Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Stallings

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

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.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Allen Iverson

Personally I just want to win a championship.

Allen Iverson

Practice? I mean, listen, we're talking about practice. Not a game. Not a game. Not a game. We're talking about practice. Not a game. Not the game. Not the game. We're talkin about practice, man. We're talkin about practice. We're taklin about practice, man. What are we talkin about? Practice. We're talkin about practice, man.

Don Hogan

West Georgia is very athletic, and you have to earn everything because they play great defense. We must take care of the basketball and play smart.

Don Shula

Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things the right way. And the right way is [abiding by] the rules and regulations ... I may not like all of them, but once they are [official], we play by them.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Rich Williams

Everyone wants to do the first one. You do it right the first time, runners will keep on coming back.

Lynn Franco

As the economic ramifications of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the coming weeks and months, and the number of layoffs continues to rise, the economy faces tougher times ahead. While consumers have managed to keep the U.S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon may no longer be the case.

Fabrice Santoro

At one point, it's great that it's coming so late. I've been playing since I was 16, and when your first quarterfinal arrives at 33, it's a long time.

Marty Simmons

At that point, you could just see the life coming back into our bodies.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Dave Palmquist

All that matters is that we are in a championship for the fourth time in five years. It is amazing.

Joe Girardi

It's possible we could take more than five starters.

Ang Lee

It's been five years since the last time I stood here. But in my mind, I've never left the independent spirit.

Dave Perry

It truly was a team effort. I thought we had a shot at top five and the guys all year were telling me they were going to be top three and get a trophy. And they did it. That's the legacy these seniors will leave.

Pat McDonald

It was good to those new guys step up and get a goal. I thought we got off to a great start. We always talk about how important the first five minutes of a period are and we had a very good first five minutes tonight.

Markku Uusipaavalniemi

It means a lot. Already now we have had over one million people watching curling (in Finland), which is pretty good from five million, so in a final, it will be great.

Matt Coleman

We had a positive season. Two years ago, this program had won once in five seasons. We've put 15 (wins) and 12 together now in back-to-back seasons.

Glenn McAninch

We had a period in the first half where we had four or five situations like that, and that makes us dangerous.

Kathy Christie

No matter how good your intentions are, you still have to find the money. That's what states are struggling with.

M. Thompson

No matter how good the show is, a 2-inch screen is still not same as big screen TV.

Chrissie Fit

Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.

Matt Mullenweg

Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.

Lorraine Bracco

So that's been very good for us, the long hiatuses.

Pat Jones

Soquel did a good job of double- and triple-teaming her when she got the ball. They played to win.

Christopher Howell

Some were good plays on his behalf. We have to make those plays.

Delia Smith

So often much of the flavour and nutrients in vegetables are near the skin, and with a good peeler you really are only removing the skin.

Raul Rodriguez

So now we're back to square one. Hopefully we'll come out next week and have another good race. But it's not over 'til it's over.

Irish Proverb

Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.

Irwin Cohen

Purchases aren't so much 'needs-driven', ... People say, 'I want it.'

Irene Cara

The rumors emanated from people who are in a position of power.

Ed Wade

I've talked to players before about - you can't turn this around. It has to be about the fans. People have a right to boo.

Sally Thompson

I've seen people from Mississippi trying to get back home.

Charlie Green

I've never seen this like this before, people are not so much worried about the price, just getting the fuel.

Tom Burns

I've never seen the people who own DRS.

Karen Miller

It was too complicated for people to get.

Janet Belsky

These shows are so right psychologically they have to do people a lot of good.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Steve Spurrier

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

Stacy Schiff

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.

Rick Riordan

All I could think to say was, "The Lakers are my home team!

Rick Riordan

Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook —BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail. I couldn't help but smile.

Roy Spencer

Man-made global warming was a potential serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished.

Roy Keane

I still say the '94 Double team is the best. They could outfight you or outplay you, depending on the way you wanted it. But this side is moving in the same direction.

Ron Fairly

In all the years I played, he (Stan Williams) was the only guy who ever scared me and he was on my team.

Sue Wicks

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.