Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Mike Predmore

They are a great group of guys and a great group of young men. I'm not taking anything away from them as basketball players, but they really are great people. I can't say enough about them as people. In the long run, that's probably more important than anything else in life.

Todd Hansen

This is a nice win because it puts us up two games over three teams. We've been winning games, but could only get a one-game lead. Now we've got a little cushion. I thought our kids played a pretty good basketball game tonight.

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.

William Brown

This is the Fairview Classic. You can throw the X's and O's out when we get together, it is all about heart. Both teams competed hard, and basketball in Montgomery is back.

Rick Stockstill

As far as the class, I'm not one to stand up here and talk about this guy and that guy and say, 'We beat this team or we beat that team on a player.' That's just not my style. We are excited about this class. I think the big thing in it is what I have said since I've been here, which is I want to surround myself with winners.

Curt Miller

Despite our two wins, we felt like we were outplayed both games. They had us beat last year both games and let us slip through.

Jim Calhoun

A No. 16 seed is going to beat a No. 1. The gap is closing.

John Beilein

Any team that can beat Pittsburgh can beat anyone.

James Blake

Any of the top 100 guys in the world can beat any of the top 10 guys on a given day,

Andrew Wilson

(The shot) felt good. I felt like as the game was going on, one of us seniors was going to have to step up. The fact that they beat us on two last second shots last year makes it big and the fact that we had to win this game.

Dean Johnson

The team we beat pretty soundly had beaten them pretty soundly, so I thought we'd be OK if we did what we needed to do.

Robert Blades

The teams that showed up were very-high quality. Jasper (won senior boys) is picked to win the state meet in their classification. Southside Batesville came down and beat our junior girls by one point; it was a close race.

Ben Murray

The teams that have beat us out, Santa Margarita and Palm Desert, we beat both this year. Hopefully we can get through and finally make it. I think this team has more depth.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Tony Roche

I've always believed Mark is a wonderful player,

Michael Hintze

My grandmother was a Greenpeace supporter. We've always done that sort of thing; we've always believed in helping others - it's part of our ethos.

Carl Olson

Free thinkers and libertines who once believed that marriage was boring and humdrum now think it is the most exciting thing in the world - as long as it's Jesus marrying Mary Magdalene.

Ted Owen

For years they were believed to be missing. Then four months ago they were discovered in one of the museum's depositories, sitting in a sealed crate out in Acton.

Will Brown

Four years ago I had a vision, I had a plan. I'm not sure how many people believed in that vision and believed in that plan.

Sheriff Haggard

From information from the witnesses it is believed the individuals we have in custody were the only ones involved in the incident.

Al Tompkins

For those people who already believed we weren't careful enough as journalists, this gives them more reason to believe that.

Ron Ledbetter

He truly believed from Day 1 that he could win the state championship. I knew the potential was there.

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.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

O. J. Simpson

Thank you guys so much for coming out today. I'm here to show my support for Operation Smile.

Richard Hamilton

Some were greatly offended, some were terribly amused, but mostly they were shocked that he did it knowing we're coming up, ... How do you tell someone, especially a psychologist, who should know better, that he's making people uncomfortable?

Rudy Jaramillo

Sometimes you think he would say something out of frustration, but I don't think he is. He can think whatever he wants. We had a plan, saw a flaw in his delivery and we went with it. Hopefully, this will light a fire under our guys for somebody not giving you credit for mentally and physically having a good plan and coming out on top.

Dave Stricklin

So our goal coming in was to extend the season. Because by winning, we'd get to play together one more time.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Dalai Lama

The time has come to think more wisely, hasn't it?

Todd Burns

We just started to see these things within the (past) hour. Our crews haven't had time to get there and find the cause.

P. J. O'Rourke

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Baltasar Gracian

Leave your luck while still winning.

Boris Becker

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Edward Abbey

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.