Quotes about fours (15 Quotes)



    My grandmother works for the athletic department at Long Beach State and has been to several Final Fours in other sports. But she's never been to one in hockey. She's flying in from Boston after attending the women's basketball Final Four.

    The indignity of it With everything blooming above me, Lilies, palepink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate, Me down in the fetor of weeds, Crawling on all fours, Alive, in a slippery grave.

    Being ranked is important for recruiting and credibility and later on when they pick teams in March, the committee tends to look at that as some sort of barometer. It's a sleeping giant here. It's been down since Guy Lewis retired in 1986, but it's a tradition-rich school with five Final Fours and banners all over the place.



    In both fours, we viewed the race as an opportunity to work on our race plan against a fast opponent and a chance to determine what our focus should be between now and the Radcliffe dual next weekend.

    The college game is controlled by guards, has been and will be. You guys are going to try to name all the great big men who have carried their teams to Final Fours recently. You're not going to come up with any. You're going to come up with teams that are dominated by good inside play and terrific guard play. In the college game, guys that control the ball control the game.

    Coach G has put so much into this program since she's been here. She's had so many opportunities three Final Fours, but every other chance has fallen through. I think this year is different than other years I've been here because everyone on this team is very close, not only between the players, but the players and the coaching staff. We're trying to win it for each other.

    I can do everything I can to prevent or deter my employees from serving alcohol to a minor, but I can't ensure I won't ever have another violation. It was too much of a risk -- a financially devastating risk -- to have those fours days hanging over us.


    Ever since summer, we have been dreaming big - Final Fours, pursue championships in everything we do. It's not a surprise to us because we have worked so hard all year and over the course of the years. We know we belong here.



    I am really not pleased with the improvement that we are making. I think our guys are having a very difficult time putting together 40 minutes of basketball. Yes we are playing a lot of different players. Our fours and fives have to play bigger, they play too small. They have the size to play big, but they don't play big with their intimidation of challenging shots.

    DFJ was reluctant to endorse Four11's move into Hotmail's territory, but Four11's evolution was inevitable. Four11 was our directory when we launched our first product, ... but it became apparent to them that we would be very successful. We were sending more subscribers to Four11's directory in three or four months than they had amassed in two years. Even though I was told that DFJ had discouraged them from getting into the e-mail business because we were there already, they started developing it internally when they saw how successful it was for us.



Authors (by First Name)

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M
N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

Other Inspiring Sections