J. M. Roberts Great Quotations

NBA people want to see versatility, ... That was one of the things I talked about with coach, just stepping out toward the perimeter more. Rebounding is a great skill, and not too many people realize how hard it is to pull down 10-plus per game for your career -- so that can't go away. The main thing for me is stepping out more, while still taking advantage of my rebounding ability.

She is very athletic, has great hands, is pretty skilled and she has a great work ethic. She doesn't take a possession off.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

I think Measure C has been a success story. I don't like everything that's happened, but basically, it's been a great tool.

John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

Our schedule allows us to play our traditional local rivals, as well as some national powers, before we get into the conference schedule, ... We travel to Duke and Virginia Tech, play a full slate at the Garden and play in the Holiday Festival. This will give St. John's fans a great opportunity to follow our team, which features a lot of new faces this year.

I think, unfortunately, this is going to go down in history as one of the great sporting gaffes of all time.

Traditionally, Batavia versus Sycamore has been a dogfight out here, and tonight, it was no different. We had a great crowd here, they had a great crowd here, and I told the kids to embrace it. Not every high school player gets to experience that. This was a state-tournament type of atmosphere.

We have great support in town and the union boys are right behind us as well. We get on real well with them. They come to the games and celebrate with us.

Too often we forget that when a soldier gives the ultimate sacrifice, there's a family back home who is suffering, ... This memorial should mean a lot not only for the veterans but also those they left behind. This is a great symbol of community pride.

When I was with Houston at the end of my career, Bob Gibson walked up to me one day when I was running in the outfield. He asked me why I didn't quit and said what a shame it was that I was ruining a great career and just trying to hang on. Years later, I saw Gibson trying to do the same thing.

We've had some odd things happen for sure. But however we got here, I'm ecstatic for our seniors and juniors who invested in our program when things were really down and have been such a huge part of the building process. One of the great lessons in life is how you accomplish your goals.

There's such a dark cloud over this, it's disappointing. As a kid, you wondered who'd be the next guy to pass Ruth or maybe Aaron. We're talking about a great, great player in Barry Bonds, but there's that black cloud, and I just think we all wish it could go away.

It's an excellent life. I'm rich. I'm happy. I have a great job. I travel hither and yon to fabulous places. I'm surrounded by wonderful, interesting people. I live a privileged life -- hugely privileged.... It would be absurd to pretend that it's anything different.

It was a great non-league game for us. Their quickness is something we haven't seen and our girls are going to learn from it.

They do a great job of getting into passing lanes. They do a very good job of forcing you to do things that you don't want to do. They do a great job on the glass.

They played really hard. We played hard in spurts. It's the first time in a long time we got outplayed. We're not a great scoring team. When we don't have a defensive mind-set, we're in trouble.

We had to buy furniture and computers; we had to put a teacher's desk, wall unit and file cabinet in each classroom. We ordered all those items six months ago from different manufacturers. When they were delivered, they were stored and some pieces had to be assembled. We ordered half a million dollars worth of textbooks. It took a great deal of planning by everyone in the school district - from the custodians planning on how to schedule cleaning to how we were going to supply books and teachers. It was an unbelievably complex project,