Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herb Kohl

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.

Matt Thissen

San Diego isn't a hard place to want to go to school. It's a good school. Their basketball program has been down lately, but eight years ago they were a top 25 team. Their coach left to go coach her alma mater at Ohio State. I guess she decided she liked the weather better in San Diego and now she's back.

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

Bobby Cremins

I've been blessed. I got to live the American dream when I was coaching, and I continue to live the American dream. Without basketball in my life, I don't know what I would have wound up doing.

Mike Predmore

They are a great group of guys and a great group of young men. I'm not taking anything away from them as basketball players, but they really are great people. I can't say enough about them as people. In the long run, that's probably more important than anything else in life.

Todd Hansen

This is a nice win because it puts us up two games over three teams. We've been winning games, but could only get a one-game lead. Now we've got a little cushion. I thought our kids played a pretty good basketball game tonight.

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.

William Brown

This is the Fairview Classic. You can throw the X's and O's out when we get together, it is all about heart. Both teams competed hard, and basketball in Montgomery is back.

Rick Stockstill

As far as the class, I'm not one to stand up here and talk about this guy and that guy and say, 'We beat this team or we beat that team on a player.' That's just not my style. We are excited about this class. I think the big thing in it is what I have said since I've been here, which is I want to surround myself with winners.

Curt Miller

Despite our two wins, we felt like we were outplayed both games. They had us beat last year both games and let us slip through.

Jim Calhoun

A No. 16 seed is going to beat a No. 1. The gap is closing.

John Beilein

Any team that can beat Pittsburgh can beat anyone.

James Blake

Any of the top 100 guys in the world can beat any of the top 10 guys on a given day,

Andrew Wilson

(The shot) felt good. I felt like as the game was going on, one of us seniors was going to have to step up. The fact that they beat us on two last second shots last year makes it big and the fact that we had to win this game.

Dean Johnson

The team we beat pretty soundly had beaten them pretty soundly, so I thought we'd be OK if we did what we needed to do.

Robert Blades

The teams that showed up were very-high quality. Jasper (won senior boys) is picked to win the state meet in their classification. Southside Batesville came down and beat our junior girls by one point; it was a close race.

Ben Murray

The teams that have beat us out, Santa Margarita and Palm Desert, we beat both this year. Hopefully we can get through and finally make it. I think this team has more depth.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Thomas Neil

Now is when they have to decide how much they want to continue to play football.

Carles Puyol

Samuel said he didn't want to continue but we wanted to convince him that he should not let them (the racists) get to him.

Duane Grant

The work they do continues to be on the cutting edge of bio-energy.

Karen Sack

This is a way for the company?to continue to grow over time and I think it is a healthy strategy over time.

Hossam Bahgat

This is a regrettable escalation on the part of the government. On the other hand, it will encourage the judges to continue to speak out on the issue of judicial independence.

Jon Huntsman

This is a question of fairness, to my mind, and I'm going to continue talking about it to see what we can get accomplished.

Brian Dolan

This is going to be a short-term recovery. The dollar will continue to weaken in the next several days.

Chairon Isenia

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

Jared Bernstein

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

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.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Casey Moore

Definitely! It didn't feel good (Thursday) night getting honorable mention, but that's just motivation for me.

Dwane Casey

Decision-making down the stretch is so huge. Marcus is going to be a super point guard in this league. You have to take his good with his bad.

John Vigeland

Dec. 23 and 24 were really good and Dec. 26 was huge. I'm not sure why but returns are down -- we were prepared for more returns than we received on Dec. 26 -- and sales are up.

George Goncalves

Dealers weren't that interested even though we had good indirect bidding.

John Ellinger

D.C. is a very good team that prides itself on its work ethic, ... I've already said that if you've got talent and if you work hard, they're going to win a lot of games.

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Lewis Carroll

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.

Katie Gearlds

There's no moral victory here; we wanted to win and that's why it hurts.

Anatole France

Custom alone regulates morals.

Victor Hugo

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Al Gore

Make this a moral moment, ... This is your moment.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.