Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carroll Dawson

After a decade of starring in this league, Dikembe established himself as one of the league's top reserves last season. Deke gives us rebounding and defense off the bench and he also serves as a personal mentor to Yao Ming. He is a valuable contributor as well as a great teammate.

Malcolm Deans

It was a lack of defensive intensity. But I would like to praise the intensity of the bench in the fourth quarter, they had desire.

Pat Casey

This is the best conference in the nation from top to bottom without question. It is a great benchmark to have that we are not happy that we didn't sweep Arizona. That is the way we feel about ourselves. As a club, we thought we should have swept.

Phil Edmonston

The way to fight is just simply send a registered letter or an e-mail (to GM). If your vehicle is not reasonably durable and has a mechanical defect, any judge on any bench -- small claims up to the Supreme Court of Canada -- can make that company pay.

Flip Saunders

The way this team is built, our bench guys are meant to play together in clusters with our main group. When you put all five guys on the floor, they're not as effective as when three of those guys play with a couple of starters.

John Wicks

You take a team's will away by playing great defense and defense is what is going to win games for us. And we got great minutes from our bench and had a complete team effort.

John Hickman

You need to take care of the people in front of the bench and those that have been harmed.

Mike Mannino

You play for pride, but it's an all star game so it's all for fun. Me and (Countryside coach) Dave (Sica) joked on the bench that we'll trade an all-star win for a couple of championships any day.

Chris Clarke

We really had to work her in and out. Michelle Dirks did a great job, got a few rebounds, hit her free throws, a few shots ... Our bench hadn't scored any points in the tournament so far and we challenged those kids today ... They're a huge reason we won this game.

Tim Jones

Radio on the Internet is yet another world-shrinking example of what communications analysts call "death of distance.

Gerri Detweiler

Read the material carefully. If you find it's unfavorable, it's worth a phone call to issuers to tell them you're going to leave if they can't match the old terms.

Fieldin Culbreth

Randy immediately came off the mound and had some choice words to say. I told him to knock it off and get back on the mound. He screamed again, an expletive and, 'Just call it a strike.' And at that point he also screamed out, 'And the pitch to Wells was an expletive strike as well.' And at that point, I ejected him.

Tracey Tipton

Really, in her eyes, she's got some great schools to choose from and I don't really think she can go wrong with any of them and I just think that obviously she's got a piece of mind of what she wants to do or otherwise she wouldn't want to call the press conference. I think she's ready to make a decision and move on and not feel like she's misleading anyone.

Cris Collinsworth

Probably more than anything else, he needs a wife, honestly, ... If he had a wife, the minute he takes after Donovan McNabb, his wife would have said, 'What are you doing? Pick up the telephone and call him and apologize. You're so out of line.'

Martin Parr

Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

Richard Moore

People think that ambulances show up automatically. But we're the ones who call and send them.

David Norris

People think our call center is in India because of the ethnic sound of a rep's voice, but it's in Canada.

Steve Wiseley

Our team was great during the summer. People call it the Lake Washington nation because we all hangout together and workout.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Akhenaton

As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Geno Auriemma

The Brittany thing is a lot better than we could have even imagined, ... We could be sitting here right now talking about how the meniscus transplant didn't work as well as we liked and it doesn't look like she will play. That was a possibility. And here we're looking at it and - knock on wood - she hasn't had one incident with that since she started being able to do things. That came out way better than we anticipated.

Roger Kahn

Aware, but unself-conscious, Reese and Robinson came to personify integration. If a man didn't like what they personified, why, he better not play for the Dodgers.

Sky Blaylock

A volunteer computer tech came in to work on another computer problem and stumbled upon it. That's when I immediately called police.

Barbara Wagner

A while later, a maitre d' came up to him.

Julian Tavarez

A week after I came from the Dominican, I wanted to go back because I didn't understand,

Tim Olson

Austin's hitting those three 3s in a row was the difference. He came up big.

John Givhan

A vast number of soldiers came by our table to see our books. Even the soldiers that were in training came over to our tent. Several Vietnam vets came by the tent to see the books.

Johnnie Burton

The offshore energy industry has compiled an outstanding safety record that allows development of these resources without significant risk to the environment.

Ben Bucca

After a tough loss at Princeton, we really rebounded. There was a lot of excitement, a lot of energy in the air, and there were a lot of fans out. A lot of friends of the team showed their support at home.

Jack Buck

After all of these years, I realize my energy comes from the people at the other end.

Lillian Too

The most important thing to understand is that feng shui is really about the energy that's surrounding you in your personal space.

Steve Wright

actually went up another 30%. There was a lot of pent-up energy ready to go, all the people in the non-high-risk categories.

Jeff Goodell

Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.

Thierry Breton

Some sectors will become critical, like agriculture, energy and water We need different rules for these sectors.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

Jon Huntsman

so we can operate government more efficiently from an energy-consumption standpoint.

Bob Woolmer

Practically we have one goal in mind and that is a year away and every series is part of our preparation to that goal.

David Rose

The scarce resource that's out there is people's attention. The real goal is to simplify the way that people interact with technology.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I've said it before, but I guess nobody really took notice before. It's just a goal that I have.

Dan Hampton

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.

Olli Jokinen

It was a huge goal by Horton, to get it back right away.

Mike Aronson

The second goal was a big one. That enabled us to play with a little more freedom. And the third goal, with the penalty kick and them losing (Gordon), that was a huge turning point.

Donald Tsang

These proposals will lead us to the ultimate goal of universal suffrage.

Mal Strange

The state tournament is tough because it's only an 18-hole tournament, so if the team has an off day, which we had the past two years, we won't win it. These kids want to keep their record going, but the No. 1 goal is to win the state tournament.

Kevin Myers

I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.

Nate Feltman

The whole plan is a statewide plan, so Northwest Indiana has as much potential as any other part of the state.

Corey Maggette

I don't think Indiana is a better team than us. They just executed better than us.

Dee Brown

I'm just looking at Indiana on Sunday. You just have to worry about yourself. You have to win and see what happens.

Jamie Bell

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

Steve Alford

Indiana went about it a little different in how they did their search. I never got a phone call. I was never contacted.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Alexander Lukashenko

The West will not spare any expenses, ... the last thing that we need.

Ron Ellis

The weather report last night said that the snow was going to be south of us.

Rob King

The weather is always tough. I mean it just snowed last week so you can never predict what's going to happen.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Pat Murphy

I'm disappointed overall in the play of the weekend.

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

Robert Burns

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

John Sununu

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

F. L. Lucas

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

Jay Leno

Attorney General John Ashcroft said there is a new credible terrorist threat. He said everything is under control; not to panic. And then he went back to his harmonically sealed bunker.

Simon Perry

It got to the point where there was panic over nothing. But don't panic, it's not going to smash anybody.

Liev Schreiber

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

Larry David

I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

Tatiana Maslany

Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

John F. Kennedy

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

Jim Calhoun

Brandon Roy, in my opinion, is one of the top two or three players in the country.

David Noel

Big players show up in big times games. That's the type of player he's been all year.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

O. Henry

We want to get players into the NPC as soon as possible,

Bob Kudelski

It's a tactic to stall and delay, and I don't think it's going to work.