Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Horton

It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

Jonathan Groff

But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn't want to be.

Jonah Hill

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

Mary Meeker

I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.

Prince Charles

. . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.

Jim Nantz

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

George Lucas

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

George Karl

Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.

George Karl

When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners

George Karl

Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding

George Karl

I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball.

Emily Rios

I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball game, I'll probably talk to everyone there. That's different. But on the outside world, if I don't know you and you don't know me, I probably cannot sit there and have a conversation.

Jimmy Fallon

After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?'

John Cullum

I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

Joel Osteen

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

John Chaney

I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.

Linda Ellerbee

It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks.

Lil Wayne

They say I couldn't play football, I was too small. They say I couldn't play basketball, I wasn't tall. They say I couldn't play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball.

Leslie Nielsen

I like my sex the way I play basketball, one on one with as little dribbling as possible.

Lee Trevino

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

Lauren Jackson

I can't even begin to explain how important it is to all the people who have been involved in our program, and built it to where it is today. I can't believe we won. I can't believe we have the gold medal.

Lauren Jackson

I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships...We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this.

Lewis Black

I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.

Mike Jarvis

The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

Mike Krzyzewski

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

Mike Krzyzewski

In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

Mike Krzyzewski

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

Mike Krzyzewski

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

Mike Krzyzewski

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

Mike Krzyzewski

I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.

Mike Krzyzewski

We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong,

Mike Krzyzewski

Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.