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.

Marika Sandrelli

Sometimes some of the best therapy happens in a basketball game, with a coach. Sometimes the best conversations happen in a smoke pit.

Tony Skinn

Seeing him be so happy kind of motivates us to know that basketball is a game of fun. You get too serious and get too tense, you might have jitters on the court, so we're trying to stick to that mode of having fun. It works for us.

Mike Warrington

Ryan is a true competitor and does not back down from any challenge presented to him on the basketball court.

Stu Jackson

Ron has been exemplary this season in terms of his behavior on the court. My hope is that it is an isolated incident and that he'll continue to play the high level of basketball that he's been playing at.

Earvin Johnson

said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

Al Goldman

A wet blanket was provided by the Palm offering.

Scott Hartnell

The shots we had were right there, point blank and tonight we buried them.

Emile Cioran

The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?

Mike Robinson

This was a shift from a person selling on the street on a blanket to being in a more closed environment. It suggests that it requires a little more work on their part. It's good that we are forcing them further underground.

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Jeff Greene

I'm always signing blank deeds. That's how an escrow company works.

Mary Schindler

look at the videos, they prove (fill in the blank here).

Dan Brown

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

H. P. Lovecraft

If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Tanya Lysacek

Some teachers still call us. A lot of teachers call and write and send cards.

Ella Wilcox

Some souls there are that needs must tasteOf wrong, ere choosing right;We should not call those years a wasteWhich led us to the light.

Julie Jameson

Some time ago, nature changed the world as I knew it. It left no apologies, no remorse... waves and winds leaving me with nothing to call my own. Or so I thought. Now five years later, I look back and see all what it has given me. Courage, resilience, empowerment... the list goes on and on. Things that no one can ever take away from me. And for that, I am eternally grateful.

Ricardo Lagos

Something happened here that rarely happened in other meetings: the call to speak out loud was taken up by everyone, ... At times, we all talked out loud, perhaps too loud, but it made the meeting that much more interesting.

Mats Sundin

As a team, we are scoring some goals but we still have a lot of work to do. If we want to compete with Ottawa and the other top teams in our conference, we have to do better in our own end.

Andy Roddick

Now I feel I can be a contender and when I'm looking into the grand slams it feels like I can compete all the way into the second Sunday.

Lee Brown

Teams can register to compete on our Web site. We're also still taking applications from craft and vendors.

Dave Schutter

You're only as good as the competition you wrestle. If we wanted to, we could probably go undefeated every year in duals if we wanted to go find the weakest teams to compete against, but that's not our objective. Our objective is to go out and find the toughest competition to see what we're made of, and hopefully that improves us when we get down near the end.

Soren Petersen

You need scale that is just immense in order to compete in this area.

Gideon Sam

We are here to compete, we will compete fair and square, and we will go home with loads and loads of medals.

Eric Davis

We are here to compete every second of every game.

Romeo Dator

We have heard stories where salespeople from Dell have said, 'We can't compete (on) selling servers; the customer wants AMD'.

Li Keqiang

Enterprises of different ownerships should all enjoy fair opportunities and conditions to compete in the market.

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.

James Moody

The thing I think about when I think about Bart is perseverance. With Bart, hard work has never been a problem. This is a testament to him and his parents ... there were a lot of tough times. This is a nice reward for him and his family.

Ronnie Arnold

These allegations are disturbing. It was improper and unprofessional, but you see these things out there where kids are harmed emotionally and physically every day.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Shaheed Saleem

I've been here before but none of these kids have. This team is already winners because of what they have accomplished this season.

Brian Idalski

This is special because it's my alma mater and being to be a part and have that success here. We didn't get here because I'm a genius. This is a players' accomplishment and a testament to the kids we've had play here.

Harv Bainter

You saw how many different looks we had. We played up to 20 some kids tonight.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Aziz Ansari

Aren't you scared your kid's getting kidnapped...RIGHT NOW?

Ayelet Waldman

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

Pat Brisson

Savior is a big word. No one's a savior of the league at this point.

Tom Hicks

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

Riley Wallace

We're 1-0 in the league and we're starting a new season now. You're in league play and that's what really counts.

Liz McCarrell

We wanted to come out and start league play strong. We wanted to show what we could do in league. And I think we did that, at least in the first half.

Nick Kroll

Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Jeff Olson

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

Brian Kilrea

He's their Danny. I think he's been a top goaltender in this league for years,

Bill Shankly

When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.

Celine Dion

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

Chuck Palahniuk

I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.

Nasim Pedrad

John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever.

Roy Brown

She's the kind of student we want at this University. She's a role model whether she likes it or not.

Merle Friedman

She mentioned that she likes shopping a lot.

Scott Parker

I think they really like him and he likes them.

Jerry Brown

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

Severin Bozung

I like a girl-do you think she likes me?

Mickey Spillane

If the public likes you, you're good.

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Pat Gelsinger

This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

Thomas Reed

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Ray Bradbury

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

John Paul Stevens

Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

Michael Fisher

That's going to be a big piece of (the lawsuit).

W. S. Gilbert

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Frank Garcia

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alfred Kazin

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

David Christian

I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

David Noel

Big players show up in big times games. That's the type of player he's been all year.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

O. Henry

We want to get players into the NPC as soon as possible,

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Ricky Skaggs

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Robert Turner

She thought I was playing on the phone.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Romeo Miller

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Cassandra Schultz

Obviously, after playing over there and losing, we had a little more to prove.

Cobi Jones

This has been my most satisfying, my most gratifying, my most content year, and to culminate this way is perfection. (on the Los Angeles Galaxy's 2005 season)

Cobi Jones

Being out in the heat for two weeks can definitely drain your energy.

Aly Raisman

There's nothing better than going out there and seeing USA on your leotard.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

Rush Limbaugh

The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.

Jeremy Jackson

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

Harry Belafonte

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

Diane Watson

The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

Al Neuharth

USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.