Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think the mystique of knowing they're good enough to do it has been removed, but they know it can happen. It just remains a case where you've got to have a few breaks and you've got to play well.

I think when you bring a program up from the bottom, you don't get any breaks. You don't get any breaks from officials, on scheduling, stuff like that. That's part of the price you pay for your program having been down for quite a period of time.

We try to focus on defense first. What we try to do is create fast breaks off our press. Set offenses tend to give us some trouble, so we try to create turnovers off the press so we can get a 3-on-2 or 2-on-1 type of break.

Greg Oden

When they (Greg Jr. and his brother, Anthony) started basketball, I couldn't see them as much, ... I used to have them for summers and entire Christmas breaks because I never wanted them to think I forgot about them.

We made some pressure plays early in the game to stay in it, and then got a few breaks late.

We made some mistakes, obviously, but I thought we competed well the whole time. They had some big breaks go their way.

He was outstanding, always making breaks and getting in front of the forwards to provide a target for us.

I thought we had the opportunity to put the game away. We made a lot of line breaks but couldn't convert them into five-pointers.

I thought that we played extremely hard tonight. We didn't get any breaks on the floor and they made some adjustments that hurt us.

Ron Wilson

I think that first shot that Joe clanked off the pipe might have shaken them up a little bit. He provided a spark, but for the first time in a while we got a couple of breaks early in the game.

Brent Barry

I think it touched every part of the rim - maybe the backboard, maybe the shot clock. I think there's still some chrome on the ball. ... We needed breaks like that.

Geno Auriemma

I think it takes some of the luster off the regular season championship. Now, it doesn't carry as much weight as it used to. Some years, there are breaks in the schedule. Some years are tougher than normal. It's not conducive to having a regular season champion.

He worked hard all game and he got his breaks off hard work.

J. R. R. Tolkien

He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.

He's coming in and out of his breaks really well. He's always been a very sudden player, Brandon, in terms of getting in and out of his breaks. ... That's where you obviously create the most separation, is right out of the breaks.

Tom Bradley

He has a real knack for coming up with balls. He's picked off some passes and he's excellent at reading quarterbacks. A lot of that is instinctive, but he's gotten better over time. He's a kid back there that surprises you with some of the breaks he gets on the ball.

He never wanted to do anything but military. But he always had a smile on his face. It just breaks my heart.

Giving companies tax breaks is giving away real money,

If it's set up in such a way that it breaks the conditionality required by the (International Monetary Fund), I think that would be a step backward,

Tana Umaga

If we make breaks we need to finish them off.

Bud Selig

He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens. We're going to let nature take its course. Commissioners don't sit around and say, 'I hope this guy breaks it or not.

If they would pick you up and keep going without so many breaks in between, it would be nice, ... You're waiting in long lines. Now I'm waiting on a bus.

Fergie

There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

The real mechanism is what this will do to the dollar. It may be the straw that breaks the camel's back should oil prices move up sharply.

I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.

Claude M. Bristol

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

Adam McKay

Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.

John Gage

The PlayStation, $300 with a DVD-player and it runs Linux and Java, it's huge. Why would you ever put a PC someplace? It breaks all the time. You would spend more time fixing it than teaching (how to use it). These things (the PlayStation consoles) are designed for 12-year-olds and are really powerful.

We've been playing good, we just haven't caught any breaks. Hopefully we saved all the breaks for the end of the season.

We self-destructed in so many phases. The free throws, the turnovers. We couldn't handle the ball. Just things like that. We didn't get any breaks (from the officials) but we shot ourselves in the foot, too.

Failure to push the budget through could be the straw that breaks Mori's back.

Barack Obama

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

Barack Obama

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.