Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michael Jordan

I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.

Tom McDonald

She's a tremendous basketball player. She's the whole deal. She has her body under control more than last year. We're undersized in the post and she was getting it (ball) in spots where we couldn't stop her.

Jerry Jones

Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and baseball. Particularly. Not to demean football, but it's a baseball state and a basketball state.

Eric Williams

I played baseball, and thats pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so thats why I probably play it the way I do.

Harrison Ford

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

Larry Walker

He's the first (Pea Ridge boys basketball player) to sign in quite a while. We are proud and thankful for the effort he has given us over the years he's been here.

Ken Miller

Carders typically buy high-value goods like computers and jewelry so they can resell them,

Jake Plummer

But fans buy a ticket, they can boo, cheer, call you names, say good things. We've got to go play ball.

Reggie Fowler

But at least you gave me credit for getting the right people to buy the team from Red McCombs,

Homer Simpson

Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!

Madelyn Flannagan

Because they no longer live with their parents, they'll need to insure their car on their own. They may find that insurance is very expensive. College grads tend to want to go out and buy new, sophisticated cars. They don't realize the cost of insuring that car. There are huge increases to move to big cities.

Charles Bradford

China may be one of the last places where you can buy things on the cheap.

Tohru Sasaki

China is letting the yuan rise in very small increments, so the need to buy dollars remains. So long as it continues this policy, the pace of buying will remain constant, and its reserves will keep rising.

Liu Jianchao

China has very strict regulation and monitoring concerning the exporting of military products and we will not buy any military products from clients that could not offer legal documents.

Keiichi Sano

China didn't buy much oil last year. That could be the reason.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Li Na

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Paul Tagliabue

Our goal is to play some games in the Superdome in 2006. It's too early to say what will happen in 2007.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Paul Ballew

We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year.

Michael Toudouze

We're finally putting San Antonio on the map. Nobody gets recruited down here because I guess we're too far south. But there's a lot of talent down here that people are finding out about now.

Peter Gallagher

I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.

Margaret Atwood

I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.

Jim Reynolds

We had a great tournament run. We just ran into a better team tonight.

Ronny Jenkins

We had a great time. I love it.

Chris Schick

We had a great time - and we played well.

Larry Sandburg

We had a great season. The seniors did a great job. They are upset now but they will get over it.

Marty Reid

We had a great season. I'm very proud of my kids. I wouldn't trade them for anyone.

Leo Golembiewski

We had a great season. I am really proud of them.

Matt Johnson

We had a great season, and you can't really be that disappointed about it. But it would've been nice to win.

Roy Colsey

We had a great season, and I am still very proud of our team.

Isaiah Swann

We had a great season, and for it to just end now would be a great disappointment for everybody, especially our seniors.

Ron Clarke

More guys will see the field. It's kind of an audition. You want to play, you start battling.

Tony Russa

I feel like in that series, just like all year long, when things got tense, each of those guys made pitches, and we kept the lead,

Scott Podsednik

I can't say enough about what our starters have done this series. Our pitchers have set the tone for us all season long. It does something for the offense when you know those guys are out there battling.

Larry Eustachy

I can't imagine what those guys and their program have been through. We respect them as much as any team in the league.

Pat Kelly

Because he's hit so much better on the road than at home, ... you guys probably haven't seen it.

Tim Ruskell

Certainly, there was a lot to do. We were right in the middle of the free-agent deals. We had 16 guys looking. ...But we all rolled up our sleeves.

Flip Saunders

Chauncey looked a lot livelier. A lot of guys looked a lot more livelier tonight.

Eddie Guevarez

By that time a lot of guys showed up to make sure I was all right.

Phil Garner

Hopefully, that will get worked out and whatever happens, we'll be prepared to go with it. I don't think it's going to have anything to do with how guys are going to go about their business.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Joe Negron

People work hard for the money that they send here. We're going to save for the future, but we also need to send some of the money back to the people who sent it to us.

Drew Hayes

My teammates give me a hard time, telling me that's why I'm so fast, from having to run away from the buffalo.

Dan Castellaneta

I think Mr. Smithers picked me for my motivational skills. Everyone always says they have to work twice as hard when I'm around!

Reggie Bush

He bounced off the middle of the line left, and I just shoved him as hard as I could.

Keisha Brown

I'd hate to be Caleb's teammate next year. Because he is going to ride his teammates and work so hard to get back here. He got a taste of this and you can tell he wants more.

Yvonne Williams

I don't want to tear up. When I go out, it's just hard, it's hard to take it all in.

Julia Mancuso

I do Nike Training Club, which is actually really hard and intense. I'm surprised every time I do it. I also use Map My Ride and Map My Run.

Nadia Comaneci

I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

E. L. James

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

E. L. Konigsburg

Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.

E. M. Forster

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

Drew Carey

Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.

Drew Carey

In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains.

Drew Carey

I remember when I took a temp job... so I got a job at a department store. Something temporary to put on my resume, my parents said. Yeah... till I die!

Drew Barrymore

I think a any person who has a high profile job or who travels all the time or who has a lot of stress associated with their job can be difficult to be in a relationship with.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.