Doug Foote quote: "It wasn't big things, just little things. Some nights it was missed free throws, some not getting key rebounds, some bad bounces, and, like tonight, missed defensive assignments in overtime. We've competed to the wire in just about every game since early January."

But I have no complaints. The kids battled. They played hard. How many times does a team with only f...
DOUG FOOTE

We lost the game because we lost our focus on defense at critical times and turned it over on offens...
DOUG FOOTE

It'll be a real test of character.
DOUG FOOTE

When you don't have a lot of low-post scoring, you've got to hit some shots (elsewhere), particularl...
DOUG FOOTE

We changed our offense a little. It's a motion offense. It's penetration and pitch that we implement...
DOUG FOOTE

Our biggest problem when you look at this team is 15 out of 19 kids are freshmen and sophomores. We ...
DOUG FOOTE

We've got to make some free throws. We've shot ourselves in the foot time and time again at the foul...
DOUG FOOTE

Grove City is very structured. They run a 2-1-2 set offense. They pass, pass, and pass.
DOUG FOOTE

We've played a brutal schedule and we've played seven of nine games on the road, so getting some hom...
DOUG FOOTE

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Death and the dice level all distinctions.
SAMUEL FOOTE

My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always ca...
HORTON FOOTE

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would nev...
SHELBY FOOTE

He's going to be a scary player. He's young, he's learning - and that was a big goal for us.
ADAM FOOTE

We showed a lot of character coming back tonight. This team really wants to win and if we can put aw...
ADAM FOOTE

Having come back like we did, I think it showed a lot of heart. We played an open game. I think we h...
ADAM FOOTE

Having to fight back like we did I think showed a lot of heart. We played an open game tonight and I...
ADAM FOOTE

It seemed like they wanted it more.
ADAM FOOTE

We should play desperate all the time -- why not? This team is so hard on itself that sometimes we p...
ADAM FOOTE

We needed to get a win and get some confidence. We had a long week of practice going over some thing...
ADAM FOOTE

We showed a little frustration. We looked a little scrambly on power plays. We didn't play together ...
ADAM FOOTE

The first thing he (Callan) asked was, 'Can I bring my Zamboni bed?' I said, 'Sure, you can bring th...
ADAM FOOTE

It's OK. We've got a lot of young guys. We'll grow together. We'll see what we can do.
ADAM FOOTE

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. B...
SHELBY FOOTE

He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE

What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in other...
SAMUEL FOOTE

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from rea...
SHELBY FOOTE

Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd, And mother Eve the humble distaff held, Who then ...
SAMUEL FOOTE

Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE

I never cared what kind of grade I got.
SHELBY FOOTE

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a grea...
SAMUEL FOOTE

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.
SHELBY FOOTE

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone els...
SHELBY FOOTE

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask...
HORTON FOOTE

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. La...
SHELBY FOOTE

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both...
SHELBY FOOTE

He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!
SAMUEL FOOTE

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Longevity conquers scandal every time.
SHELBY FOOTE

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typew...
SHELBY FOOTE

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don&...
HORTON FOOTE

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is goin...
SHELBY FOOTE

Obviously, this hurts. It?s a huge letdown. For people in Canada, if we?re not there in the final, w...
ADAM FOOTE

All these games are kind of a finals. There is no room for errors.
ADAM FOOTE

Obviously my first job is being ready for the Blue Jackets, and I knew if I got dinged again with th...
ADAM FOOTE

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
SHELBY FOOTE

Somebody was in front and made the defenseman concentrate on someone else, ... I just whacked at it ...
ADAM FOOTE

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregati...
SHELBY FOOTE

The great Panjandrum himself.
SAMUEL FOOTE

When house and land are gone and spent,/ Then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Death and the dice level all distinctions
SAMUEL FOOTE

Born in a cellar . . . and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE

They all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gun powder ran out at the heels of...
SAMUEL FOOTE

I'm from Detroit, but I haven't had the great career that he has. He deserves all of the applause an...
LARRY FOOTE

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
SHELBY FOOTE

It was closer than the score indicated and we just wanted to make sure that we didn't let anyone beh...
ADAM FOOTE

If everything in my life is going smoothly, then obviously I know I'm doing something wrong. Life wa...
AMANDA FOOTE

We were frustrated at each other. We started cussing at each other. And when we lined up we took our...
LARRY FOOTE

I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spir...
HORTON FOOTE

I was the ultimate bachelor. I was a young guy, so I did what I wanted to do. Now my day revolves ar...
LARRY FOOTE

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
SHELBY FOOTE

And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thin...
SHELBY FOOTE

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now...
HORTON FOOTE

This defense could be one of the best you've seen. For a long time.
LARRY FOOTE

I want to get better, that's first and foremost. Mr. Rooney and the organization paid me so I gotta ...
LARRY FOOTE

The guys always remind me of that. I wasn't ready. I think it was more physical but that was a long ...
LARRY FOOTE

Through high school, college I've always been known as a heady football player. (At Michigan) we ran...
LARRY FOOTE

I've always been smart but you know how it is just doing enough to be in the middle of the pack. But...
LARRY FOOTE

They might not think that this guy is very intelligent.
LARRY FOOTE

It's true. They do have a lot of new guys. But they still have Steve McNair. With Steve McNair, they...
LARRY FOOTE

Trash talk? Oh yeah, I can handle my own. I come from Detroit. That's all we do. I can talk with the...
LARRY FOOTE

Anytime Joey Porter comes back on any defense, it's going to be a positive. He's one of our leaders ...
LARRY FOOTE

Before he met me, he didn't have any tattoos.
LARRY FOOTE

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second print...
SHELBY FOOTE

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 2...
SHELBY FOOTE

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incident...
SHELBY FOOTE

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a...
SHELBY FOOTE

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third v...
SHELBY FOOTE

But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every n...
SHELBY FOOTE

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be qui...
SHELBY FOOTE

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
SHELBY FOOTE

I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wo...
HORTON FOOTE

I haven't seen him drop one. Not one.
LARRY FOOTE

You have to go up there and just battle. I found some holes today and managed to get a couple hits. ...
MATT FOOTE

I just tried to come out and have some fun today. Obviously these guys are pretty good competition a...
MATT FOOTE

One through nine, we don't have a guy in the lineup that is an easy out.
MATT FOOTE

I tried to treat it like a regular game, and not stress too much about competition or the fact that ...
MATT FOOTE

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to c...
SHELBY FOOTE

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come m...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardsh...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL

Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when ...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It ...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail...
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
GEORGE W. FOOTE

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
DOUG LARSON

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
DOUG LARSON

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
DOUG LARSON

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
DOUG LARSON

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
DOUG LARSON

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing ...
DOUG LARSON

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships wit...
DOUG COLLINS

I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically c...
DOUG LIMAN

When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James...
DOUG LIMAN

The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game...
DOUG LIMAN

Ice cream brings people together.
DOUG DUCEY

When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type...
DOUG COLLINS

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplish...
DOUG STANHOPE

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
DOUG LARSON

Money is good, love is wealth.
DOUG HORTON

I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I ma...
DOUG LIMAN

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
DOUG MCLEOD

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
DOUG HORTON

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, l...
DOUG HORTON

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.
DOUG HORTON

If food were free, why work?
DOUG HORTON

Death is the final wake-up call.
DOUG HORTON

To awake from death is to die in peace.
DOUG HORTON

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
DOUG HORTON

The stars up there at night are closer than you think.
DOUG DILLON

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
DOUG LARSON

Long-range planning works best in the short term
DOUG EVELYN

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
DOUG HORTON

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
DOUG LARSON

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
DOUG HORTON

Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
DOUG KING

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
DOUG HORTON

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
DOUG HORTON

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
DOUG HORTON

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
DOUG HORTON

It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a w...
DOUG VARGAS

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.
DOUG HORTON

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
DOUG HORTON

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
DOUG HORTON

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
DOUG HORTON

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big ...
DOUG HORTON

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for ...
DOUG HORTON

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attenti...
DOUG HORTON

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
DOUG HORTON

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
DOUG HORTON

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang agains...
DOUG HORTON

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
DOUG HORTON

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
DOUG HORTON

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
DOUG HORTON

There is no bad in good.
DOUG HORTON

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.
DOUG HORTON

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
DOUG HORTON

Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future.
DOUG FIREBAUGH

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
DOUG HORTON

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
DOUG HORTON

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
DOUG HORTON

Smile, it's free therapy.
DOUG HORTON

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
DOUG HORTON

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.
DOUG HORTON

Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master.
DOUG MALOUF

Toys are the greatest inspiration for me. People never really grow up. They just get bigger adult bo...
DOUG TAYLOR

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.
DOUG HORTON

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing pole...
DOUG LARSON

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
DOUG HORTON

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery.
DOUG HORTON

Integrity is not something that you should have to think about...nor consider doing...but something ...
DOUG FIREBAUGH

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
DOUG HORTON

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
DOUG HORTON

Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
DOUG HORTON

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
DOUG LARSON

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
DOUG FLOYD

Long-range planning works best in the short term.
DOUG EVELYN

The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
DOUG LARSON

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
DOUG HORTON

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.
DOUG LARSON

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Lar...
DOUG LARSON

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerat...
DOUG ENGELBART

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.
DOUG HORTON

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
DOUG FLOYD

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
DOUG LARSON

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.
DOUG FERRARI

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
DOUG LARSON

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
DOUG LARSON

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
DOUG LARSON

My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. ...
DOUG FLUTIE

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
DOUG LARSON

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at w...
DOUG OSE

I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart ...
DOUG LIMAN

I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats a...
DOUG HOFFMAN

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
DOUG LARSON

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
DOUG LARSON

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of hom...
DOUG LARSON

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
DOUG LARSON

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
DOUG LARSON

Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,...
DOUG LIMAN

Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me...
DOUG FLUTIE

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.
DOUG OSE

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
DOUG LARSON

Biotech research is incredibly important for health-care innovation.
DOUG DUCEY

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of ...
DOUG LARSON

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
DOUG LARSON

There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though th...
DOUG STANHOPE

The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But the...
DOUG WILHELM

It wasn't big things, just little things. Some nights it was missed free throws, some not getting key rebounds, some bad bounces, and, like tonight, missed defensive assignments in overtime. We've competed to the wire in just about every game since early January.

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It wasn't big things, just little things. Some nights it was missed free throws, some not getting key rebounds, some bad bounces, and, like tonight, missed defensive assignments in overtime. We've competed to the wire in just about every game since early January.

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