Pat Flannery quote: "I thought the tone was set at 1:19 when Knight drove the ball and they called a foul on Abe. The clock stopped, and they're scoring points. That's the worst thing."

We?re from Pennsylvania. I?m not even sure they know where they?re at.
PAT FLANNERY

I told the team they can either embrace the rankings or get cocky. I told them they haven?t been (co...
PAT FLANNERY

I don't mean to be a tyrant. A couple threes here and there, and you want to go and slop it up. That...
PAT FLANNERY

(The players) may not be giddy. But I?m still giddy.
PAT FLANNERY

You knew they were going to hit some deep shots, and we just had to keep grinding and grinding. I th...
PAT FLANNERY

I don?t see him playing this year. He?s really not getting a whole lot better. There?s been nothing ...
PAT FLANNERY

This is the way it?s going to be every game. I told the guys to embrace it, not fight it, then go ou...
PAT FLANNERY

Those kids know what to do and to not play to the crowd. He knows the rules. He needs to be smart en...
PAT FLANNERY

The last two games, Charles has been our rock. He was a big key.
PAT FLANNERY

We just had to keep grinding and grinding.
PAT FLANNERY

With 10 minutes to go, we felt like we had the game. But we learned what that kind of speed is. You ...
PAT FLANNERY

They're everything they are built up to be. The biggest compliment that I can pay is they play so ha...
PAT FLANNERY

I haven?t had any questions about the kids and where they?re taking shots. I get excited when we?re ...
PAT FLANNERY

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bittern...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old la...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes abo...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His pro...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them th...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they d...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, b...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domest...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on torment...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

My kids feel vindicated. Losing the dual meet to Valley was rough. They weren't too good of sports a...
DAN FLANNERY

That's what Blair did great, he was just a great entertainer. You'd watch him and escape from whatev...
MICHAEL FLANNERY

The difficulty of all this,
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bittern...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for mann...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

These awards are not single season achievement awards, but rather reward coaches for a cumulative ca...
TIM FLANNERY

We almost pulled it out. Only .31-hundredths of a second is keeping us from talking about a tie righ...
DAN FLANNERY

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

He spent nearly three quarters of it already and it hasn't moved his numbers in the polls. We have e...
BRYAN FLANNERY

That one issue is the only issue. We're delivering a failed product to the university level.
BRYAN FLANNERY

Our system has been ruled unconstitutional four times and no one has offered anything to fix those p...
BRYAN FLANNERY

Those three freshmen have a lot of big-meet experience, and that's going to pay off for them. They'r...
DAN FLANNERY

What goes around comes around in this sport, I guess.
DAN FLANNERY

A lot of guys had amazing swims to keep us in the meet.
DAN FLANNERY

This has always been a great rivalry. We lost this one, but the guys will wake up tomorrow and the s...
DAN FLANNERY

We have a young team, and our guys faced some adversity early in the meet but turned things around a...
DAN FLANNERY

She was a voodoo queen. She used to tell people she practiced voodoo.
LEO FLANNERY

What I don't understand is Fort Pierce is struggling to be a better city, and six blocks away from d...
LEO FLANNERY

Northern runs a similar offense to what we ran in high school. I am really looking forward to it and...
MARSHALL FLANNERY

We could just never put it all together until this year. It is awesome to be able to end your high s...
MARSHALL FLANNERY

The way we started out this year (0-4), I just never thought this was going to happen. It didn't see...
MARSHALL FLANNERY

They say one's weakness can be another strength but my strengths can lead to anothers demolition
PAT

I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 p...
PAT WILLIAMS

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
PAT WILLIAMS

We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
PAT WILLIAMS

We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure ...
PAT WILLIAMS

Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom lin...
PAT WILLIAMS

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management ...
PAT TRAVERS

I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current...
PAT TRAVERS

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
PAT TRAVERS

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
PAT TRAVERS

I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it'...
PAT TOOMEY

If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrit...
PAT TOOMEY

I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employe...
PAT TOOMEY

After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. ...
PAT TOOMEY

I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Socia...
PAT TOOMEY

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending...
PAT TOOMEY

I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's ...
PAT TOOMEY

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.
PAT TOOMEY

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.
PAT TOOMEY

I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more...
PAT TOOMEY

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right t...
PAT TOOMEY

I've heard time and again from small business owners in Ohio that extending bonus depreciation i...
PAT TIBERI

It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue...
PAT TIBERI

I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me ...
PAT SUMMITT

I lost my confidence.
PAT SUMMITT

I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want t...
PAT SUMMITT

I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you...
PAT SUMMITT

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
PAT SUMMITT

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather mysel...
PAT SUMMITT

In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Al...
PAT SUMMITT

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that'...
PAT SUMMITT

I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
PAT SUMMITT

Sometimes I draw blanks.
PAT SUMMITT

I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't...
PAT SUMMITT

I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advi...
PAT SUMMITT

I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
PAT SUMMITT

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad al...
PAT SUMMITT

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in...
PAT SUMMITT

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never d...
PAT SUMMITT

I think I can help others just by my example.
PAT SUMMITT

The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't...
PAT SUMMITT

I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do w...
PAT SUMMITT

Class is more important than a game.
PAT SUMMITT

Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
PAT SUMMITT

My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant....
PAT SUMMERALL

There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter ...
PAT SUMMERALL

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think ...
PAT SUMMERALL

Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successf...
PAT SUMMERALL

So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and ...
PAT SUMMERALL

Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the churc...
PAT SUMMERALL

But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious dise...
PAT SUMMERALL

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time...
PAT SUMMERALL

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find...
PAT SUMMERALL

If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
PAT SAJAK

I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
PAT SAJAK

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him ...
PAT SAJAK

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yank...
PAT SAJAK

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
PAT SAJAK

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.
PAT SAJAK

The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creatin...
PAT SAJAK

Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attach...
PAT SAJAK

Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid u...
PAT SAJAK

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
PAT ROBERTSON

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United State...
PAT ROBERTSON

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oliga...
PAT ROBERTSON

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what G...
PAT ROBERTSON

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
PAT ROBERTSON

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
PAT ROBERTSON

I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
PAT ROBERTSON

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political s...
PAT ROBERTSON

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned ...
PAT ROBERTSON

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christ...
PAT ROBERTSON

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from...
PAT ROBERTSON

I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the...
PAT ROBERTSON

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of...
PAT ROBERTSON

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's n...
PAT ROBERTSON

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy...
PAT ROBERTSON

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ beca...
PAT ROBERTSON

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help peop...
PAT ROBERTSON

People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.
PAT ROBERTSON

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The paro...
PAT ROBERTSON

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husban...
PAT ROBERTSON

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
PAT ROBERTSON

Whatever it takes to win.
PAT RILEY

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Pol...
PAT RILEY

You can never have enough talent.
PAT RILEY

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and ...
PAT RILEY

Don't let other people tell you what you want.
PAT RILEY

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
PAT RILEY

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done ...
PAT RILEY

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency...
PAT RILEY

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
PAT RILEY

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in hi...
PAT RILEY

I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobb...
PAT QUINN

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not poli...
PAT QUINN

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be t...
PAT QUINN

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the pa...
PAT PAULSEN

I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons...
PAT PAULSEN

I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and th...
PAT PAULSEN

It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
PAT PAULSEN

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
PAT PAULSEN

Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better th...
PAT PAULSEN

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
PAT PAULSEN

I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedi...
PAT PAULSEN

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame...
PAT PAULSEN

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the...
PAT PAULSEN

I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run ...
PAT PAULSEN

Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we conce...
PAT PAULSEN

Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
PAT PAULSEN

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continu...
PAT PAULSEN

We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting...
PAT PAULSEN

If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
PAT PAULSEN

The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
PAT PAULSEN

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of...
PAT PAULSEN

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its ...
PAT PAULSEN

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
PAT PAULSEN

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration po...
PAT PAULSEN

We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
PAT PAULSEN

A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
PAT PAULSEN

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing...
PAT OLIPHANT

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy ...
PAT OLIPHANT

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make ...
PAT OLIPHANT

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times,...
PAT OLIPHANT

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
PAT OLIPHANT

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
PAT OLIPHANT

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the ...
PAT OLIPHANT

We're all idealistic when young.
PAT OLIPHANT

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large ...
PAT OLIPHANT

I thought the tone was set at 1:19 when Knight drove the ball and they called a foul on Abe. The clock stopped, and they're scoring points. That's the worst thing.

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I thought the tone was set at 1:19 when Knight drove the ball and they called a foul on Abe. The clock stopped, and they're scoring points. That's the worst thing.

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