Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tedy Bruschi

He showed me he's a player. It would have been easy to pack it in early. But he kept coming. I think he's a guy, if you're a Carolina fan, you have hope you have a good one there.

Well, you know, the team that was picked 32nd last year was San Diego and they made the playoffs and the worst team the year before that was Carolina and we were in the Super Bowl. So maybe it's a stroke of luck.

John Edwards

I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.

I would have pursued Roy Williams all out because he's a great coach. But knowing his love for Kansas, I think the only way we had a shot is because he was a North Carolina grad.

Tom Izzo

If this place isn't Duke and North Carolina with the number of good players in the state, it's the coaches' fault.

If we lost that first game at Alabama, our kids would be questioning themselves. We accomplished that. To come back and play an experienced team like South Carolina and win, it helps with our confidence.

If South Carolina starts to do something serious about it, that will send a signal to a lot of people that, surely, they should do the same.

If South Carolina is ever to be successful in reaching its full potential, everyone must be qualified to participate.

Randy Foye

Having Curtis on our mind during the North Carolina game, it took a toll on us. It might not have shown, but it took a toll on everyone from the coaches to the players. Coming into this year, we're just a year older and much more mature and we know that we have a job to do out there.

Wayne Ellington

He'll have to wear a North Carolina sweatshirt with a Duke shirt underneath it.

We can have a park in North Carolina that's world class.

We can go all the way. We have the confidence. There's no pressure on us right now. North Carolina has all the pressure.

Sheldon Souray

We're in the playoffs, everything's at zero. We're looking forward to going down to Carolina and playing a really good team.

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.

Mike Easley

More North Carolina students are taking the SAT and they are improving their scores every single year.

Obviously we are going to every recruitment fair in the state of South Carolina that we can get to. We're trying to get out there and recruit just as hard as we can.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

Jim Mora

I think we ran into a Carolina team that was determined today. I don't think we played well at all, but I don't think that there was a guy out there that quit.

I thought playing at Carolina would be a lot better and I went with it. Every time I get in there, I try to do something, just try to swing the bat.

Paul Jones

With Tennessee and North Carolina, I could easily put them No. 1. I thought North Carolina was very impressive in what they did to Connecticut. I've had them in my top three all year. And Tennessee, the way they've destroyed people has really been impressive, too.

We need to come out on every pitch. Coastal Carolina is playing well this season, and they are always tough to play at home.

Heath Shuler

We need to clean up Congress. The people of Western North Carolina want to know that lobbyists and their special-interest money are no longer running the show in Washington.

Mark Dantonio

When we lost one receiver on signing day to North Carolina State, we made the decision then that if we found the right kind of guy, we'd take one. He's definitely that kind of guy.

We've played Carolina great the three times we've played them.

We knew we could get it done but we knew Carolina was going to make a run and give it everything they had.