Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Wallace

I used to play with the weights, but once I hit my sophomore year, I got serious. That's when I got addicted. You know, you start seeing a couple of rips and you like how it looks and you keep working, and it goes from there. Now I am addicted. I enjoy working out. I enjoy being in the weight room.

Things are starting to look up a bit. We just have to string together a couple of wins.

Things are going well. We've had the opportunity to have a couple of practices here. Notre Dame's been very accommodating.

Think for the worst thing that has happened to you. Then, imagine living with that for a couple months.

Think about that a couple weeks ago the way things were working for us. Last week the way things were looking. This team, the guys on this squad, we never give up.

Things went kind of slow for them midway through the season, but they have picked things up the last couple of weeks. They've been very good the last few weeks.

Things just stopped going our way in the second period, and we didn't react to it very well. Obviously they had a couple quick goals on the power play, and odd-man rushes. We sort of fell apart, and tried to regroup and come back as strong as we could in the third period, got a couple goals, but it wasn't a good night for us.

Things just haven't been going my way the last couple of games, but, you know, as long as the team keeps winning that's all that really matters. We're doing well. We're 14-1 so I can't really worry about myself too much.

The worst of the deterioration is probably over. We are within a couple of quarters of seeing a turnaround.

The win at heavyweight was a great surprise. Jess Hockley did what it took to win, and that was a big surprise for us. That was a turnaround. We had a nice win there, and we got a couple of pins which help teams out tremendously in a tight dual like this.

Alex Jones

The whole time this guy was punching him, he held onto the purse. The last couple of hits looked like stabs.

They all handle the puck. They all help each other get the puck. They have a tremendous work ethic, and they are very unselfish, and they all have skill. Those guys have only been together for a couple of weeks, and they look like they've been together all year.

Steve Clark

The word from talking to the officials and other people (at the game) is that it was grabbing and a couple of shoves, kind of like a rugby scuffle.

The work order has been put in and the employees who have been scheduled to install the crossing device have been set for the next couple of months.

Larry Davis

There would have to be some upsets. Probably a couple of teams with byes would have to get knocked out, but I think it can happen, absolutely.

The run's still intact. Any pullback is temporary. Even if we lose a couple of hundred points, you're going to see people jump in and push it back up. There are plenty of people in cash.

The run's still intact. Any pullback is temporary, ... Even if we lose a couple of hundred points, you're going to see people jump in and push it back up. There are plenty of people in cash.

Trot Nixon

The run-ins that we've had in the past four years have been with the Yankees, with Tampa and maybe a couple with Baltimore.

I've talked to him a couple of times about some type of possibly expanded role. But we don't have anything specific to report right now.

Luc Robitaille

I've seen this goalie a couple of times, and I knew he'd come out quick. I just took my time instead of going too fast. I knew on him I would rather take my time and give myself an extra option.

Geno Auriemma

I've seen (Strother) go through stretches where nothing's gone in, but she had that one stretch where she made everything. It all evens itself out, I think. I think all she needs is a couple to drop. ... She'll come around.

Mary Wilson

I've spent a couple of million dollars trying to sue these people. There are no laws to stop them.

I've never seen a team improve as much as I've seen us improve the last couple of months. We could fall flat on our face, but that won't diminish what we've done the last couple of months.

I've never seen them this bad, this early in the thing. Usually this is toward the tail end of the second week, but we haven't had this kind of weather, except for the last couple of years, been pretty tough on ice sculptures.

Tamika Catchings

Unbelievable. Kelly Miller has hit a couple this year for us. Just as long as it doesn't happen again.

You have to measure your success. There's 100 people in the race and only three get medals. We still have a young group. We have a couple veterans. So, we're focused on performances, not results.

You have to look at the whole season, if not a couple of seasons, and see what history is there.

You had a couple of plays that need to go a different way and we'd be sitting in a different chair.

You have to go up there and just battle. I found some holes today and managed to get a couple hits. If you get intimidated, then you're already beat. I just made sure I went up there and had a lot of confidence.

You have to give Jake credit. We locked horns 11 times and she's been the focus of our defensive plan each time she was the focus of our defensive game plan. Today, we ran an inverted diamond-and-two and it worked pretty well. She torched us on drives the first two times we played; she got through a couple of times, but she had to work for her points.

Felipe Alou

When you pinch-hit like that, you gotta be aggressive. There were a couple of up-and-in fastballs that were not necessarily strikes, but a guy like that (Bonds) could hit it out.

When you only get 11 shots, those are tough games, we say that every single time. He had to make a couple of good saves.

Phil Garner

When you look back, there were a couple of points during the game where it could have gotten real close. It turned out OK, but I thought it was going to be real easy.