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.

Paul Turner

We're not dismayed in any way, we're building but it's a slow build right now.

Peter Steinbrueck

We're not building the public transportation system that we need.

Ben Howland

We're not building a program, we're following the leadership of John R. Wooden. He's the one that built this program. It will always be his program.

Abe Reichental

We're not building a future for a few years, we're building for a lifetime.

Audrey Lewis

Like any other marketing campaign, you want to build up your profile.

Chaz Bickers

Like any company that's going into negotiations, we have made plans for any possibility. That said, we can't make airplanes without our team members there to build them.

Steve Harrison

Let's be a little creative about this before we start building three- and four-story circular structures. This is Beaufort.

Stuart Butler

Let people try what they want in their states, providing it meets certain standards. It will mean diversity. It's also a way of building consensus over time of what needs to be done, something you can't do if you go nationally initially.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily, the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. Within six to eight weeks, I'll be completely back up and running and three weeks after the surgery, I should be jogging and building it up until I'm back.

Robert Wilson

My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.

Joel Stoneton

We're not big and strong, but we're a quick, fast team. We're not going to overpower you, but we can run around you to the outside. We're just going to spread the field and see what happens.

Dave Brogioli

Maggie and Erin have been a tremendous 1-2 punch and Taylor has stepped up to make some big shots. We're scoring a lot of points with our shooting and we've also been doing a good job forcing turnovers that have fueled our fast break.

Robert Brown

Love, we are in God's hand. / How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead. / So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Scott Runkel

Lee is a powerful kid. He's off to a pretty fast start and hopefully he'll stay hot.

Larry Schmit

Seton was just a bigger, faster team. And there were a lot of them out there too, so they were able to stay fresh.

Amanda Palmer

Sean and Paul have been following the band's growth for the past two years and have a real understanding of what we're trying to capture. The record is going to be fast and furious, immediate and raw.

Robert Browning Hamilton

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

Jim Tressel

Mike is strong as a bull, and a surprisingly fast guy. And he's one of those players whose motor only has one speed - all out. He plays so hard that he gives the other team all kinds of problems.

Ricky Ray

Man, did we run the football really well. It all starts up front. They were doing a great job of controlling the line of scrimmage and Troy was doing a good job of making his reads and getting a lot of yardage.

Ricky Ray

Man, did we run the football really well, ... It all starts up front. They were doing a great job of controlling the line of scrimmage and Troy was doing a good job of making his reads and getting a lot of yardage.

Richard Seymour

Make no mistake about it. That wasn't the reason that we lost that football game.

David Wright

Last year we started off pretty horrible and this year we're off to a good start. If this was a football season we'd be sitting pretty right now, but in baseball, we have a long way to go.

Jeff King

Lee said he wants to play in the Football League and I understand that.

John Giles

Selling him to Leeds, not seeing his potential as a midfield player, was my greatest mistake in football.

Youri Djorkaeff

Mo guaranteed me some new players, and a kind of football, more offensive. He didn't guarantee me victory, but to try, it was very important to me.

Chris Connolly

Mt. Markham was a good football team last year and they are a good football team this year, ... I know they lost their big back from last year but this was a good test. Next up is Richfield and they are another good team. They played us tough last year at their place.

Joe King

Me and the team want to win the state championship. We want to go undefeated this year and show the state what Southside football is all about.

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.

Alexandra Adornetto

I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

Laurence Steinberg

Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.

Steve Mullins

Letting kids out of our schools who don't know how to read and write, it's always been morally indefensible and now it's economically indefensible as well.

Johnny Depp

Luckily the kids are pretty well-balanced and well-grounded and not monster-like at all.

Jennifer Ebelhar

Let your kids select the vegetables they want as pizza toppings.

E. Hicks

Lou has really put us on the map. He has been so important to this program because he's shown other kids in the school that you can wrestle and be successful at St. Mary's. Just because we're a small school and we have to roll out the mats in the cafeteria to practice, it doesn't mean we can't be competitive.

Ned Yost

Look who did the damage. That's where we're at right now. We've got those kids and they're producing.

Tim Giel

Last year, we had only six kids wrestle at the section tournament. This year, we have 11 kids entered.

Andy Coulombe

Last year when we came, we had some kids who went two-and-out, but this year every kid won a match.

Jeremy Bloom

One thing that I feel like I have been able to do is transition between those two sports very easily.

Chris Crutcher

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

Chris Evert

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

Chris Evert

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

Chris Evert

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

Chris Evert

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

Chris Cornell

I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.

Dick Vitale

It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.

Diane Kruger

My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping.