Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Farrell

There are certain states -- Maryland has become one this year, North Carolina has been one and New Jersey has been one -- where there's no real home-school advantage. Guys can just come in here and cherry-pick who they want.

We are getting a huge proportion of those students staying in South Carolina today. If we didn't have this scholarship program, that might be a very different story. I don't think the value of this program can be overstated.

Howard Platt

We're experimenting with the viability of doing some Livingstone games that don't conflict with our North Carolina games,

We're experimenting, and I'm already looking at the tournament. Carolina will definitely be playing a lot of singles, she's played quite well.

Ivory Latta

We know what they're going to come out and try to do. I don't think we have to concern ourselves with anything they do. We have to go out and play Carolina basketball.

We know we didn't play well, North Carolina just whipped us tonight. It's going to take some character for us to come back. We're either going to respond or we're going to fold. We're going to have to come out smoking the next game.

Erich Bergen

I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.

Katie Holmes

Fortunately we've been shooting in North Carolina which means we're not in LA where you can hear people talking about you and you know so much about what's going on in the business.

When I come back and see what's happened, I'm very distraught to see how South Carolina State hasn't advanced.

Jerry Richardson

Since his retirement, no other Carolina Panther has ever worn No. 51. We are proud to say as of tonight no Panther player will ever wear this number again.

Most people aren't going to move from Missouri or Texas or Ohio to take a job in the North Carolina system unless they know they have some security, ... Being president or chancellor of any school, public or private, is a difficult job.

Steve Spurrier

What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.

We didn't want Carolina to get into a rhythm. We played a lot of zone, but we played some man. We switched defenses as much as we could.

John Edward

The people of North Carolina voted their hopes instead of their fears. I intend to work harder than any person who has ever represented this state in the United States Senate.

Emma McLaughlin

Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.

Nolan North

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.

The question before the court has nothing to whether North Carolina should or should not have a lottery. The real question is whether political expediency trumps the state constitution.

Traditionally, around the world, tea is planted on hillsides. We're flat as a pancake, but we have sandy soil and ditches next to each field so the water drains away. The plants have been here in South Carolina for over 100 years and they're happy here.

Alison Krauss

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'

Virginia Postrel

In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.

We definitely wanted to play (Duke) again. With it being down here, it will be all Duke fans like it was today with all Carolina fans.

Right now, Gordon's not posing much of a threat in terms of wind or storm surge. There's still a lot of rain over South Carolina and moving into North Carolina. There is the potential for flooding during the day.

Possibly -- possibly -- Duke, and maybe North Carolina State. I'm not sure that we all aren't fighting for positioning now. I said before the season started that this would be a year where you could throw predictions out the window. I'm not sure you could make calls. You've had a couple of wide margins, but most games could have gone either way. That's the way it is in the ACC.

We want to collect as many supplies as possible, ... I encourage North Carolina farmers who have extra or surplus items to donate to their counterparts in Mississippi.

Lovie Smith

Carolina wanted it more than we did. Twenty-one points, normally through the course of the year that would have been enough for us. Defensively going in, we talked about not giving up the big play. We were not able to do that.

Carolina takes seriously its obligation as a NCAA member institution, and we shall continue to pursue with vigilance and honesty our goal of full compliance with all NCAA policies and procedures.

Hines Ward

Carolina played a lot of Cover 2. When teams play Cover 2, you have to be able to run the ball. We didn't do that. And, we have to stay away from negative (yardage) plays.

Mike Holmgren

Carolina offered him just a phenomenal financial package, and he was gone. Ken had developed his skills. We drafted him, we liked him, he had gotten better and better and better, and now he's playing at a certain level. That was a good signing by Carolina.

Carolina looks like they can hang with this team. They've shown they can play well on the road (even though) I know the Bears' offense is anemic. It should be a good NFC final.

Gary Williams

Carolina is playing better now than they were up at Maryland. We're playing about the same, and that combination was the reason for the outcome today.

Tom Coughlin

Carolina is a tough, physical, well-coached team. We earned the right to play this game at home, and that is very important.

Laura Harper

Carolina has so many weapons and so do we, and I just wanted to play confidently and have fun out there. And that's what I did. I just had fun.

Howie Long

(Carolina had) that stretch run of the (regular season), three road (playoff) games and the injuries. It all piled up for the Carolina Panthers.