Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

Let your life be your argument.

Folarin Campbell

Like coach said, we just go out there and have fun. We're all calm, poised and we make sure we have fun. I mean, basketball was made to have fun. So, if you ain't having fun, you're not going to perform.

Mike Petersen

Let's be honest, we had much higher goals and expectations for ourselves this season. What would (Wake men's basketball coach Skip) Prosser say? Skip would say 'mercurial.' He's a wordsmith. We were mercurial. We were up and down.

Joanne McCallie

LSU did a great job. We took care of their zone pretty easily, but then they played a lot of man and did a good job with it. I'm not pleased with our team's toughness. We really need to be strong on the court. It was a good lesson for us, but not at all the kind of basketball we play.

S. Walker

Maine's won three in a row and they're shooting the heck out of the basketball. They're shooting 53 percent from three in the last three games so those guys are on fire right now. We just happened to catch those guys on two nights when they didn't shoot it very well.

Garrick Phillips

Lynden is a good basketball team. There is no question they were better than us. That certainly wasn't the best effort we had.

Ben Braun

Leon and I have talked a lot about his future and his options. He just had the best season of his basketball career, which is a credit to his work ethic and perseverance. I trust that Leon will ultimately make a great decision.

Jim Tildsley

Lowell is a very, very good basketball team and they pushed us to the limit. Both teams played extremely well and I'm very happy with the way we hung in and executed at the end of the game.

Dickey Nutt

Lorenzo will still be a valued member of our basketball family, and we will support him 100 percent in his desire to obtain his college degree.

Kristoffer Polaha

The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.

Jim Greer

Libby played an excellent match. Kelly played hard. Libby just made very few mistakes.

Mike Rodriguez

Sean's a very hard worker. He's excellent on takedowns.

Jack Siedlecki

Mike has picked things up very quickly -- he is an excellent pass blocker, which allows us to keep him in the game in all our one back formations. He is still a work in progress.

Geoff Hoon

Obviously we have seen some excellent work by our police and security services, but that work must continue,

Paul Hartman

Obviously, Williams is an excellent athlete, ... He runs well and passes well. But we feel they have some other kids who are also impressive. So it's not a one man show by any stretch of the imagination.

John Locke

Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.

P. T. Barnum

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

Frank Decker

We had a very nice run down there. We played some excellent teams.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Dick Vermeil

Now the players are going to say we don't need to practice on Thursday.

Tom Bailey

We won't be one-dimensional on offense, ... We have linemen who can give our skilled players time to make the plays.

Joe Kines

I did a poor job. That's my fault. That's not the players job, that's my fault.

Tommy Taylor

One of the players said that we couldn't make anything and (Republic was) making everything.

Larry Brown

I wish this would get over. It's really about the players and us getting better.

Jody Bronson

I was pleased with the way a lot of our players performed.

Lori Ulferts

She's one of the most underrated players in the league. Even when she wasn't scoring in the first half, she was the source of most their points.

Bill Spears

just if they have a rapport with me and how they feel about (me) running.

Bill Burton

I wouldn't say we're recruiting them. ... Most have taken it upon themselves to run.

Terry Gough

I don't know what it is. Recruiting is crazy.

Vivek Wadhwa

Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling.

Greg Schiano

We just have to keep recruiting to the finish. That's it.

Lacey Schanz

Recruiting is an art. You have to be as serious about recruiting as you are about coaching.

Brian Carlwell

My visit was good, and I just wanted to get the recruiting over with.

Robert Massey

Winning's a recruiting tool, ... We have to get some wins.

Randy Edsall

There has to be a whole revamping of recruiting because of technology.

Steve Merfeld

We really like the versatility of the 2006 recruiting class.

Elizabeth Bowen

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Charlie Chaplin

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Charles Caleb Colton

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

Charles Spurgeon

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

David Dinkins

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

David Brooks

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

Barry Bonds

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

Barry Bonds

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

Barry Bonds

I like to be against the odds.