Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Arenas

We're not turning the ball over now and we're playing solid defense.

Bill Callahan

We're not that type of team, offensively. We're not going to throw the ball 25 times in a row and get into a no-back set. We have a complement of running backs. We have six of them here that we call the committee. If we went to no-back, I think there would be a few people knocking on my door.

We're not shooting the ball very well right now. We're in a tough place right now, but I'm very proud of them for keeping their confidence. We're struggling to shoot the ball.

We're not real strong with the ball so that's going to bother us. We just do some foolish things with the basketball and a good defensive team is going to slide in and help and then we're stuck with the ball." ()

We rely on our defense to slow teams down, and it worked to perfection. Then, it's just a matter of getting the ball in the hoop.

LeBron James

We're losing ball games, as simple as that. We're still (fourth) in the Eastern Conference. We can't get down on ourselves.

We are really working well together as a team and moving the ball around. It was a good team effort.

We are really counting on her a great deal. She really hits the ball hard, has a consistent jump serve, and knows how to play defense.

We are playing the ball down. In some matches, they'll be able to roll the ball. And, we'll be more confident and score better since we are used to playing it down. We have not let them touch it yet.

Jordan Gross

We are playing similar to how we did then. We're running the ball well and our defense is playing great.

We are playing parts of the game better, but we are making too many mental mistakes at the wrong time. We can't seem to put a team away. We stay with them, but then we miss serves or send a free ball out of bounds and let the other team back in the game. We have got to be mentally tough.

We are playing better; we just need a little luck at getting the ball to hit the holes instead of hitting to people. I have told the girls to keep hitting and eventually the ball will drop in for us.

We are playing better. We are distributing the ball and more guys are getting opportunities to score. Everyone is playing better team basketball.

Harbhajan Singh

Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Yeah, he's the type of hitter that when he gets the bat on the ball it's going to go.

Troy Polamalu

Yeah, but they still moved the ball, ... And it was probably until the fourth quarter when they had their first punt. They won the field-position battle and they had the ball longer than we wanted.

Russell Branyan

Yeah, but still, this is the big leagues. I've got no excuses. ... I haven't been on that dirt in a while. It makes it tough reading balls off the bat. I still should make that play. I'm a lot better player than that.

Yankton is definitely one of the best teams in the state. We came out and played hard, but our defense could improve a little and our ball movement.

Joe Dumars

We are looking for a guy with some experience who can step in and not be overwhelmed by being on the floor with our guys. We are looking for a guy who can shoot the ball and has some mental toughness.

We're automatically supposed to push the ball up. It was a big emphasis to keep pushing it up because we saw the big men weren't running back.

We're a team that wants five guys in double figures and we need to score at least into the 70s if we don't get in the 80s. We didn't have much ball movement, and that's why we are 13-16.

Brandon Roy

We're a team that shares the ball and I think we got back to doing that tonight.

Mark Gottfried

We're a team that's got to get better. We're our own worst enemy -- whether it's free throw shooting, whether it's missing lay-ins or containing the ball defensively, we've just got to play a lot better.

We're coming on after a little bit of a slow start. We're hitting the ball hard. We're doing more situational hitting in practice, working on hitting in certain counts. Overall, it's just more of a focus up at the plate.

We're coming into this year with a new ball club, a new approach, and a new attitude. We expect a campaign resembling the team's 1999 season.

We're comfortable with the numbers, knowing how cloudy the crystal ball is.

Nate McMillan

We're encouraged by the improvement but our execution down the stretch of these games tends to break down. Our spacing was poor. We didn't respond well to traps and our ball movement slowed, causing way too many shot clock violations. Tonight in the fourth quarter we seemed to settle for a perimeter game.