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.

Amy Rymer

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

Jimmy Fennig

No -- we're still going racing because that's what we're here for -- we've still got eight races left,

Chipper Jones

I've seen a guy who may or may not pinch hit in the eighth or ninth inning pop two before the game and another in the fifth inning. It's part of their pre-game ritual. Some guys have to have it.

Lindsay Davenport

I've played four matches in New Haven, four matches here, so it's been eight matches in two weeks. Hopefully that's enough matches,

Danny Peitz

I've been waiting two months to get to this race. I've been saying the mile and an eighth can't get here fast enough for this horse.

Todd Spanier

This is great for an eighth grader in an event like the shot put.

Ryan Ghere

You're happy with the tie because you were down by two with eight minutes to go, but you're not happy that you score five goals and only get a tie. Give our girls credit. We never quit.

Mike Flaherty

We're holding teams to less than 40 points, on average, during the last eight games.

Patrick Darby

We're happy from the standpoint we have eight in the semifinals and everyone is still alive. Everybody has shown pretty good enthusiasm.

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?

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

Schoolboy Q

The more harder you work, the less you're out spending your money.

Brand Pretorius

Dealers pushed particularly hard in March in order to qualify for their quarterly sales incentive bonuses.

Paula Creamer

Annika's at the place I want to be. I think that's helping me. I have to work harder than her. I have to get stronger than her.

George Foster

Anything that's on the lower end of the pay scale would probably be harder to fill.

Don Cole

The situation is making it harder for our officers to do their jobs.

Michael Sheen

I've always found it hard to say sorry.

Joni Comstock

Western Kentucky really didn't have the strength of schedule we really were looking for.

J. Hoover

I could sense all week that they were ready. They were like a Kentucky thoroughbred. They knew what was there.

Bob Holthus

He doesn't have to win this to go to the Kentucky Derby, but you would like to go there on a winning note, that's for sure.

Bill Gates

Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium (humorously under his breath) - and then you're burning that.

Seth Benzel

This sets him up nicely for the Wood, if that's what Todd wants to do. It's always nice to come back with a win, but leading up to the Kentucky Derby, a win isn't always the most important thing.

Steve Alexander

We've had nine people, but that's the max.

Charlie Warner

We had seven of nine players get a hit. I'll take that every time.

Kevin Heise

There's not much we can do about what has been done. But I'm going to be optimistic and say we'll be able to play nine or 10 games, at The Cage.

Albert Einstein

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

Victor LaValle

I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

Ray Floyd

There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.

Ray Bradbury

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

Neil Gaiman

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

Dave Clark

Nine times out of 10, he catches that ball,

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Brian Eno

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Bram Fischer

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

Mike Hayes

The seeds germinated, but as it leafed, it died, ... You'd come back a day later, and it would be dead.

Deepak Chopra

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

Charles Baudelaire

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

Vandana Shiva

When you control seed you control food

Melinda Shiraki

We usually end up crying. He tells us not to be scared.

Richard Carmona

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

Joanna Lumley

Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

Ron Gardenhire

It's very tough. They didn't put a timetable on it, so that tells me it's going to be a while.

Anna Held

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Justin Vernon

Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.