Quotes of: Basketball-court Keyword

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.

Will McDonough

I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.

Jeff Ament

Well, good-bye for now," he said, rolling his neck as if we hadn't been talking about anything important at all. He bowed at the waist, those wings vanishing entirely, and had begun to fade into the nearest shadow when he went rigid. His eyes locked ...

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Because this law could mean so much or so little, it held potential for causing great mischief in the world of art and politics. We needed to reduce its uncertainty, and the best way to do that, I believed, was to force a court to interpret it, which...

Leaving Town Alive

When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by t...

Niccolo Machiavelli

Judge: [after Ness has discovered Capone bribed the jury to acquit him] Bailiff, I want you to go next door to Judge Hawton's court, where they've just begun hearing a divorce action. I want you to bring that jury in here, and take this jury to his c...

The Untouchables

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

I'm not courting death; I've far too many books left to read.

Shadowborn

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

Seraphina

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

Norman Mailer

What's going to make me happy is going on the court and holding up trophies, singles and doubles.

Serena Williams

People see me on the court only as a superhero, grunting and winning. They think you're a robot, and I'm not.

Serena Williams

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

Tom C. Clark

After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

Karen DeCrow

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Lloyd Cutler

To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely.

Marion Bartoli

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.

Rafael Nadal

We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.

Ryan White

I am fast and very powerful on the court, so this is what matters.

Novak Djokovic

I train Monday through Saturday. I usually have fitness training for 90 minutes, then I'm on the tennis court for 3 to 4 hours.

Sloane Stephens

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

Nawal El Saadawi