Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Don Hogan

West Georgia is very athletic, and you have to earn everything because they play great defense. We must take care of the basketball and play smart.

Don Meyer

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

Dave Brubeck

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

David Halberstam

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Andy Murray

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Trent Hunter

Special teams are what usually win games. We were working hard on both sides of that.

Joe Faraldo

This is a reasonable solution. We'll both lose some things through arbitration, but that's what a negotiation is.

Matt Rosoff

This is definitely being driven by Microsoft's desire to position Windows as a home entertainment hub, and to do that they have to make some concessions. They're walking a line, trying to please both sides (content companies and consumers) at the same time.

Larry Fisher

This is an exploration of both the design and the cost. We are not committed to doing it. It'll depend upon the feasibility.

Jim Johnson

This is holding it back, reducing volumes and velocity in the creek and reducing pollutants both of which are important to the health of the sound.

Tad Boyle

This is going to be both a tremendous challenge and opportunity for me and where I am at in my career. I have been preparing myself for the last 17 years for this opportunity.

Jamie Rains

This is going to be a typical week in our conference. We know both teams will be tough. We are taking it one game at a time and keeping our focus.

Shawn McEachern

This is a trade that is going to help both teams because they're both great players and I don't think either team is going to lose with these two guys.

Margaret Mead

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

Martin O'Malley

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

Nick Clooney

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.

Oscar Wilde

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

Oscar Wilde

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

Larry Powell

She was still a second-class daughter. She did not inherit any of his estate.

Shantel Rivard

Obviously, they're impact players. When you lose impact players, it hurts. You have to expect other players to step up and fill different roles, too. Our (current) freshman class has so much potential that we think the offense will be there.

Tim Allen

no class at Wilson has more than 22 students at this time.

Michael Farrell

No due process issue is raised by legislation that seeks to redress injuries suffered by district residents and visitors resulting from the manufacture and distribution of a particular class of firearms whose lethal nature far outweighs their utility,

Sophie Kinsella

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

Kobe Bryant

We are on a journey, and to put on a show like this for the fans here in L.A. is truly something special. I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an older, young man.

Bobby Jenks

It was like silence, and then the next pitch, 5,000 fans were yelling all at once.

Fernando Torres

The players really like the idea of having a permanent home where the team can feel comfortable, get more support from the fans and where our opponents will feel uncomfortable,

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.

Bobby Frasor

Every game we've progressed and we're starting to get things clicking, starting to turn the corner.

Greg Cronin

Every game we've played has been close. We haven't had the third-period luck to get us over the hump, but they have been very good games, right down to the wire.

Brad Podevels

Every game we've had somebody step up. That's the great thing about this team. Today, it was Seth. He knew what his role was and did a great job.

Erin Aitken

Every game we had was important to stay in the hunt. We knew how important the games were. It wasn't until about the last game that we could relax a little.

Kyle Levins

Every game that we win, it's going to be less and less pressure. We've just got to sharpen up the sticks.

Larry Brown

Every game matters. At the end of the year, this is what they do: They put the wins and losses up. Obviously, we're not going to make the playoffs, but I think the important thing is you get better. Hopefully, that's what we're trying to do.

Kerry Joseph

Every game is important. We've just got to play better football. We let them take it to us.

Phil Anderton

At no point have Rangers been given confirmation that they would receive 3,600 tickets for the game on 18 March,

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.

Simon Mainwaring

Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version.

Rick Riordan

Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?

Rick Riordan

Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.

Rick Riordan

Are you guys busy?" Juniper asked. "Well," I said, "we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die." "We're not busy," Annabeth said.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.

Richard Branson

Don’t just play the game – change it for good.

Sam Snead

A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.

Rupert Murdoch

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

Dr. Dre

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

Donny Robinson

BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.

Don Shula

I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.

Don Shula

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

Dalai Lama

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality . . . Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.

Dick Schaap

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

Dick Schaap

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

Dick Gregory

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Desmond Morris

Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.