Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

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

Billy Donovan

As a basketball team you have to go through it. They need it. The game came down to our inexperience on the basketball court to their experience.

Michael Wong

As a group, we don't have the size and strength of other basketball players, so we try to create our own little world of basketball. We're not trying to lock people out because we're better. We're protecting our weaker status.

Jeff Davis

The bottom line is, we were beat tonight by a very good basketball team. I won't say better, but a very good basketball team.

Diana Taurasi

The bottom line is we've got good basketball players so we make good basketball decisions and play really good basketball and we just got to keep that same focus and intensity,

Don Allen

The bottom line is we're going to be playing onehopefully twovery good basketball teams. We're going to have our work cut out for us, regardless. A month-and-a-half ago, we were in the bottom of the barrel.

Austin Kirby

At times, we've stagnated a little on offense. We still haven't played our best basketball yet.

Terry Becker

A year ago, these guys were a long ways from being a good basketball team. But the great thing about them is that they worked hard and they listened and they learned.

Mike Lewis

Back east here, we were kind of basketball snobs. We figured we had to be better. That was our first mistake.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Tyler Hansbrough

Definitely it was fun in the second half when we started coming back and making a run and started stopping them defensively. That was a big key in the win.

Brandon Lincoln

Definitely. He's opened up another side to us that he hasn't opened up to many people. If people take the time to get to know who he really is, then it'll be easier to see where he's coming from.

Joe Sakic

Definitely four years ago, you had the names and you went with them. Now some of those guys got older and a lot of young guys are coming in, and it is tougher for sure. But I'd like to think that's a good thing for Canada, you can't really go wrong. There's going to be great players left off the team.

Billy Wagner

Definitely coming from a different organization and taking a big step, I want to get comfortable and not be living out of a suitcase for the whole spring training and having my family do the same. It was a move that I felt was good for me and for my family.

Bob Sanders

As a defense, we want to go into every game and have our offense and the rest of the team rely on us. We pulled it off a second week in a row, and I hope we can keep doing it.

Greg Aiello

As a league, we have to ... protect our most valuable rights, which is game footage.

Mark Zimmerman

(The Burros) stay in the game and don't give up, so I'm please with how we played.

Rick Petri

The big test will be when he first gets in a game, and how he reacts to a game situation. That's when they start to grow, especially if they have a little success.

Al Thornton

At times, we've played a 38-minute game and lost by one or two. We have to go out and play a 40-minute game.

Jeff Probst

At some point, at least you know there are some things that are good and solid and you can rely on. Nobody in their right mind thinks Survivor is about survival ... It's a game show.

John Jones

(A win) makes us 1-0 in the second half. We've got to start right now with the first game like we're starting over.

Jay Paterno

A year ago if we run that, it's an 8-yard play. Instead, it's a game changer. We can do different things now. We have some flexibility.

Ivan Feinseth

Back in the day, there was only U.S. Steel. Now, everything is game -- nothing is out of reach.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Albert Murray

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

Calvin Hill

We didn't have to be on national TV every night talking about Duane. If we had been, then it would have been a distraction.

Lisa Murkowski

Together we have to let the nation in on a valuable secret: When it comes to our natural resources, Alaskans know what we're doing.

Jim Delgado

We're supporting the national position for a day of rest. Not purchasing anything from stores, not purchasing gasoline.

Brentson Buckner

We don't want national cameras. We just want to play football. Let the people write what they write, let them report what they want to report.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Steve Brown

Quite a number of the signatures were not registered voters. You have a set of rules, and everyone should play by the same set of rules.

Tony Russa

You're watching the number and go '10-9-8' and get to one and you're going to celebrate? Zero is when you celebrate. That's what we're doing to do.

Dennis Clay

You shouldn't have anything without a title and every part off the vehicle should have a serial number on the receipt that you got with it.

Roebalin Bustamante

You see the standing water, this is the number one hole.

Elaine Rubin

You're going to see many more partnerships, and for a number of different reasons. The underlying reason is that we're getting smarter and more competitive.

Hines Ward

You only get a number of opportunities to make big plays, and that was a big play.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Eileen collins

I've been in your shoes many times so I understand.

Adam Davis

That stuff comes and goes. It's something you've got to play through.

Freddie Ljungberg

I think we can upset some of the big teams,

Shawn Mendes

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Charles Haynes

This is not a Sunday school course. I think the legislature didn't do its homework, didn't think about the ramifications of this.

Amy Lee

That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years-in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.

Brandon Sanderson

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week