Famous Quotes & Sayings

He was the best shot-maker in Arizona basketball. There are more people more athletic, but he knows how to play the game and make shots.

I worked through this season, watching and evaluating our basketball program. I evaluated Rob's body of work for the past eight years and I decided that it was important for Arizona State University to make this change.

If we could get three or four days off at a time, we would do shows all the way up to San Francisco and Arizona and all the way back. Before we knew it, we were getting like three to five hundred people in 10 different cities up and down the West Coast.

Jan Brewer

If the federal government won't secure the border, the State of Arizona will step in to complement federal efforts in a constitutional manner and protect the security of its citizens.

If the federal government isn't going to do the job and Arizona is footing billions of dollars a year for illegal aliens, it makes sense for the state to get involved.

Scott Erickson

He was at the hospital when they decided to pull the plug. There was like six guys from our team that had flown out to Arizona to go to the hospital and see him after they heard about the stroke. That just shows what a great guy he was, that so many guys rushed to his bedside.

He's come a long, long way. He's made progress to the point that he was invited to the Arizona Fall League.

Tom Jones

He hasn't given me any real hints. But I know BYU and Arizona State are both schools he's giving a lot of thought to.

When his arm speed comes back, his slider is going to be close to what it used to be, and we saw that (Monday). If he comes in (today) and feels good, we are probably looking at a three-inning game in the rookie league in Arizona on Thursday. After that, we'd like to get him up to four or five innings and think about where we've got to go with him.

We've taken a slide the last couple of games. We're trying to get back to where we were at the beginning of the season. We're trying to get guys having fun, concentrate on doing the right things during the game and playing hard. Even though it's Arizona (and not an ACC team) it's a big game for us confidence-wise and to get back on track.

One man from Arizona is thinking of moving his company here and changing his lifestyle because it's all spread out.

Obviously we were very disappointed by the Arizona State loss. We just have to produce and try to forget about that and focus on the game tonight.

Maybe they'll take off if everything is just right. Most of the time, they don't ... We've been lucky because in Arizona our climatic conditions, our soils are so different and so extreme that not many things that are tropical are going to be able to survive here.

We need Arizona to come out big and support us in the finals with their Internet votes to beat out the nation.

Since Rickie is on the 40-man roster and possibly may play in the Arizona Fall League, we wanted to get him to stay in baseball shape with the big club and receive the instruction and experience at this level, ... He has a very bright future and we believe that this opportunity will be invaluable for him in his development as a player.

Many more Arizona businesses are seeing the changing ethnic minority population shifts and the rates of minority population growth.

She's having probably her best year ever at Arizona State. Ashley is a big reason why we've been so successful.

We're just getting to the point where we're having fun. Are we going to set carbon targets? Are we - god forbid in Arizona - going to do something about sprawl? We're going to do our best to get language in that will make a difference.

The people at Arizona State were great friends and wonderful hosts during a difficult time for LSU last year. We wanted to keep this relationship intact.

The past three years we played ASU first, and we always prepared for ASU during the week; we would never prepare for Arizona until after the game. That's how it is on all road trips. You prepare for the team you are going to play Thursday.

Nate Ruess

I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.

Jan Brewer

Well, I think it's real important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in southern California, we have a very diverse population. The Hispanic population has been part of all of our lives since we've been born here or since we've grown up here.

I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.

Peter Wright

We had a positive weekend last week (against Arizona and Arizona State). We're looking to build on those performances.

We've never had them, even when we had no CAP (Central Arizona Project) water. But we can't say 100 percent, we're sure, no restrictions.

Stewart Udall

There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.

We don't know whether he'll be there (the majors) this year, but we wanted to do this in case something happened and he was. It's also a reward for the Arizona Fall League season he had. He kept working after his regular season. These guys play every day for a long time and sometimes that's not easy to do.

I think ASU has done everything it can. Now, it's a matter of changing Board of Regents policy and Arizona state law.

We recognize Yuma as being a firearms source for guns going to Mexico. Arizona is a source state for firearms to Mexico.

We've played Oklahoma, Alabama, Arizona State and Michigan. She's got the best one that we've faced.

Gabrielle Giffords

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

We knew we had a great shot when he went to Arizona and didn't commit. We had known about Chris for a long time and we just kept on him, kept recruiting him because you never know what might happen.

There have been some ups and downs, and our chemistry has been really good in some games and for halves of games, and in other halves we didn't look like a team. But in this one we put together two halves of Arizona basketball.