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.

Taquan Dean

This isn't like any other conference. If you want to go to the conference tournament, you've got to earn your way there. So that's what we've got to do. We need to go knock some people off and play good basketball and earn our spot.

Andrew VonderHaar

It bothers the heck out of me. I just want to get back in there so bad. I just get mad at myself for getting those stupid fouls.

James Vincent McMorrow

It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?

Richard Morris

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

Brennan Garr

Hitting is very important to me, so I'm not one that likes to sit and watch. I did that one year when I was a little kid because a coach didn't want to play me as much, and it still bothers me.

Robert Mitchell

The noise bothers me - and others - more than anything,

Wolfgang Schauble

As a wheelchair user, you can't move about freely. That's the only thing that bothers me a little. When I'm in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.

Erin Campbell

The bottom line is this should translate into a savings of several million dollars for the people of Vermont.

Elaine Makatura

The bottom line is that we take enforcement of compliance with our regulations seriously, and we are concerned about the quality of life of residents in the area.

Jimmy Ray

The bottom line is that we don't pursue a lot of cases that other counties do. And that's because we don't take garbage up front.

Joe Perry

The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it.

Lawrence Frank

The bottom player is he's a better player than what he showed in the first half,

Doc Rivers

The bottom line now is that every game is a must-win game the rest of the way. We're down four games to Philadelphia with 13 to play. It's not going to be easy, but it gives us something to chase after the rest of the season.

Gerry McNamara

The bottom line is, you have to win. You have to go down there with the same mentality as if you were a No. 1 seed or a No. 16 seed. We've had good seeds in the past. We had a good seed last year, and look where it got us. We have to go down there with the mentality that we still have a lot to prove. We still think we can hopefully make some noise in this tournament.

Joe Dye

The bottom line is you have to make plays. And give them credit. They made plays when they needed to.

Rick Barnes

The bottom line is you could have done a lot more. Regardless of what the world throws at you, you're responsible for yourself. From that day on, he's been terrific.

Greg Brunner

Just looking at their team and the caliber of players and looking at their record. Any team that has 25 wins, you know you can't underestimate what they can do. Especially for a senior-leaden team.

Charles Ramsey

You can't give a team of that caliber that type of cushion and then try to fight back. They weren't working hard enough to score buckets.

Kevin Davis

Any time you lose someone of her caliber it hurts. I'm happy for her, and she deserves it. I know she'll go there and do well, but I hate it for our program. She established this program to state-wide recognition. I hate losing a person of her quality.

Doug Marrs

Special teams really hurt us, but we didn't play like we're capable of playing and they played very well. They're a good football team, and they did a great job.

Kirsten Nelson

I am capable of directing, and I am good at that. In order to have longevity as actors, you have to keep changing it up a bit; you have to bring other talents to the table. I want this to be another feather in my cap instead of replacing what I already have.

Dave Woodruff

We did over 100,000 pounds of crab, but it isn't enough. My plant is capable of running 1.5 million pounds of crab.

Ben Wallace

Before Larry got here, we knew what kind of team we had. With him gone, we still know we capable of getting it done.

Bruno Latour

The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.

Tony DiTucci

We got strong play from a few individuals, but we didn't get a collective effort from the whole team. We're not going to win with individual effort. We're going to win when we play together as a team the way we're capable of playing.

Milton Bradley

We're very capable of winning the division. . . . We're going to win it.

Jean Piaget

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Ann Stevenson

Last year, there were at least 250 people, but probably more, ... This year we are expecting about 500.

Rose Hill

Obviously it hasn't turned out the way we were expecting it to turn out, ... But we are grateful Gracia is alive. Our faith in the Lord is still the same. That hasn't changed.

Jim Volk

People were expecting weak retail sales, they were already in the stocks.

Ashley Haynes

Now we are going in there expecting to win. We are not just going out there playing not to lose. We are going out there playing to win the game.

Mike Freeman

I go into this with my eyes open. There are a lot of expectations with this position. There will also be a lot of scrutiny of this position. I'm expecting it. I think that's a good thing.

Andrew Lawrence

I suppose I'm going on stage and making jokes about the fact that the audience are expecting the show to be about something and that they might learn something.

Bronson Arroyo

That was awesome. You want to be accepted. They're expecting good things from me. I hope I can come through.

Rich Falasca

I wasn't really expecting that award. I am very proud of myself. I am honored. It's a good way to go out.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Lee Humphrey

This is a new year, and a different team. We're looking forward to making a run.

Eric Patterson

The only time we'll have to play a Broward or Dade team is if we play them in the state championship. We're looking forward to that.

Gary Smith

Bret Harte stuck it to us last year. We learned a lesson. Our kids are looking forward to playing them again.

Sergio Garcia

You have to realize you are going to have to make some birdies. You have a lot of par-4s you are hitting wedges into, and these guys can play, so you have to make some birdies. I'm looking forward to (today).

Willie Randolph

Those are the guys we have to go through to be where we want to be. We're looking forward to that challenge.

Edward Hale

Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand.

Joby Scroggs

Last year's game was just a battle. It was a tough, hard fought game and we're looking forward to another one - no doubt.

Michael Stoops

Las Vegas needs to move forward on this quickly ... because the issues are still out there.

Alice Cooper

On the last day of school, it's the national anthem. On that day, it's the most popular song on the planet. (Laughs.) I become Francis Scott Key for one day.

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Ed Belfour

You can never sit on a lead like in the past. There are a lot more power plays. Anything can happen.

Sean Murphy

We wanted to do something different. You never see our lead characters.

John Ortberg

We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Bobby Shelton

I'm a little set back. I had no idea they were looking at retirement. I thought it would stay around for many, many years kind of like the old B-52s did.

Mike Eaves

I can tell you this explicitly, that nobody was looking at this as just a third-place game. There was a lot of pride on the line.

David Gayson

Looking back, I have this regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

R. Robinson

I wasn't really looking to score more (in the second half), but I was looking to be more aggressive.

Tom Kelleher

We're all on schedule. Things are looking good.

Scott Parrish

He's not looking at the scoreboard, huh? Well, I was.

Jon Phillips

How was I supposed to do my work while someone is looking at such stuff next to me?

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.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Eric Karros

So I wouldn't have played me either, ... Not that you care.

Ray Emery

I don't think we played well in the third period, but I've got to be better. I've got to come up with some big saves.

Darin Spence

I don't think we played that bad, they're just that good.

Bud Adams

I don't think we have to rebuild, we just have to keep them going like they played today,

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

David Perno

Hopefully, he'll keep playing that type of baseball.

Mariano Zabaleta

But in the second he started playing really good,

Maria Sharapova

He's so talented and just plays so loose. It seems like he's playing without any effort, plays always by instinct.

Rick Comley

He's really playing well. He stabilized us (when we were struggling).

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Tyler Hansbrough

Every team I play is real physical. They have some big bodies, but it's nothing I've never seen before, and it's nothing I can't handle.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Ratu Bokini

But it can be seen by the fruits-and must be scanned.

Kim Phillips

But I have seen as many as 212 in here.

Barry Hinson

But I did not know who that team was out there in maroon. That was a team I have not seen all year long.

Larry Dixon

He's only seen me win live one other time. This is his win.

Anne Morgan

I don't think I know one person who understands this plan. I've never seen anything so complicated in my life.

Mike Stratton

They were stepping in it and stepping on it.

Gray Eklund

It's going to be bittersweet stepping out on the field.

David Steinberg

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Robert Burns

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Penn Jillette

Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.

Paulo Coelho

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Paulo Coelho

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Elizabeth Scott

So, you're telling me that no matter what, you can't be happy? Well, darling, it's no wonder you're miserable. It's what you want...So then try (to be happy).

T. V. Carpio

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

Brent Spiner

No, actually I'm trying to stay away from the big screen.

Billy Connolly

If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.

Mike Carter

Nowadays, they don't care. They do whatever they can to be popular. It's really sad.

Trent Dilfer

Whatever RAC (Crennel's initials) wants, that's what I'll do.

Carmen Electra

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

Doug Preston

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.

Mike Reid

We'll work with whatever they need us to do.