Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Mark Slotsve

That was a big basket that turned the tide. It only gave them a five-point lead, but the way the game was going it felt like a 20-point lead.

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.

Joe Katich

The second half we decided just to let it all out and run up and down the floor. Trying to match them basket for basket - we did it, but the problem was we had an eight-point deficit at halftime.

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.

Thomas Gardner

The shots weren't going for us, so we made it a habit of getting to the basket and we got into the penalty early in the second half.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Cilla Black

There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

W. S. Gilbert

The wickets will be similar to what the players will face early in the season at the SCG,

Richard Jerram

This is the early stage of a very extended economic expansion, and there are probably several more years of improvement to come. Property prices go hand in hand with that.

Monte Mitchell

This is the driest March on record. We are in the early stages of a drought.

John Greene

This is pretty unusual to have this this early but I think it shows how competitive the race is.

Robert A. Heinlein

A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

Dick Van Dyke

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

Aristophanes

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

Magglio Ordonez

You have to get used to winning. Winning is a habit. Losing is a habit.

Douglas Preston

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

Duke of Wellington

Habit is ten times nature.

Anna Sewell

If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

Richard Matvichuk

We've got to play better and stay out of the penalty box.

Luiz Scolari

Was I the only one who saw a penalty on Nuno Gomes? Didn't you see that?

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.

Tom Crean

We got our second wind under us when we started to make those shots.

Duncan Sheik

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

Kareem Rodriguez

The shots that usually go down weren't going down. It was one shot and out for us.

Tom Tupa

I've taken shots for it. It hasn't worked. That's disappointing.

Hines Ward

We thought we could take some shots in the air. We're an experienced team and we took our chances.

Sanja Tomasevic

Everything they told us would happen, did. They would have their big shots and their power. But we could play with them if we were patient.

Edgar Bronfman

between very long shots and very, very, very long shots.

Ronald Reagan

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Susan Estrich

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

John Wayne

I never shot nobody I didnt have to.

Helen Darling

He said we need to get more shots up. We're getting used to it.