Tom Izzo quote: "If there's one area I'm probably not very good at it, it's taking the foot off the throttle. I'm gonna do that a little bit. We just have to get them fresh again."

I think Ohio State deserves a lot of credit. The last four minutes of the game, they played extremel...
TOM IZZO

Normally the guys who are successful [as freshmen] are playing on average teams. The proof's in the ...
TOM IZZO

Now that we've got our lineup straightened out the last month, our rotation may be similar to some o...
TOM IZZO

He might be only the second kid (after Jason Richardson) I would advise to do that, just because, th...
TOM IZZO

Fatigue had zero to do with the loss. We did not do a good job of handling our lead in that situatio...
TOM IZZO

We didn't get beat by some chopped-liver team. I mean, don't kid yourself: They're going to win a lo...
TOM IZZO

That's what you're supposed to do with good players that have been around for four years.
TOM IZZO

If I was him, I'd never do anything in the state of Michigan again.
TOM IZZO

It's as competitive as it's been since I've been at Michigan State.
TOM IZZO

You have to pick your poison. We just tried to stay up on the shooters and not sag as much on the in...
TOM IZZO

We've played in some tough places, we've been through a gambit of situations, ... I think for the mo...
TOM IZZO

I am extremely excited and appreciative of the opportunity to participate in a goodwill event like O...
TOM IZZO

Maybe that's why I'm walking gingerly, I'm not as excited where our team's at yet. Because there's a...
TOM IZZO

Yeah, this was close to a perfect game.
TOM IZZO

The pressure [on today's top freshmen] is incredible; it's just ridiculous. They're supposed to star...
TOM IZZO

It has been an incredible year for me, ... When I got back, I had a meeting and told my team, 'If yo...
TOM IZZO

I've been watching the Super Bowl, and they could have used (instant) replay on some of those calls....
TOM IZZO

Even the officials looked at me before the game and said this is special. It was a big win.
TOM IZZO

He probably tried to do too much because he was forced into that position.
TOM IZZO

I'm not sure how many people would have picked us to win either road game. We played at the two toug...
TOM IZZO

I did not feel that we were in sync. I think you have to give Illinois some credit for that but I al...
TOM IZZO

I'm looking at this as a miniature Bob Hope tour. We're going to get a chance to bring a little bit ...
TOM IZZO

He has to be aggressive and be slow, if that makes any sense. He's gotta do that. Because when he do...
TOM IZZO

We had some spurts when we hit the 3s. This was an important win for us. I would have been happy if ...
TOM IZZO

It might be the toughest six-game start in any conference anywhere.
TOM IZZO

That was big to have it be seven when we thought we'd be down four.
TOM IZZO

This is a very, very good basketball team. And it was a big win because we had to win it the defensi...
TOM IZZO

I love the way Maurice handled himself as far as encouraging guys; he was awesome in the huddles. He...
TOM IZZO

He played like a warrior. ... Making those free throws and all, he played his tail off. And there's ...
TOM IZZO

I know there's a train wreck coming.
TOM IZZO

Somebody had to beat them in here.
TOM IZZO

It's great to have our league being talked about. Every team in the league is making some strides. I...
TOM IZZO

Illinois and Michigan State are both going to play pretty good defense. They're playing a little bet...
TOM IZZO

I think it's really important, for two reasons. No. 1, for the games themselves, and No. 2, so that ...
TOM IZZO

I feel for that kid. He's only been in six or seven practices in the last two months so we can't eve...
TOM IZZO

You know me, I don't feel like we're ready, but I do think we can get ready in four days. Illinois i...
TOM IZZO

I kind of respect and understand his theory, because it's a lot like mine. He looks at it like the o...
TOM IZZO

That was a difficult game to coach and difficult game to play in.
TOM IZZO

I'm happy that the league is looking better and better. We're making progress as a conference, and m...
TOM IZZO

I thought we had it won a couple of times and let it slip away.
TOM IZZO

That was a big game, including the way we won it.
TOM IZZO

I've tried to just keep my mouth quiet. It is a brutal, brutal, brutal schedule. And if you go throu...
TOM IZZO

I think Al is getting better and better (in the point area). He's starting to rebound better and bet...
TOM IZZO

I'm going to say what I've been saying all year, yes, we are lacking a leader. Our turnovers, 16-12 ...
TOM IZZO

Not many teams have the dual threat that Indiana has. Ironically, I think at times we could be one o...
TOM IZZO

I think Davis did the 'Lambeau Leap,' even.
TOM IZZO

This was a big game for Iowa, a big game for Michigan State. They played better than we did.
TOM IZZO

Normally the guys who are successful [as freshmen] are playing on average teams. The proof's in the ...
TOM IZZO

The Big Ten's going to miss Dee Brown. He's good for this league. He doesn't talk it, he walks it.
TOM IZZO

We had one stretch where we felt we were getting clobbered in there and Dee Brown took over. A combi...
TOM IZZO

I loved the fact that they showed the grit. We went to different guys at different times. Whether it...
TOM IZZO

When the players want to win more than the coach, that's a great sign, and I see that.
TOM IZZO

When we won the national championship (in 2000), it was an incredible run and an incredible week, bu...
TOM IZZO

I think it was one of the most incredible performances I've seen.
TOM IZZO

It will be good to be home, and we have to find a way to get back to what we've done. It's not like ...
TOM IZZO

I'm really excited. A lot of our older players were here. I felt like the old guys were back and we ...
TOM IZZO

That's enough for me to get brain cramps.
TOM IZZO

The turnovers were made at ridiculous times. And the number ... Give them credit. They (Iowa) hung i...
TOM IZZO

I'm more disappointed how we played in the first half. It kind of set the tone for the game. In the ...
TOM IZZO

A good job is not good enough here. A good job is 18, 19 wins. Twenty-two wins is a very good job. B...
TOM IZZO

Ask ten engineers for the best orbit for a particular spacecraft and you'll get ten different ideas.
DARIO IZZO

We put a lot of work into transforming the house. For Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we even had...
JARRET IZZO

We think that the future of spaceflight is in using new systems, new architectures and exploring tec...
DARIO IZZO

My proposal is a starting point. It isn't an absolute.
JOHN IZZO

I'd like to learn a little more (about the system). What would be the harm of tabling it for two wee...
DAVID IZZO

Our guys clicked last year when we had to play the matches around all the hurricanes. They came out ...
DAVID IZZO

No matter how the qualification rounds work out, it's interesting how close the matches get in the e...
DAVID IZZO

That's exactly where we were last year. But the guys pulled it together and we won it all.
DAVID IZZO

The response to the competition was excellent. At the meeting we will discuss the different methods ...
DARIO IZZO

The fire marshals looked at the fire codes in O'Connell House, which didn't meet standards, and the ...
JARRET IZZO

As people begin to leave after the theme's announcement, our volunteers will be handing out scavenge...
JARRET IZZO

The excitement of having it back on campus and renewing a nationally known event is great. And the s...
JARRET IZZO

Right now, only the senior class knows about the O'Connell House tradition, and only vaguely.
JARRET IZZO

We are aiming for around 425 people to come.
JARRET IZZO

What he's done this year is amazing. The first day he came out to practice you felt and he gave us a...
LARRY IZZO

As far as the impact that game had on us the rest of the year, it definitely helped us in the long r...
LARRY IZZO

We felt that we were going to have a strong year overall both covering and returning kicks and I sti...
LARRY IZZO

We?re just not executing like we?re capable of, so we have to work on it. We have confidence in the ...
LARRY IZZO

His best years are ahead of him. He's got as fresh an arm as you're going to get.
LARRY IZZO

It was the best fight I've ever seen,
LARRY IZZO

I thought it was brilliant, ... and pretty dead-on concerning what we had to do.
LARRY IZZO

We definitely can get it done, it's just a matter of playing better. Everybody that's out there need...
LARRY IZZO

It's the greatest fight I've ever seen. I thought it was perfect. It put us in the right frame of mi...
LARRY IZZO

We were going to have to play that kind of game, which we did.
LARRY IZZO

Both destiny and free will exist simultaneously. You are destined to be given some opportunities but...
TOM TOM

During times of hardship people find happiness in simplest pleasures
TOM TOM

Am I good enough?
Trust.
TOM

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this ...
TOM REISS

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they ca...
TOM LANDRY

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail aro...
TOM HANKS

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
TOM CRUISE

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
TOM CRUISE

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomo...
TOM CRUISE

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. ...
TOM CRUISE

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.
TOM CRUISE

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybod...
TOM CRUISE

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that include...
TOM CRUISE

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right t...
TOM CRUISE

I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and ta...
TOM CRUISE

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ...
TOM CRUISE

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
TOM CRUISE

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture,...
TOM CRUISE

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
TOM CRUISE

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I...
TOM CRUISE

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell yo...
TOM CRUISE

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you sur...
TOM CRUISE

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I&...
TOM CRUISE

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot o...
TOM CRUISE

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn'...
TOM CRUISE

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.
TOM CRUISE

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a littl...
TOM CRUISE

I go without sleep, I just go hard.
TOM CRUISE

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to...
TOM CRUISE

Football is unconditional love.
TOM BRADY

My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.
TOM WATSON

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
TOM HIDDLESTON

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, c...
TOM REISS

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
KIANA TOM

Good things, when short, are twice as good.
TOM STOPPARD

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper...
TOM STOPPARD

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe th...
TOM STOPPARD

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
TOM STOPPARD

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
TOM STOPPARD

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; ...
TOM STOPPARD

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones...
TOM STOPPARD

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
TOM STOPPARD

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
TOM STOPPARD

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. An...
TOM STOPPARD

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
TOM STOPPARD

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with t...
TOM STOPPARD

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clea...
TOM STOPPARD

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
TOM STOPPARD

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
TOM CONTI

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quart...
TOM CRUISE

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibil...
TOM BRADY

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all...
TOM BRADY

Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always ...
TOM BRADY

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
TOM BRADY

I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
TOM BRADY

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they me...
TOM BRADY

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
TOM BRADY

My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe t...
TOM BRADY

There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look fo...
TOM BRADY

I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, y...
TOM BRADY

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to ch...
TOM BRADY

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help th...
TOM BRADY

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
TOM BRADY

When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.
TOM BRADY

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn't think I'...
TOM BRADY

Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geome...
TOM DELONGE

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.
TOM BRADY

What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and t...
TOM COTTON

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlis...
TOM LANTOS

I think these movies are definitely comedies. It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie ser...
TOM HOLLAND

Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowi...
TOM CRUISE

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool...
TOM HIDDLESTON

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Ever...
TOM WAITS

Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
TOM DOUGLAS

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, eac...
TOM RIDGE

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness a...
TOM HARKIN

My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema...
TOM HANKS

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES

We are set to make very bad history.
TOM WILSON

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
TOM WILSON

If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?...
TOM WILSON

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.
TOM WILSON

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
TOM WILSON

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
TOM WILSON

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've l...
TOM WILSON

Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
TOM WILSON

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
TOM WILSON

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
TOM WILSON

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
TOM WILSON

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
TOM WILSON

If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.
TOM WILSON

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
TOM WILSON

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
TOM WILSON

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
TOM WILSON

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
TOM WOLFE

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
TOM STOPPARD

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.
TOM WOLFE

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of disease...
TOM ALLEN

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards,...
TOM HANKS

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. B...
TOM STOPPARD

Everybody who is anyone wanted to meet a real life gangster, and here's Joey Gallo hitting the s...
TOM FOLSOM

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
TOM LANDRY

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can lite...
TOM STOPPARD

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned w...
TOM WATSON

Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what i...
TOM WATSON

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick invo...
TOM PETTY

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term w...
TOM STOPPARD

Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
TOM LEHRER

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
TOM HANKS

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
TOM WAITS

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
TOM STOPPARD

I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has f...
TOM COTTON

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I...
TOM STOPPARD

If there's one area I'm probably not very good at it, it's taking the foot off the throttle. I'm gonna do that a little bit. We just have to get them fresh again.

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If there's one area I'm probably not very good at it, it's taking the foot off the throttle. I'm gonna do that a little bit. We just have to get them fresh again.

Tom Izzo

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