Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chauncey Billups

The regular season got us the home court throughout the playoffs, and that was our goal. Now it's time to get down to business.

John Sweeney

Working families need and deserve Supreme Court justices who understand and respect the importance of hard-fought rights and protections, not justices who take an unduly narrow view of the law.

We feel the courts in the end will see it our way, but we have to let that process go through.

We're pleased with the jury and we're raring to go tomorrow morning. I think these people are going to listen and going to have an open mind. They know this is a court of law, not a court of public opinion.

Jim Calhoun

Overall, we just kind of overwhelmed them. When we play offensively like that we're very good. And this was their third game in five days so it made it very difficult for them to stay with us. Our depth is going to wear you out anyway. We didn't play great defense but we ran the court well.

Paige is a warrior inside. She plays so hard and gives us so much energy. The other thing she did today was help us handle the basketball. For the most part, Paige and Caitlin were the only junior and senior on the court and they showed great leadership.

David Vitter

Our goal is to have a full and fair debate vote in September, ... If Judge Roberts is to be confirmed, we'd like to have him on the court by the time it goes back into session Oct. 3.

Taurean Green

Our front court guys have been playing great as of late, but teams are going to start to key on them. When they get doubled, the guards are going to have to knock down some shots.

Dmitry Rogozin

Our victory was stolen from us. After a court decision, we found ourselves in a difficult situation, and it is important for us at present to strengthen our organization, rather than dwell on things past.

Our ultimate goal, like most teams, is to make it to the state championship. We think we have a shot. We also have a lot to work on, too. We can't just walk out on the court and expect to win.

Nancy Grace

You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm series are real historical characters, everything had to be authentic. I researched Woburn Abbey, where my heroine lived, and everything about Barons Court in Ireland, which was the ancestral home of Abercorn.

You look up at them and what they do and how they react on the court to different things and you try to pattern that. So I just wanted to be a positive pattern for them.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

Sandra Day O'Connor

In terms of having the American people look at the court and think of it as being fair and appropriate for our nation, it helps to have women, plural, on the court.

S. E. Hinton

We were able to pressure them, and they wanted to play a half-court game. We took them out of their half court game as much as we could by pressing them pretty much the whole night.

Corey Parker

We definitely feel a lot better having him out there. I felt we played real good as a team and emotional-wise it was a big lift having him on the court again.

We definitely want to use the whole court and pressure you full court. Basically, we want to pressure the ball. If we can do that for four quarters, we're going to get a four- or six-point run late in the game.

Gary Williams

We didn't shoot well tonight, but we didn't execute well either. It's a team thing; everyone on the court has to take responsibility.

Hank Johnson

Love it or hate it, Obamacare is the law of the land. It was passed by Congress, signed into law by President Obama, declared constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and ratified by a majority of Americans, who reelected the president for a second term.

We're not thinking about placement. We just want to play well and try to go 2-0. If we play well on our home court we'll have a great opportunity to get two wins.

Janet Reno

We are pleased that the court has sustained our judgment that Elian should be reunited with his father, ... The court's decision reaffirms our position that only Elian's father can speak for his son on federal immigration matters.

We're a team that likes to move, and I think the tight 2-3 was like a fence out there. They had everything jammed up inside and our dribble penetration wasn't working. We like to be able to get up and down the court and we weren't able to do that.

This would be a signal that political criticism and pressure on the court has had an effect. You need independence from the political process for the trial to work.

Gil Garcetti

The proponents of Proposition 22 say that (it) doesn't deny hospital visitation or inheritance rights for lesbians and gays, ... But in Florida and Virginia, arch-conservative legal organizations have used similar laws as tools in court to deny lesbians and gays fundamental rights -- like the right to visit a sick or injured partner in the hospital, the right to inheritance, or the right to health insurance.

Mathew Staver

We could have kept Michael completely out of the children's lives, but it would have kept it in court for another year and a half and would have dragged the kids through another trial.

Mike Bryan

We could have been off that court in 11/2 hours, ... Well, next time.

Patrick Kavanagh

In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.

Christine Whitman

We won this election for the President, and we deserve to have the next Supreme Court nominee, we deserve to be heard, we deserve to have our policies implemented.

We didn't have a good finish to the year. Now it comes down to how we play. For us, it's a youth situation, we'll be spreading the court out, it'll be a small style of game.

Wyoming needs a governor who will aggressively court business.

Sania Mirza

I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that's how it started. My mum said, 'Why don't you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?,' and that's how I started playing.

the deck of the ship which Grace captains, to the court of Queen Elizabeth I where the two remarkable women once met.