Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Burnette

Any time somebody was bouncing a basketball somewhere, he wanted to be around.

Rob Judson

As hard as this is, our group is instilled with character and we will rise from this. There's a lot of basketball left.

Doc Rivers

As a staff, you get to see how your guys handle playoff basketball, and I think it's easier to evaluate in playoff games what you need for the following year than it is in the 82-game regular season.

Jeff Capel

As crazy as it is, with only 2.6 seconds left, we had a chance. We got a great look. Nick had an outstanding shot but just missed it.

Tony Skinn

As college basketball players at a mid-major level, it's a great feeling. You couldn't ask for a greater script to this season.

Tod Kowalczyk

As a player you want to be one of those guys that's indispensable, someone you need to have on the floor at all times. He's a freshman and he's going to be a good basketball player.

Andy Booth

As an outsider you hear about how much passion there is in the community, but until you're in the spot it's hard to imagine there's a community that cares more about girls basketball than this one. I embraced it. What more can you ask for? You have kids who want to get better, and I can't think of any better spots to be in.

Clyde Drexler

As a young guy, he probably said and did some things that were perceived as being selfish, but he's a winner. All he's ever tried to do is play hard and maximize his talent on the court. He's a basketball junkie and when a guy is that talented you've got to love him.

Israel Idonije

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

Pat Riley

Any time he gets in foul trouble and sits down, that sets him back and sets us back. You have to try to keep him on the floor for normal minutes. But when he gets that third and fourth foul, we get out of rhythm.

Kevin King

The burgers are great, but really, I come in for the floor show.

Sharon Versyp

The Big Ten tournament is pretty much up for grabs. Any team that steps on the floor can win that game.

Chris Lawrence

People on the top floor lost everything. We were very fortunate to get something out. But it was pretty scary.

Doug Bleadorn

Anthony shot very well for us. We were able to run the floor and hit the open man and he found a way to get open shots.

Bill Brooks

Are Mr. and Mrs. Gaines going to be on the second floor gawking?

Don Arnold

The third floor is a total loss. We're worried about the structural integrity.

Doc Rivers

I wanted him to stay more in the middle of the floor because we thought if he went to the sideline they would be able to double. And they actually did, and he still got the shot off. That was just a great player making a great shot.

Brian Ellis

Sometimes you've got to win ugly. We didn't play well on our floor and I think that was because of our layoff. We got a little stagnant in the third quarter and that's something we haven't done. The third quarter has been our quarter all year.

Jerry Butler

The seniors here are about pushing you and motivating you to get better. They're not about, 'You're a freshman trying to take my job.' If you can play, they're going to push you to get better. Right now, I'm learning and they're helping.

Rudy Morrow

After my freshman year when I got the gold in the 200 I was really excited. The 100 was a little too short for me.

Kenton Paulino

I don't think of him as a freshman anymore. To come in and play like he did in a game like this shows how mature he is.

John Brady

He's very mature for a freshman and is a leader on this team. It's like he's not a freshman.

Andi Burr

By the time we start in November, we're in mid-season form. My freshman year, we didn't do any of that. We'd just come in November and start playing.

Al Gaccione

He's the first freshman to ever go undefeated at Westerly. We have great expectations for him, he could be All-State by his junior year.

John Glover

He's just a freshman and he's doing a great job for us this year. He's really stepped up big for a young guy.

Donna Mechley

Megan is out right now and Lindsay has been playing since she was a freshman on varsity. Mindy (a 6-foot-1 right-side hitter) gives us a lot of height up front.

Darrel Mitchell

My freshman year, he was a tough cookie. I would just sit back and watch him and laugh, and I don't think he would like that.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Cameron Crowe

Ashton was one of the guys I talked to who I really liked.

Larry Taddeo

Ashton is one of the hardest workers I've ever been around. The other guys have seen that and they've seen how it has paid off for him. I would say that's rubbed off on guys like Evan.

Rob Ciarlo

As a purist I don?t like it. Put nine guys out there and let them play.

Alain Vigneault

A win is a win, but the guys weren't happy -- they would have preferred to do it in regular time. It's a big win for us and I liked a lot of parts to our game.

Al Wallace

(Barber) is making more plays after the first or second hit. He just squirms out of there. When guys seem to relax, he pops out for 30 or 40 more yards. We're going to have to make sure we get him on the ground.

Ken Chevalier

As long as we have the lead, I'm going to sit you guys out.

Chris Harrell

As I walked back to the huddle, a lot of guys walked up to me and said 'You're back. You're back,'

Glenn Wilson

As I've always said, you find out what kind of player you are in the playoffs. And I know what kind of players these guys are.

Miles Walsh

That's where the big money is made. We keep telling the guys that if you are not willing to go to the net then you probably aren't on the right team.

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.

Michael Finley

As a player and a man, I really respected him saying that. I took that to heart.

Bob Haffele

(Rayfield) got them going early. He's a tough player to stop.

Randy Carlyle

Our expectations are that we're going to try to play an uptempo game, and our players seem to have responded positively to that.

Dottie Pepper

Other players find out if you're not doing that sort of stuff. You don't want to take the 'I'm special' attitude.

Jaime Moreno

No one wants to see a player that young retire. He's a big weapon we have.

Tomas Vokoun

A player like (Parker) shouldn't be in the NHL anyway.

Bill Belichick

Anything any other player would do, that's what he's going to do

James Grant

The teams they've come up against, individually, you probably say have better players than (the Tigers),