Famous Quotes & Sayings

I told the guys after the North Carolina game that this is a big win and I'm happy for you. But we've got to enjoy it today and focus on Clemson. That's the most important game on the schedule because it's the next game on the schedule, and you have to protect your home court.

The one thing I'm proud about our football team is we battled. You've got to give credit obviously to North Carolina State's defense. They did a great job.

The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners,

Michael Brown

Something that most people may not realize is that more than 50 percent of the deaths in a hurricane occur because of flooding, and right now the entire Eastern Seaboard -- all the way from North Carolina up through New Jersey and New York -- the ground is just saturated.

South Carolina was the first school I took my visit to and it just felt like home. They called me Mike and really made me feel welcome.

South Carolina State does not get its proportionate share. Why should State be a stepchild? That is what 1954 was about. It's a state-supported institution and it should start there if it's about funding.

South Carolina is the one team that really thumped us. No question, we'll play a lot better than the first time we played them.

Now is the time for Carol Browner and EPA to grant the waiver,

Geno Auriemma

Duke has more good players than any other team in the country right now. You can say (North) Carolina is talented, Tennessee is talented and Maryland is talented. But look at Duke's roster, the size and speed and quickness and shooting and experience and depth. You name it, they've got it all covered.

Back in the 1970s, when South Carolina and about nine other states also used them, they only could hold 1.5 ounces. When the liquor industry went metric in the '80s, they went to 1.7 ounces.

That was a concern addressed on the floor of the House last week. We certainly don't want South Carolina to become a state where methamphetamine is readily available. That's not the kind of message we want to send or the kind of state we want to be.

Joe Horn

That's why I came. I wanted to come and feel their heart. Now I can feel more comfortable about taking a flight to Carolina and trying to win a football game for these fans.

That tells you North Carolina was indistinguishable from states without laws.

We knew Carolina was too good of a team to not make a run at us in the second half.

The road games at Florida and Virginia Tech, the rivalry games with Tulane, UAB, Memphis and East Carolina and challenging games with conference newcomers, Marshall, UCF and Tulsa to our schedule is not only great for our fans and supporters, but also for the community of Hattiesburg.

It would be impossible for a player at North Carolina to be nicknamed Magic. It simply wouldn't be allowed.

We lost two games down the stretch at Carolina and Duke, two games we could have won. We've learned from them and used those games for experience.

We got people from all points in the county, true Carolina fans that do it for the labor of love, and everybody chipped in, and that's the only way it could've come down like it did,

We help in any way we can without leaving South Carolina in jeopardy.

It helps that I'm familiar with a lot of things Carolina does. I don't know if it'll help on the court.

Florence Henderson

I played Carol as the mother I always wished I had, as the mother a lot of people wished they had,

Georgia will find very little sympathy in coastal South Carolina for the costs it must incur to correct its reliance on an unsustainable resource.

Hilton Head is not only just a South Carolina favorite, it's a world favorite, golf destination known around the world. That really got a lot of people's attention.

How can the Jackets follow their opening thriller at Auburn by giving North Carolina even the hint of shocking Tech for the second consecutive season?

I don't know if you saw the North Carolina game. We were down 16-2 in that one. We just had to regroup, keep our poise and come back.

I didn't play very well in the Carolina game. Those penalties I had were stuff I can control. I need to work hard and improve on that. It's just mental focus. I have to focus better and hopefully those things won't happen.

Steve Spurrier

Everybody at South Carolina sends our hearts and prayers to the victims there in the Gulf Coast states. Our football game is not really all that important compared to the devastation that these people have suffered.

Larry Robinson

Talking to Scotty (Stevens), he has kids and he enjoyed taking his son Ryan to football practice. I could hear it in his voice. I know that Ron Francis has a huge estate in Carolina and he loves it. Those guys never had a chance to take a year off before and they got used to it.

It's important in our Lottery Commission appointments that we appoint the folks with the highest moral character, ... I don't want North Carolina to be a place where the lottery turns out to be a major problem.

It's always tough to go on the road and win. East Carolina is a very difficult place to play. They have one of the great environments in college basketball.

Everyone is in competition with one another. We want to give you a reason to make Carolina Place the mall of choice.

Jim Knight

This potentially is the worst agricultural damage that eastern North Carolina has ever faced.

Bobby Johnson

I want to go to a bowl. They want to go to a bowl. They can do the math. But we're not saying we just want to win two out of the four. We want to win all four of them. You start with your next game, which is the South Carolina game, so that's the game we're going to try to win first.