Foul Quotations

I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life.

Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.

There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.

In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

Multinationals are much more likely to have business interests in the United States, ... Even if what they might contemplate doing in Cuba does not fall foul of the Helms-Burton law, nevertheless, they are very sensitive to public opinion.

I was impressed with his effort to get the ball in the paint. We thought we could push him around and make him stay outside. We leaned on him, but he kept fighting to get inside position. He made his foul shots, and that hurt us.

My team didn't quit, after not playing well in the first half. We got key rebounds, hit foul shots and were able to finish.

I was surprised because he pump-faked more than I thought he would. When I had my hands up, he threw the ball out a lot more than I thought he would. He'd get a shot and he'd go up, and I'd put my hand up. I wouldn't foul him, and he'd throw the ball out to his teammates. I thought he was going to shoot a lot more than he did.

No. 1, we're going to have to execute, and we'll have to make our foul shots. I know everyone's looking at our record, but I think there are a lot of people who don't want to play us.

I wouldn't classify our team with the way we play defense as a shot-blocking team. I think one of the things you always leave yourself vulnerable to, any time you have big people leaving the floor, is offensive rebounding and foul trouble.

Olympia Jacobs was dealing with a bad foot and sat out the first three quarters, but came in and really sparked us (in the fourth quarter). We were hoping to get through it without her, but we got into some foul trouble and lost the lead. She only scored three points, but her defensive energy got everyone going.

Obviously, we know we have to stop their inside game and I'm sure that's what they are going to key on us, too. I just think it's really going to come to execution. If anybody gets into foul trouble, especially one of the big girls, that's going to matter, too.

One defensive play, one foul or one turnover, one shot that's not finished or one missed free throw is magnified because we don't have an Antoine Wright to cover up mistakes.

One of our strengths as a team is that we don't foul or over-extend ourselves. We try to play sound positional defense, which keeps us out of that kind of trouble. Even with the depth we have, we always stress to our guys that we can't give fouls away.

Morgan came out really loose. They had a chance at the championship. Luckily for us the got into foul trouble.

Morgan hasn't played that much this season, but she gave us a lift tonight. With Allison (Rader) in foul trouble and not playing well, we really needed this type of effort from Morgan.

Of all working screenwriters, I'm a foul shooter, ... I would take any screenwriter on in foul shots.

Maybe he needs to get a couple of rebounds and get fouled and get to the line. I?m confident if we get to the foul line we can shoot our way out of this slump that we are in.

Neither team played defense. A lot of guys scored points and there was a lot of foul shooting and a lot of fouling. If we could have made a couple of stops, we would have won the game.

Obviously, she's 6-6, so she's going to have some advantages inside. She's going to be their go-to focus so we need to work on defending that and forcing the lob -- playing in front and pushing back. Our biggest key is staying out of foul trouble and not to picking up silly fouls and bailing her out.

Obviously that was a huge loss for us. That's been a problem all year for us, Terry getting in foul trouble.

Peter has been a very good player for us all year. We wanted to go to him late because both of Arkansas-Pine Bluff's big guys were in foul trouble.

Ridge had his third foul in the second quarter (at Franklin County). J.C. had two in the second quarter and our backups had two on them. We played through a rough situation on the road and a lot of guys stepped up to play.

Right now, it's a missing persons case. But we have the additional evidence that there could be foul play involved. We need the public's help to find out what happened to Cynthia Braga.

I got into a little foul trouble, and we, as a team, missed some shots. They came out with energy and kept it up.

I got into foul trouble early and never got into the flow of the game. The foul trouble is very frustrating, and I knew when I saw (referee) Bob Delaney I was going to be in trouble anyway. We did still have chances to win the game; we just made mistakes you can't make in this building.

I got off to a good start. Then I got plagued by foul trouble, and it kind of busted up my rhythm.

I'd like to think that we can just step across the foul line and be ready to play at anytime. But we're glad to pull it together enough to get this win.

I'd like to see her shoot the ball more from the foul line. She's a good shooter from 15 feet out. And she still gets ahead of herself every once in a while, which is natural. Slowly, but surely, it's going to come. It's just going to look ugly at times. As long as she keeps making progress, that's all I care about.

I'd like to get stronger, ... I've also been working on my range. I'd like to be able to turn, square up and drive from somewhere near the foul line and not get the ball taken away.

I didn't mean to foul her; it was an accident. But it gave the lead back to them, so it was a critical play.

I didn't appreciate that. You've got the win in hand. You see we're not trying to foul you anymore. I didn't think he was going to shoot the ball. I know they were going for a triple-double. You guys won. Take it on home. Don't pad your stats and try to show us up.

I don't know there's a clear-cut favorite right now. If you're going to look at what's happened, LSU has been the most impressive in our league. You're dealing with depth issues for everybody, you're going to be dealing with fatigue issues, you're going to have to deal with foul trouble, you're going to have to deal with playing three teams in a row and you have to deal and move from one day to the next.

If we didn't do that (go small), we lose. Had we walked up and down the floor with them and let them pound it inside, we would have been in much deeper foul trouble, and we would have had nothing on the offensive end. I'll always give up rebounding for defense and great quickness.

If we had hit those two foul shots, we could have put pressure on them with their point guard out. But it wasn't meant to be, I guess.

If they're going to foul someone, we like that. I'll take my chances with her at the line. She's done it all year even though she's just a sophomore. Those were big shots.

We needed all those foul shots for sure. We obviously came up with some clutch foul shooting down the stretch. Not only that, we overcame a big East Aurora crowd and we adjusted well to what the officials were calling.

Lees-McRae had good inside-outside people. They came to play. I didn't think they would make it this tough on us. I was glad No. 4 (wiry 6-foot junior Denise Wilson) fouled out. She was hurting us with her drives, her finishing and making foul shots.

We made a couple of big runs in the second half. But every run was finished with a bad thing. We missed several box outs at the foul line and they took advantage. Every time we made a mistake, their kids made big plays.

We made a living the last year and a half closing games out down the stretch. We'd get to the foul line, make baskets and close games out. We didn't do that (yesterday).

We're glad he got in foul trouble. He's an excellent ballplayer. Just to see him and Elton Brand go at it, trying to figure each other out, that was magnificent.

Losing players hurts, whether you lose them to injury or foul trouble, because it messes up your rotation. But losing one player does not cripple my team. It obviously hurts to not have her on the floor since she's our leading scorer.

Lewisville is a very athletic team who will come at you with their style of play. Our defense played well and we were able to shake off our foul trouble. It wasn't a pretty game, but at least we had a positive ending.

Matt was huge on offense and defense. He got into foul trouble early but he continued to battle. On defense I think he must have taken at least four charges.

Max has been a major force for us all season. Any time he's not on the court, we suffer in the middle a little bit. He does so much for our team. Any time he gets in foul trouble, we know it's going to be tough. Those guys still fought hard. I'm very proud of them.

McNaughton is a handful. I've got one of the best defensive centers in the country and I hope he doesn't get in any kind of foul trouble. He relishes shutting someone down. He's going to make McNaughton earn every basket. We don't want him to shoot a high percentage -- that's our goal.

Mo was extremely hot early, and we felt that, with the lead, we couldn't take the chance of getting him in foul trouble.

Shaq did a great job tonight. We have to make sure he's not in foul trouble and constantly look to go to him.

Shaq getting in foul trouble really changed the game for us.

Shaq in foul trouble makes life easy for everybody.

She hasn't been in foul trouble all season. It was so uncharacteristic that it kind of left us at a loss for a little bit.

Most teams play seven or eight guys. We push the tempo and try to get them in foul trouble. And then that creates a problem where guys are not used to playing in a certain kind of environment.

She loved to shoot the free throws. A lot of times opponents would foul trying to keep the ball out of her hands. As my principal (Todd Hall) said at the banquet she was just a free-throw shooting machine.

She hit those two threes back-to-back. Again, we hit the panic button and we didn't have to. We hung close. It was a six-point game until the end when we had to foul them.

She is a mature kid. I look at her and say hey, here's a kid who can handle that pressure so I can probably put her at the foul line when the game is on the line. Whether she makes them I don't know, but she'll know how to handle that.

She made the plays when she had to make them whether we were keeping her in check or not. And that's what big-time players do in big games. Whether it's an assist, a foul shot, an outside shot, a drive to the hole, a steal - and she did that four times.

Shelby (Hooper) and Julia (Gregory) had to step it up a bit and they did. Lately I've been putting Julia in a more defensive spot and she sacrificed her scoring, but with Nadine (Meredith) in foul trouble, I had to make adjustments.

She's a good shooter, a good foul shooter, too. She has a nice touch, and she can hit the boards. We worked with her on her inside game this year, and when she started doing the right things in practice then I started playing her more.

She did a great job. She's been playing as well as she's been playing all year, the last two games, against Roswell and Clovis, and Cibola here. She played a heck of a game not to foul out.

She can't get tired, she can't get in foul trouble because she means too much to us out there. If she gets tired in practice, I don't take her out because she's not going to come out in the game. I tell her getting tired is not an option, she can get that out of her head.

Maggie really gave us a big boost. She picked up that third foul and I was a little worried about it. But we brought her in and she was instant offense for us. That's what seniors do.

signs of a struggle, other types of evidence, blood, skin or tissue -- things of that nature that could point to something happening that was unusual and that might all point toward foul play.

She's one of our clutch free throw shooters and we knew they were going to have to foul somebody.

She stepped up huge. That was a huge step for us to play the way she did. She was all over the place, especially when (point guard) Erin McFadden had foul trouble, because Erin is always the player that makes us go.

She went off in the third quarter. She hit one shot when she was open and after that she got some confidence. She knocked down some shots with a hand in her face and she got to the foul line later in the game.

She's tremendous up there. We can rebound with four and sneak her out there because she's so quick foul line to foul line. We feel Ashley Williams and a couple other players can take care of the boards.

She's our best foul shooter in the clutch. We wanted to get the ball to her in the end.

She's our point guard, our leader and a winner. She's tough and I knew she would make a good decision and score or get to the foul line.

She's picked all those areas up. Her scoring is pretty much where it was, but there is more of her going to the hoop and the foul line. She's really picked up her defense and rebounding.

Kirk came in and was great on the boards. He made shots. He was a good sixth man off the bench. He definitely helped me out (being in foul trouble).

Kobe had a terrific game. We probably did a good job on him, actually -- after the way he started off. He made his foul shots down the stretch, but for 2 1-2 quarters, we did as good a job as you could ask for.

Halfway through the second half things fell apart for us. They shot 60 percent and were very athletic. We got into foul trouble and couldn't bounce back.

He is so tough to guard when he goes to the basket. He's aggressive and so strong. Sometimes players just have to foul him.

He knows how to get to the free throw line and he knows how to get people to foul him.

I am very confident with Alex and the rest of them out there. Alex has played a lot this year. She plays with Ivory, and I know when Ivory picked up her second foul and I took her out, we were behind at that time. Alex did a nice job running the team, and we got the lead back.

Foul play is certainly out of the question, since he was in a cell by himself. There was no indication of suicide. It was probably natural causes.

Foul trouble can hurt us. We don't have a lot of depth.

Foul trouble hurt us, and we had to change our defense. We had been doing well with our man defense, but when we had to change it, we weren't as aggressive.

Foul trouble killed us. We didn't get to do what we wanted to do. We wanted to pressure them, but that was taken out by the foul trouble. We settled into a zone defense and they shot the ball over us. You have to give Morton credit. They got the good looks and knocked down the shots.

Foul trouble was a little bit of an issue for us. But it really just comes down to concentration.

Free-throw shooting is a lost art. It's not as good as it once was, and maybe it is because coaches are limited with how much time they can dedicate to free throws in practice and kids don't really work on them on their own as much as they should. Foul shots aren't flashy, but they certainly win games, and we try to stress that to our guys. Especially at tournament time.

Getting Austin in foul trouble hurts us. He's been a really consistent player for us. He's struggled a bit lately, but he's working hard. It's getting to the point where teams are starting to key on him because they recognize what he can do.

Getting to the basket and getting to the foul line, I think that's where I'm at my best.

I feel so bad for our guys. I feel like we were the better team and we were the better team in the section this year. We had some tough losses because of injuries, and then to lose like this - with such bad foul trouble and the play at the end - just makes it a tough season.

If Brian can stay out of foul trouble, he's tough to defend in there. He has quick moves and does a good job on the boards. He had a great game tonight.

If we wouldn't have made so many mistakes and got into foul trouble, who knows?

I get it all the time. Even when I'm not in foul trouble, I hear about it.

I get pretty competitive when it comes to most sports. So I took a hard foul right on my hip and wasn't able to train in the weeks leading up to the race.

(Fortner) emphasized that we wanted to attack them and get to the foul line. We wanted to make their guards play defense. We're really trying to understand the scouting reports and take advantage of the weaknesses our opponents have.

From the tape, I knew I would have to play good defense and avoid foul trouble. That allowed me to make some plays, and I was just able to come out and have a really good performance.

From the tip we were in foul trouble. At one point, all of our starters were in foul trouble.

I don't think I've ever lost a game with no time on the clock with someone on the foul line. I can't even evaluate that last play because it was so unbelievable to me.