Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Stallings

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

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Allen Iverson

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

Allen Iverson

I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

Allen Iverson

I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.

Allen Iverson

Personally I just want to win a championship.

Demi Lovato

I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.

Demi Lovato

I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful.

Demi Lovato

If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!

What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk?

Greg Foreman

Very little bothers me more than seeing or hearing something so astoundingly beautiful that I am unable to put it into words.

Buddha

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

Paul Hornung

Every year we take two or three people in. This year we took in Reggie White. It was really incredible, it was a beautiful ceremony. And all the guys that played under Lombardi were in this group and we raise a lot of money for charity. It's really worked out good.

Ray McDaniel

The response has really been quite amazing. This music speaks to many 25- and 30-year-olds. They've found it very beautiful and uplifting.

Leo Tolstoy

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts

Janica Kostelic

I definitely don't feel well. There's no reason to compete while I'm feeling like this. I'm very tired and I'm not 100 percent sure I'll start tomorrow.

Marty Simmons

I am proud of the guys. We tied for the West Division Championship. That's a heck of an accomplishment. Are we disappointed that we weren't able to win it out right at home in the last two games? I don't think there is any question. Our guys have put themselves in a position to compete for the conference championship.

Tim Barrera

It is a great opportunity for our players to compete in what should be a fun tournament. Each school will have two teams and play four games each and the winners of the two brackets will play for the tournament championship. Everyone will get a lot of playing time and it is a great way to start off the spring.

Dan Dakich

Physically I think we were there, but mentally we weren't where we needed to be at all to compete in this game. We need wins. We got to figure out what we want out of this season.

O. Henry

It's time to compete again. We're excited about going down there. It's going to be a nice meet.

Tar Heels

Any time you really get whipped by an opponent, you have extra motivation to go out and prove not only that you can compete with them, but you can actually pull out a victory,

Matt Savoie

Skating will always be a part of my life whether I am skating to compete or skating for recreation.

David Dunn

The last 10 or 15 years, it has just mushroomed. In our business, in order to compete for the top players, you have to have a top training program.

Tim Walsh

The key to the game falls on our offensive and defensive lines. If they can compete well, we will stay in the game.

Bobby Robson

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Morris Chestnut

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen.

Michael Beasley

We had a lot of football players on the team then. Once we got out of football mode we started making strides.

Steve McClaren

That, for us, was as good as signing on the dotted line. There was a taxation issue, not a football issue, that needed sorting out.

Pele

Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

Pele

Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

Kevin Keegan

Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

Les Miles

I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

Junior Seau

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Quin Snyder

Tucker took the game over. No matter who guarded him, he was tough for us to handle.

Ben Olsen

Yes, yes a lot. I was probably more nervous for this game than I have been in a long time. Nerves help sometimes, though.

Bob Shinkan

Todd and I have already talked about this. This will be the game we play here every year.

Mike Davis

You can just see it in their faces. It's not the same team. Because we lost one game or two games on the road and it was like the end of the year. When you think about that, it doesn't make sense. At all.

Jon Raker

We wanted to be .500 at worst at this point (of the season), and now we're three and five. That makes it an uphill battle. You make it tough on yourself when you score 10 runs in a game and don't win.

Matt Creamer

We wanted to tempo the game defensively to get some run outs. We wanted them to play fast.

Gillian Apps

We wanted to take this whole tournament one game at a time. We knew, going into this game, that we couldn't take Sweden lightly.

Ernie Mejia

We wanted to shake off (the Nogales) game as soon as we could and show everyone else that we are going to be right there.

Bobby Long

Imagine what we can do if we took this tournament to 1.3 million people as opposed to just Greensboro. There's a huge market for this golf tournament that's just waiting to be tapped into.

Jerry Kelly

I was thinking to myself yesterday, 'You know, I'm 3-over and I still love the golf course,'

Jay Leno

President Clinton and President Obama played a round of golf over the weekend. President Clinton asked Obama what his handicap was, and Obama said, 'Joe Biden.'

Hale Irwin

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

Hollis Stacy

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

Hollis Stacy

I can't see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one's business. We all stick together. We're a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf.

Hollis Stacy

The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They're hitting the ball 10 to 15 percent farther because of the changes in the golf ball.

Hollis Stacy

Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

Ian Poulter

I don't like the way most people dress on the golf course. I think it's pretty bland, pretty boring.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Terry Allmon

No, we didn't shoot well in the second half. But that was mostly North picking up the pressure. They're good. They're just a really good team with a super coach.

Roberto Bettega

Now is a different time, is a different game, a different business. We are very good team. And when I say team I mean the management of this club.

Reba McEntire

Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Duffy Daugherty

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.

Duffy Daugherty

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

Doyle Brunson

I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

Dr. Dre

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

Douglas William Jerrold

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Dorothy Hamill

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

Dorothy Hamill

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Dorothy Hamill

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

Dorothy Dunnett

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.