Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Ally Carter

I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball, or when girls with abnormally long fingers sit down at a piano. Blending in, going unseen, being a shadow in the sun is what I'm good at. Seeing the shadows, it turns out, is not my natural gift.

Allen Iverson

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

Allen Iverson

I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

Allen Iverson

I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Jim Press

Everybody is coming out with new hardware. We work for our customers, we build for our customers, and I think they recognize that.

Bobby Labonte

A top-five finish in the 150 is a good start. It gives us something to build on for Sunday.

Gus Logie

At the moment, there is much to be proud of and also much we can still build on.

Donald Smithburg

We are going to build newer, more modern facilities that will withstand the test of time. They will withstand the next storm, and the one after that.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Bruce Merrill

This whole education fight is clearly a proxy for the immigration debate. A lot of people here feel if you don't build it, they won't come.

Michael Goldberg

The response has been overwhelming. We can't build them fast enough.

Dan Spranger

There's some talent down there and they're doing a great job developing the kids. We want to build from the ground up.

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

I have to laugh when I think of the first cigar, because it was probably just a bunch of rolled up tobacco leaves

Mike Holmgren

Not many people know us. Unless you're on the West Coast or specifically in the state of Washington, you'd be hard-pressed to name a bunch of our defensive players.

Kevin Cato

It was a battle. You knew it was going to be a good game. They're an athletic, physical team and they make you earn every point. Michael Billiard stepped up and hit a bunch of big shots for us.

Mack Brown

This bunch will have to get back to work and ready to play in Stillwater.

Charles Tillman

There's a lot of poking and prodding going on. And a bunch of guys are sitting there watching it, just scribbling all these notes. It's pretty awkward.

Dave Grohl

I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.

Randy Edsall

We're a team. We're not a bunch of individuals. What everybody has to do is just pick their game up a little bit. It doesn't matter who is in there. We have confidence in them or we wouldn't put them in.

Rod Smith

We're a team. We just have a bunch of guys that love to play football, and we're playing together and for each other each and every week. 'Do it for me, I'm doing it for you.' That's our thing.

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.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Rich Williams

Everyone wants to do the first one. You do it right the first time, runners will keep on coming back.

Lynn Franco

As the economic ramifications of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the coming weeks and months, and the number of layoffs continues to rise, the economy faces tougher times ahead. While consumers have managed to keep the U.S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon may no longer be the case.

Fabrice Santoro

At one point, it's great that it's coming so late. I've been playing since I was 16, and when your first quarterfinal arrives at 33, it's a long time.

Marty Simmons

At that point, you could just see the life coming back into our bodies.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

Maggie Gallagher

The set of ideas that lead a culture, a religion, a court to endorse same-sex marriage are simply not sustainable over the long haul.

Bill Thomas

That is illegal, unconstitutional and reprehensible. It will be the subject of court action.

Mick Keelty

It's important that we give these people a fair opportunity to prepare their defense before the court rather than run their trial in the media.

Michael Greve

It's been the longest-sitting nine-member court in history. They've all played the same cards, and nothing is gained.

Arlen Specter

It naturally raises cynicism when you have so many 5-4 decisions from our Supreme Court and 4-3 decisions out of the Florida Supreme Court and that is not healthy, ... But our republic will survive.

Derrick Kirce

It's a matter of patience and sticking with the system. Not only Clark, but everybody on the court has to learn to stick with the system and listen to what I say. When they started to have success in the fourth quarter, they were starting to do what I told them to do. It's that simple.

Ruth Ginsburg

It's an extraordinary act, I think, to withdraw jurisdiction from this court in a pending case.

Orrin Hatch

It looked to me today that this court is going to be at least 5-4 and possibly 6-3,

Oscar Michelen

It takes 30 days for a new judge (to be appointed). Everything takes time in the legal system. We're going to write a letter together to let the court know we're ready for a new judge as soon as possible.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Luc Robitaille

Selling L.A. is going to be easy. Phil (Anschutz, the Kings' co-owner) should offer the young guys a movie role.

Jon Heacock

Obviously, there are some guys that can help us. How soon, I don't know.

Brian Cashman

Obviously it's something that's unique and difficult. We'll lose some guys for a period of time. Hopefully they produce at high levels for those clubs, stay healthy and get back to us whenever their WBC season is over.

Brodie Croyle

Obviously, as you say, there's the top three guys that probably go in the top three picks. There's a lot of quarterbacks to be taken after that. Hey, I'm happy to be here. A year ago today, I was still recovering from a knee injury and wondering if I'd have this opportunity. I'm loving every minute of it.

Lleyton Hewitt

Obviously, all us young guys have been playing since we were six or seven years old.

Scott Long

No. Haven't done much of that lately. Now it's telling guys why they can't do things like that.

Bob Stoops

No, they had most of their guys before they won the national championship.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Theaster Gates

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

Longchenpa

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Sharon Salzberg

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Natalie Goldberg

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

Tavis Smiley

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

Joshua Harris

We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.

Joshua Harris

The doctrine of Scripture teaches us about the authority of God's Word. Scripture must be the final rule of faith and practice for our lives. Not our feelings or emotions. Not signs or prophetic words or hunches.

Lionel Ferbos

Practice and practice and practice, and you'll make friends all over the world.

Bobby Jones

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

Tim Castille

It's not too bad. I talk to him two or three times a day. It's like I went on a little vacation and he's not here.

Rick Carlisle

There is no trade right now and there may not be a trade. There's nothing to talk about because there is no trade.

Pete Carroll

It's an introduction, and we'll talk about how important it is to play there.

Al Embry

I tried to talk to him and his wife and his two kids. I wanted them to get out of there.

Jeff Bower

I tried to talk him out of it, but he just wants to play.

Christi Wade

They're like every other mother-daughter relationship. They have their moments, but don't talk about the other one.

Ann Gard

They're so crispy. You're talking a long time ago here.

Rudi Koertzen

There was a lot of talk that went on ... it was repartee.

Howard Ward

There was a lot of talk about China.