Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Banville

The 9/11 attack was a huge and terrible thing but it was not unique. I come from a country where, if you put it in scale, some say 350,000 people would have died from the violence.

That was huge. We talked about being focused (at halftime), we talked about having an attack mind-set, it was a five-point game at that point.

That was how the game was called. We want to be physical. We want to attack the basket and we want to get to the free-throw line. We've got a goal to get to the free-throw line 30 times, and we didn't. ? There were fewer calls than we expected.

That was the real Keith Langford today. He was in attack mode. I could see it coming. He's been like a dormant volcano just waiting to erupt.

That would be nice. But I fear that these controversies have set the stage for each of these campaigns to just attack their opponents' character all the way until Election Day.

The 1993 WTC attack was unprecedented, the first attack by foreign terrorists on American soil.

Jalen Rose

That's the thing about the NBA it's all about runs. We didn't attack the basket and didn't get to the free-throw line enough. We came back but they put us out of range with that second quarter.

That's their No. 1 weapon, ... can sit off in a field, where we'll never see them, and attack us.

That?s the one thing that Coach is really kind of harping on right now and frustrated with more than anything, the fact that we do get up and then let teams come back in. Then we force him to have a heart attack before we pull it out. I think it?s good to see (that we were able to close the deal Sunday); it?s a good win for us, but that?s something that we still need to work on.

That's been our strength all season. We get down there and we attack the board and attack the glass. We got a couple kids that when it goes up, it's theirs.

Tom Coughlin

That's been a goal that we set two weeks in a row, really, ... We really aggressively attacked that by challenging our defense with some percentage numbers that were way down, that would cause that kind of a holy-cow kind of an approach, where you'd look at it and say, underneath such-and-such percent. We have been able to go out and do that, and of course that's the key thing now.

That?s a tough weight. District 4 is strong there. It?s one of the strongest weights in the tournament. Kyle was quick and agile. I was impressed with his speed and his match sense. He had good balance and was mixing it up with good attack off the top.

I was proud of them in the second half because we came out and attacked the basket. We had some looks and if some went down we could have cut the lead to under 10. We didn't quit and we're not going to quit.

I was real happy with our defense. We gambled a little bit more than I liked. I think our ball pressure and denial defense was pretty good especially this time of the year. I told the kids to go out, attack the boards, and lay it all on the line.

Joe Lieberman

I was beginning to hope someone would attack me.

Pau Gasol

I wasn't going to settle. I tried to attack (Duncan). I didn't have a great game but it didn't mean I didn't want to get to the rim.

We need to attack more this time. The guards were getting the ball inside to me, but I wasn't finishing, so I put that on myself.

Brad Childress

We have a system that we are attacking the defensive scheme with. I think you would shortchange yourself if you weren't attacking that scheme. We're fully cognizant with what he can and cannot do. I don't know if there's much he can't do.

We have not been able to talk to her. She may not remember the attack at all.

We haven't faced a 1-3-1 zone much. We really didn't attack it well at all.

We are in the heart of Cleveland, ministering to young teens on a battleground infested by oppressive spirits and the attacks of the enemy. We are fighting each day to reach the lost, especially our young people, because we know that greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world.

We are horrified by this attack on innocent people.

We are disturbed by the vandalism of the mosque and the high frequency of attacks that have taken place in a very short time span.

We know over the last year, in the build-up, there had been attempts to get him to step down, to attack his leadership. I don't see the fire from these sparks. It seems to have died out.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

those involved in mass massacres, rapes and bomb attacks

Those who are attacking him are not even fit enough to tie his shoelaces.

We were just focusing on attacking in the second half. (Alex) did a good job attacking.

To beat the champion, you've got to take it to them. We had to attack them and put the pressure on them. We weren't going to win shooting jumpers, so we took it to them.

Whether he was aware of that was not clear. There are a lot of instances where people have heart attacks and are not aware of them, especially when your jobs require you to do things that require you to get hurt.

Who could plan an attack on secretaries, on engineers, on bank tellers, credit union tellers, and, yes, even babies? ... You now know. You have spoken. Terry Nichols could plan such an attack.

We continue to hope that these two journalists make a speedy recovery. What these attacks show is that covering Iraq is fraught with risk. Whether reporters are embedded with military forces or working independently there is no escape from the danger.

Ken Block

We were never far off from Travis, and when I attacked midway through the rally Travis turned up his speed even more and kept us at bay. We had a good time fighting it out and the cars were perfect.

Brooks Bollinger

We were moving the sticks. We were attacking them and staying in a rhythm as an offense.