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.

Joakim Noah

As a basketball player this is your dream -- to play in the national championship game. It's just such a great feeling that it's finally here. There's been so much hard work and so much sacrifice. There's so many moments that I can go back to -- being a little kid, walking to practice. Now I'm finally playing in the game.

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.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want the chance to do. We just did what we've been doing all along.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want. It's been an exciting, exciting week for us.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want a chance to have an opportunity to do.

Gary Williams

As a college basketball coach, I'm upset for the future of game. Somebody has to be accountable. You can't blame just one group of people for this, unfortunately.

Craig Shoemaker

The boys are excited. When we do put four quarters of basketball together, we're a pretty decent team.

Chris Low

The trade deficit widened to a record in September, as expected. But it wasn't the oil story we were all looking for. Instead, it boils down to Boeing and Airbus, with the European firm holding the cards this time around,

Jennifer Harbury

What it boils down to is he will not be released unless he confesses to a crime he did not commit. It's probably the worst civil rights case facing the U.S. government right now.

Andrew Brown

Just down the stretch, it's about making plays, making shots. Sometimes it just boils down to making shots.

Chad Hedrick

I respect him as an athlete. That's what our relationship boils down to.

Mike Conklin

We need the capital for a crusher and a refinery, that's what it boils down to.

Donald Trott

I think the major issue that it always boils down to is ongoing earnings opportunities. The cellular business has been the primary driver in more recent years, but we think cellular will become increasingly competitive.

Jack Barnes

It just boils down to the fact that there's only so much money in the pot.

Gavin Dickey

It's frustrating that I'm not helping score runs for the team. I had opportunities to score some guys tonight and I didn't do the job. That's what it boils down to.

John Dryden

A mob is the scum that rises up most when the nation boils

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Bill Emerson

As long as the employment picture remains good and interest rates remain in a lower fashion, as they have right now. As long as those two factors remain in play, I think you're going to see a lot of demand in terms of buying homes or refinancing.

Dave Meger

As London came back from a holiday, the dollar was down and oil was up. You saw buying return to the physical market, and that's why we entered the day higher. After we saw the dollar down and oil firming, that drew some further fund buying.

Yingxi Yu

Prices are being driven up by hedge funds, which are buying platinum because its fundamentals are looking good. Platinum has been in deficit for the past six years, and it's expected it will be in deficit this year.

Harlan Miller

Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words

Alan Rose

People who had been buying the front end and selling the back now have trades they don't like.

Christopher Davis

People that have had a style that typically now is called momentum investing, buying the hot stocks of the day, the high fliers, that aren't supported by the economic fundamentals of the business, should change their style, ... It's not too late.

George Pipas

People that are buying are using some of the incentives in the same way they're using the interest rates on mortgages, ... There, they're buying more home or financing renovations. Here, they're buy more features on cars, or buying the next class up in cars.

Sharon Miller

People don't mind buying five cases of wine, but they don't seem to want to pay $100 for a room.

Kathy Nelson

As a public district hospital, we are committed to providing essential services to the community we serve. No one will be turned away from vital services.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Ann Sims

Personally and professionally, I did not feel that I could commit to the job for three years, and as a result, it would not be fair for me to continue (as director).

Bob Gainey

Our team was stumbling and bumbling and we didn't have a player really who was committed to doing what they needed to do.

Siti Supari

Other countries have committed to help in terms of providing equipment, expert paramedics, that sort of stuff. We are concentrating on paramedic training and preparing hospitals.

Michael Goodman

People dedicated to committing piracy are going to find ways to do it.

David Davidson

Offering more humanely produced eggs naturally fits our commitment to foster goodness and decency in our students.

Andrew Natsios

The money was committed on Sunday when the emergency took place,

Ronald Reagan

Draft registration destroys the very values that our society is committed to defending.

Ed Smart

As hard as this has been for our family, the response has been overwhelming.

Clive Barnes

As hard as the nails on a crucifix.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

Domanick Davis

As a running back, it's hard trying to be like someone else. You have to roll with the skills you have.

Joel Kinnaman

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.

Reggie Lee

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Dick Jauron

A very tough guy, hard working guy, loves the game, studies the game. He's very, very into football. It's important to him.

Chris Whitaker

Away from rugby if your head's not right then it makes it pretty hard to concentrate on rugby.

Benjamin Franklin

An innocent Plowman is more worthy than a vicious Prince.

Cameron Diaz

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

Al Franken

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

James Woods

Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I don't like to be called a symbol. And I don't like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I'd rather be known as a hard worker. I don't think symbols do much, nor icons.

Diane Cilento

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

Diane Ackerman

I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.

Dan Totheroh

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

Dan Uggla

If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.

Scott Carpenter

As a public relations practitioner, it is a tremendous honor to be included on a panel of the top public relations professionals in our business.

Marguerite de Valois

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

Richard Midgley

An honor. It's just an honor to be here.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

O. Singh

Sublime is that love, which preserves my honor with my Lord Master.

Bob Klein

So when he was 12, he went out and got a guitar. He had to be on the honor roll to get one, so he did and he got one.

Reese Witherspoon

So thank you so much for this honor.

Susan Taylor

Ron loved his time at GW, ... It's an honor for us to be near the school.

Harry Kinnan

There will be wonderful opportunities to honor people.

Art Alexakis

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

Joshua Leonard

The big studio movies are spending more and more money, which means they have to open in more theatres in order to re-coup their investment.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Elizabeth Warren

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

Christian Lacroix

Ready-to-wear -- that means 'ready to wear'. Some people are doing couture during ready-to-wear (fashion week), others are putting up performances, we just come here with our little flowers.

Nick Harkaway

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

Mark Fontaine

Privatization does not mean you abdicate your responsibility.

Joni Mitchell

People think it's being remodeled, ... I tell them, and they say, 'What? What do you mean they're tearing down the old high-school building?'

Butch Loper

People don't understand what is meant by storm surge. You're telling them, 'Hey, you need to go.

H. P. Lovecraft

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

Jeremy Rifkin

In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

Hugh Hefner

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Randy Carlyle

Our expectations are that we're going to try to play an uptempo game, and our players seem to have responded positively to that.

Dottie Pepper

Other players find out if you're not doing that sort of stuff. You don't want to take the 'I'm special' attitude.

James Grant

The teams they've come up against, individually, you probably say have better players than (the Tigers),

Mary Pinkowski

Some teams have 6-3 players who play like our guards.

H. Hart

Some players ... they're better unprepared, maybe. Just go out there and wing it. That's how he is.

Daniela Hantuchova

Some players prefer to play one point after another. I prefer to take more time. There's nothing you can do about it.

Felipe Alou

Some players leaned on them. It should be a lot more relaxed.

Dave Esquer

Some players have to play and have to play well for us to be the team we want to be.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Gerald Henderson

As a team we understand we can get so many buckets at the rim. We've been working on that, trying to get better at it in games.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.