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.

Sam Bregman

The most important thing for us right now is for the people of Albuquerque to see the caliber of basketball team they have. It's going to be a great thrill for the city of Albuquerque. This is a big basketball city, and this is pretty cool that we are at where we are at.

Jim Hines

A couple of us spoke about our connection to each other and how important Mercer Island basketball was to us as young kids, and we encouraged kids out there to embrace this time.

Dane Bradshaw

A couple of more minutes of solid basketball and we're talking about the Sweet 16.

Doug Bruno

Something that coach taught us, basketball is important but basketball life and people involved with the sport are more important than the game. And no game can keep you from doing and having the opportunity to pay your respects to someone as great as coach Ray.

Eric Williams

Something's better than nothing. I just want to be playing basketball as long as I can. That's all there is to it.

Shannon Brown

Spartan basketball is playing with a lot of intensity, a lot of grit. We haven't played with it as much as we'd like to. But it's a new season.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

David Brock

These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information.

John Tortorella

That's not saying he doesn't have the ability, but he gets everything out of himself every night. And when he's not going, it's not working for him, you know the effort is going to be there.

Pete Hoffman

That's not really the effort I was looking for today. This group's been able to get up for some big games, but today they just didn't get up for it.

Toby Bickel

We've struggled the last half of the season off and on. I was pleased with our effort and our execution, for the most part.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Janet Guthrie

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Troy Ellerman

We're a rodeo association, not a bull-riding association. Our efforts should be focused on making our rodeos better.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Greg Spires

The most important thing is that we're playing together and everybody is gelling, everybody likes each other, ... Everybody wants to win, and when you're winning, everybody's happy.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Warren Sapp

Once you've sat at the king's table, you know what it's like. That's a feast that everybody is going to be trying, ... It's a matter of us just repeating our success. It sounds crazy. But we do it one day at a time.

John Senden

You've got to think about winning, because everybody thinks about winning playing on this tour. If you're within two or three at the turn, maybe you have a chance.

Roy Young

You never plan that. You always plan everybody to come home at the same time. My thoughts and prayers are with his family. Jeremy was a good guy.

Tim Legler

You pay a price mentally playing for Larry Brown, everybody knows that, and they've been through all the games, all the sniping and those veiled jabs that he takes at them in the press,

Jim McAlpin

We're looking forward to the next week or two. We'll get everybody healthy and move some people around. It should be a fun last two weeks of the season.

Josh Boone

Mainly it's Marcus, to be honest with you. Marcus is telling me a whole lot of times where to go. He'll just come up to me after a play and say, 'Next time slip that.' I'll be like, 'All right,' and he'll just throw a perfect pass. It just really helps to have a guy like him on the floor leading us.

Cary Thompson

She ran our offense all year. She was a real floor leader for us.

Terry Boe

Michelle has to take the front seat tonight. She led our team up and down the floor tonight.

Larry Brown

I don't look at him as a sub. ... I want him to get major minutes. He's on the floor at the end of games. I always say that it's most important who's on the floor at the end of the game - that's when it counts.

Karl Hobbs

His status is at the point where he's getting up and down the floor a little bit. And we're hoping that he'll be able to play on Thursday.

Doc Rivers

He's been great. He's been in a zone on the floor, off the floor with teammates. He's just been in a zone all the way around.

Rick Forney

He has a great sense for the game, he has a great sense for when the opponent is off-balanced. His vision on the floor is tremendous and he showed that.

Brian Cupples

The floor was really open. We were able to get to the basket. Our kids made plays.

John Washington

The floor plan has expanded about 30 feet,

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Bill Miller

(Osborne) is pretty special. He might be as good as any we've had in the infield, and he's only a sophomore. It's kind of scary to think how good he could be.

Randy Copeland

Offensively, they've got a good running back and a real good quarterback,

Sean Coste

Offensively, there were times where we executed really well and got some good shots for people. The kids were very strong in the post.

Dana Altman

Of the 15 shots he took, I'm not sure how many of them were good looks. We did a good job contesting his shots. Any time you hold him under 10 points, you have a good shot to win.

Steve Rice

Offensively, I like the looks of our line even though we're young. We have pretty good size from tackle to tackle.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Hilton Armstrong

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

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.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

Schoolboy Q

The more harder you work, the less you're out spending your money.

Brand Pretorius

Dealers pushed particularly hard in March in order to qualify for their quarterly sales incentive bonuses.

Paula Creamer

Annika's at the place I want to be. I think that's helping me. I have to work harder than her. I have to get stronger than her.

George Foster

Anything that's on the lower end of the pay scale would probably be harder to fill.

Don Cole

The situation is making it harder for our officers to do their jobs.

Allen Wallace

The thing you hope for is that he's working on the SAT or working hard on the GPA. He's got to qualify.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Gary Enis

That's why tonight was so big. We've got to go back there and play Grenada.

Stephen Kress

Every puffin we see tonight is a miracle.

Andre Dubus

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

Rip Taylor

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

Suzanne Collins

You're not afraid I'll kill you tonight?" "Like I couldn't take you.

Bobby Frasor

Just watching him out there tonight was something special.

Raymond Chandler

I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.

Nancy O'Dell

I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.

John Green

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.