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.

Morris Peterson

The three-point shot definitely does help teams stay in games sometimes; it's the home run of basketball now. I feel that it's a good part of the game. Do guys sometimes tend to rely on three-point shot too much? Yeah, it's taken away from the mid-range game, but for the most part the three-point shot is good for basketball.

Ricardo Patton

The thing you learn from winning is how to win, and they are a very disciplined basketball team. I think if you look at the guys that make big plays for them, they are the guys who have been pretty consistent all season long.

Matt Bowen

The thing that you have to understand about 'Hoop' is that he's a basketball junkie. He needs his basketball fix and that's what he does his hard work for. He's fun to be around.

Gary Waters

The thing I give Quincy credit for, throughout the entire ordeal, is that Quincy never wavered. Quincy wanted to be here, because there are other things here for him, putting basketball aside.

Randy Dunton

The thing I appreciated about that lineup tonight is that, hey, we've got five guys out there that are really trying to operate with a basketball IQ and really play sound basketball on both ends.

Sue Semrau

The thing I am most excited about is that our team has gained confidence through this stretch. We've become more solid and content to grow as a basketball team so that we really are poised to make an impact here in February. It could have gone the other way. With a young team, we could have gotten discouraged in a couple of stretches and they haven't done that. They've stayed strong and I'm excited about what that means for this team.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Brian Sandoval

I worked my way through law school.

Brendan Fehr

I never liked group work in school.

James Vincent McMorrow

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

Greg Gibson

Ramon has had some offers for colleges and every meet that he does well in is another feather in his hat. We're proud of him.

Steve Morgan

I've worked on my punting the most this summer, ... I'm trying to get my steps down because punting is all about rhythm. In college I've had to learn to kick it one way in one situation, then kick it another in a different situation. This year I'm definitely more comfortable with my punting.

Becky O'Brien

It was a lot different than a high school meet, where there are six teams, at the most, outside of states. There were so many colleges and people who were at a high level, but it was a great experience. I can't say how great it was.

Drew Frank

They always say, 'Championships are won in March.' And that's true but you have to be making progress in December and January. In college basketball, they say the season starts in January. So does ours because that's district play and our first goal is to win our district.

Clinton Polk

This is Division I. When I was at junior college they didn't hit like that. I left my feet. I slowed him down a little bit, but I got my head rung a little bit.

Greg Mauch

This is an incredible event for our high school players to be able to watch the college players. And it's an opportunity for them to demonstrate or showcase their skills in front of a lot of college coaches.

Thomas Ryan

This is an important and well-done and well-analyzed study. I think it will have its impact on the way organized cardiology, such as the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, makes their guidelines.

Thomas Ryan

This is an important and well-done and well-analyzed study, ... I think it will have its impact on the way organized cardiology, such as the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, makes their guidelines.

Wayne Desjardins

This is huge. In my recollection, no school in B.C. has hosted the nationals since we did it in 1986. That's probably because it's such an enormous undertaking. It's a pricey thing and I'm really pleased that the college stepped up and supported our team. But we have established our program as one of the top ones in Canada. They know the product that we put on the floor is going to be pretty decent.