Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carroll Dawson

After a decade of starring in this league, Dikembe established himself as one of the league's top reserves last season. Deke gives us rebounding and defense off the bench and he also serves as a personal mentor to Yao Ming. He is a valuable contributor as well as a great teammate.

Malcolm Deans

It was a lack of defensive intensity. But I would like to praise the intensity of the bench in the fourth quarter, they had desire.

Pat Casey

This is the best conference in the nation from top to bottom without question. It is a great benchmark to have that we are not happy that we didn't sweep Arizona. That is the way we feel about ourselves. As a club, we thought we should have swept.

Phil Edmonston

The way to fight is just simply send a registered letter or an e-mail (to GM). If your vehicle is not reasonably durable and has a mechanical defect, any judge on any bench -- small claims up to the Supreme Court of Canada -- can make that company pay.

Flip Saunders

The way this team is built, our bench guys are meant to play together in clusters with our main group. When you put all five guys on the floor, they're not as effective as when three of those guys play with a couple of starters.

John Eastman

All are very strong judges. The one who's probably best prepared for the role of state Supreme Court justice is Vance Raye. The others are highly regarded. Morrison England is a relatively recent appointment to a court. For him, a little more time on the bench would be useful.

Trey Blue

All 15 guys on that bench can play defense. (Curran) gives us that desire that we can do this.

Scott Johnson

Alix deserves his chance to start and we have gone for Dafydd Jones on the bench for the energy and impact he will be able to offer.

Mike Kemp

You're scrambling around and they went up 3-1 and then we scored, but then gave it right back and I think that was a turning point. That took any momentum we got away and then we gave another one up real quick. All the sudden we were down 5-2, 6-2 and it snowballs. Our bench sagged pretty dramatically after that point.

Mike Fratello

That's who Bobby is. That's his style of play. He's a high-energy guy. He can be instant offense. He can cause havoc on the defensive end. ... It's like a personality trait. Everybody doesn't have that. But he does.

Rob Schremp

What we need to do is hit Bobby Ryan a little more. He's a tough guy and he's trying to get through the neutral zone a little too easily. Maybe we need a good open-ice hit or a few more hits to slow him down. We do that, maybe we do a better job of shutting him down.

Tommy Bond

The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.

Mike Holmgren

Bobby has been so good to start this year.

Jeff Francoeur

Bobby always fires us up. You know how the fans are with Bobby, they love him to death. When he gets going, they get going. It just seemed perfect.

Joe Gomez

Hill was a great player. They would have the championship the following year if Bobby Joe hadn't gotten injured. He only played in eight games that year.

Glen Murray

It is a sacred ground for golf. I was really taken in by the history of the club going back to Bobby Jones.

Colin Clarke

Just having a look at some different options. Steve played out there (at right back) in L.A. and did a good job and he did a good job tonight. I thought Bobby was great in front of him, he could have scored another two or three he got forward well. It's a more solid look, just to have a look at it going into the playoffs and just open our options up.

David Perno

That was a good effort all the way around. Gentry got a good break on it and I thought he was going to make a great play, but Bobby was running right out of the box. If he's not hustling right out of the box, he doesn't make that happen.

Bobby Frasor

Now I foul out of the game and it looks like I'm a hack. It's frustrating. Hopefully I can just come out tomorrow and play a great game.

Victor Snyder

They are a big help, especially when someone gets in foul trouble.

Steve Fisher

We're a better shooting team because of what Gregg Gottlieb has done every single day in practice for 10-15 minutes without fail. And we have become a team that you better not foul us, because we're going to make every free throw. That wins games. We'll take it and not apologize. If you have good players and you have talent, you can find a way that when you are sputtering a bit, hold on and get a win. We did that.

Mark Schmidt

We have really struggled at the foul line. I don't know why.

Ellen Allen

We did a good job from the foul line.

Eric Schneider

We just kept working it down and were relentless, and we tried to get them in foul trouble. We just kept working it inside.

Ben Howland

We will practice our foul shots, I promise you that.

Chad Ambuehl

Those were big foul shots. We weren't up by that much and he just kept walking up there and making free throws.

John Chaney

This team makes more foul shots than any team in the nation has taken.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Shepard Fairey

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

O. Henry

The thing that gets me the most was that there were so many good shots.

English 20th Century Proverbs

The rich man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter.

Kristin Gore

I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.

Tim Federle

You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.

Teddy Pendergrass

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

Robert Hoffman

Each week gets tougher and tougher. But this was very big for me because I got pinned here last year (in the final), and it?s good to come back and win where you lost before.

Chris Spillane

Every time he steps onto the ice, he gets the job done. He doesn't get a lot of ice time, but every time he does, he does a super job.

Jim Walden

Well, I don't know what they do on the west side of the state, but over here whenever it gets dark, we just turn on our lights.

Alex Butler

No question, these guys work hard every day in practice. They understand how I operate and how I work. Not at all do I question their work ethic. I just think we need to play a little smarter. And we've got to finish.

Lane Donati

Normally, I'd have more guys in there. I don't want to run the score up, but I'd like him to get as many points as he can.

Shannon Sullivan

Do you have any big guys in your department?

Carlos Beltran

Delgado is one of those guys that, if he stays healthy, he will be able to get his numbers. He doesn't mind where he plays. He doesn't mind where he is.

Rudy Gay

Definitely. They had seniors and juniors that led them, and a lot of young guys that played big roles.

Brendan Shanahan

Are guys going to get discovered? Sure, we've got over 700 players; we're going to have the odd guy. But I've been playing for 18 years, and I've never heard a player talk about its benefits, I've never heard of a player taking it; I've never suspected a player I've played with is taking it.

John Foxe

The staple is going to be the preparation, guys getting ready to play and understanding that we're playing a very talented team at their place in a hostile environment. It's a huge order, but it's doable.

Alexander Mogilny

The skill level is not up to par, but the guys work hard. That's the one thing you notice. It doesn't matter if it's first, second, third line, everybody's working hard out there.

Jim Christian

The seniors are the reason we play. It's our program, but it's their team. These guys have overcome so much. At one time or another, each one of them hasn't started. But they all handled it. They have stuck through it.

Joe Sakic

You never know with goalies until they're NumberÊ1, but he plays a lot like Patrick.

Joe Sakic

You never know with goalies until they're Number 1, but he plays a lot like Patrick.

Nick Saban

Do we want to play him 75 plays in the game?

Gary Powers

And you shouldn't say many because it plays pretty true.

Mike Tannenbaum

We could trade up, we could trade back. We're going to see how that process plays out.

Jarrad Woliver

Bo just plays and it comes out unbelievably good.

Kevin Bartz

Brandywine probably plays us tougher than any other team in the conference. I never will underestimate Brandywine.

Deshea Townsend

B-Mac made two big plays at the end.

J. R. Martinez

Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Jim Lett

You're starting to be real competitive, aren't you?

Brian Tracy

If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

Edwidge Danticat

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

Bob Henricks

We are at a better starting place than Sweetwater was.

Dwight Howard

This team is trying to go in a dramatically different direction. We're starting over young.

Craig Patrick

We look pretty on paper, but what are we? We'll find out what we are, starting today.

Alberto Manguel

The starting point is a question.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Crystal Moore

I used to get in a lot of trouble and stuff, and I used to be into anything.

Brian Goorjian

Rowdy's (Sheridan) in trouble ... but I think C.J. will be OK.

Frank Dagostino

That's why we're not in the trouble of some of the other condos in the area.

Drayton McLane

You're going to get me in trouble with the commissioner (Bud Selig).

Brandon Sanderson

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

Cardinal Richelieu

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Charles Barkley

I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.

Bruce Lee

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

Eddie Van Halen

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.