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.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

Jason Simmons

The thing with Pittsburgh coming into town, whenever they give you an opportunity you have to capitalize, because they are a team that's big on turnover ratio.

Jeff Rolen

Once you see what's going on here, you just want to reach out and help them. I'm coming back. I just don't see how I couldn't. Other volunteers are saying the same thing.

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Asa Butterfield

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

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.

Annika Sorenstam

The momentum is not there. I hit a lot of good shots, but my good shots don't get close.

Deion Sanders

Do you want to talk to him? I'm teaching him how to handle the media, ... I tell him to open his mouth, talk loudly and properly, and have a good time. Right?

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Brennan Manning

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Eckhart Tolle

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

David Bowie

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

Gilbert Arenas

First time on television, we won. It was a special moment for us.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Ricky Skaggs

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Romeo Miller

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Candace Parker

For us, we were playing for postseason, for a No. 1 seed. We do things when we have to.

Paradorn Srichaphan

For the whole week I've been playing really well,

David Wright

This one's on my shoulders. Those were tough plays to make, but these are the big leagues.

David Martin

We had plenty of opportunities, we just didn't make the plays when we had our chances.

Lance Berkman

We've got a logjam out there. We'll see how that plays out. It's an interesting situation.

Mike O'Connell

We're going to wait and see how it plays out,

Bronco Mendenhall

I give TCU credit, they made the plays to win.

Bob Stoops

He's the best. You can say all you want about him. He makes the plays that matter, and you see it every week.

Terry Teachout

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

Bret Bielema

Obviously, you've seen him make plays out there. He's going to make some for them (opponents), unfortunately. We're trying to get those out of his system.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

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.