Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Shinn

I was in New Orleans just this past week. It is a terrible, terrible feeling to see all the homes that, to me, look destroyed. It's not just the arena. If the arena is in playing condition, will there be fans there? I don't know how many people will come back and how quickly they'll come back.

Kemper Arena was brand new my senior year. It was an awesome experience because you can see everybody play and get to talk to them. I really enjoyed that. It's really too bad they don't do that anymore.

This was a goal and my other goal was to place (at state) and bring home a medal. It'll be interesting because it's in a new arena this year.

Richard Davies

His productivity in arena ball is obviously something every coach would love to have on their ball club. And it establishes some healthy competition at the quarterback position in training camp.

Allen Iverson

I think the biggest part of this was the fact that we were coming into an arena where the guys were 0-7,

I think arena football (revenue-sharing model) is a trend in regards to sports that don't have competitive leverage to get guaranteed rights fee,

Byron Scott

He has the ultimate confidence in his stuff with what he's capable of doing. I think it's just special for him to play at the Garden because he knows how historic this arena is.

Jason Kidd

He gets out of bed with 20 points. I tease him all the time about how he shows up at the arena and already has 20 points. He's that good.

He'll lace up, get on the ice and work with the kids. He will help them and have fun with them. He's not a guy who comes into the arena with his nose in the air.

Brian Sullivan

Playing in the big arena the (Tampa Bay) Lightning play in, that was pretty good. Getting your name called out and everyone cheering, that was pretty cool, too.

Noam Chomsky

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

Joanne Harris

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

Matthew Robinson

If you take a basketball arena and say you're going to fill it with just hard-core basketball fans, it would only be about 40 percent filled. If you're really going to fill the arena, you need to market to people and make it entertaining so they'll want to come back.

If you're a sophomore here, we use it as a motivational factor. ... It's a real motivation. If a kid gets to be on the floor and warm up in Rupp Arena and experience what the state tournament is like, especially if you get to Friday or Saturday, you'll understand why they call it the Sweet Sixteen.

In our research what we found was that Wichita is a 13,500-seat arena town. What we also found, though, was that the move to 15,000 seats for basketball had a negligible effect on the price of the building. Go beyond that, though, and the costs go up.

I am an arena creature - by birth, I think. Most of my life has been spent as a rink rat.

Chauncey Billups

I'm very, very excited for this opportunity to kind of resurface in the community and the arena that I miss playing in and that I loved so much when I was there.

Ron James

In arena football, the offense is a timing offense. If you give the quarterback time and vision, he should be able to move the ball properly.

Marcus Camby

I love playing in the Garden. This is the best arena in the world to play in. They have such loyal fans out there, and they gave me a great ovation when I came in. It's always good to see a lot of familiar faces. The ball boys, when I was here, were little kids. Now, they're grown up and married with children.

Kurt Warner

I love playing here, ... I played in a dome in college. I played inside in Arena Football. I've played in the dome here. I just love playing inside. It's my element. It's what I'm comfortable with. ... It was great to get back in here. If we play this way at home, we're going to be a very, very tough team to beat.

Stu Jackson

I'll still look at the tape, but it's always better to be in the arena when something happens. The tape doesn't always get everything.

Deion Sanders

I look at this as a challenge. I think all men thrive on a challenge. I love arena football. It's exciting.

Jerry Abramson

I know he will continue to help us turn the vision of a Louisville arena into a reality,

Tim Smith

In the social arena you have funds that follow very strict screens and funds that use their shares to push for change.

In the short term, all sorts of industries in Western European countries -- and in the long term in the energy arena -- stand to lose from a confrontation with Iran.

Josh Klinghoffer

I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'

I haven't seen any team shoot in this arena like they did the first half.

I have never played in an arena that loud where everybody is cheering for us,

In designing for the environment, mid-market companies need to be able to handle many of the same compliance issues as large enterprises, and Arena Solutions can help them reduce their risk of non-compliance because the system is very scalable.

I knew I was walking into an arena where the tone is shrill, ... I didn't realize there would be so much wrong information.

The fever in the truck market continues without abatement and our industry leadership in that arena through May is more testimony to the durability, reliability and customer enthusiasm for our trucks, particularly our pickups and full-size sport utilities.

The congressman knows by its very nature that the port is an arena of international trade. There is a difference in these companies having an involvement at our ports and having a state-owned company manage the ports.

Joel Silver

I'm not looking to... I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.