Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Donovan

He was a great guy. It was such a tragedy, what happened. He touched a lot of lives. I know with St. Francis, he and (athletic director) Randy Maris had a lot of plans, he wanted to give Bud the chance to build a basketball program and unfortunately it didn't work out. At least his family, his kids, will have something they can hold to and remember him by.

Chris Wallinger

He was a good shooter and dribbler. He was actually better at basketball than soccer.

Garrett Temple

He used to be just fat. Chubby. He was a ballplayer, but he was chubby. Now, he's taller. He's still big, but he's a great basketball player. He's not just a big guy in the middle.

Bob Wilkinson

He was a wonderful man. He is the one who made me into a high school basketball star.

Terry Stotts

He can run, and he has a high basketball IQ. You'll see the ball in his hands as a playmaker. He's very competitive, and he wants to win. I liked his demeanor on the court and the way he reacted with his teammates. It's reassuring.

Ray Young

Heck, you're talking about three of the top 100 basketball players in the (history of) the NBA. But that's a great goal to work up to.

Pat Riley

He kept telling me he's ready. But I'm a stubborn old coach.

Alison Bales

He'll always tell you he was a basketball player in a football player's body. He was my toughest competition. Taught me how to shoot, the whole form thing about keeping your elbow in, all the basics. He helped, and I pretty much give all the credit to him.

Craig Austrie

Guys were in the right spots all night. It was easy for me to find them. And they were making shots. I feel I've become quicker and stronger -- mentally and physically -- to deal with the college basketball game.

Andy Cerroni

Jake Wagner had one of his better games for us on Thursday. He's beginning to gain more and more confidence with each game.

Leon Panetta

Just when we should be getting ready for the 21st century, our education system is beginning to fall down in terms of preparing our students for that future.

Neal Cotts

I think in our case it's come together pretty well. I think Ozzie instilled that from the beginning in spring training, that we're going to be together six months and make the best out of it.

Will Durant

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I havenot had time to remake the world.

Joseph Brown

It begins with one voice and builds with other voices. The collective crescendo is just now reaching a volume where we are all hearing and understanding.

O. Singh

I always feel comfortable here, it's a lot like my home in Fiji. I was too far back to make any difference today, but I'm pleased with the way I've started my year. I wish I could have won at the Mercedes. That one was disappointing, but this is still a good way to begin 2006.

Thomas R. Insel

Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven.

John Snow

I think it's clearly beginning to show signs of a strong recovery, and a recovery that's accelerating, ... Late Edition.

Fran Cohen

I think it's beginning to sink in. More and more faculty are reporting plagiarism.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Eric Johnson

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

Steve Cram

I would say the decision to run both events would mean she has to make compromises,

Hanya Yanagihara

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Joe Thornton

I talked to Nick and Rayzor (Sunday) and they want to be here. They both want to play here. I think it's just a matter of time.

Eric Schmidt

I think it's a good deal for both parties.

Lloyd Carr

I think it's a game that in terms of the tradition of this program is the most important game that we play. I think for any team playing in it, it's a big game. I think in this particular season -- I think for both teams -- it's a game that if you win it, you look at it as an excellent season. If you lose it, it's probably a disappointing season.

Jim Fuglie

I think it reflects how hard they both work. They're working hard every day.

Dina Graves

I think it really well. We were both really tired. We were just trying to keep the kids running in and out, switching them out so they could rest.

Ryan Crocker

It is a 4.5-million-dollar facility and it is state of medical art.

Charise McHugh

We may not make it. They could wake up one morning and find that the facility is closed. We owe it to them to tell them that everything isn't hunky dory.

Bill Gerstenmaier

The (Michoud) facility is in pretty good shape. The question is, what does the workforce want to do?

Allan Bristow

The big thing is where to set up offices and where to play games. We want to make sure that the first two weeks (of workouts) we're in a facility where we feel comfortable.

Jeff Anderson

We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled.

Robert Lesley

There's no place in Carson that you can find another residential facility that will be four stories.

Mark McDonald

We talked to the architect, Darin Prost, and he showed us the plans and what the facility was going to look like.

Sean Hayes

We'll have a class-A facility in four to five years.

Diane Watson

My hopes are that the naming of this post office facility is only the first of many tributes for a man who started from nowhere to end up a national treasure and global phenomenon,

Marian Gaborik

We've got to try to find more ugly goals out there.

Mike Ryn

We've got to score some goals on the power play. That's part of the reason we were winning; we were getting a goal here and a goal there.

Wendy Ward

I know she's thinking that everything has to be perfect. You have in mind these individual goals of how you want to remember your first round. You can put a lot of pressure on yourself that just doesn't need to be there.

Paul Harris

I'm real disappointed. It really hurts because it's one of the goals I really wanted to accomplish.

Dan Stauber

The guys know what's at stake if we win, we're in, and if we lose, we're done. One of our goals was to make it to the national tournament -- to give us an opportunity -- and we have it right now.

Steve Graham

The goals of NCLB are good, but realistically it's not going to happen,

Lofa Tatupu

We still have a lot to prove. We have to reset our goals now and make new ones.

Scott DeMonte

We had some of our younger players get their first goals for us today.

James Dempsey

It's not a privacy problem, ... It's a mission, goals and methods problem.

S. Hughes

I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

John Woodring

He's done, so we have to move on.

Dan Evans

We just have to get the president to move it up on his priority list.

Carmelo Anthony

We've got to roll with it and just move on. Everybody's got to pick up the slack.

Scott Peters

I think we need to move past that,

Javier Solana

I think we will be able to solve the problem. I think that we, all of us, will move only forward.

Marek Malik

I was watching everything before me. Olie was unbelievable, he stopped everything from shots, moves. I just thought to myself, 'Maybe I'll surprise him.' I tried the move and it worked.

Samuel Butler

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Sally Ride

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

Will Rogers

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Twyla Tharp

Perfect practice makes perfect.

Wilhelm Keitel

A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.

Walter Isaacson

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.

Yogi Berra

In theory, practice should work like theory. In practice, it doesn't.

Wendell Berry

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

Chauncey Billups

I just need some reps. We haven't had much practice time.

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Mackenzie Astin

Life can only be understood backwards.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

John Clayton

He'll end up here. You're not going to see any other teams step up.

Brad Todd

If we want to get better, we've got to get a tougher schedule. It's time to turn it up a notch, but I think we're taking steps in the right direction.

Mike Dunne

I'm just concerned. No one's really stepping forward. It's a public-safety issue.

Colin Purdon

I'm nervous. But when we step on the court, it's down to business.

Richard Jewell

The first step was a long process, ... Go Braves!

John C. Maxwell

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

Liberace

Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?

Andre Heard

Everyone just has to step up a little more.

Dan Selby

Everyone else has to step up. It hurts, but we can win without him.

Richard Baxter

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

Rodney Mullen

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

Kathryn Lasky

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

Peter York

I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.

Paulo Coelho

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

Philip Emeagwali

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

Sean O'Casey

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

Karl von Frisch

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

Juan Manuel Marquez

I used to like studying a lot.

Susan Strasberg

There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.

Sepp Blatter

These are not 'minor concessions' as you term them.

Michael Biehn

And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!

Donald Sterling

I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime.

Hillary Clinton

Midterms are always hard. And the midterm in a two-term president's second term is especially hard.

Joschka Fischer

I didn't even know the term 'Jamaica coalition' existed,

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.