Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Rick Majerus

Great shooters are one dribble guys.

Rick Majerus

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

Ron Paul

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems,

Tom Landry

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.

Scott Skiles

Basketball is like Religion. Many attend but few understand.

John Milton

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

Thierry Breton

We are trying to use them to change the country,

Daniel Katzive

We think it's really too soon to see a definitive change from the BOJ. It's more of a second quarter story.

Lynne Sipiora

We see an influx whether the weather is hot or cold, we see a change in the number of people in our facility.

Alain Vigneault

We score three goals a game and we've got to find a way to win it 3-2 and 2-1. That's been our identity all year long and it doesn't seem like it's going to change down the line here.

Linda Chandler

Values-based organizations are the most enduring, the most sustainable and consistent. Yet they remain flexible. Individuals or organizations that twist and turn with every new idea , every change in the direction of the wind, are like ships without rudders. They end up going round in circles, never quite reaching their goals.

Ed Gillespie

Vice President Gore needed to change the dynamics of the debate.

Kevin Payne

Very little will change in the way we do things.

Jim Dempsey

VOIP will even further change the equation here. The phone conversation, which used to be ephemeral, can now be like e-mail.

Charles Dalfen

We don't yet see the need to change the rules for services delivered on the Internet. That isn't something we have to worry about at the moment.

Joseph Williams

From what I could see, nothing was happening. The only thing I found in my house that was worth taking was my high school class ring. I threw it back on the floor and we left.

Scott Stricklin

If at some point he's ruled eligible to play, he would have to be in class already.

Jesse Rosenberger

I expect them to play hard and be a class football team. We'll see where the score is at the end of each game. We're definitely a young football team.

Trevor Hoffman

I enjoyed my time with Grady a lot. He's a class act. Very country. Very easygoing. He's not rattled by much.

Josh Bivens

I don't think it's a fait accompli that it's going to make the middle class poor in the United States. But I do think it's a useful warning that this is going to be tough for a large swath of workers in the United States, if managed poorly.

Kyle Schweigert

Signing day is an exciting time of the year, and once again, we think we have an exciting class coming to UMD. It's a little different than my first two classes. This year's class is not quite as large. We were a little more specific in the positions we were going to recruit early.

Irving Fisher

Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy.

Bill Engvall

I was always the Class Clown and over time became very good at it. I started doing comedy on stage at the Dallas Comedy Corner where I honed my skills by watching guys like Garry Shandling, Robin Williams, Jay Lena and more.

Bianca Jagger

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Andy Stanley

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.

Jim Ewan

We just couldn't make plays. Too many times we weren't successful on first down and that just makes it really difficult to sustain drives. We wanted to be in a position to win the game in the fourth quarter and we were there.

Todd Greene

We have to stand by our president during this most difficult of times. He has a really tough job. But right now I am looking forward to some time off. I'm actually planning a hunting trip with Vice President Cheney next weekend. It should be a good way to relax.

Melissa Arms

Heather tried a more difficult first pass on floor. It's a big risk, and it could have a big payoff. Unfortunately she fell in the meet even though she nailed it in warm-ups. But its good, she needs to make a statement if she wants to make nationals.

Rafael Nadal

He plays all the time inside the court. He returns very fast all time. And at the difficult moments, I think maybe the 15-40, 4-all, he has a lot of confidence.

Iris Chang

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

Lamon Brewster

I felt that after the Meehan fight, which was difficult for me for a number of reasons, I had to make a statement with Golota. And I did that.

Mary Ellen Mark

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

Eleanor Mondale

I don't want to name names. But sometimes when actors are monosyllabic it makes it difficult to have a good story.

Erik Morales

He was very difficult to fight. He's very elusive. He never really put up a fight because he was moving around so much. He hit me with a lot of punches, but he also missed a lot.

Tom Shaneyfelt

I felt like with our record, we had a really good year. This is just icing on the cake. I feel like we'll be loose and relaxed for the final.

Garfield Yuille

I felt like we would make it to the national championship game. I don?t think it has hit me yet.

Sherri Murrell

I felt like we were the aggressors from the very beginning.

Courtney Taylor

I felt like we were right back in it. We had the momentum.

Laura Halldorson

I felt like we were pretty solidly in third for most of the season, so I'm really happy that we fought our way back. To me, it's a sign that we are playing good hockey here at the end of the season, and that's what we're looking for.

Steve Hayes

I felt like we were one shot away at the end of the game. We just couldn't make that one shot to tie it.

Rob Bliss

I felt like we weren't at the intensity level we've been at lately.

Ken Ashlock

I felt like we tried to give it away. We didn't play our best. I told the girls after the game that good teams win even when they don't play their best.

Lori Alexander

I felt like we should have won it the first time.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Angelina Jolie

Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'

Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Alanis Morissette

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Alan Alda

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Chin-Ning Chu

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Cher

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

Eli Manning

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

Charles Buxton

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.