Possession Quotes (424 Quotes)

Every possession, she took it to the basket. That was the difference. I give her a lot of credit for coming out and being intense and ready to play.

We're going to have to be patient in what we do on offense and attack the basket. The most important thing is to make them play defense, and not play them shot-for-shot. We have to value each and every possession. That's when we're at our best, and I think that will affect them if we can do that.

It was very disappointing, ... It was also perplexing that we had so much of the domination, possession and territory and could not make them tell.

We just battled. I think the thing that these guys realize, that as they get older, they're not going to be able to get nine points back in one possession. They realize that there's so much time left, we just chip away, we were able take the lead and able to hold them off. It was a huge team effort.

We were just one possession, one bucket, away from winning the game. The guys are doing well. We understand that we can win games. Once we have that in our minds, can't anybody stop us.

Cities do not have the authority under the state law to ban the possession of handguns.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

I look at Duke today, and North Carolina, too. They bring it every game, every possession. We had that same intensity. Coaches and programs that are always winning come out with a purpose, focused and intense. That was a McGuire trademark.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

I recall that (Clemson) game for a different reason. It was unique in that we scored on every possession. Regardless of the opponent, that (performance) made it special. That's what you shoot for, perfection.

We learned that you have to be hungry. We have to be hungry 100 percent of the game. Otherwise, if we are not going to bring the energy every possession, and that grind mentality every possession, we are going to be a mediocre team.

What we have to do is take care of the ball and value each possession. It's probably going to be a defensive game. They play good defense and so do we. At this time of the year, the team that makes the fewest mistakes usually wins.

One of our goals tonight was to box out and keep them to just one shot on every possession. We did that most of the night. We stressed boxing out and going to the boards hard all week. That's the best we rebounded all season.

Time of possession in that game was probably 75 percent us.

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

We were just trying to establish a little more rhythm and a little more possession. We tried to use the back players a little more today, too.

Face-offs can help deflate a run or help you go on a run. It's something you can control. Possession is the key in any sport you have the ball -- you have a chance to win.

When you start dealing with real change you are talking about interferring with those who are in possession of something.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

If we get our tactical game right, are able to dominate possession, make a high percentage of tackles, keep chasing play, finish our opportunities and, most importantly, keep the scoreboard ticking over and get a lead built, we'll be fine.

Turnovers were a problem in the last game (against Hollidaysburg). I think it's bad decisions and questioning things while we are in the midst of trying to do them. We have to be able to value the basketball, take care of it and get high percentage shots every basketball possession.

We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

Last week, we responded to a serious crash and I almost got hit by a drunk driver while I was blocking traffic. The other night I was driving home after duty, pulled a car over for running a stop sign and ended up arresting five teenagers for drug possession. There's never a dull moment.

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

The Oklahoma basketball program is built on playing hard and tough and competing on every possession. For us to come out here and lose in the first round, that doesn't bode well. We're supposed to win these games.

We won it with possession, superior forward play and grit at the very end. Our conditioning really paid off.

I am not at all happy with the result. We simply could not convert our chances. It is almost ironic when you consider we had over 60 of the possession in the first half.

Faith is not like a deed to a house in which one may live with full rights of possession. It is more like a kit of tools with which a man may build him a house. The tools will be worth just what he does with them. When he lays them down, they will have no value until he takes them up again.

We still need to show more patience on offense and we need to do a better job of competing on every possession.

I earnestly believe that those documents exist and they're in the possession of the government of Iraq, and they can choose to give them to us.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Despite the possession we tried to force the chances...and got away with a 1-0 victory. A fully confident Arsenal would have won by more.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

It was a possession where she never stopped moving. Erin, being strong with the basketball, got her a look and she took it to the hole and got fouled, which is super. I know my money is on Hawkins when she's on the line at the end of the game.

The call was made to try to get us a spark and get us another possession. That's my decision. If it works, it's a good play. If it doesn't, you're open to second guessing, which is the nature of this business. But I have no second thoughts about that, I really don't.

We tried to fix some problems that showed up in the Coeur d'Alene game. We were too direct in our attack against Coeur d'Alene, trying to go too much up the middle. We used this game to work on our pace of play and our possession.

It's my own stupid fault, as usual. I was in the possession of class C drugs, which is an offence...P.S. I promise I won't make a record out of this one--even though it's tempting.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

She didn't even put it on the floor. She didn't even bounce it. We had the whole side cleared out, and it didn't happen. We had players do things contrary to what we wanted them to do. It wasn't just the final possession.

Laws fashioned after Maine may now proliferate. With the legislative genie out of the bottle and opponents in possession of model legislation that has withstood judicial scrutiny, we believe that the march of regulation over time is now inevitable.

Our thought was that on every single possession, we were going to push the basketball. If they got tired, we knew we could absolutely run the floor and it worked out beautifully. ... It's just a plan. All I can do is tell the boys what we want to try to do. If I can give them a plan and they can come out and execute it, then that's a tribute to them.

All of the possessions were big. It wasn't one possession that won or lost the game. Down the stretch we needed to make plays in order to win.

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

This one hurts a lot worse. This was right down to the wire -- one possession. As far as we've come, this is really emotional.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

We just had opportunities to score touchdowns, but we didn't score touchdowns. We were moving the ball fine, rhythm, time of possession, first downs, yards...we just couldn't score touchdowns.

In a sense, we remember him because he's a guy that made a mistake but had good luck, ... Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World.

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

We had plenty of possession but we didn't make their keeper work hard enough.