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.

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

Bobby Cremins

I've been blessed. I got to live the American dream when I was coaching, and I continue to live the American dream. Without basketball in my life, I don't know what I would have wound up doing.

Kary Mullis

People say to me, How many people have you seen die of this disease? They say, You don't know what causes it because you've never watched them die.

Justin Baldoni

People grow; people grow apart, and cancer... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.

Nelson Mandela

No stone will be left unturned to establish fully what the causes were and where responsibility lies,

Steve Simmons

Any kind of glitch causes problems that send tremors through the whole industry.

Allen Wallace

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomplished. The younger players start focusing on being like one of the older guys.

John Street

I've been an elected official now for 24 years, and I value my integrity very highly, ... And this speculation about whether or not I'm a target of any federal investigation has caused some concern.

Bryan Jones

Oil pollution causes a lot of problems in the oceans. And most of it (oil pollution) can be prevented.

Thomas Moore

Right now, we really don't even know what happened as to the cause of the accident.

Ehud Olmert

put Israel back into international isolation ... and cause friction with the United States -- our great friend -- and hostility with Europe.

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.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Rob Andrew

This is an unfortunate setback, and is in the hands of the medics, who will continually monitor the situation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

Barbara Kingsolver

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Burt Ward

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Carnie Wilson

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

Diana Vreeland

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

Elizabeth Scott

Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.

Brian Wilson

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

Chad Greenway

Don't put this on the refs. They played better than us. That's what should be written in the papers.

Chris Masoner

We wanted this one going home. We played them well.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Andy Cerroni

Tonight, Scotty played with a lot of confidence. He was out there tonight. We didn't take him out. He's so strong with the ball.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Jim Brown

This one is a very competitive tournament. There's probably 10 teams in the top 20 there, at least.

Lynn Meger

There's not a lot of differences between their teams in that district. There aren't a lot of differences between our teams.

Cadillac Williams

We want to be great. No question. Even more than that, we want our teams to be great.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Tony DeMuro

That was the way we want to see it end. It couldn't be any better than that with three teams going after it.

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Clive James

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Anna Kournikova

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

Andy Roddick

I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.

Anastasia Myskina

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

Ron Livingston

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?

Steffi Graf

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

Stefan Edberg

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

Samantha Stosur

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Douglas Coupland

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

D. J. MacHale

Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

Tom Lehrer

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Robert Burns

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Margaret Fuller

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.