Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Don Hogan

West Georgia is very athletic, and you have to earn everything because they play great defense. We must take care of the basketball and play smart.

Don Meyer

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

Dave Brubeck

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

David Halberstam

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Andy Murray

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

Lorne Adrain

At the end of the day, it's about somebody saying, 'I'm going to do this'. I think its really exciting that students and adults are coming together to get to know each other and respect each other.

Allen Huddleston

Coming into the playoffs, this was the statement we wanted to make. Everyone knows we're ready to play.

Bobby Brasel

We knew coming into the game Julia Montebello was 2-23 from the 3-point range, so we didn't concentrate on her as much. We have to tip our hat to her though because she made a big shot when it counted the most for them.

Deion Branch

We always know we're just one or two plays from coming back,

Sue Smith

This year he's been coming out of his shell. He doesn't know the full effect of what happened to him.

Dennis Smith

We talked to our doctor and had him tested and he said he definitely did not have ADHD.

Cory White

He was definitely dominant on the mound today.

Tony Parrish

I always look forward to doing things that promote the game. This will definitely be an event that we'll look back on, and see it as a turning point in the international game.

Kevin English

I would definitely say he was not over-confident. He has a lot of confidence, but over-confidence is not something he has.

Chuck Caldwell

I would definitely not feel comfortable. I'd have an open mind, but I wouldn't be comfortable.

George Erdahl

I would definitely have to put them as the favorite. Whoever wins it is going to have to go through them.

Jesse Broderson

She was definitely on her game today. She's playing smart, and it showed on the back with seven pars and two bogies.

Sherill Baker

She's a veteran so she's more experienced and I'm sure she's going to help me out with plays and showing me the ins and outs. I'll definitely be there to listen to her.

Tracy Roller

She's definitely understanding, defensively especially, our system. She is finding a place on our team for sure.

Jean Medina

That was a difficult decision, but it was necessary to preserve the enterprise.

Gail Goestenkors

That was a really good start for us. Now we know it gets much more difficult from here on out. We'll prepare for that. ... We're not kidding ourselves; we know that's not going to happen again.

Fred Funk

That's the only hole that's overdone. It was difficult before. Now you walk off the green with a 3 and feel like you stole something, and it shouldn't be that way.

Brian Davis

I was proud of our effort to make it this far. This was a very difficult golf course.

Marisa Berenson

I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.

Tom Cole

Members know this is a very difficult moment -- if we don't hang together we fall apart.

Klaus Reinhardt

Look at Northern Ireland and how long that is taking. Look at Sinai and Lebanon, and you see how difficult that is,

John Straayer

I wonder if Holtzman isn't pursuing a path that is going to make it difficult for people to take him seriously.

Ron Jirsa

I was hoping we could sustain what we had worked up in the first half, but foul trouble really kept us from going into the second half with the same feeling we had earlier in the (game). Memphis has an explosive team and I think they were able to run us and we hit the wall about six, seven or eight minutes into the second half. And that made it difficult for us to overcome that run.

Shaun McGinn

Song is making a very good impression so far. He's got a fastball, curveball and throws a changeup, but his split-finger is a true out pitch. He's got very good numbers.

Duncan Hunter

So my point is, you can have a good reform, but in doing that, you don't want to hurt the troops that are in the field.

Norm MacDonald

So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

Joe Tiller

Some years the schedule rolls your way and some years it doesn't. There are a lot of very good teams in the conference, so I don't think you can make any assumptions about any teams.

Don Norton

Some years it probably would because you're hit with a lot of injuries. Some years, it's probably not so good because you don't want to (break) your routine.

Jim Bates

Sometimes when you want inside push we'll use Grady. He's been a good pass-rusher in his career.

Mike Redmond

Sometimes I laugh when we talk. I'm 13 years older than he is. He's got a great grasp for what's going on out there. I don't think I've ever talked to a 22-year-old kid with as much of a good idea as he has.

John Adair

Teamwork is no accident.It is the by-product of good leadership.

Mike Devaney

Teams will give us a really good shot because we have a target on our back.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Chris Ahern

What I've tried to tell them is that it's an acknowledgement of their hard work, but not to let it go to their heads. They still have to go out and work hard every single day in order to maintain it.

Jake Voskuhl

We go out and play hard every single night. That's the one thing that we do every night. We may not win the game, but we play hard and have fun.

Mike Stoops

We give up too many big plays defensively. We are inconsistent. That has been our nemesis for the last year and three games. We have a hard time with consistency.

Lindsay Duda

This year proved that if you work hard and you have a lot of heart, you can really do anything.

Matt Davis

We are trying to improve on our 4-6 record. The kids worked hard this offseason, and this is the most seniors we've had since I've been coaching.

Eddie Jordan

We're going through some hard times. Let's see how tough and resilient we are.

Dennis Shaffer

We're trying to get our name out there more and get a following. It's hard to do that with the originals. We're trying to get people pulled in first, then we'll throw some original music at them.

Mike Dement

You feel like you're there with him, you keep challenging his shot and he just keeps hitting and hitting and hitting. We worked hard to stay with him in our defense, but he hit lots of shots.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.