Basketball Announcers Quotes & Sayings

You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence — Irene Gut Opdyke

Artists are inspired by blank canvases. — Stephanie Perkins

The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes. — Larry Bird

By its durability this settlement proved that conservative liberty is an oxymoron, not a contradiction in terms. — Timothy C.W. Blanning

Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases. — Rose George

The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself. — William Feather

(People) either overestimate Satan's influence and power, living with an inflated, erroneous perspective of his abilities. Or they underestimate him. They don't assign him any credit at all for the difficulties he's stirring up beneath the surface of our lives ... Satan is not God. And he is not God's counterpart or peer ... Satan is nothing but a copycat trying desperately to convince you he's more powerful than he actually is ... So even though he's given temporary clearance to strategize and antagonize, we don't need to pray from a position of fear or weakness against him ... But we can't expect to experience this power unless we're serious about joining the battle in prayer. — Priscilla Shirer

Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn - that life was really not going to be easy after one was free of the schoolroom? — Mary Balogh

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk. — Jean De La Bruyere

Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country. — Edwin O. Reischauer

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork. — Bill James

You can play from the wrong position for a long time with good hands, but eventually it's going to catch up with you. — Tiger Woods

Every national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet; as if the way to God was not open to every man alike. — Thomas Paine

When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant. — John Vianney

I hate book parties," A.J. says. "But you run the bookstore," Lambiase says. "It's a problem," A.J. admits. — Gabrielle Zevin

There are primarily two ways people can drain your energy. They can get you to want them or what they have or they can get you to fear them. In order to drain you they must get into your attention field. — Frederick Lenz