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.

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Gina Jones

Now that the truth is out, I want justice. I want the guards and nurse to be arrested.

Jake Palluzzi

(Barnes) needs to understand how to get open and our guards have to get him the ball, too. It was two-fold.

Adam Barrett

She's one of the top point guards in the state.

Patrick Cinotte

She scores well, rebounds well, passes well and guards well. She's a total all-around player and she makes others better.

John Jay

Shoot, he plays every position on the court. He's just a guy who hurts you in whatever position he plays no matter who guards him.

Jessan Gray

I don't know about look bad, but (we) really got into the guards and didn't let them do what they wanted to do.

Chris Gallerani

We did that because they have three guards that like to go to the basket. We wanted them to stay outside.

Dan Messmann

We got the post-game established early. Our guards played off that and started to hit some of their shots.

Ibtesam Saleh

We'd like to have more security guards and know we're safe in the school. If there was a way of having policemen in the classroom, that would be wonderful.

Kristy Curry

Let's not make a mess of this. It started with our seniors today, for whatever reason. They didn't handle the situation. We will be better from today, I promise you that. The film clips are already being clipped.

Digger Phelps

Let's get serious. Glen Davis, he's so tough in the paint. They can't handle him.

Bruce Carter

Obviously we don't have a Superdome. We have to take a look at what we have in our county. We can handle hundreds or thousands, but not tens of thousands.

Troy Powell

One thing we did well was we handled their full-court press. They've got a lot of quickness, and they press the whole game.

Derian Hatcher

My abs are sore. They speed around, and they handle the puck, too. It's really tough to handle the puck when you're moving.

Peter Bondra

Maybe the pressure was too much for us, and we couldn't handle it.

Rafael Palmeiro

Maybe it wasn't the right thing to do. I've never been in a situation where I'm getting booed so badly, and I just really don't know how to handle it.

Ben Roethlisberger

Obviously, Tommy can handle this team, ... but I'm going to make sure that I'm out there.

Stew Morrill

Obviously, Nevada speaks for itself, a Top 25 team. They handled us pretty well in Logan. We played well the last time we were here. We've played pretty well in this building.

Robert Kazinsky

Nothing is as hard as working on a British soap in this industry.

Dave Balza

Like I said, it's hard. It's hard to be positive when you're losing.

Viktor Kozlov

Like I said before, it's like a lottery. It's hard to score in the shootout.

Tim Kearney

Luckily he didn't have to work as hard or often in as other games. When we need him to step up, he does.

Pamela Smith

Lucinda was my only child, and she was God-given, and I know somewhere, somewhere I will come to terms that it was her time. But it was how it happened, and why it happened, that I have a hard time with. I miss her so much.

Kayla Rengel

Make sure we keep our focus, make sure we practice hard all week, and sleep well when we do have our off days.

Ozzie Guillen

Losing Tony is something that is hard on the Latin community.

Nicole Ohlde

Losing a player like her was hard because she does so much on and off the court.

Jerry Stackhouse

Last year, we had a letdown. We didn't want to work as hard as we did this season, then give it away. Now hopefully we can do what we did on the road last year.

Sanford Rubenstein

Let the message go out that in this country, when a police officer kills an innocent victim, he will be held accountable.

Tony Blair

Milosevic is responsible for the welfare of those people, ... When we go into Kosovo finally, he will be held responsible for what we find.

Kerry Carr

My expectations for the weekend were always held in check. I had never seen the team perform.

Alafair Burke

Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.

Doug Harvey

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

Heidi Perlman

We want to make sure these kids aren't held up.

Ray Stevenson

One of the most profound things for me is that my character's name was held by somebody, ... It's not just made up.

Cy Alexander

I was real pleased how we held our composure, and I'm disappointed we couldn't come out with a win.

Craig Jones

She was in a position of trust as a public servant, so we held her to a higher standard than we normally would.

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Ned Yost

We had battled back for him and got him in a situation where the score was tied,

Reggie Lewis

For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it.

Dominik Hasek

One of the important things was when it was 0-0 and we killed the five-on-three and they didn't score. We scored after and it's always better if you score the first goal.

Christopher Young

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

Patrick Ramsey

If we can do what we did tonight without the turnovers, then we'd score a lot of points, ... And I think it's a successful night for all of us. But those turnovers killed us. It negates really what we did.

Tim Pearce

If they score more than a 6 on this screening form, then they are not going out,

Keith Ballard

I don't get to score that often, so when I do it's fun. And to get the game-winner, it's exciting.

Judy Garland

I could sketch out a score in different keys, a new way each time.

Kris Draper

One thing we wanted to do was take away Blake, with that big one-timer he has. We wanted to get into some shooting lanes, and we did that. We talked about how important specialty teams were going to be in this game, and they were.

Earl Nightingale

Shooting for the top will bring out the best that's in you.

John Beilein

When we shoot them like that, we can play with a lot of people.

John Beilein

If we're shooting well, we're a tough out.

Elaine Elliott

She's a perfectionist to a fault. She'll just keep shooting to prepare. She'll do the same thing she always does. She'll try to get into a rhythm, and I'll just try to get her to smile.

Jon Snow

Should I shoot him? He was a tyrant. He'd killed thousands.

Daryll Hill

Shoot or pass. It was in between. I should have shot it, but I made a pass.

Kyle Korver

Shooting threes is always what I do best. If it's not what I do best, something is wrong with my game.

Joe DeBruyne

Shooting has been our bugaboo. We didn't rebound. That was the difference.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Dick Wolf

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

Diane Sawyer

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

Dennis Quaid

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Eleanor Roosevelt

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Edward Abbey

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

John Clifford

From talking to him, I think he wants to play receiver.

John Groff

From what we have been talking about, it's going to be really something.

Chris Graves

Obviously, we're disappointed, but we've got to keep working. It's always tough to go on the road, but we'll be prepared. That's all you can do.

Dennis Prager

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

Richard Shelby

I can tell you that at the end of the day, we're going to have to make some tough decisions.

Michael Spencer

From one to nine, they're all tough outs.

Ernie Goss

If we'd had a typical winter, it would have been a little tough for the retailers.

Sherlyn Lattimer

She was a tenacious, tough and strong-willed woman.

Ann Richards

She's always going to take on whatever is the toughest challenge.

Jeff Long

To us, Bo was just this lovable, great, hard-nosed tough coach,

Fred Couples

Tough day, long day. Teed off at 7 p.m. (6:45, actually). I don't think I've ever done that before.