James Jones Quotes (49 Quotes)


    Martin is a big part of what we do. He's good enough and skilled enough to make plays. He fed off his teammates a lot Saturday.

    Today will be a day long remembered. It has seen the death of Kenobi, and will soon see the end of the Rebellion.

    The thing you also have to understand is that our strength is the depth of our team. When you have Matt Kyle and Ross Morin come off the bench in those spots, that just adds to our potential to be successful down low.

    We had these guys, but special teams hurt us a lot. We couldn't stop them as well sometimes on defense in situations. We've just got to make more plays.



    Steve does a great job of getting everyone involved. When we're balanced, we're unbeatable. But when we rely on one or two guys to carry us, we're in trouble.

    What if we do go to some other planet, discover it has life, and then not be able to get the baby snakes, or whatever they are, deathworms probably, out of the capsule, and then rather than sacrificing themselves and not coming back, the astronauts bring back the ultimate in irritating apartment pests. In 2106, people will be complaining about having deathworms in their bread.

    When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still early morning fresh.

    We've got to go back to the drawing board. We should of had these boys. We've got to see what we did wrong, and make up for it, and just get better.

    We're making them take tough shots. Our communication is better on D, and you need that, especially when you play on the road.

    It felt good, as good as it can be coming back from a severe ankle sprain. The adrenaline was going, the electricity was in the building and my teammates were playing hard. I mean, that drives you. I'm pretty sure I'll feel a little bit of something later tonight or tomorrow, but it really doesn't matter, we got a win.

    Colour makes a difference. Gender makes a difference. Ethnicity makes a difference. Acting as if they don't will create more problems than it will solve.

    What President Zedillo has tried to do is to make the campaign and the election day counting both fair and honest. That's what's historic. Mexico will truly be a democracy.

    My main concern is that we get back on the right track with our winning ways, and I know we can do that.

    Quotable The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come. ... Field of Dreams.

    Over the past half-dozen years they've spent almost 2 billion in various kinds of safeguards, to make sure that people are registered correctly, to make sure that there's minimum opportunity for fraud on the voting cards, to have as much of a foolproof conduct of the election as possible,

    They're going to be two hard games this weekend. I do have a lot of confidence that we can be successful. We had a good week of practice, and our guys played hard. They're focused, and I'm looking forward to seeing how they perform.

    My main gripe with suicide bombers, besides the fact that they usually aren't on my side of an issue, is that they don't really do it with any showmanship. They just walk in, usually hunched over and wearing ugly clothes, and BOOMO They blow themselves, and others, up. Why can't we see some dude run in wearing just a cowboy hat and chaps, spank at one of his ass cheeks and yell, I got enough C4 in my ass to level a city block Wooooooooo and then blow up.

    You know it's kind of hard to say from my side looking in. I think that coach Miller is a blank coach. Whether his relationship with the Penn basketball program is secure or not kind of remains to be seen.

    And when that happens, Mexico will have really leapt forward to first-world respectability.

    We're not asking anybody here to stop what you're doing. We're asking you to do what you're doing in moderation. There's a scripture that says let your moderation be known unto all men.

    That's definitely an opportunity lost for them, but they're a good team and they'll keep fighting.

    I think that when you play a team a second time, and the first time you play them you destroy them, your psyche isn't in the right place. We all knew that this game wouldn't be easy, and that we would have to play harder than we did in the first game, but we didn't do that.

    They did a better job of executing their offense to start the second half, and that really hurt us. When we aren't getting stops in the half-court, and they are getting baskets in transition, it is hard to stay in the game.

    Mike believes in us. He told me to trust my first instinct.

    It's kind of hard to compare what they did to Cornell and Columbia to our team because we're so different. If we're going to beat them, we just need to take care of the basketball and take care of ourselves. We have to do the things we're capable of and that we're supposed to do.

    They just tell you work every day as if you're playing, because your opportunity will come. Every player in this league gets an opportunity, you just have to make the most of it.

    The basketball is a huge part of it. Everybody's dream is to go to the (NCAA) Tournament. They all want to be in the Super 64.

    In Indiana, I was always getting back to protect the fast break. Here, I've been playing a little bit of (power forward,) mixing it up with Shawn (Marion) , and it's given me the opportunity to crash the glass without worrying about getting back.

    We didn't get to the free throw line. And if you don't get to the free throw line, that hurts your ability to put points on the board.

    Greenberg's teammates want to make him happy. They want to match his intensity.

    He believes in the community. He was president of the student council, and he is a man of integrity, a benevolent person and I believe he deserves this because of his integrity and his concern for the little person, not the big names.

    If you look at the affordable homes here, we've come a long way from a farming community to a better quality of life. That was with his help.

    It seems like every week we hear of new excitement or response from celebrities. Last week, James Earl Jones agreeing to attend, this week a signed beanie baby from Paul McCartney.

    There aren't any No. 1 options on this team. It's the first good look or good basketball play you see.

    He observed neighborhoods, people in neighborhoods, and he learned how they talk. I think that is the greatest achievement that he has done - he brought that to his plays, the language of people.

    In my old age I have come to believe that the whole of written history is miscreated and flawed by these discrepancies in the two ideals systems the one of how we would all like to believe humanity might be, but only the privileged can afford to bel

    Theaters like (the Landmark), I hope they will forever be salvaged. Long live this theater

    The simple beauty of August's words struck me profoundly. The lines just seemed to have a life of their own leading me along as I read it.

    You can't look past Princeton. No matter what, they're always going to be a tough game to play because of their style and their history. They have more guys who can shoot than they had last year, and they try to take advantage of their three-point shooting.

    I like the way they play. They get up and down the floor, which is something I like. But more importantly, I feel like I can play anywhere. I consider myself a basketball player that can do a number of different things.

    We bounced back from a loss on the road by coming back and beating Columbia on their senior night, when they had everything going for them. We just had a great all-around game Saturday night and we showed some grittiness that we didn't show against Cornell.

    I'm a setup guy and tonight I made a couple of shots and got us going. We work well together and have a great second unit. We have so many great playmakers on this team that constantly get the shooters open looks.

    I think that they shoot the ball very well from outside. Their biggest problem is they lost their center and they haven't replaced him with someone scoring under the basket and running the team on the offensive end. If you don't come to play and defend them, they're able to make shots.

    I don't think we shot the ball particularly well in our back court. We struggled making shots. I thought they did a better job defensively against us, and we did a poor job defensively against them.

    We knew both of them. It was funny, because depending on who you talked to, some people thought Nick was better and others thought Caleb was better. Anytime you can get two kids who can shoot and pass the way they do, you find spots for both of them.

    The Confederate flag stands for slavery and, more recently, segregation. Anyone who tries to separate them is not paying attention.

    It's a building process. It's about playing smart. Our aggressiveness and intensity is our forte, but, at times, we have to play a little smarter.

    Judge Michael was a wonderful person and will be sorely missed by his colleagues on the bench and the other members of our court family,


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