Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

William James

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Will Ferrell

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

Sarah Palin

Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.

Saoirse Ronan

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

Saoirse Ronan

I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.

Warren Moon

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

Warren Moon

Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.

Venus Williams

So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.

Roger Ailes

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.

Robert Ringer

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

Ryan Lochte

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

Thomas Peterffy

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.

Robert Griffin III

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

Robert Griffin III

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

Red Auerbach

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

Red Auerbach

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Red Auerbach

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?

Red Auerbach

When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years;

Red Auerbach

I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different.

Red Auerbach

Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.

Red Auerbach

You can't win without the ball.

Red Auerbach

If you're keeping score, win!

Red Auerbach

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

Red Auerbach

Everything can happen in the playoffs.

Red Auerbach

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

Red Auerbach

If they think we've got an edge, we've got an edge.

Red Auerbach

All records are made to be broken.

Red Auerbach

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

Red Auerbach

You've got to avoid overcoaching. You've got to avoid talking too much. You've got to avoid showing players that you're the boss every time. You don't have to do that. They know you're in charge.

Red Auerbach

Look after your people.

Red Auerbach

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Red Auerbach

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.