It's probably the most prestigious national award there is in basketball. I think it legitimizes our program.

Lynne Roberts

He had a multitude of schools coming after him. Maryland is a great fit -- strong academics and a coach who was a national champion.

Jason Bastianelli

I heard one FBI agent at a conference say baseball isn't the national pastime anymore; gambling is.

Michael Franzese

The National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans gives everyone a chance to let those who have given the nation so much know that their sacrifices are not forgotten.

Michael Winn

The ability to fly directly to (Reagan National) is coveted precisely because you have to apply for it.

Fred Piccolo

It's putting us on the national stage, where we'd like to be. I think it let's a lot more people know about us.

Don Root

Jean could become a very good national coach, ... I don't know about Laurent Blanc's qualifications as a coach. I'm not sure that he has the qualifications to take charge of the national side.

Michel Platini

I do not know another multi-national car company that would suffer the losses BMW has and at the same time.

Tony Woodley

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Bonnie Raitt

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Because the National Rifle Association is opposed to it.

Jim Moran

We want to build from here and Justin will be playing for Leeds in National League One next season.

Gary Hetherington

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

David Ben gurion

I usually am the first one to lose it. As an athlete, if you could stop time for a moment it would be when you're getting a medal and when you hear your national anthem.

Cheryl Pounder

Canada's national bird is the grouse.

Stuart Keate

And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems.

Brian Moore

They played a great game in 74. They played a good defensive game. But we came on back and got strong and won another national title.

Anthony Davis

We want our customers to feel comfortable with the name change, ... We will take great care to explain the additional benefits they will gain by being part of a national wireless company.

Stephen Carter

We're disappointed in this indecisiveness and lack of leadership from the national Democrats and Sherrod Brown, who said he wouldn't run.

David Woodruff

We've had 2,000 people evacuated in Elba, and we've got a lot of National Guard missions ongoing to assist with all types of different emergencies.

Scott Adcock

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

Joseph Lieberman

The NHTCU doesn't have a problem with expertise, but the local level needs to be supported. At the national level there's no problem.

Tony Neate

It's a rainforest, so it's like hiking through a national park.

Katy Johnson

We believe that the health care challenges facing our country are a national challenge that require national solutions.

Dan Fogleman

We have a state of emergency at a national and regional level and are looking for the capsule everywhere.

Antonio Rivero

I've been to the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and we were delighted that things worked out so we could be here this weekend.

Jim Rhodes

It just happens that this national event is happening at the same time as the marathon. Its really exciting the way God has his hand in this.

Justin Pitts

If you look at the national numbers, we're doing very well in our economy.

David Hudson

The Jazz Festival adds a little more diversity to the area. The artists who are performing are groups that people from central Wisconsin won't usually get a chance to see. You would have to go to a larger city to see these national acts.

Nick Marrero

I told them before the game it's a four-game season. Now, it's down to three. If we can win three more games, we go to the national tournament.

Scott Breegle

I am so excited to be coming back to the University of Miami. I enjoyed my time here, and now I get an opportunity to come back and compete for a national championship.

Rich Olson

We need a national network of case management to help families in their search for work or to help them move from one place to another.

Natalie Rule

This is the first national agreement that we're aware of that's ever dealt with H-2 A workers or guest workers in this country.

Arturo Rodriguez

I think at this moment I deserve my place in the national team.

Patrick Kluivert

The best option would be to join forces on a national front, but to do that you need a common business basis.

Dennis Phillips

I think he would fall under a lot of national and international pressure to resign.

Franco Pavoncello

I view it as a national issue for the rest of the country.

Don Smithey

I don't know if it's because he went to national trials and wasn't selected, but he really doesn't look himself.

Barry Barnes

In this case, the concerns that you're citing were addressed and resolved. There were no national security concerns that were not addressed.

Clay Lowery

This was the handiwork of anti national elements, who were out to disturb the peace and communal amity in the country.

Rambabu Sharma

We wanted to get first place. That was our main goal. We set our goals high. We had a goal to get a national bid and since we were going to the competition we felt we may as well take first.

Ashley Young

The wider impact of Hurricane Katrina on the national economy is now becoming evident and none of it is pretty.

Paul Ashworth

I think the days are gone in this environment of having a small, full-service hospital unless something on the national landscape changes dramatically.

Ron Mcconnell

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

John Mcgraw

We, as individuals, are fast losing our reputation for honest dealing. Our nation is losing its character. The loss of a firm national character, or the degredation of a nation's honour, is the inevitable prelude to her destruction.

William Wells Brown

The men's 200 individual medley has been one of our weak points. But all of our national champions from this meeting will become members of our national squad so that we can assist them.

Dirk Lange

Everyone says that you won a national championship for girls, and it doesn't mean very much. But this will mean everything.

Courtney Asdourian

It means our National Voting Rights Trail will not be desecrated by a nasty garbage dump.

Barbara Evans

They do it on a national basis, and this is the first time that it is being done in West New York.

John Fraraccio

Cable companies, local and national ISPs, could all be part of it. I think that's what's enhanced our offering; cities like more competition and more choice.

Cole Reinwand

Given the seriousness of the allegations, the National Investigations Service, our major crimes unit, followed up, which resulted in the charges being laid.

Mark Giles

Everyone must look beyond short-term national interests. This way we can achieve results that will be visible in our citizens' lives.

Tarja Halonen

How can you be against the national anthem? We are all Americans whether we are Republican, Democrat, independent, black, white, whatever. We are all Americans.

David Circle

I have not been sacked and I remain in charge of the national team.

Stephen Keshi

If national members of parliament are to hold ministers to account they need to know what those ministers decide in Brussels in the name of their country.

Chris Davies

It is our aim to get as many players as we can in the national squad and they will come back to Ulster better players.

David Wallace

It started out very small, ... and then we started adding national entertainment and it really took off.

Barb Griffin

All of these guys pitched on a national championship team, and they're returning. They won on the biggest stage there is.

Tom Holliday

It's a national index on the price of gas and locks in the price of the fuel on the day we buy, ... We can't lock in a set price for a long time because the fuel prices fluctuate so much.

Jack Barnes

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Bill Vaughan

If Congress does not want banks to engage in real estate brokerage or management, it is inconceivable that it intends to permit national banks to engage in real estate development, which is a much riskier activity.

Thomas Stevens

So let's work harder to upgrade our National sides as we look forward to the future.

John Koh

It's not even close. Back in 1979, when we beat North Carolina, that was not a national game -- only the last two minutes went on national television.

Bob Weinhauer

We're getting a wonderful national and international reputation just by announcing we're doing this. It helps put Philadelphia on the map.

Dianah Neff

Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo.

Vanessa Redgrave

I have been dreaming of playing in the National Hockey League all of my life, and to get one step closer to that goal is special.

Jimmy Howard

We contacted the Republican National Committee yesterday and indicated to them that we won't be submitting a proposal.

Jennifer Hallowell

There are practicing Muslims playing in the National Football League. They were playing that night.

David Fricke

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

Bill Frist

San Miguel is looking at many, many opportunities offered to us. Our intention is to still go on and acquire several companies. We are really interested to buy companies bigger than National Foods.

Ramon Ang

There's no doubt that the development community all over the country is very closely watching what happens in Brooklyn. The movement to build coalitions around development is going national.

John Goldstein

It is a niche opportunity for National Savings, it won't have a big impact on us.

Alan Cook

We ran into him later that night at the convention and he listened to us again. We just kept running into him at shows. We also ran into him at the National Folk Festival in Richmond.

Jacob Eller

I don't think it would have been turned [down] without the strong objection of Augusta National.

Col. Frederick Martin

It is of major importance for the future of our country that through his defense and the fact he died without being convicted, Milosevic had managed to defend national and state interest.

Ivica Dacic

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Hong Feng

These proposals for the national park system are unconscionable. It's hard to believe anyone could even contemplate drafting something this extreme.

Craig Obey

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

Barry Mccaffrey

There is not a national energy crisis, there is a tight reserve margin which we are addressing.

Alec Erwin

It's a great experience for these kids, the culmination of their high school careers. They get a chance to play on national television, and it's great promotion for college basketball.

Pete Gillen

The Democrats and Republicans are not putting up any decent candidates, We need a breath of fresh air in Austin, not just someone who will march in lockstep with the national parties.

Herman Morris

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Eugene J. Mccarthy

You can't play that level of play. For a national championship, you can't come out like that. We'll get run out of the stadium.

Ryan Hollins

There was definitely broad Senate opposition to the concept of a national 1.5-mile prohibition.

Andy Davis

We received widespread media attention both national and local on the sendoff and return.

Jim Waters

This is a major, major issue on a national basis and this is the way members chose to address it. This was not an issue where the leadership set the policy.

Sheldon Silver

I believe it's absolutely crucial for us to maintain a strong voice in the national government.

Dennis Anderson

The Secretary of Education will decide which languages will be deemed critical to national security. My hunch is Spanish will not be one of them.

Andrea Baker

He really wanted to win a national championship. He really did.

Doug Bibby

I want to prove in the national team that I'm a good player.

Adrian Mutu

This is a unique program and a national model for being a very innovative program.

Michael Palmer

In one year's time, we've moved from nowhere to national leadership.

Becky Skillman

Come on, man, I'm not that stupid. Obviously (Hernandez) has proven how dumb he is on national TV.

Dave Magadan

I don't know if there will ever be a national database to track them.

Jason Berger

These paintings are national treasures, but also international icons.

Jorunn Christoffersen

It's not a balanced plan by any means. It's a control eradication plan for the vast majority of the national grasslands. It goes too far.

Jonathan Proctor

This label has a national rep but in a niche market.

Thomas Kikta

I think it's actual fact that our national defense is being hampered, will be impaired by the proposals.

James Bilbray

But again Jordan has the right to exercise its sovereignty and to take sovereign decisions when they are in favor of its national interest.

Nasser Judeh

They love to model their clothes and show off their national dress. It is so important to them, and I think it's important to the sponsors to come out and support them.

Maxine Hunter

Hot dogs are a mystery food, never know with hot dogs. They have 250 to 300 or more calories and tons of fat. Hebrew National, 97 percent fat-free hot dogs have just 50 calories and one point five grams of fat.

Lisa Lillien

Illinois is an excellent team with a chance to win the national championship. They simply overpowered us today.

Dennis Emery

Today, the airline industry is calling on President Bush to make aviation a national priority and to speed up improvements in our aviation infrastructure.

Carol Hallett

The National Guard or any service is there for that reason. It's a job and it's what the military requires.

Gwen Allen

I don't feel like we have to win a national championship. But it's definitely the best ending you could ask for.

Stacey Bullard

It's all about recruiting. It's about being able to tell a kid who comes in we're going to play in Hawaii, we're going to play in Madison Square Garden. We're going to be on national TV.

Dan Fulks

He's staying with the position he had before. There are local bubbles but no national bubble.

Allan H. Meltzer

We denounced terrorism and suicide bombing before 9/11 and after, on a national level and on a local level. Some people will try to find anything to attack our group.

Basim Elkarra

We're getting better. My goal is to compete at the national level. We expect to next year and the year after that.

Jeff Cleanthes

It's more the reputation, the glamour of being national champions.

Clement Radcliffe

If we don't develop players at the junior level, we are not going to have players for the national team in future.

David Gilbert

In the circumstances,it is not befitting and fair on my part to continue as national president.

Deve Gowda

Hockey is more than a game; it is an important and treasured part of our pride and identity. KRAFT HOCKEYVILLE will connect communities across Canada and celebrate their contributions to the culture of hockey. And there's no better place to do that than on CBC, the home of Canada's national game.

Richard Stursberg

Without a free trade agreement, no one, not national or foreign firms, will invest. We have many things that need to get done, and all those who oppose the free trade accord need to tell me how the heck we're going to do them.

Oscar Arias Sanchez

A national championship. That's it.

Cat Osterman

Going through that type of tournament at the regional really gets you prepared for the national tournament.

Bill Foy

Now I know what it's (national competition) all about, so I know what to expect. We've had more time together as a team and we've learned how to handle the pressure.

Kelly Jordet

With less appreciation, consumers will be less able to tap into home equity loans to finance their purchases, which could put a damper on the national economy.

Alan Gin

Based on the national elections that took place in January, we anticipate that insurgents will attempt to intimidate voters and deprive them of the opportunity to vote.

John Vines

National crisis that requires a national response.

Kent Conrad

I truly believe that was one of the great things that helped the University of Miami program achieve a lot of the things that they did - the enormous national exposure.

Butch Davis

We've had numerous conversations with the fraternity leadership and the alumni as well as the national organization, and certainly, we intend to have a lot of future conversations.

Karin Johnes

The juxtaposition of the mission to Iraq and the response to Katrina really demonstrates the new and changing character of the National Guard.

Daniel Goure

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Jon Holmes

There has been a lot of talk about the appropriate head count for the National Guard. But the actual number of National Guard soldiers is far less important than how well-equipped each of those soldiers is.

Loren Thompson

Bald eagles do not exist anywhere else on the planet. Bald eagles are our eagles. Nobody else can claim them. That's why they're our national symbol.

Jacques Nuzzo

They're always trying to fix the judging system, (but) it's not the judging system, it's the judges. As long as there is national bias, you'll never be able to get rid of favoritism.

Dorothy Hamill

This is a national epidemic. The term epidemic seems appropriate. This isn't a problem that is just in Pennsylvania or just Philadelphia. It is happening around the country.

Joan Benso

Of course they have an image of being bad boys and being the dirty boys of the National Football League, ... but a reputation means nothing. What means something is going out there and executing on that particular day.

Rodney Harrison

Things are better but not wonderful relative to the national numbers. One of the things about this market is it tends to be aggressive and move too quickly.

Jim Diehl

Without being certain of the results in Florida, we simply cannot be certain of the results of the national election.

William Daley

You do not need to have much in the way of resources to acquire good health at a national level. If you have the right policies, if you make the right investments, huge health gains can ensue.

Dean Jamison

It's one of our top companies, their headquarters is based here and that has significant impact on our national presence.

Matt Parker

We firmly believe that with the deployment of the American National Missile Defense Program, it will certainly affect the security of China.

Sha Zukang

I think it's partly because it deviates from the National Federation's rules book. They don't provide for it.

Mark Byers

They're a program that has an excellent reputation. They've been a national power for many years. It will be some great competition.

Craig Bohl

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Dennis Helms

I'd like to take Nook Logan , Joey Gathright , Carl Crawford and Chone Figgins , ... put them in that 4-by-100, and we'd crush those National League guys. We'd beat 'em on the way to the race.

Blue Jays

This is a race that the national party ... will be watching closely through November.

Jen Psaki

They [the National Weather Service] can't predict the weather, only God can.

Terry Green

He has replaced the Canadian Bar Association as the major conduit between major national firms. He is our association. He understands how we operate.

Keith Mitchell

I think the way we've structured it with the four games plus the national championship will be a positive.

Tom Hansen

My wife calls this 'national Jim Flynn week,' so she just writes me off.

Jim Flynn

She's phenomenal. She should be preparing for a high school graduation, not a national championship.

Bev Kearney

What's the national security concern for lying about your child?

Mahir Sherif

For national security considerations, we hope the opposition will approve the new bill as soon as possible.

Frank Hsieh

These men that kill 100, 50 and 70 men a day - have they been put to death. How many have been put to death? How many? The National Assembly is supposed to represent the Iraqi people. All I hear is we will do this and we will do that.

Abu Abbas

That's not the best way to raise money for the National Flood Insurance Program.

Mike Strauss

If the governor signs this bill, she will send a message to the international and national business community that Michigan is serious about competing in the global economy.

Sarah Hubbard

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Rod Smith

We had a challenging quarter due to the wet and cool spring across the country, the National Hockey League lockout and continued price discounting in our key markets.

John Sleeman

Radiation is no respecter of national boundaries.

Ian Fairlie

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

Claud Cockburn

I don't mind this course, but I definitely like the course at PGA National.

Brett Wetterich

We have provided the Democratic party the seeds of destruction on a national level. We gave the nation Mike Dukakis in 1988 and John Kerry in 2004. It doesn't get much worse than that.

Jon Keller

We looked very hard to try to get a better set of data for a lot of indicators. And on violence against women, the only data we felt confident about was national. We couldn't get it for state-by-state.

Marcia Greenberger

We have expressed our position to the national assembly and to the leadership of the government.

Jose Aranaz

You see Duke and North Carolina on national TV and all of a sudden I'm playing on their floors. It was a great experience. You see them on TV, but it was fantastic being and playing there.

Jawaan Alston

I don't know. I haven't even absorbed this. Winning those two national championships, those were special teams, too. I've been very blessed.

Aaron Smith

It certainly hurts our national title hopes, but it doesn't completely wipe them away. It's not like they blew us out. For us, the big picture is we have to win out. But we had to win out anyway. It's not the end.

Anthony Gonzalez

What was a tragedy has become a celebration of comradeship?It brought about a new sense of national identity.

Sam Lewis

The Ministry of National Defense can give its professional views but it is the legislature that should make the final judgment.

James Soong

The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.

Eddie Izzard

This is an important cultural moment. This is the first true national ID card.

Tim Sparapani

We are expecting that with this national boycott we will be able to further gain some respect, dignity, and improve the lot of the immigrant community.

Javier Rodriguez

[The group identifying itself as] the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty ... in very inhumane conditions.

Daniel Pearl

There are only two United States senators who have a truly national constituency. One's name is Ted Kennedy and one's name is John McCain.

Ken Duberstein

There are more producers in the southeastern part of the country yet there is less involvement, less members from the Southeast in the National Cattlemen's Association.

Melanie Sojourner

I still dream about playing in the National Hockey League. I was a good player but I wasn't an unbelievable player. In Canada, you have to be unbelievable.

Carter Trevisani

The Internet certainly facilitated recruiting becoming something of a national phenomenon.

Bobby Burton

I think the big fight down the line for Alex is against Scott Harrison, ... That's the one I'd like to see happen when Scott moves up from featherweight. There's not a lot of love lost between the two guys and I think it would be a tremendous fight for Scottish boxing and a national TV audience. It's a fight I think Alex would win.

Jim Mcdonnell

Kara went out with a great attitude and just performed like a national champion.

Tami Harrison

I felt -- and still feel -- Duke is synonymous with excellence. I felt like my goals in coaching matched Duke's goals -- that we could compete for a national championship.

Kerstin Kimel

We comply with all regulations including national, state, city and campus-wide.

Todd Simmons

I hope the strategy will complement actions that all our countries are taking at the national level to contain the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Begum Zia

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

Sam Ervin

The National Medical Association is positioned to really provide the type of resources this community could use.

Albert Morris

Coach K. at Duke would always say that going undefeated was not one of their goals. Winning a national championship was a goal. Going undefeated was never one of our goals, either.

Dave Fredrickson

They very definitely would like to find out all our secrets so they could copy them and take advantage of them, either in terms of their national security, the modernization of the army -- the PLA -- or in terms of competition in the marketplace.

Porter Goss

The fact that I knew a few National Trail Conference players that went on to play there helped.

Cody Rincker

It means everything now. Our ultimate goal is to win a national championship. We took a big step making it to Boston.

Alison Bales

Considering that we began this fiscal year impacted by a national recession and the tragedies of Sept. 11, fiscal 2002 has certainly exceeded our expectations.,

Robert Toll

It's really amazing. We all came in and we said the reason you go to a big school in the SEC is to go on and win a national championship and win conference championships and leave your mark in history. And that's what we've come in and done.

Ben Obomanu

Something's going to happen in Cornwall on a bridge. Something controversial involving the Natives. The bridge is going to be blocked and this is going to be big, national news.

Connie Adams

We couldn't do too much about the booing of the English national anthem, other than to implore Welsh supporters to respect it.

David Collins

If National leads the government after Saturday, I can promise the first thing on my agenda will be to get to the bottom of this.

Judith Collins

[Indonesia called for international help Friday to combat the bird flu virus that has killed six people.] We know that bird flu is a very dangerous disease, ... The virus mutates easily ... and moves very quickly across national boundaries.

Yuri Thamrin

This points out the dilemma of balancing the requirements of national security against the constraints guiding law enforcement efforts.

John Browne

What is happening in the Arctic will affect policy at the international and national level. Native populations have said, this is our food, our way of life, not just our wildlife.

Todd O'hara

We'll be holding a workshop with state and national experts to ... decide between these options.

Michelle May

The Bradford High School chorus will start off the evening with our national anthem.

Rose Green

We were disappointed, naturally, because of the very small, low turnout in many areas, ... It made it impossible for us to be represented on the National Assembly.

Adnan Pachachi

Day labor is not a niche market. It's now entering different aspects of the national mainstream economy.

Abel Valenzuela

We see reporters that we have never seen before. This is national news now. They're all asking the same question.

Jay Gibbons

If there is not a more important national issue than Iraq, I don't know what it is.

Sean Conway

Whether it is 25 meters or 50 meters, when he's done, Jordan has won. We've always taught him to do his best. A chance to swim in the national Special Olympics is very exciting.

Lisa Cooper

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

The national financial providers -- the Merrill Lynches, the Fidelities, the credit-card companies, the mortgage specialists -- they're all eating (banks') lunch.

Robert Albertson

We're going to be busy. We're happy we got it. Anything that gets national attention and is positive and healthy reflects on the city's image.

Bill Higgins

Local management as well as regional and national management at FAA are well aware of the concerns that have been raised by the employees assigned to oversee NWA.

Linda Goodrich