos Silva

That's kids, and sometimes they don't know what to ask, so they repeat a question five times. Really, those are the types of things that makes it fun.

Stephen Barnes

You would have stayed out of them the last five years,

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Brett Ratner

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

Baha'u'llah

The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence, this is conditional upon refinement which in turn is dependent upon hearts which are detached and pure. As to its moderation, this hath to be combined with tact and wisdom as prescribed in the Holy Scriptures and Tablets.

Benito Mussolini

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Brian Tracy

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Brad Paisley

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Brad Barkley

Cal," I whisper into her sleep, "if you go, you know what? You'll break my liver." I want to pretend that it's a joke, that she will wake up and laugh with me, throwing her head back the way she did last night, bit this time the words are true . . . she will break my liver, break my heart, kill everything inside alive inside me.

Jane Hirshfield

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Douglas Adams

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Tana French

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

Tom Cruise

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

Michael Cunningham

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

John Neal

Seventy-five hours every three years is required by the state, ... We do 100 hours every year.

Alex Rodriguez

You're representing 400 million (300 million, actually) Americans. That's a pretty big responsibility.

Chuck Pavlos

You're going to have a million people in this corridor.

Russell Perreault

There are more than 300 million people in the US, so we still have a lot of potential sales out there.

America Ferrera

They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand!

Magglio Ordonez

We've got 25 million people in Venezuela. At least 24 million are going to be watching the games.

Martin Grove

could see these pictures go to $100 million or more worldwide.

Parker Palmer

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

George Pechtel

We wanted $3.4 million to get to Seventh Avenue.

Mark Mann

We will spend well over $2 million on this facility.

Jaleesa Ross

Practices. We've been conditioning all season preparing for this.

Buddy Bell

We're going about it, quite frankly, that Zack is not going to be here in time to get ready for the rotation. We pretty much are preparing for the worst right now. That could change. I don't think it will.

Catherine Deneuve

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Nathan Vasher

If you're ready, you should run. It puts you a step ahead.

Mike Jacobs

It was a big boost. When you start off with three runs, it puts them on the defensive.

Shannon Bennett

The more a punter spends the better value they are getting.