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.

Dick Bryant

And there's nothing like excelling at a sport like basketball ? and having an opportunity to earn an education while playing it ? that's going to build a positive image for these kids.

Jeremy Foley

Are we a basketball school the way Kentucky and Indiana are? Not yet. That's the goal. Will we get there? That's the goal 15 years from now.

Doc Sadler

Are they talented? You bet they are. ... They are an awfully good basketball team. Do they wear you down? Yeah, most definitely.

Peter Fields

An exhaustive process pointed to Brad as the best fit for us, and I'm pleased to welcome Brad back to the Bobcat basketball program.

Tony Sweet

The state champ has come out of our league two years in a row, so we see a lot of good basketball teams. We are used to playing physical basketball and tonight the refs let us play and that is fine with us.

Vince Carter

The starters came out playing hard and made a statement early. For us, having a lead instead of being on the other end where we had to play catch up was a relief for us.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Akhenaton

As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Isaac Bruce

As I've been away from South Florida, I see a lot of coaches being pacifiers to children. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. But I came up with coaches screaming and yelling in your face, telling you what to do and putting the fear in your heart if you didn't do it.

Jeff Phillips

That's where the title came from. He still had things to say. It just wasn't in God's plan to say it in person.

Warren Spector

Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!

Bryan Smolinski

Ray Emery has been excellent for us since we came back from the Olympic break. He's established himself as the No. 1 goalie and he's had to work pretty hard to do that.

James Perkins

Raw chicken. When our HAZMAT people came here, they noticed the raw chicken smell. And that could be attributed to garbage being left out.

Marco Chiudinelli

Reaching the top 100 was always my goal since I started to play as a pro. In '05 I came quite close, reaching a ranking of No. 129, but then was stopped by a major shoulder injury.

Charles Davis

Price was down 3-0 to that guy, and then came back to strike him out.

Norm Hewitt

As every day moves on, he is progressing with what those 75 hours were for him. He is catching up with a lot of friends and family, and also spending some quality time with himself, contemplating the enormity of the whole event really.

Lane Green

The name change is actually catching up. But we are not ignoring the Red Hills. We are still working our rear ends off doing easements in the Red Hills region - close to home.

Haywood Boston

Coaches have started doing things that Lincoln has been doing for years ? taking kids to team camps, putting them in the gym (in the summer) and making sure they play. We're just finally catching up with them.

Matthew Lombardi

Sometimes you catch yourself watching him when he's working the puck down there. He's unbelievable.

John Lowery

Terrel has to have confidence in who he is throwing to, and I think he's found someone in Jeremy. Jack is another guy he knows he can count on to catch the ball.

Luke DeLorenzo

Teague said that he's coming after me in the goal-scoring race. He told me he only has 30 more to go, so he's catching up.

O. Singh

Sometimes it's harder to play with a big lead. I've found that out myself. Instead of trying to win the golf tournament, you don't want to lose it. If guys are catching up ... you kind of start to get nervous.

Bruce Hartley

Things are really catching on. The last two Fridays that we've been home, we've had great crowds.

John Roberts

The weather has been, started out about like this. Got horribly nasty for a while. Even had to put my gloves on which I hate to fish with but what the heck, I am still catching them that is what counts.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

Schoolboy Q

The more harder you work, the less you're out spending your money.

Brand Pretorius

Dealers pushed particularly hard in March in order to qualify for their quarterly sales incentive bonuses.

Paula Creamer

Annika's at the place I want to be. I think that's helping me. I have to work harder than her. I have to get stronger than her.

George Foster

Anything that's on the lower end of the pay scale would probably be harder to fill.

Don Cole

The situation is making it harder for our officers to do their jobs.

Jack Straw

The situation is grave, ... We have all worked hard to support the legitimate prime minister.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Mother Maribel

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Al Lang

It was unacceptable play on our part. When we get down there, we have to score six points instead of three.

James Garner

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

Simon McBurney

I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth.

Mike Morse

I've been through a lot worse. I need to get at-bats, play every day, instead of being up there just sitting around. I look at it in a positive way. I need to show them I belong.

Troy Sunderland

That's why we really felt, if the other two kids could get to nationals, we could surprise some people and as a team do some things. Now, instead of going with 10, we'll have to do it with eight.

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Andy Warhol

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Sarah Olson

We're playing better as a team. This was more respectable than the first time we saw them.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

Joe Gibbs

We think somebody who's 24 years old is going to be playing here a long time.

Scott Heffley

We didn't make the switch until the season had already started but now they seem to be getting comfortable with each other and anticipating where each other is going to be. Right now they are just playing off each other and working really well together. It seems if one is scoring, the other one is getting the assist.

David Kelley

We got as much out of this team as we could. We've been playing undersized and outmanned all season.

Kobe Bryant

We want to go into the road trip playing with some momentum, playing with some kind of rhythm.

Jason Ferguson

We weren't up to playing the way we were supposed to play.

Thomas Jefferson

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

William S. Burroughs

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Violette Leduc

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

Jim Andrus

It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.

Rob Carter

It was more of a relief than anything.

Ayumi Hamasaki

New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.

Eddie Griffin

We've lost a bunch on the road, I don't even know how many. It's a relief to get this one.

Jay Gallagher

It's a real sense of relief to have Tim home.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Erick Jensen

If they wrestle like they did this weekend, we could make a statement at states.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).