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.

Chris Grinde

A foot injury is tough to overcome in basketball. You are pounding it on the floor, jumping and landing on it. It will be interesting to see if he can endure the pain.

John Jones

The one thing I think is that we're an improved basketball team. The things (Monterey does), the pressure man-to-man, I think we saw enough of it that we'll handle it a little better.

Gary Williams

The one thing about going early is you'll get more families with little kids. I've seen more little kids out there. That's nice if you can get kids interested in basketball this way.

Kevin Bookout

The Oklahoma basketball program is built on playing hard and tough and competing on every possession. For us to come out here and lose in the first round, that doesn't bode well. We're supposed to win these games.

Lute Olson

After long and serious deliberation, the men's basketball staff has dismissed Chris Rodgers, effective immediately, from the team. It should be noted that Chris has earned his college degree in three and a half years and that we wish him much success in all future endeavors.

Ken Chevalier

After playing a brutal schedule and dealing with injuries and overtime losses, we finally started to play some consistent basketball.

Jack Bicknell

As far as their character, you can't beat either of those two guys, ... Both of them bring something and having two starters is a positive. You don't have to worry about the first guy going down.

Rick Stockstill

As far as the class, I'm not one to stand up here and talk about this guy and that guy and say, 'We beat this team or we beat that team on a player.' That's just not my style. We are excited about this class. I think the big thing in it is what I have said since I've been here, which is I want to surround myself with winners.

Joe Novak

Our earliest ever. We don't beat the Big Ten schools very often. Hardly at all, if they want a kid.

Jimmy Kimmel

Oh, great, ... Three people beating me up. Maybe it isn't such a great idea.

S. Hughes

The Nasdaq stocks that have been the most beaten up are rallying, and that's a positive,

Peter Coolidge

The Nasdaq has been beaten up so much that there's room for a technical rebound if not more. It's still very murky as to where valuations should be and how much more room there is on the downside.

Sam Stovall

December is one of the best months of the year for retailers. Of the past four years, retailers have beaten the market. Typically, everyone says the Christmas season is going to be horrible and they don't want to be in retailers, only to see December do very well for the market and even better for retailers.

Jack Hoffman

Deep down, I know she's beaten the odds. God definitely had a hand in this.

Mo Johnston

D.C. was the better team. There's no way I'm going to stand up here and make excuses when we got beat 4-1.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Steve Snyder

Southwest certainly was a part of the increase in January. We'll see in the coming months what the trends look like. It'll probably be a little easier to make a judgment (about Southwest's impact) at the end of the first quarter.

Jim Beal

So we're certainly concerned. We're watching the situation closely, but at the present time the system's functioning as it's designed and we're being reasonably successful in managing flows.

Arlen Specter

So they weren't necessarily your views then and they certainly aren't your views now?

Andrew Morton

So the whole thrust of any kind of reportage of the Royal Family, certainly in the tabloids, it may have been intrusive in terms of the way you define it, but it was certainly very laudatory and it really maintained and expanded the fairy tale.

Greg Olsen

Space is not for wimps. It's certainly not just writing a check.

Adrian Gonzalez

On-demand solutions are influencing the mindset and expectations of customers with regard to pricing and time-to-value. While $1 million TMS deals are still possible, they are certainly the exception and relatively rare these days.

John Chafee

Now is certainly not the time for Congress to embark on massive tax cuts or spending programs predicated on revenues we have not yet received. Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

Rhonda Jefferson

Though it looked like the same team we faced the first time, they had a lot more kills in this game then they did in the last one.

M. Wolfe

We're looking at a situation we've never really faced before.

Pete Carroll

But we have never faced a whole season with all of that following,

Ryan Kolb

Matt's been our leader this season and faced a lot of responsibility.

Paul Nocito

St. Anthony's was one of the better shooting teams we have faced this year.

Mick Stefanek

That was a really good team that we faced tonight. It's a tough loss, but I'm very proud of these kids and of the great season that we had.

Tommy Amaker

I am not sure we have faced a team like that before.

Howard Stern

I am now faced with a terrible dilemma.

Todd Law

Taylor is a pretty good team. They have lost only three games and you have to give them credit. They are probably the quickest team we have faced all season. I felt like we played pretty passively as the game went on after nice start.

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,

Rick Carlisle

Anthony Johnson played a terrific game. He's playing with great aggressiveness and savvy and understanding the pulse of the team he is running.

Walter Cronkite

An incredible reporter and a great writer, but he had a terrible stutter, a terrible stutter.

Henry Mason

And that was a great help to us in selling Lance on Wisconsin.

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,

John Gibbons

That's what this team does. This team is dangerous. They've got so much speed, they can do anything.

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Ronald Coleman

This was my decision. It's a tough day.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

Rihanna

It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.