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.

Marcelo Enriquez

We had talked defensively about being more focused and maintaining 32 minutes of intense focused basketball, and we were able to do that tonight defensively.

Rick Hartzell

We will not, in this program, take a back seat to anybody. We've had the best basketball program in the state of Iowa over the last three or four years. We have nothing but plans to keep that going.

Donald Hall

In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.

Donald Glover

You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

Leslie Nielsen

Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.

Phil Gramm

You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

Phyllis McGinley

Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.

Julian Barnes

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Julian Barnes

Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Joss Whedon

Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness

Ramana Maharshi

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

Thom Yorke

The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Kurt Russell

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

Paul Newman

Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.

Mark Gorman

Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.

Pat Cash

I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!

Milo Hamilton

I got what I wanted. I wanted a win.