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.

Chauncey Billups

It was a little different, but I'm happy to see those guys getting some important minutes, playing down the stretch when it really counted. Those minutes are when you really grow. Any move you make could be the best or worst move.

Adam Cole

It was a challenge just to play college basketball. But it's definitely rewarding now. When it ends like this, it's all worthwhile.

Lisa Ling

I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.

Sean Williamson

J.D. Christie is the man and we knew they would go to him at crunch time. We had a lot of guys that were really dialed in and dialed in to their teammates today. That's what we've been searching for all year.

Dick DeGuerin

It gives us more time. We don't have the crunch of getting a decision before November.

Jim Sullivan

Hypothetically speaking, if the gasoline crunch forces prices up to $4 a gallon in the next three months, that would be a pretty big hit to the economy and to the consumer,

O. J. Simpson

As we get to crunch time, it's important to keep the pressure on. So far it has paid off.

LaMarcus Aldridge

When it comes down to crunch time, we always try to get him the ball.

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Joel Edgerton

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

Stephen Rand

After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.

Babe Ruth

What the hell difference does it make?

Barry Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Barbara Mikulski

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Brad Pitt

This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?

Jane Goodall

Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother

James Weldon Johnson

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Todd Campbell

The most oversold heavily shorted tech stocks are leading the group higher. To me, that's not a sign of a healthy rebound, ... What I want to see are the strongest stocks showing big volume and rising. Few are doing that.

Wayne Arthurs

Stressful stuff isn't it? I got off to a horrendous start; I was very tense in the first few sets.

David Alan Basche

Stop running around, stop trying to return every email in your inbox immediately, stop cramming too much stuff into too few hours in the day. Sit down, shut up, and most importantly, be glad.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

DeShawn Stevenson

So we've got to go out there and play every game like it's a playoff game and play together like we're doing. We're doing a good job.

Charlie Kemppainen

Ryan has had a very good season. He could always shoot, but he's improved his overall game a lot.

Andy Robinson

Rugby is a physical game and sometimes it erupts but we are not condoning it and it's disappointing,

Steve McNair

Pretty much for the most part of the game we worked on their side of the field. That was a great sign, we had the short field.

Ray Giacoletti

Pretty big-time night a year ago. This is the way it is right now. But this game was no more important last year than it is right now.

Steve Staunton

Sam thinks he's ready for it and from what I've seen I'd agree. He is in the first team now and learning the game but he can play at right back or in midfield which is the sort of versatility that you want.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Brian Tracy

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Aubrey Peeples

It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day, what size you are does not matter at all. I don't have time to worry about that stuff; I'm going to be healthy.

Matt Braeuer

As a kid, that was my dream. I always said that's where I want to be, in the middle of the madness. As long as things go as expected, I think we'll be in the middle of it.

James Altucher

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

Carrie Coon

I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but also really appreciating it in a way that you can't when you're in the middle of it.

Jessie Davis

That's my truck on the road. I see it. It's in the middle of the road.

Sami Abdulbari

You pull a lot more as a guard. You're always in the middle of the action.

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.

Todd Watkins

From the middle of the third quarter, they scored every time they touched the ball.

Charles Schumer

I, for one, have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, being unsure how to vote.

Ethel Waters

I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.

Sam Lewis

During the playoffs the teams really come at you and we're going to be the team to beat.

Jason Richardson

If you want to be in a position to be a playoff team, you can't play that type of ball,

Rob Phillips

To me, this had all the ingredients of a playoff game.

Lou Piniella

It's down to a playoff situation. The first round of the playoffs start tonight for every team -- first round of the playoffs.

Linda Ronstadt

I've been on the road since I was 17, ... and I'm 52. It's enough already.

Patrick LeBlanc

The road is simply overwhelmed and we need to do something about it.

Jim Herron

The road is heavily used because it is an alternative to the U.S. 1 corridor.

Kim Cattrall

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Harry Reid

Two years ago, when we went into Afghanistan, there wasn't' even a working road grader in the whole country.

Bob Moore

Carl is not even in the same time zone with those people. He is somewhere else, on the road interviewing candidates.

Greg Gard

But that's all you need to get killed on the road in the Big Ten.

Tom Davies

Now we'll get them on the road and see what we can do.

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.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.