Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Steve Kragthorpe

The bottom line is turnovers, and we did a great job of securing turnovers. We got the ball back with 2:20 left, and I challenged our team to get the first down and to stay on the field. And they did.

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Peter Boal

The big thing about the season is the festival. I'm excited because it's going to include many parts of the community, for example Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater.

Kirk Ferentz

Ball security and pass protection -- two things we really needed last year -- he gave us.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Connie Higgins

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Sammy Teel

Ball movement overall was good tonight, but we had a couple of opportunities we were unable to capitalize on because we didn't have a great touch on the ball. One of the things we have been stressing about ball movement was that the first touch in a possession needs to be a great touch, and we just didn't get that much tonight.

Jim Furyk

Ball just didn't go in the hole as well as it could have on the back side. And on the front side, I got the ball in the hole super. It was flip-flopped yesterday.

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Mark Slotsve

That was a big basket that turned the tide. It only gave them a five-point lead, but the way the game was going it felt like a 20-point lead.

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.

Daniel Gibson

The standards we've set allows guys like Kevin to know we're a program on the rise. We had one of the best seasons in Texas basketball history, and we want to carry on the legacy.

Joe Katich

The second half we decided just to let it all out and run up and down the floor. Trying to match them basket for basket - we did it, but the problem was we had an eight-point deficit at halftime.

Mick Cronin

The struggles of Louisville and Kentucky are aberrations. That shows you the state of the game in college basketball. With kids going to the pros left and right, it's hard to maintain stability.

Joe Reilly

The sidelines are out of control. We have two cameramen out there, and I'm hoping they'll at least let us have one. But you wonder what they're worried about. Cameramen or players getting hurt? Basketball is more dangerous because you have cameramen sitting right under the basket, and the players only have two or three feet to stop.

Thomas Gardner

The shots weren't going for us, so we made it a habit of getting to the basket and we got into the penalty early in the second half.

Brian Simmons

The thing about it is nobody is out there freelancing. Everybody's playing within the parameters of what we are doing.

Mickey Rourke

Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.

Glenn Williams

Push yourself, guys, ... Nobody walking. To the cones.

Jane Walsh

The work (Ryerson) did was really groundbreaking. Nobody else had really done that before.

Manny Diaz

The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,

Lucky Wurtz

You give him a one-game season and there's nobody better.

Jack Pitney

There's plenty of time to criticize. I think two years from now, nobody is going to remember what these people said.

DeAndre Rice

We are in first place and nobody mentions us as one of the surprises. Every time out we want respect.

Dirk Matson

Unfortunately, there does seem to be a need for younger kids' treatment. Nobody does anything until there's a problem.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Sarah Olson

We're playing better as a team. This was more respectable than the first time we saw them.

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.

John Muckler

You had to get rid of the other stuff before he started playing well.

Robert Monaco

Women are playing more, and playing more intensely,

John Harris

This was pretty timely because we are getting toward the end of the year and I had not been playing very well,

Kris Doorey

We could be better than 18-11 at this point, but we could be worse. We have been playing pretty well lately.

Matt Moore

We're going to be on a high, our first away game, playing a big-time school like Louisville. We'll be ready. It's going to be loud, and things aren't going to go our way sometimes; we're just going to have to battle.