Famous Quotes & Sayings

We needed to do a better job physically in the paint and not just from a couple guys, the whole group. R.J. can sure shoot it, he gave us some big baskets, and Mario worked very hard. We just needed one more guy to step up.

We are what we are, a team that has a couple of lines that can score. The other two better be able to shut down the lines they're going up against, as should the top lines.

Scott Skiles

We made free throws, they fouled us and we made free throws. We were able to get a couple of baskets when it was starting to get tight, and we held the off and kept them at bay. It was really just making free throws.

Gary Johnson

We've known for really the last couple of years, but not exactly when it would happen. He'd said in the next year or so he'd like to go back to teaching.

When the good Lord was handing out the physical traits in terms of quickness, agility, speed and coordination, he was at the front of the line and maybe he went in line a couple of times for some of them. But he knows how to use it. For a young man of 21 he's got a pretty decent set of technical skills. He can score with either foot. He can score in the air.

We had some protection problems, and a couple of times they got us on schemes.

Dane Cook

A couple of days back, I got into a car accident. Not my fault. Even if it's not your fault, the other person gets out of their car and looks at you like it's your fault: Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doing 80!

David Byrne

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Dave Eggers

Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year.

Dave Eggers

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

David Letterman

The best part about holiday parties is the alcohol. You have a couple of drinks and you tell your coworkers and your superiors what you really think about them. And then the fun begins.

Dave Willis

I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.

Dave Sitek

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

David Ogden Stiers

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

Condoleezza Rice

I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more about accessibility. Part of the problem is that this is an expensive game [golf]. I know in a couple of places where there are black members, and they come from pretty much the same socioeconomic level that the white members come from.

Experience is what counts. You want someone who does this every day, not someone who rents for a day to do a couple of surgeries. You don't want to be the guinea pig for an obstetrician delivering his first baby, or a doctor doing open-heart surgery for the first time, right?

But the kids have practiced well the past couple of days and were looking forward to Orland this Friday.

Jack Wilson

We've been outhitting our opponents most of the times lately. We're just not getting the big hit. Tonight, we got the big hits in that second game. That's one thing that's been eluding us the whole season. We got a couple of them tonight.

Jerome Bettis

We've been on the doorstep a couple times. Once we got to the play-offs, we knew it was a realistic possibility.

We need to get a couple of ugly goals, something to go off somebody's skate.

The government has been posturing over the last couple of weeks, talking about price increases in other jurisdictions, so I think they're trying to prepare people for a price increase.

Aaron Schock

My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.

We had a couple of younger kids come in and do a nice job for us. I have said to a lot of people recently that we are getting better at the right time.

We had a couple of volunteer stations we had to go back to a second time.

We had a couple of chances. If we had gotten that score right before half, it's 13-7 and we have the momentum.

Irwin Winkler

No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.

We made a couple more errors. We had a few breakdowns.

We've got to do a better job of getting those guys a couple of looks during the game down low. Hopefully they'll learn from the experience.

When I signed onto 'Superman,' editors Matt Idelson and Wil Moss gave me a rough outline that JMS had turned in for the remaining issues of the 'Grounded' arc, which amounted to a couple of sentences for each issue, spelling out in general terms where the issue would take place geographically, specific guest stars, things like that.

Mike Robinson

We knew there'd be some mismatches, but there were a couple we could've won, and we didn't.

We've been seeing a lot of people in the last couple of months, ... We've also been getting lots of phone calls.

We have gotten a couple of leads, but we do not yet know who the guy is.

We will get well into the second quarter before the job situation really starts to improve, ... That's typical of recoveries; it takes a couple of quarters before the labor market starts to turn around.