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.

S. Walker

Ashton's just a workhorse. To have one touchdown on offense, one on defense and one on special teams really says a lot.

Doug Wojcik

As a team, we play defense well and our kids listen. Memphis did a poor job at the free throw line (26-of-41) and that really kept us in the game.

Michael Lambert

As a human being I was incensed. As a defense attorney, I was incensed.

Gary Swenson

Athletically he can do it. We don't sit and worry if he is going to get hurt or not. He could be an every-down player. We have enough depth that guys can spell him if we have to. His focus has to be at tailback. We will rest him on defense if we have to.

Erik Coleman

As long as we're in meetings going over the routes and how to play them and talking out the defense when we're out on the field, I think we'll be on the same page and be successful back there, no matter who we put in there.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Heath Miller

As it will be every week, we're going to take what the defense gives us. The defense will dictate where we're going to go with the football.

Jack Leggett

That was a big play there and we made a few more after that. (Elon) is a good hitting team and our defense and pitching got it done.

Craig Barr

That was a big play for them. Our defense played really well after that. We got three of their turnovers.

Connie Chung

are an incredible couple, with an edge. Even when they argue, you just know there's a great emotional tie between them. Sometimes they do it for sport, sometimes just to wind the other person up.

Mark Calcavecchia

I've always been an emotional player, I'm an emotional guy,

Joe Williams

A friend of mine once said that hate is too important an emotion to waste on someone you don't like. And I've tried desperately to get my psyche in shape to more or less fend off any of those feeling that are going to mar my life.

Kate Winslet

Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.

Craig Swartout

Sometimes, because they're young, they don't harness their emotions like they're supposed to and it can hurt them. And we try to let them know that it can hurt the team, too.

Frank Middleton

Some people save up their emotions for when they count, and I think Callahan is one of those guys,

Jonathan Demme

Seeing Neil Young expressing these lyrics and seeing the emotions that register on his face in his style of presentation is a sublime extra for understanding his music.

Dale Layer

It was ugly at times, but when we had to make stops over the last few minutes, we did. Our kids knew if they lost they go home, and I think they showed a lot of emotion and some big hearts.

Michael Allen

It was an emotional roller-coaster all day long. I did not play well at all for most of the day, but I was able to get it together at the end. Making three (birdies) in a row to finish the round at least makes you feel like you had a good day. I got in my own way today, and I've got to figure out a way to rectify that before tomorrow.

Jerry Rucker

Defensively our intensity level picked up. They went through a spell of about 25 possessions from midway through the second to about mid-third quarter where they only scored six points.

Sthefany Thomas

That's why you can never lay back. You can't play to the other team; you have to play with your own intensity that your team always plays with.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

John Lazicki

We've seen this team this year with the same level of intensity that they had, but we just couldn't match it tonight.

Kenny Carter

You have to have intensity for 32 minutes. It didn't happen.

Dan Dersam

We just turned cold, and we couldn't make anything. We were trying to live on the jump shot, and we lost our intensity on defense.

Mario Chalmers

We just tried to match the intensity they were bringing.

R. Ingram

We weren't really playing with a lot of energy, we told ourselves we have to pick up our intensity and pressure the ball.

Tim Wise

We haven't played with the intensity on that end that we need. That's where we'll put our emphasis.

Jose Manuel Barroso

I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.

Al Michaels

It would be a nice way for this whole run to end with the first overtime Super Bowl.

Jonathan Simon

It would be nice if I could come back to Auburn. It would be nice to give back.

Ann Beattie

It was very much a surprise. It's very nice when someone takes notice.

Ryan Giggs

The rivalry between the two teams is massive, so it's always nice to play them and even nicer to win.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Glenys Bakker

We're gunning for that. It would be nice to end the season with another win.

Brendan Fraser

It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however you define that, be it making a bunch of dough, which the actors never see much of, or whether it's a piece that's enlightening or stays with the audience maybe six, seven or even eight or 10 years later.

Jane Kaczmarek

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Bob Ladouceur

The team we saw on film was not the team we played out there tonight.

Donna Cowing

I've always played for him. I think about him every day.

Johnny Marr

I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.

Shane Warne

The one thing I'll remember from this series is the way it's been played and the spirit it's been played in.

London Fletcher

After a victory like that it's great, but it's also sad because you think this is the team we could have been all season long and we could have played like this in other games.

John Sebastian

Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.

Robert Corn

Ten turnovers is a big key. I'll take 10 every time out. We played unselfish basketball.

Greg Baudo

Right now, we're playing better than we've ever played before.