Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Gordon

His confidence with the puck is night and day. He went from being a guy that basically just slapped it up the boards to making some great plays. So much so that we've put him on the power play. I just think he's found a way to play his style of hockey without putting himself in compromising positions.

Clint Hurdle

His hip wasn't a factor. His command was an issue. He basically pitched out of the stretch the entire time he was out there.

He wrestled well. He was kind of trying to hang on at the end instead of staying aggressive, which I didn't like. Basically he was taking (Miller) down and letting him go, which is risky.

Chris Crutcher

By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.

Maurice Drew

But I think I'm a versatile back, someone who can do a lot of different things. I can run, catch, block, return, basically anything you want me to do, I'm going to go out there and do. I'll make plays for you.

Before, there was always this thing that he had to be careful - 'I'm crown prince, but Fahd is king'. Now, it's basically his reign.

Before the governor opened up the dialogue with Secretary Chertoff, the local feds were basically stonewalling the state. The devil is in the details. We need to get the feds to focus not only on the border but also the impact of illegal immigration on metropolitan Phoenix.

I never thought about it until I broke my leg and realized I have to get insurance, ... The more I was traveling and doing work I realized I did need that, basically to protect my investment, which is myself.

Richard Eyre

I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and what plays you put on; the vision comes out of that.

I'm used to thinking a certain way, making my reads and my throws a certain way, routes are run a certain way - now all that is slightly different, ... It's basically the same offense, but there are enough differences that a lot of the things I'm used to doing I have to learn in a different way. That's what takes so much time.

Bret Bielema

I need to have daily improvement in everything we do and I basically felt throughout the entire spring that we did do that.

I need to borrow a camera to take some pix of my studio, which is basically the kitchen table.

Jerry Brown

In essence, it's a typo. The books are really put together from a series of complex databases. For headings, they're in the (computer) system as codes. Somebody basically entered the wrong code.

Steve Spurrier

I'm not ... those walks schools do, we've never done that. We've basically just bused up next to the locker room.

Tom Renney

I'm not sure that we competed hard enough for the first 40 minutes, and the third period was just basically a penalty-kill period. There's not a lot to like about the game, quite honestly. But we'll go to school and correct ourselves.

Jamie Bamber

I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

John Brady

I like the way we match up. They're basically a seven-guy rotation like us. Obviously, with that in mind, if we can get to the foul line like we've been doing, it may give us an advantage. I like the match-ups that we've seen.

Anwar Robinson

I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to.

I'm basically trying to play as physical as I can . . . trying to make plays, disrupt things. I don't know what stats show so far but I know I'm doing the best I can, no doubt about it. I feel pretty good.

Ira Sachs

I'm basically making the same film over and over again,

Marcus McNeill

I'm basically living a dream. I'll get a chance to play professional football, which is what I've always wanted to do. I'll spend draft day at my family's house. We'll have a barbecue, invite all our friends over. I'm going to have fun. This is the fun part.

Rita Ora

I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.

Ray Stevens

I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.

Estelle

If there is enough space on radio for Busted and McFly, who are basically the same band, or for 50,000 versions of Stereophonics and Coldplay, there must be enough room for all of us.

If the plans stay as is, we're going to have to find some other place to go. Basically our club will be in severe financial straits. And I know it will be hard for the canoe club as well.

Dave Mason

If the record company won't let you put a record out, then you've nothing to promote, and they're not going to help you out with the tour budget if you've nothing to promote. So basically we were kind of trapped. And all the songs we would have written would have been owned by Mercury until they released us. So what do you do? It's kind of like a prison sentence. You are at their beck and call a little.

Jeffrey Tate

I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Miroslav Volf

If somebody postulates the existence of more than one god, I would have to say we don't worship the same god. If somebody says that God is basically one with the world, I would also have to say we don't worship the same god.

I had a long talk with the guys that the entire school year just comes down basically to one week. I think we're focused on our objective right now, and the bottom line is we just need to win. If we just take care of our own business, we're OK, and I think we're capable of that.

Suzan-Lori Parks

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

O. Henry

I just tried to clog up the middle, tried to be as big a presence as I possibly could be. I basically just used my body to make it tough for them, kind of get them out of synch with their offense.

Markus Persson

I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.

I remember playing there many times. What the city is going through now is rough. I still have a friend who lives in Lafayette (La.). I heard his whole house was gone, everything basically floated away. The whole situation tugs at you.