Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Robinson

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

David Robinson

Basketball is just something else to do, another facet of life. I'm going to be a success at whatever I choose because of my preparation. By the time the game starts, the outcome has been decided. I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.

David Robinson

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

David Brin

Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm?

Bengie Molina

We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.

Benicio Del Toro

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

Baron Davis

I just stopped liking basketball. And then you dribbling down the court and having the owner like cuss at you and call you an idiot. I didnt even look forward to coming to the games, and if the owner [Donald Sterling] came to the game, I definitely was not gonna have a good game because it was just like, how do you play when the main heckler in the gym is the owner of the team, and hes telling you how much he hates you and calling out your name?

Baron Davis

For me this was never a money issue, it was about being rich in your heart. To come home, and to be in the place where your dream first started, 15 minutes away from where my grandfather built my first basketball court, is a dream come true.

Derek Fisher

Basketball used to be my top priority.

Nick Holt

When you're a head coach who is rebuilding a program, it takes time to build from down in the bottom when you want to do it right.

Jason Abercrombie

We had been talking to the kids in that the bottom of the lineup had to do something and pick up some weight too. They have responded here the last four-five games.

Brian Becker

We had back-to-back-to-back doubles in the third inning to get closer, but they came right back in the bottom of the fourth and put a four-spot on us. Then they brought in (Jimmy) Cornell, and he shut us down the rest of the way.

Manuel Diaz

We had a very good day today. Our top two doubles teams played very well and our singles was very consistent once again, especially at the bottom of the lineup.

Stan Hyman

When the No. 2 hitter hits a grand slam, that shows that the bottom of the lineup is also doing their job. We're getting production from the bottom of the order as well as the top.

Jay Williams

When the judge took the bench, he said the parties should make an effort to settle this today or he would make a decision. This offer is less than the initial amount, but it is the bottom number for the settlement.

Tullian Tchividjian

The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

Timothy Noah

Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.

Brad Burns

We're looking at everything to make sure we get to the bottom of exactly what's happened. Everything is on the table on that front.

Elaine Chao

We are very focused on the fact that people do not have a paycheck at this point. We want to get money into their pockets so they can make their own decisions on what they want to do,

Bill Hybels

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

Tyra Banks

What keeps me up at night? Sometimes it's day-to-day work stuff. And a lot of the times, it's, 'Am I making the wrong decisions in terms of reaching young women?'

Timothy Noah

Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.

Brent Guy

Leon made some nice plays. He knew when to run and get the yardage. ... He is making better decisions.

Jack Greenberg

We want staff functions to support line decisions and maximize their impact.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Christina Sims

We use to discuss decisions. While he was over there I tried to keep him from worrying about what was going on here so he could concentrate on getting home safe.

Yasin Malik

The people of Kashmir should be involved in a process where their destiny is decided. So far, all decisions about our destiny have been made by others and later communicated to us.

David Brooks

When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

Audre Lorde

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

Astro Teller

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Casey Todd

We always focus one game at a time.

Steve Makein

We always feel good going into any match. We're focusing on individual match-ups and scoring as many points as we can.

Condoleezza Rice

We are very focused on hoping that these negotiations do succeed,

Denis Waitley

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.

Deborah Harkness

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Bear Grylls

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Audrina Patridge

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

August Strindberg

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

Arthur Rubinstein

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Gene Meyers

We actually had a little sunshine. It turned out to be a pretty good day. We had a lot of p.r.'s.

David Duchovny

You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours (points to us), what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Lines are very difficult to learn.

Bear Grylls

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Deepa Mehta

While we're working on the script, I never see any films. I make it a point because I don't want to get distracted. I don't want to be influenced, and before I know it, have somebody say, "My God, she plagiarized that line."

Diana Nyad

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

Channing Tatum

If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.

Billy Bob Thornton

Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.

H. Hart

When the offensive line is playing well, I don't think it really matters.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Ben Braaten

We usually have 10 different players in every quarter.

Joe Browne

We're going with young players who want to play in Pittsburgh.

Nell Fortner

She is one of those players that is worth the price of admission.

Maria Sharapova

Most of the top players are playing, aren't they?

Lori Ulferts

She's one of the most underrated players in the league. Even when she wasn't scoring in the first half, she was the source of most their points.

Dave Rubio

She's not there yet, but the top international players are making over $200,000 a year now. It speaks well of the sport.

Lee Pipkin

She's not just going to score points. She's going to do everything. Considering all the stuff she does for us, I think she's one of the better players in the state.