Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you're a sophomore here, we use it as a motivational factor. ... It's a real motivation. If a kid gets to be on the floor and warm up in Rupp Arena and experience what the state tournament is like, especially if you get to Friday or Saturday, you'll understand why they call it the Sweet Sixteen.

It was great. The fans were great. They were nice boos. They had to do that because they had nothing else to do. I will probably expect it (boos all season), but when I get to the arena and it is time to play, then it will be all about playing basketball.

It was just a great win for our program. That's another sign of progress from where we started to where we are now. I'm really proud of our young men. To go into overtime in Florida International's arena and to dig down and find a way to win was awesome. It was just a great effort.

David Jones

Things have changed since the Arena Task Force voted for the LG&E site.

The (retail) arena has gotten very, very competitive. You've had Kohl's enter this market and you've had Wal-Mart and Target expand.

This is a very intimate arena where the stands come right down to the floor and I like that. It's going to be very loud and we have great crowds that have supported us over the years. I think it gives us a home court advantage.

The kids have to hold on to the wool and tighten their knees around the sheep and ride it as long as they can. They are only judged on six seconds of riding, but they can go to the end of the arena if they want.

The fever in the truck market continues without abatement and our industry leadership in that arena through May is more testimony to the durability, reliability and customer enthusiasm for our trucks, particularly our pickups and full-size sport utilities.

The congressman knows by its very nature that the port is an arena of international trade. There is a difference in these companies having an involvement at our ports and having a state-owned company manage the ports.

Joel Silver

I'm not looking to... I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.

In designing for the environment, mid-market companies need to be able to handle many of the same compliance issues as large enterprises, and Arena Solutions can help them reduce their risk of non-compliance because the system is very scalable.

Chauncey Billups

I'm very, very excited for this opportunity to kind of resurface in the community and the arena that I miss playing in and that I loved so much when I was there.

Ron James

In arena football, the offense is a timing offense. If you give the quarterback time and vision, he should be able to move the ball properly.

I knew I was walking into an arena where the tone is shrill, ... I didn't realize there would be so much wrong information.

I'm looking forward to going into those arenas and seeing how we respond. We have had a lot of success on the road this season. The way a team plays on the road is key to winning in the playoffs.

I have never played in an arena that loud where everybody is cheering for us,

In our research what we found was that Wichita is a 13,500-seat arena town. What we also found, though, was that the move to 15,000 seats for basketball had a negligible effect on the price of the building. Go beyond that, though, and the costs go up.

Marcus Camby

I love playing in the Garden. This is the best arena in the world to play in. They have such loyal fans out there, and they gave me a great ovation when I came in. It's always good to see a lot of familiar faces. The ball boys, when I was here, were little kids. Now, they're grown up and married with children.

Kurt Warner

I love playing here, ... I played in a dome in college. I played inside in Arena Football. I've played in the dome here. I just love playing inside. It's my element. It's what I'm comfortable with. ... It was great to get back in here. If we play this way at home, we're going to be a very, very tough team to beat.

Stu Jackson

I'll still look at the tape, but it's always better to be in the arena when something happens. The tape doesn't always get everything.

Deion Sanders

I look at this as a challenge. I think all men thrive on a challenge. I love arena football. It's exciting.

Jerry Abramson

I know he will continue to help us turn the vision of a Louisville arena into a reality,

Tim Smith

In the social arena you have funds that follow very strict screens and funds that use their shares to push for change.

In the short term, all sorts of industries in Western European countries -- and in the long term in the energy arena -- stand to lose from a confrontation with Iran.

Josh Klinghoffer

I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'

Any time you're in a holiday situation, you never know what you are going to get from either team, and we were playing in a beautiful but empty arena and it just kind of felt weird all night. But I told them they were doing a nice job of getting the job done, and that's what we're going to take from this.

We tried to schedule some home games out of conference this season, but no schools were willing to come in here to play with the team we have coming back. Porter Arena is a tough place to play. Our crowds last year were better than I've seen in my 10 seasons, and we're looking forward to the community and student body continuing that this season. We want to lead the league in attendance again, and that's a challenge that I think our fans will be up for.

A lot of the old arenas have character and that's what gets them great to play in. Once we get the fans in the building, it'll be great.

A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.

Mick Cornett

They made it clear that they liked what they saw and that our arena was appropriate for NBA games.

All that functionality takes memory, fast memory. As we diversify our portfolio and move away from the traditional desktop and notebook arena -- that's not to say we're getting out of it -- the Richmond site is going to be running a lot of those products.

Marty Schottenheimer

The crowd deserves a significant portion of this success. I've never been in an arena that had the kind of noise that they had today. It's a tribute to their fans. It was very, very difficult. We didn't manage it very well.

The Guru has cut away my bonds. I shall not have to dance in the wrestling arena of life again. Nanak has searched, and found this opportunity.