Bill Self quote: "Teams learn how to win when they're not playing well and this team did that against Oklahoma. It's a maturation process with this team, but I think the guys really grew up in that game. Teams have to learn how to win ugly sometimes and we certainly did that. I couldn't be more proud of them."

He's a ball mover. It's not that our offense has been so slow ... we ran the same stuff when he was ...
BILL SELF

The young guys ... they have been playing ample minutes in my opinion.
BILL SELF

I don't know if one player spurred it (team chemistry) on more than others, but I do think Russell R...
BILL SELF

You look at the four teams that tied with six wins, any of those teams can do some damage. Certainly...
BILL SELF

He'll wear a splint when he's not practicing. (On the court) he'll tape it up and be fine.
BILL SELF

We played great offensively. We made shots. The offense looks a lot better, and certainly we did (sh...
BILL SELF

I was very disappointed in our toughness. We were not very tough tonight.
BILL SELF

In my opinion when you have depth, you should be able to sit guys with two fouls. We subbed with nin...
BILL SELF

I think he's just scratching the surface of how good he can be.
BILL SELF

You want to beat them on the court, or on the field. But after that, there is a strong fraternity of...
BILL SELF

He got a good one. If he was a boxer, they would have called the fight. I don't know how many (stitc...
BILL SELF

I felt we should have attacked the basket. It worked out perfect. We got the ball to Keith. He had p...
BILL SELF

I am most pleased with J.R. and Keith combining for 10 assists and only one turnovers. That's the ki...
BILL SELF

I didn't know that senator Dole had followed it that close. I was thrilled. He really knew quite a b...
BILL SELF

If you're not a one or two seed, the difference between the teams is minimal.
BILL SELF

Just because guys have been here before, they are not going to have the upper hand,
BILL SELF

I know it hurts. It crushed him. But if the kid isn't tough, how can a walk-on kid from Asheville, N...
BILL SELF

With the game evolving into so many ball screens and stretching defenses, you're so much harder to g...
BILL SELF

Brandon's got to be a playmaker for us. When you're shooting 60 percent from three, you need to be t...
BILL SELF

Julian's going to have some turnovers because of the way he plays, and we're going to have to live w...
BILL SELF

I don't think panic's set in by any means. But in fans' minds, they're thinking it's awful early to ...
BILL SELF

I was disappointed in how we played not how we lost because Arizona's a great team. I thought we mig...
BILL SELF

I was disappointed in how we played not how we lost because Arizona's a great team, ... I thought we...
BILL SELF

We're going to be faster as a team. I think we could be a much better offensive rebounding team,
BILL SELF

What happens on the Internet is some (players) are sensitive and some guys aren't. Some guys look at...
BILL SELF

Brandon and his family rightfully have been waiting for positive feedback from the NCAA Clearinghous...
BILL SELF

All reports we have received indicate Rodrick had no involvement in the altercation other than him b...
BILL SELF

To speak on this very issue is perilous. I want to ask one simple question. This year, the homosexua...
BILL SELF

He's hard to guard because he's unorthodox. He doesn't have a good base yet. Guys can certainly disl...
BILL SELF

From my standpoint, this was sweeter than any of the other ones that I have had, because we started ...
BILL SELF

Certainly, from my stand point, this was sweeter than any of the other (victories) that we have had ...
BILL SELF

Halfway through the second half, (the Raiders) were physically tired because we were able to throw a...
BILL SELF

That's done. We don't need to be under the radar anymore; we need to be out there. It worked out rea...
BILL SELF

I called [Pete] to say, 'What's going on? You're calling everybody but me,' ... He told me they were...
BILL SELF

Based on reports we received on campus from housing and academics, he has fulfilled requirements to ...
BILL SELF

I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some...
WILL SELF

It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent...
WILL SELF

One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern ner...
WILL SELF

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
WILL SELF

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long wa...
WILL SELF

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely...
WILL SELF

Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but fo...
WILL SELF

Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I f...
WILL SELF

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as...
WILL SELF

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
WILL SELF

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own...
WILL SELF

When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they see...
WILL SELF

In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terror...
WILL SELF

With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantl...
WILL SELF

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust w...
WILL SELF

Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-re...
WILL SELF

Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just a...
WILL SELF

You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled ...
WILL SELF

My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fiss...
WILL SELF

The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo...
WILL SELF

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I als...
WILL SELF

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly hel...
WILL SELF

I think ASU has done everything it can. Now, it's a matter of changing Board of Regents policy and A...
CASEY SELF

What's really bothering and frustrating is that other public entities can do it, but because of pure...
CASEY SELF

My partner is 11 years older than me, and I'd like for him to be able to retire.
CASEY SELF

ASU is trying to recruit top-notch faculty, and this is what stops many of them.
CASEY SELF

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my...
WILL SELF

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is stil...
WILL SELF

A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young...
WILL SELF

I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the ...
WILL SELF

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with ...
WILL SELF

Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People ...
WILL SELF

Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of m...
WILL SELF

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system lik...
WILL SELF

Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it no...
WILL SELF

So I was smacked out on the Prime Minister's jet, big deal.
WILL SELF

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or p...
WILL SELF

Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?
WILL SELF

I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and jo...
WILL SELF

I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather ...
WILL SELF

For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the co...
WILL SELF

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gal...
WILL SELF

Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the g...
WILL SELF

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and s...
WILL SELF

The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podi...
WILL SELF

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our ...
WILL SELF

What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. Y...
WILL SELF

I've said it before - and I'll say it again: it always seems to me that we come to know our ...
WILL SELF

I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, t...
WILL SELF

What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smar...
WILL SELF

It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gain...
WILL SELF

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
WILL SELF

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating t...
WILL SELF

The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to w...
WILL SELF

A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.
WILL SELF

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling ...
WILL SELF

If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to fi...
WILL SELF

I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophisi...
WILL SELF

Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's [on film Layer Cake]
WILL SELF

You go back to the real world, which can be a grind.
BRAD SELF

I was at the courthouse to vote this morning. I parked in the far reaches of the parking lot I notic...
KEITH SELF

On the way down, I'm a big sleeper. I read magazines - nothing too hard.
BRAD SELF

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous wi...
WILL SELF

The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ...
WILL SELF

To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as delib...
WILL SELF

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three...
WILL SELF

She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !!
Then SHe
went and left him restles...
DOUGLAS SELF

Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start a...
WILL SELF

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.
WILL SELF

I can't throw anything away. Anything. I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who...
WILL SELF

I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianit...
WILL SELF

Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever effort...
WILL SELF

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours...
WILL SELF

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
WILL SELF

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it does...
WILL SELF

Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential ...
WILL SELF

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social co...
WILL SELF

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you n...
WILL SELF

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality to...
WILL SELF

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way ...
WILL SELF

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as w...
WILL SELF

Sleepless nights, infinite random thoughts, Remembering those moments, he had much to say, an urge t...
DOUGLAS SELF

I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea...
WILL SELF

(Dennis) hit some from Washington County. Some of them I went, 'Why did you do that; oh, good shot.'...
RODNEY SELF

abundant feeling of your presence in front of Allah is enjoy full solitude state where you are in bo...
M.I.SHAIKH MY SELF

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno...
BILL MAHER

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri...
BILL MURRAY

President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a ...
BILL O'REILLY

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out ...
BILL VIOLA

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSON

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves an...
BILL WATTERSON

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's differ...
BILL WATTERSON

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
BILL COPELAND

Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
BILL RANCIC

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES

I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES

People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES

The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES

I'm a geek.
BILL GATES

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
BILL GATES

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
BILL GATES

Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo...
BILL GOLDBERG

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
BILL GATES

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and...
BILL GATES

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
BILL GATES

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
BILL GATES

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho...
BILL GATES

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o...
BILL GATES

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...
BILL GATES

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ...
BILL GATES

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to...
BILL GATES

Teams learn how to win when they're not playing well and this team did that against Oklahoma. It's a maturation process with this team, but I think the guys really grew up in that game. Teams have to learn how to win ugly sometimes and we certainly did that. I couldn't be more proud of them.

Bill Self

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