Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

Bobby Cremins

I've been blessed. I got to live the American dream when I was coaching, and I continue to live the American dream. Without basketball in my life, I don't know what I would have wound up doing.

Mike Predmore

They are a great group of guys and a great group of young men. I'm not taking anything away from them as basketball players, but they really are great people. I can't say enough about them as people. In the long run, that's probably more important than anything else in life.

Todd Hansen

This is a nice win because it puts us up two games over three teams. We've been winning games, but could only get a one-game lead. Now we've got a little cushion. I thought our kids played a pretty good basketball game tonight.

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Jay Stanley

That team knows how to shoot the basketball. I've been doing this a long time and never saw a team shoot like that before, especially from the perimeter. They were phenomenal.

Barry Bonds

Besides my kids being born and my wife being so supportive, he kind of really inspired me to come back, ... It was just really heart-warming to know this young kid was rooting for me and told me to keep my head up. Things that we say to young kids, this young man was saying the exact same thing to me. It just really motivated me to work harder and get back.

Spike Dykes

He and I will be at the game, but no, we won't be sitting on same side of the field, ... And besides my son, Sonny, is the co-offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach at Texas Tech.

Doc Rivers

It is nice when you are a scorer like Ricky and you can make a contribution in another way besides scoring. That first quarter might have been the worst defense we played all season, but they turned it around with the way (Davis and Pierce) played in the fourth quarter.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Barbara Mandrell

I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Burt Rutan

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries

Carson McCullers

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

Al Franken

If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

Charles Kelley

I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.

Gomer Morgan

It was a nice cross by Matt and Peter had a nice finish.

Albert Pujols

The kids look at me, 'Ah, you're my hero.' I want to teach those kids. 'Hey listen, God is my hero. He died on the cross for my sins, and He's the one. That's how I wanna live - like Him - and I want you guys to do the same thing.

Angelina Jolie

You had to trust each other to cross under or over and only move when the other person moves, so the trust, when somebody's got a loaded gun at your back. ... It made us trust each other quickly,

Shannon Stevens

If it makes it harder for them to cross, we are going to see a decrease because they are going to cross somewhere else.

Geraldine Brooks

I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.

Garrick Ohlsson

I got this rather cross letter, something like, 'Your infernal noisemaking is robbing me and my family of our sanity,' ... It's not as pleasant as some people fantasize, all this wonderful music cascading next door.

Fernando Vargas

I have a jab now. I had one before, but now I throw a great cross jab to the body.

Gena Prochaska

I had it described to me once by a young man who often comes into the library as a cross between Harry Potter and the X-Men. So I thought that was a great description. It's an excellent book, and the kids really love it, and they don't want me to stop.

Jenny Offill

I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.

Donald Trump

Jeb Bush brought it up at the debate and he was doing it very well, and all of a sudden, I don't know what happened, but he got shut down.

Tony Abbott

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects.

Barbara Boxer

On the other side of this debate they are very good at getting votes. And they are very good at being politicians, but I don't think they are worth a wit in the gynecological operating room! I don't want them in that operating room, telling a doctor what procedure to use for my daughter, or my niece.

A. Johnson

No one at any time approached him during the Medicare debate.

Gerhard Schroeder

The importance of these debates will not be the same as in America.

Tim Ryan

So as we have this debate about the personal accounts, I think it is very important for us to recognize that diverting 4 percent of your Social Security taxes into this is never going to be enough for this to retire on.

Peter Jennings

Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.

John McCain

Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture

Ric Flair

Girls, you can't be the first, but you can be next.

Frank Oz

Girls and sports. That was the interest, mainly. I never wanted to be a puppeteer.

Karen Falana

I would say 75 percent of my girls go on to college. And I would say 90 percent of that group goes on to play rugby in college.

Jim Clarke

She's had a very big impact on the team. The girls all look up to her. They all respect her. When she talks, they listen. ... She's having a positive impact on the younger players in the program.

Kathy McCartney

She does yeoman work all the time. The kid?s 5-foot-8 but she plays 6-foot-something girls every day.

Becky Cleary

Six girls are doing pretty well. It will be super exciting.

Scott Wilson

I was happy with our defense. The girls showed up ready to play. We didn't have a mental lapse like we have been.

Ed Rogers

I still see some of the girls from time to time. My wife is one of the women that was there. She touched a lot of people's lives.

Erik Smith

I think porn is horrible. I think it ruins our society. Guys look at girls as objects.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

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.

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.

Porter Bibb

Sony has got a solid distribution network, ... It's got a great library and it's got a lot in the hopper ... Realistically, there are some significant buyers.

Dax Maier

Sometimes you can find great people in New York.

Dave Baron

Team unity. We've got a great relationship between all the guys here.

Ernie Accorsi

Teams that dominated, that won multiple Super Bowls, all had great quarterbacks.

Spike Lee

Terrance Howard did a great job. I wanna see him win. I voted for him.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Craig Counsell

There are plenty of guys who have this, who are playing through it. There is no reason I can't be another one of them.

Frank Haith

We're playing better. When you're in a tournament like this, the more you win, the more guys realize they're playing for something.

Martin Milner

You can't do a serious show about two guys in their 60s trying to find their route.

Aaron Cook

We've got 25 guys who aren't worried about history, just playing hard. We've got 25 guys who have learned some lessons the hard way.

Mike Shanahan

We'll keep all three of those guys out, ... But they should be able to go next week.

Mike Listerman

We'll have to have some guys really work hard this summer. Whether we make it back here (to the state tournament) next year, who knows? Only one team in the region makes it here and that's what makes it so special.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

Tracy McCormick

We had called for a widespread 1 to 2 inches of rain this weekend. This week, we're watching what happens to the remnants of Hurricane Wilma." ()

Joan Didion

This one is really fantastic, ... It's not about grieving. It's about what happens when people die.

Tony Judt

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

Tea Obreht

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

Steve Backley

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

Philip Larkin

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.

Chris Beatty

Life will throw stones at you, and it's what you do when that happens that counts.

Alfred Adler

Life happens at the level of events, not words

Author unknown

I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.

Chad Caldwell

I've known since last year I was going to run. It was just a matter of who was going to be running with me.

Michael Robotham

I've known since I was 12 that I wanted to write. My father was a teacher, and there were so many books around, it seemed natural to pick them up.

Miguel Olivo

I've known Ramon since we were in Oakland together after I signed with the A's,

Rob Hill

I've known people who have had piercing done and in questionable areas. Many who give them aren't tattoo artists. ... Right now it is up to us to set our own standards. A lot of peoples' standards are very low.

Andrew Gaze

I've known Paul Roos for a long time so I'm going for the Swans.

Julie Brown

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Ken Leonard

That's what you want to get your program to, but we still have to prove it,

Hillary Clinton

There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Jim Colborn

He allows me to have my own program and supports me and makes me feel like I am appreciated and respected.

Kenneth Williams

The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Tom Wilson

We want to get them all into school.

Gwen Cote

There is no school in northeastern New York that is accredited.

Orson Scott Card

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Stephen Browning

You go look at the Academies and their school is functioning,

Robert Kiyosaki

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

Robert Kiyosaki

One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Mark Twain

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Mary MacLane

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

Jimmy Wales

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

John Norris

Everything is on track and going very well.

Usain Bolt

The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

Shonda Rhimes

I cannot keep track and lots of great shows go unnoticed.

Eydie Gorme

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

Kurt Voss

I'm used to doing a lot of dolly tracks.