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.

Herb Kohl

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.

Ernie Grunfeld

Right now we're just focused on making sure he comes out of this okay, ... The good news is that it looks like he's going to recover from this . We'll worry about the basketball stuff later on.

Lorenzo Romar

Right now we need to put 40 minutes of intense basketball together. Right now that's the biggest monkey on our back.

Phil Jackson

Right now, we need to focus on who we are as a basketball club. I don't live with expectations, so there's nothing there I can say I expected. We're just out here kind of treading water as a basketball team right now. We're neither hot nor cold, neither fish nor fowl.

Chad Riessen

Right now the kids are playing good basketball as a team. We had high expectations for ourselves and now we're going to try to build on that.

Matt Thissen

San Diego isn't a hard place to want to go to school. It's a good school. Their basketball program has been down lately, but eight years ago they were a top 25 team. Their coach left to go coach her alma mater at Ohio State. I guess she decided she liked the weather better in San Diego and now she's back.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Dave Warren

North Hills is going to be a tough game. They're a good team, but we should be able to play with them. Same with Baldwin.

Mike Whaley

Norman played very well. Taylor proved that he's a good quarterback. I also take my hat off to them defensively.

Bret Teutken

Normally, we're good free-throw shooters. We were lucky to hang on and get it.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Hu Jintao

The Sino-Russian strategic and co-operative partnership has kept growing this year and showed great vigor,

Art Buchwald

Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.

Aziz Ansari

When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.

Jamie Foxx

I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.

Benjamin Disraeli

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Charles Jencks

You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.

James Wolfensohn

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

Dana Delany

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

Clarice Lispector

A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.

Brad Pitt

The choice or decision to take on a film certainly isn't calculated as far as doing something that will be successful against something that will have a smaller audience. It's all a gamble to me, I don't bet on the horses; I just go with the story that speaks to me and that I feel strongly about which is this one [The Assassination of Jesse James].

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Benjamin Bratt

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Kirsten Nelson

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

Kristin Gore

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

Gerry Anderson

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

Josh Duell

We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.

Rashad Anderson

We didn't want to lose. I just knew if Marcus (Williams) got me the ball, I was going to knock it down, no matter what. We weren't going to lose this game.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Gene Kitts

That's why this is such a slow process.

Bob Johnson

(Brady) really wanted to play a slow tempo. But we got some steals and were able to up the tempo (after the first quarter).

David Snowdon

We can't do anything today to slow down the development of Alzheimer's lesions, ... we can do something about strokes.

Jeff Johnson

I have to tell her to slow down sometimes.

Jason Guffey

I?m disappointed because I wanted to win the match, but it?s just going to make me work harder. I can?t let this slow me down at all.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Michael Apted

It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

Eric Turner

Summer is the slower part of the year, so we have (fewer) openings.

Julian Casablancas

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

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.

George C. Williams

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

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.

Lindy Ruff

The tempo we want to play at, he's able to pinch, he's able to get back; he has that mobility.

Bobby Collins

It was the tempo we wanted to play, but we didn't want 27 turnovers.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Jaime Gongora

I thought that we got just what we wanted. We were controlling the tempo of the game.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.