Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's good music. But after awhile, you learn to block it out.

Roger Craig

It's getting your race plan -- or game plan -- together like professional football. But it's all about you because you don't have 10 other guys blocking for you. I'd love to have some linemen out in front of me, but the cool thing is you set a goal for yourself and it's all about you.

It's hard to get rebounds when they make all their shots. We actually did a good job of blocking out, but everything dropped through the net.

It?s great to have that size on the back end, but I guess that?s stating the obvious. Tonight was an example of how far B.J. has come. Last year, he blocked a shot and still found a way to foul the guy. His positioning is a lot better now, and it?s made him much more dangerous.

It's great to block for 'Coco' because he makes it exciting. I love to see him score. That's what keeps me going.

That's one of the main reasons he deserves this (Pro Bowl). Teams are having to change their blocking schemes and change their offenses, trying to slow him down. They stick a tight end over there to cover him. They send multiple guys out to check him.

Al Horford

That's a big part of our game, is blocking shots. That's the way we play, and if somebody gets it in there, we're going to try to get it out.

Ron Turner

That'll be the toughest thing blocking the pass routes. The running game will come.

Jerry Glanville

That quarterback, No. 11, he can play some yard-ball. And the offensive line does a good job of sorting things out and blocking things.

It's somewhat surprising that they've decided not to block that area.

Lou Holtz

It's sound. Nobody ever blocked us because of a scheme. They might have blocked us because we didn't block somebody.

It's similar to the play at the plate that I scored on Adam's ball. I knew I would probably be out, so I ran at the catcher to try break up the play or block a throw if the throw hits me. It's just part of the game.

It's not as simple as blocking out New Orleans.

Eight block can work for some kids but not all. Every child should be given an environment to promote their learning. Self-starting kids thrive in eight block but also in seven period. The rest are being set up to fail in eight block.

Education doesn't end with graduation. The first position out of college should provide learning opportunities that will serve as building blocks for future career success.

Everyone chipped in and blocked shots and battled. (The difference) was persistence.

Everybody made sacrifices. We tried to block shots and make it easy for our goalie.

Everybody was on the same page. The receivers ran good routes, the guys did a good job of blocking and it clicked. We started going five wide and they couldn't stick with our receivers.

At what point do we stop continuing to try? It can be contagious if one or two people a block do it (clean their streets and gutters and trim trees).

Edward Whitacre, Jr.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

As long as we're keeping our linemen in a position to feeling confident and not put them out there to block for three-and-a-half to four seconds, we'll have a shot to make some plays.

That (patio block catastrophe) never should have happened.

Dwight Howard

That's what we need every night out of me and him. He's been more consistent so far of late, as far as blocking shots.

Ilya Kovalchuk

That's my job, to score goals and score as many as I can. I don't know if I'm going to be the leader of scoring or not. I just want to help my team win as many games as I can. Maybe I'm going to block the shot and we're going to win the game.

That's inexcusable. We worked too hard on that. You can't have a punt blocked and win a football game.

That opened the door and showed us the big plays were there for us. (Schilling) has got some talent. We could feel the momentum going our way then and things started clicking. Guys started making their blocks and gang tackling.

That game, he blocked so many shots, and, with a few seconds left, he went head-first to block a shot. It was amazing. That can help more than scoring goals when you block shots like that. So maybe he's not scoring that much, but he's still doing a great job for us.

You reward everybody for what they do best. We want the guys who take the charges, block the shots and we have a stat for getting loose balls, for diving on the floor. We put emphasis on those little statistics, when everybody only wants to know about rebounds, assists and scoring. It's not just about who scores all the points.

Bottom line is we did a poor job blocking out and rebounding.

Between classes, eight students walked the halls cheering, blocking the hallways, chanting. They were protesting.

Everything they did, we practiced against. They just whipped us up front. When we had eight guys in the box, they blocked us. When we had nine guys in the box, they blocked us.

Even though he (Manning) didn't score he was still a force. He was finding someone else, he was getting rebounds and blocking shots. He was still the difference. There's only so much you can do with that kid. He's just a great player.

Be it block shots, be it rebounds, be it a dunk here or a dunk there. I'd love to play like I did tonight every single game. That's the goal.