Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michael Jordan

I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.

Bryan Tucker

If that were the case, wouldn't you think the younger one would be on the varsity? Look, Marcus is a great kid and a very hard worker with a huge upside. But Jeff he's one of the best high school basketball players I've ever seen.

Rick Stansbury

He was around the basketball all night long.

Tom Johnson

I grew up in Zionsville, about 10 miles south of Lebanon, so I know the history of the basketball program there.

Ben Gordon

I got off to a good start. Then I got plagued by foul trouble, and it kind of busted up my rhythm.

Joan Bonvicini

She was an incredible basketball player, but her truest gifts were her personality and love for the other people that she was with. Her voice, especially her laugh, could be heard for a block, and believe me, she was hilarious.

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.

Matt Copeland

Turnovers were the killers tonight. One minute, it's a one-point game, the next minute it's seven points.

Shannon Sharpe

We don't score 30 points a game. We don't have a receiver who can go and get you 180 yards. We don't have a quarterback who's going to throw for 350. But I'll tell you what we do have: A team that's going to the AFC Championship Game. All them big-time offenses, you know where they're at? Home watching us.

David Gallop

We don't run the game for betting. To have it regulated to suit punters would see the tail wagging the dog.

Matt Koff

We don't really have any stars. But we do have some depth. Jasmine Green and Katrina James went into the game and made some big plays for us when we needed them.

Neil Roberts

You hope that every game is not close, but in this game it doesn't happen that way. The disappointing thing is when we give up two restart goals.

Byron Scott

You hope, sooner or later, the young guys understand and get it. When you have a lead like that, you can't come out in the third quarter and think the game is over. Maybe a loss like this, when we know we should have won the game, that will do it.

Marcus Ginyard

You hear that a lot. Maybe that's just the way people see it. But you can't really be worried about that. You've just got to get out there and play the game of basketball.

Chauncey Billups

To have those nerves to make those plays at the end of a game isn't something you really can be taught. It's instinct I think.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

John Arbuthnot

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Libby Trickett

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

Frank Rijkaard

We did the job we had to do and I'm very happy to be in the final.

Keith Nicholls

If he can get an acquittal before the primary, he might still be strong.

Wade Henderson

If his view had prevailed, our country's voting rights revolution might never have happened,

James Farrior

If he would have stayed in the game, it might have been a long day for us. We just didn't play up to our level.

Henry Hyde

If he verifies these charges, impeachment might very well be an option,

Larry Roberts

If he's trying to make noise, we might not be able to perceive that as of yet.

Gloria Steinem

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

J. Michael Straczynski

If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

J. K. Rowling

Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.

J. K. Rowling

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Jodi Picoult

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Liam Payne

I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.

Liev Schreiber

You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.

Libba Bray

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

Libba Bray

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.

Libba Bray

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

Lester Bowie

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

Gary Chapman

We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.

Frederick W. Smith

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.