Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

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

Billy Donovan

As a basketball team you have to go through it. They need it. The game came down to our inexperience on the basketball court to their experience.

Joakim Noah

As a basketball player this is your dream -- to play in the national championship game. It's just such a great feeling that it's finally here. There's been so much hard work and so much sacrifice. There's so many moments that I can go back to -- being a little kid, walking to practice. Now I'm finally playing in the game.

Michael Wong

As a group, we don't have the size and strength of other basketball players, so we try to create our own little world of basketball. We're not trying to lock people out because we're better. We're protecting our weaker status.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want the chance to do. We just did what we've been doing all along.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want. It's been an exciting, exciting week for us.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want a chance to have an opportunity to do.

Gary Williams

As a college basketball coach, I'm upset for the future of game. Somebody has to be accountable. You can't blame just one group of people for this, unfortunately.

Craig Shoemaker

The boys are excited. When we do put four quarters of basketball together, we're a pretty decent team.

Ben McGrath

People doubted us all year. Now they're getting on the bandwagon.

Javier Solana

The situation is not easy ... but I don't doubt that we will find a solution,

Scott Reid

The system is flawed, no doubt about it,

Trevor Hohns

The omissions are performance-based ? there's no doubt about that,

Michael Charlton

After 20 years of evaluations, none of which put his IQ over 70 and some that put his IQ in the 50s there is no doubt he is mentally retarded.

Jack Ablin

After looking at the employment numbers, there is no doubt in my mind that the measured language remains. Knowing what we know now, there's no pause in 2005.

Jason Giambi

Actually, Joe was the one who congratulated me, ... And I said: 'For what? I know ain't gotten a hit in a while.' But it's exciting, no doubt about it.

Dave Odom

Sparks shot that one from the museum some place. Even if we were man-to-man, I doubt we would have guarded him that far out.

Ben Wallace

Sometimes, when you have a new coach, a new system, a new group of guys, it takes time to jell together, ... But there's no doubt in my mind that we're eventually going to come together as a team and make that title run.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Qiu Zhicheng

Property prices in Shanghai have risen out of the reach of ordinary citizens. It was only a matter of time until prices fell.

Stephen F. Lynch

other matters have been referred to us, and we are taking a look at those matters.

J. J. Johnson

Any win is big this time of year. It doesn't matter whether it's 1-0 or 15-0.

Christopher Hill

The sense is we should be able to wrap this up in a matter of days, not weeks,

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Jimmy Rollins

The streak doesn't matter in the playoffs. Right now it's about getting that big trophy.

Gary Schare

The ones that really matter are those in Windows.

Suze Orman

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Mark Cox

That shot he's got to obliterate from his mind a little bit.

Brandon Sanderson

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

Baruch Spinoza

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

Baruch Spinoza

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

Baruch Spinoza

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

Baruch Spinoza

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

Barbara Pym

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

Jim Edmonds

Now it's even. We've just got to go over there and try to win a series.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I want to win more than ever.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Alexandra Bodemann

I've been in a slump, and to come back and win something like this is awesome.

J. J. Johnson

The win is more important than how you do it.

Alicia Molik

The way I win is by being aggressive, very pro-active and I wasn't today.

Richard Myers

This is a win strategy, ... In a sense, things are going well.

Mark Ritter

This is a really big win for our kids.

Paul Duca

This is huge. It's not the end of the world if you don't win this series, but you want to.