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.

Matt Thissen

San Diego isn't a hard place to want to go to school. It's a good school. Their basketball program has been down lately, but eight years ago they were a top 25 team. Their coach left to go coach her alma mater at Ohio State. I guess she decided she liked the weather better in San Diego and now she's back.

Lamar Butler

I've played football in a gym but I've never played basketball in a football stadium.

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

Kevin Stallings

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

Ronny Jenkins

I've been here since 7:30 a.m.. Now, I've got to get to the basketball game.

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.

Jeremy Mayfield

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

Mike Bibby

Coach said it was the first time in 20 years he had seen that.

Hosea Berkley

Coach (Paul) Hatcher said the streak had to end sometime. I just wish it wasn't tonight. But everything happens for a reason, just like we won 85 games in a row for a reason.

David Ryan

Coach McCaffery was great to us this year. It was a great year, and right now he's our coach.

Chris Beard

Coach Knight has always had great respect for the Delaware job and thinks it would be a great situation for someone.

Taurean Green

Coach kind of got upset that we didn't listen to him. We can't let half our shots be threes in the first half.

Gary Foster

Coach (Ken) O'Donnell always tells us stories of the old teams. It's inspiration for us that we can be the stories for the next kids coming up. We want to win the game so we can show those guys that we're still here. The game is dedicated to them.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

Brenda Lee

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

Dick Cheney

We are here to honor the memory of seven lost explorers,

Desiderius Erasmus

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Miguel de Cervantes

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

Bill Gibbons

Phoenix is honored to be the newest member of the Glen Raven team.

Calvin Coolidge

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brian Sandoval

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

Marc Jacobs

And when I see students now, I just don't think they are prepared to work so hard. It comes too easy.

Rep. Arza

Be prepared to fight. They're going to come after you personally. They're going to come after you every which way.

Chris Crocker

You can't be prepared for something you haven't seen.

Ron Reier

This type of thing doesn't really surprise us, and it's not something we're not already prepared for.

Pat Frazer

What Fauquier does is nothing we weren't prepared for. But you got to do it, though.

Vin Scully

I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Steven Smith

I think the schools are prepared for some reduction.

Dilip Shanghvi

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

Frank Robinson

Ready or not, here it comes. It's not going to wait for us.

Jeff Suppan

Really I'm just getting ready to pitch, whenever that is.

Jake Peavy

It was an ER in there at 6:30, getting me ready to go out.

Rick Barnes

It was about like getting ready for a trip to the dentist.

Jose Castillo

I've been working out every day and I feel very strong. I'm ready to go.

Jerry Glanville

You've got to stop their weapons and they have weapons everywhere. You have to have all weapons accounted for. I think we're ready to go.

Lukas Krajicek

This is big. Every shift is going to be crucial, so I have to be ready to show what I can do.

Jim Gordon

We're as ready as we're going to be.

Benny Hinn

Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge... you are god.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.