Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Billy Donovan

As a basketball team you have to go through it. They need it. The game came down to our inexperience on the basketball court to their experience.

Michael Wong

As a group, we don't have the size and strength of other basketball players, so we try to create our own little world of basketball. We're not trying to lock people out because we're better. We're protecting our weaker status.

Jeff Davis

The bottom line is, we were beat tonight by a very good basketball team. I won't say better, but a very good basketball team.

Diana Taurasi

The bottom line is we've got good basketball players so we make good basketball decisions and play really good basketball and we just got to keep that same focus and intensity,

Don Allen

The bottom line is we're going to be playing onehopefully twovery good basketball teams. We're going to have our work cut out for us, regardless. A month-and-a-half ago, we were in the bottom of the barrel.

Austin Kirby

At times, we've stagnated a little on offense. We still haven't played our best basketball yet.

Terry Becker

A year ago, these guys were a long ways from being a good basketball team. But the great thing about them is that they worked hard and they listened and they learned.

Mike Lewis

Back east here, we were kind of basketball snobs. We figured we had to be better. That was our first mistake.

Brian Foley

Her coping mechanism with us was to not be here.

Nancy Howe

The idea is to get at their initial coping experience.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Gwendoline Christie

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

Cate Blanchett

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

John Ortberg

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Paul Ballard

On this day we want to say thank you for an American hero, for one who would sacrifice his life so we could be free.

Stella Young

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

Jack Brennan

No question it has been a challenging week. But it's a reminder to us all that life in the NFL doesn't get quieter when you have some success.

Joyce Banda

After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.

Stuart Townsend

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

Dontrelle Willis

Everything he meant to his team and the city,

Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.

Andre Agassi

When (Connors) was 35, 36 when we played, you know, I don't know if I was old enough to really understand what it meant for him to be doing what he's doing,

Charles Dickens

What is meant by a "knowledge of the world" is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men

Craig Biggio

We want to get to the World Series, ... It's all about the World Series. Hopefully, it's meant to be for us. We don't know yet.

Roy Oswalt

To give it to him, that meant more to me than winning it. He didn't want to take it, but that's the way he is,

Sandy Pugh

This was the third for me, the second for these girls. This one is especially nice since Monroe is a senior. She has meant so much to this program.

Lionel Richie

Father' meant to me provider... and I was working myself to death... but I wasn't physically home; I wasn't there every day.

Chris Kofinis

What this truly is, is a publicity stunt meant to repair a faltering public image.

Janet Jackson

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

Jane Wagner

Mirrors can't talk. Luckily for you, they can't laugh either.

Debra Winger

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

Edmund Muskie

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

Ani Difranco

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Allen Iverson

I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn't doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could

Alison Sweeney

It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.

Alison Sweeney

I like Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm because I don't need a mirror to reapply. But I definitely treat myself with face lotion - I use La Mer.

Marney Cox

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

Jill Scott

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Mark Hammond

It sounds like he wants to do what I've already done.

Cecily Strong

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

Kweisi Mfume

It sounds like we could have a train wreck.

Mark Noble

That sounds like a lot of line, but for specter-fiber, 35-pound test is about like monofilament, 10-pound test.

Marsha Thomason

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

Brett Hull

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

Brett Hull

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

Brett Favre

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

Brett Favre

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

Babe Ruth

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

Babe Ruth

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

Babe Ruth

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't understand shopping, it doesn't make any sense to me. As guys, we decide we want something and then we go out and buy it. Women go to the store having no idea what they're going to buy, or what they're even doing, it's like a whole different sport. It's like going to a football game to maybe watch a game. I don't get it.