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.

Greg Gibson

Ramon has had some offers for colleges and every meet that he does well in is another feather in his hat. We're proud of him.

Steve Morgan

I've worked on my punting the most this summer, ... I'm trying to get my steps down because punting is all about rhythm. In college I've had to learn to kick it one way in one situation, then kick it another in a different situation. This year I'm definitely more comfortable with my punting.

Matt Young

The whole idea of designing a vessel like a sub in my first year of college really interested me.

Jason Blum

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

bell hooks

We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.

Derrick Bell

I live to harass white folks.

Daniel Goleman

As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

Courtney Ward

We're just trying to go to college and get somewhere.

Bret Easton Ellis

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

Erica Jong

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

Candace Cameron Bure

It was in the '80s, so I guess big hair and high bangs. And I had so many gummy bracelets! While we were doing 'Full House,' we were like, 'You know, in 10 years, we're going to look back on this and think this is horrible.' But everyone looked like that!

Jarvis Herring

We were down in the hole, and they were riding high a little bit. I guess they overlooked us.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

My guess is, over time, the young people and the women will find him, as well as his masters, unacceptable.

Josh Marien

I guess I'm kind of spoiled. I just have to keep going and hopefully there will be many more to follow.

Sam Mitchell

I guess I'm getting my test on patience. I'm going to be patient, but it's tough.

Ernest McQueen

I guess I'll have to take whatever comes my way.

Tony Torrez

I got hit by a car; I guess I slid 75 feet.

Eric Ferguson

He stumbled, and I guess the referee thought I fouled him.

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.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

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,

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,

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Greg Allen

They're two programs that don't seem to have hiccups.

Brian Postol

There's a long way to go for these guys, but I think their programs are the right ones.

Robert H. Connelly

The programs were more about 'reallocating sales' than stimulating demand.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Linda Bannister

Things look bleak. It's unclear when things are going to start to look better.

Ron Ward

This is a terrific opportunity, and I can't wait to really start contributing.

John Silvia

This is a surprisingly strong start of the year.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Jeff Kish

This is not how I wanted to start the New Year.