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.

Daniel Gibson

The standards we've set allows guys like Kevin to know we're a program on the rise. We had one of the best seasons in Texas basketball history, and we want to carry on the legacy.

Joel Pardalis

The situation was that we down 15 points at the half. We decided to play our worst first half of basketball all year.

Greg Amodio

The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way to break the ice is with a sense of humor. Not making light of it, but using it to break the ice. Personality and having a sense of humor helps generate people's interest and puts them at a sense of ease.

Dan Fuller

The selection panel had a daunting task to choose 20 players for the game, but we do fell that this group of young, talented players will put on an excellent display of basketball skill and good sportsmanship.

Mick Cronin

The struggles of Louisville and Kentucky are aberrations. That shows you the state of the game in college basketball. With kids going to the pros left and right, it's hard to maintain stability.

Joe Reilly

The sidelines are out of control. We have two cameramen out there, and I'm hoping they'll at least let us have one. But you wonder what they're worried about. Cameramen or players getting hurt? Basketball is more dangerous because you have cameramen sitting right under the basket, and the players only have two or three feet to stop.

Brett Favre

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Jamie Farr

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

Asa Gray

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Brian Wilson

I earned my famous name.

Brie Larson

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

Aphra Behn

Dear me no Dears, Sir ...

Ben Hecht

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Eddie Van Halen

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

Gareth Davis

The simple fact is the vast majority of professional sport clubs have some sort of level of debt.

Lee Trevino

My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you.

Tim Purpura

We have a personal services contract with him. If he wanted to do that, that's something we'd have to run by the commissioner's office. Other clubs could have an issue with it.

Nick Saban

We all have a professional responsibility as clubs to live by the confidentiality rules, which are designed to protect players. However the information got out, I hope those people will take that responsibility and let us make any necessary changes. ... I'm going to be proactive in that effort.

Tony Smith

We are very pleased to secure Craig's services for next season as we were facing competition from other Super League clubs for his signature,

Frank Arnesen

Many clubs like him and this is normal, he is big lad, left footed and has a lot of experience even though he is only 21.

Rafael Benitez

I am proud when big clubs talk about me, I must be doing something right. But I want be here and win trophies here with my club.

Robin Birley

My father has never really had time for children, ... My mother encouraged us to be pretty naughty. We used to go to Dad's clubs all the time when we were little but, to be honest, he was busy. Our mother was much more sociable then, but not so much now.

Scott Boras

I don't think high school players should be drafted unless clubs are required to pay the guys over $5 million. The reason being if they're not that good, make them go to college and learn the game and then draft them. But if you draft a high school player you have to guarantee his future. And if the player is not that good the team won't take the risk. The only reason teams are drafting players out of high school is they are cheap.