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.

Sam Bregman

The most important thing for us right now is for the people of Albuquerque to see the caliber of basketball team they have. It's going to be a great thrill for the city of Albuquerque. This is a big basketball city, and this is pretty cool that we are at where we are at.

Jim Hines

A couple of us spoke about our connection to each other and how important Mercer Island basketball was to us as young kids, and we encouraged kids out there to embrace this time.

Dane Bradshaw

A couple of more minutes of solid basketball and we're talking about the Sweet 16.

Doug Bruno

Something that coach taught us, basketball is important but basketball life and people involved with the sport are more important than the game. And no game can keep you from doing and having the opportunity to pay your respects to someone as great as coach Ray.

Eric Williams

Something's better than nothing. I just want to be playing basketball as long as I can. That's all there is to it.

Shannon Brown

Spartan basketball is playing with a lot of intensity, a lot of grit. We haven't played with it as much as we'd like to. But it's a new season.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

William Petersen

The name change isn't for those of us here in New England. The name change is for those folks entering the region.

Maria Assimakopoulou

The situations is clear ... they have to change the situation and come back to the level of standard VAT.

Shigeru Omi

The situation is very serious and getting worse. It is still within our power to change the course of this epidemic.

Katha Upanishad

The self-existent Lord pierced the senses to turn outward. Thus we look to the world outside and see not the Self within us. A sage withdrew his senses from the world of change and, seeking immortality, looked within and beheld the deathless self.

Holly Treat

The second quarter was definitely the difference. We knew we didn't have a very good first quarter and we decided to change things a little in the second.

Kent Mueller

The second half was much better. We didn't change our package. We just executed better.

Vikrom Kronsat

The slight change is unlikely to have much impact.

Jeremy Teela

Other courses there's a lot of rest, you can work hard and rest, work hard and rest. And if you don't have as good a physiology, you can get away with the techniques of speed and power. But this kind of course, the guys who are genetically gifted ...

Charles Curtis

A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing.

John McCarthy

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

Andrew Magee

This is one of the top-five golf courses on the PGA Tour already after just one practice round,

Terry Jones

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

Cal Jillson

I expect him to make it through the primary fairly handily, but my sense of this is that DeLay is in trouble over the course of this election cycle.

Mark McNulty

I enjoy the course and the town and I feel ready to go. Sometimes just driving in the front gate of a place will get you motivated, even if you have not been playing well.

Nathan Grube

For Tiger, so much of it is 'How does this course prepare me to try to win my next major.' He's always working on his game to be able to do that. It's an uphill battle, but having Buick is a huge help. We're just going to keep working on it.

O. Singh

Given time, I think it grows on you. Today I felt better on the golf course than yesterday. The other golf course is a much harder driving course. This is an easier driving course-wider fairways.

Phil Olson

This is really happening because of her dedication. She would not let it go until it was a done deal.

Buddha

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Ayrton Senna

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Bruce Lee

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

Bruce Lee

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead. A sort of indomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there is no end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process, an ever-renewing process.

Patrick Driessen

Do all things with love, passion and dedication!

Amber Allison

You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what you are doing.

Abraham Lincoln

As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

Dr. Dre

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

H. Auden

Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.

Jose Theodore

People talk a lot about Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh showed tonight they're really a good team. They have so many skilled players, it's scary to face them.

Fernando Ferrer

Oh, he went into the valley to do battle, and all the smart money was on Goliath. And, then, who had to face 'em?

Moises Alou

Anything can happen in the playoffs, especially when you face good pitching,

Armon Johnson

After a while, I think we got a hand in his face and cooled him down a little. But he's a great player. It's tough to stop a shooter when he gets hot like that.

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

C.C. Sabathia

Some people may not know us. But I guarantee you that in clubhouses around the league, they know who we are. We don't have to see our faces on TV every night. As long as we're playing in October.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Ted Shaw

Quite a few of the men I've recommended for release have failed, and I've had to face that.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

Schoolboy Q

The more harder you work, the less you're out spending your money.

Brand Pretorius

Dealers pushed particularly hard in March in order to qualify for their quarterly sales incentive bonuses.

Paula Creamer

Annika's at the place I want to be. I think that's helping me. I have to work harder than her. I have to get stronger than her.

George Foster

Anything that's on the lower end of the pay scale would probably be harder to fill.

Don Cole

The situation is making it harder for our officers to do their jobs.

Allen Wallace

The thing you hope for is that he's working on the SAT or working hard on the GPA. He's got to qualify.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.

Ken Dunham

There are plenty of ways to get around all of those things.

Buck Showalter

We had plenty of opportunities to score 10 or 11 runs.

Jim Allchin

there's plenty in there that doesn't require new hardware.

Alexander McCall Smith

There is plenty of work for love to do.

David Fitzgerald

Give yourself plenty of time and take it easy.

James Smith

Well, it's kind of uncomfortable. You got to put on sweatshirts or wrap up in plenty of covers. I think it could be warmer.

Craig Bellamy

I have seen plenty of level-headed kids, but I don't think I have seen any with his sort of talent.

Marcia Clark

We've got plenty of time to get emotional.

Archibald MacLeish

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

Barbara Kingsolver

When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

Busy Philipps

I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

Alan Lightman

I go live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.

Ajay Naidu

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

Jami Gertz

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

Bruce Dern

From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sound loves to revel in a summer night.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Eric Maskin

The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.

Charles Kettering

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.