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.

Todd Kent

The thing about Sunnyside Christian is they have one thing that nobody else has and that's Al. He's the best B basketball coach in the state and I'll take that to the grave with me. His girls are always prepared and ready to play.

B. F. Skinner

The thing about it for us is we'll have to do what we do, and hopefully that's enough to win the basketball game.

Johnny Gray

I've loved March Madness since I was in elementary school. Basketball is a team game, and whatever team plays best that night deserves to win. That's the beauty of college basketball. You look around the country and see underdogs beating top teams.

Lamar Butler

I've never even been inside of a dome. I've played football in a basketball gym, but never basketball inside a football arena.

Rick Brunson

I've always wanted to be a coach; I never wanted to play basketball professionally. I happened to get lucky and made a career out of it, but my decision was to be a college coach when I was in college. But I got sidetracked with this.

Rick Forney

I've always told Kenton that he sells himself short. He's a much better basketball player than he thinks he is. He's got a great pace to his game. You're not going to speed him up much. He's really embraced the fact that he wants to run the team. He's comfortable now. He knows his teammates. He knows what we need to work our way into.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Mathieu Schneider

This is the first time in my career in the NHL that I've played four games in five nights. It's just another part of the schedule that we have to deal with. The travel's terrible, but there are plenty of excuses. I think this team has done the same thing every night -- work hard.

J.P. Losman

This is not a straight road. It's up and down. And I have to somehow level it out and realize that I have a long career here, a lot of years left, a lot of games left.

Bill Johnston

This is simply a tragic turn of events. He had a stable and productive career as a police officer.

George Foster

This is putting in place an infrastructure so they'll have a much richer (post-football) career and can start planning that career earlier than later.

Zygi Wilf

The way this coaching staff responds to players, this would be the right environment for him to move his career forward. But all that's subject to his reinstatement.

John Bunting

That's what you look for in a running back, ... He doesn't look really big. He's 185 pounds right now. If he stays on course, he could have a great career here as a running back.

Chrissy Rainer

That's why I work hard every day. I don't take anything for granted. I don't talk about it much, but I've dedicated my whole career to her.

Charlie Ward

That takes too much of your time. But I've always thought about coaching, whether it was here, AAU or teaching and mentoring young kids, ... I'll see how this goes. All my career I've taken things as they come, so this is no different.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Hunter Adams

Coach Smith and I have very similar ideas as far as schematics go, I think we compliment one another as coaches very well. He has also become a great friend of mine.

LaMarcus Aldridge

Coach says this is winning time. We're not just trying to get in the tournament. We're trying to win every game till the end of March.

Jeremy Mayfield

Coach Sampson was a major, major, major part of me signing.

Darrick Martin

Coach (Sam Mitchell) made adjustments and we executed well. It's a matter of us playing how we know how to play.

Judith Young

Coach salaries or stipends would vary tremendously, from no stipend to $7,000 or $8,000. Probably $9,000 would be the highest I have heard of.

Amanda Zimmerman

Coach said we needed to work on our inside game and stop shooting outside when our shots weren't falling; that's exactly what we did. We just needed to slow things down and let things come to us.

Don Fowler

Coach said we had to get back to playing inside-out and playing De La Salle basketball. We knew we had to step up and put the pressure on.

Greg Gibson

Ramon has had some offers for colleges and every meet that he does well in is another feather in his hat. We're proud of him.

Steve Morgan

I've worked on my punting the most this summer, ... I'm trying to get my steps down because punting is all about rhythm. In college I've had to learn to kick it one way in one situation, then kick it another in a different situation. This year I'm definitely more comfortable with my punting.

Becky O'Brien

It was a lot different than a high school meet, where there are six teams, at the most, outside of states. There were so many colleges and people who were at a high level, but it was a great experience. I can't say how great it was.

John Brady

This is good for college basketball. It makes the game more interesting when good players match up.

Carlos Garcia

This is a possibility for kids who are interested in getting into resort operations or for someone who wants to finance spring break. College students are the perfect demographic because they are intelligent and can be trained in a week.

Tamara Draut

This is the first generation to shoulder the costs of college primarily through interest-bearing loans rather than federal grants that don't have to be repaid.

Kevin Cory

This is not only a big win for Elena personally but also for UNLV tennis. She bounced back from a tough loss on Sunday (in college competition) and represented her school and program very well tonight.

Pat Haden

This is one of the great intersectional rivalries in college football, and for the first time in quite some time it's a game of national significance, ... I expect a very high-scoring game with three or four plays making the difference.

Alan Simpson

This is one of the greatest thrills of my life. It's a wonderful college where they can teach you everything from Shakespeare to welding, and I'm just glad to be a part of it.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

Graham Morris

A decision of this magnitude is never spontaneous. My job is to make sure the journal operates smoothly.

Uli Hoeness

A decision like that before the most important league game this year is not an ideal moment.

Jacques Chirac

After its unilateral decision on Cyprus, Turkey must offer clarifications and ensure the 25-nation Union of its willingness to fully respect all of its obligations,

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Terrell Owens

When I haven't been outside signing autographs, I've been on the inside (rehabilitating) my groin. And that's what happened today.

Colin Anderson

She was there when her mom died. She saw what happened to her mom.

Steve DeLuca

We're showing that there is life after this and if it happened to us, it can happen to anybody,

Dan Reeves

because of what happened to us last year.

James Doe

I don't remember. It happened a long time ago.

Ashley Giles

I don't think we realise the importance of what's happened yet, but hopefully we will in two weeks' time,

Christopher Young

I don't think when I started off that I was expecting to become so specialized, but what happened is that when my career started, I didn't pick my first film. I was picked to do it, and it happened to be a horror film.

Rodney Selph

Actually, I thought I was going to throw up. We got lucky, but sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

Taylor Snell

Now I know how all those people felt, being out of their homes. We were lucky to have somewhere to go.

Steve McClain

Sometimes you have to get a little lucky, and we can't seem to get a little lucky right now.

Diane Keaton

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

Anton Yelchin

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

Dr. Seuss

I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!

Donnie Yen

In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.

Chuck Palahniuk

The lucky ones are just born dead.

Christopher Nolan

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.