Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Billy Donovan

As a basketball team you have to go through it. They need it. The game came down to our inexperience on the basketball court to their experience.

Michael Wong

As a group, we don't have the size and strength of other basketball players, so we try to create our own little world of basketball. We're not trying to lock people out because we're better. We're protecting our weaker status.

Jeff Davis

The bottom line is, we were beat tonight by a very good basketball team. I won't say better, but a very good basketball team.

Diana Taurasi

The bottom line is we've got good basketball players so we make good basketball decisions and play really good basketball and we just got to keep that same focus and intensity,

Don Allen

The bottom line is we're going to be playing onehopefully twovery good basketball teams. We're going to have our work cut out for us, regardless. A month-and-a-half ago, we were in the bottom of the barrel.

Austin Kirby

At times, we've stagnated a little on offense. We still haven't played our best basketball yet.

Terry Becker

A year ago, these guys were a long ways from being a good basketball team. But the great thing about them is that they worked hard and they listened and they learned.

Mike Lewis

Back east here, we were kind of basketball snobs. We figured we had to be better. That was our first mistake.

Tim Healy

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

Jeret Peterson

As far as competition and stress, I'm sure will be through the roof. But I'm going to walk away having fun. That's why I came here. Yes, I came here for a reason, but I'm also here to have fun. That's mostly the reason I came here.

Ratomir Dujkovic

As a result, most pundits have written us off and I came under strong pressure from the media in Ghana but we have pulled our socks up and are determined to give our fans in Germany something to cheer about.

Mark Hamilton

As a team, I think we came out with a lot more intensity and a lot more focus tonight. We wanted to come and prove that our offense can get some runs, especially after getting shut down into the eighth (on Friday).

Jamie Mahaffey

As a team, we played well and we came together and we got through another day. We've been through a lot of controversy today, a lot of issues. We have a family here and we've been moving on all year. We're going to keep on moving on.

Brendan Morrison

As a team we just weren't good enough defensively and our deficiencies came to the forefront when it mattered most.

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.

Tony Allen

As a group, the young guys are getting better and better with each game. Tonight we had a good opportunity, but we came up with a loss.

Wayne Smythe

As a freshman, Bryson did everything, and more, that you would expect a freshman to do. He came in and wrestled like an upperclassman. He's one of those guys we knew we could count on. We could see growth from week to week.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Danielle Clark

The way our team plays, it opens up possibilities for me to score. We play so five people can score. We?re not just looking for one person.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Bruce Allen

The situation is he's a free agent. He has had interest, he said, from other teams.....Warren is testing the market.

Matt Sundeen

The three most restrictive states are Connecticut, New Jersey and New York which prohibit the use of hand-help phones while driving. So in those states, you can use a hands free device, but you just can't use the hand held phone.

Mark Few

The theme seems to be going toward thug ball. We should be shooting 60 free throws per game.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai Stevenson

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Mahmud Abbas

after nearly 40 years of occupation, still do not live as free people in their own land.

Atharva Veda

Stress upon the importance of virtuous living free from any kind of sinful tendencies.

Kevin Adams

Once you get into it, it's really interesting and you can see how much you free up officers.

Ken Green

Other people are going to have to play better. Other guys are going to have to get some quality minutes and make some plays.

Jon Kitna

Other guys were shocked, ... It was discouraging.

Stephon Marbury

Other guys had it going, so I took a back seat. I'm just trying to win.

Jason Treutelaar

Other guys are stepping up for us offensively.

Rob Murray

People say Danbury always wins, but it's different kids each year. These guys have nothing to do with the kids that one that first title back in 1991.

Doug Moe

Of course, you have to remember, the little guys have to be pretty good. They can't be stiffs.

Luis Escobar

Of course, you guys are in our league. I don't know what we're going to do about that.

Tim Bates

Offensively, we still have the philosophy of we want to score every inning. We want to get seven runs a game. We're not always doing that, but we have had some timely hits this year. The guys are working hard. They're excited. They have confidence.

Mike Giordano

Off the mat she's reserved and mature. On the mat, she's very tough. I wish some of my guys had her ability, her heart and her desire.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Matthew Goode

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

Billy Flahive

I've never seen silver limit down. It hasn't happened since the 1980s.

Bryn Terfel

It was the worst thing that's ever happened to me in my very short time on this planet.

Mark Bellhorn

It was unfortunate what happened to me this year in Boston, ... I've just got to turn the page and start a new chapter. There's no hard feelings, but this is my team now.

James Welch

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

Mark Nash

The worst thing that happened to Zephyrhills might have been us losing last week.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

John Green

Whenever you use historic models, the housing market is going to be underestimated, and I think this is what has happened here.

Walter Gardner

The whole lane opened up. I was surprised by that.

John Bond

I was taught that the middle lane was the one you travel on. The left is for passing. The right is for on and off.

Ivan Radenovic

I saw that he was looking at Kirk. The lane was wide open.

Eva Gabor

I love the fast lane.

John McNally

It hasn't been unsafe, but there are situations where it could be.

Dionny Reynolds

In situations like this, it got to be three people.

Bobby Bowden

This is one of those situations where we don't have a lot of experience. But they sure are talented.

Billy Graham

We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Ashley Lewie

When Ari throws a pitch, I know where it is going to go.

Stephen Atkinson

The worst is yet to come, ... You're going to see more shutdowns.

Augusten Burroughs

I'm always prepared for the worst.

Brian K. Vaughan

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

Demi Lovato

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

Dean Koontz

the worst happens when you least expect it

Alec Baldwin

You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it.

David Platt

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

Usain Bolt

Since they came in with the selfie, it's the worst thing. You hardly ever get asked for autographs any more. It's always selfies.

Sophocles

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills