Eric Williams Quotations

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

We're expecting to have some work done this fall and shut down through the winter.

We're still recovering survivors and bodies. I can tell you right now, we have 11 confirmed dead.

We are not allowing people back into the site right now.

I was impressed with Casey. He showed a lot of heart for not wrestling much all year.

I was going to be a part of something, but I really ain't a part of nothing. So I'm pretty much wasting my f---in' time. You try to be a professional, but f--- professionalism.

If they're going to want to speak in a partisan way, fine. But don't do it as a church.

I don't know where all this is coming from. For the longest time, our season was all over the place. It was scattered everywhere.

I feel like the whole world's back is turned against us. One thing I can't stand is when people turn their back on us. I feel like we have nothing to lose and a lot to prove.

I feel that if we do not help people, you breed anger and contempt.

We've got to learn to come out with fire, some intensity,

He's persevered. He's come from a long road. It's the stuff that dreams are made of.

I think we're getting used to letting other teams come back and giving everybody a show. It's gotten real crazy.

I think we played that way because our backs were against the wall. Of course we didn't play our best. We're not the type of team that that thinks we're the No. 1 team, so we can do anything we want. We still have to scratch and claw to keep that No. 1.

Last week I felt like I was still recovering. But today is proof my shoulder is healed now 100 percent or close to it.

Originally a one-day event, local schools would identify needy children who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

My only question is, can I write it off? ... If that's the case, it shouldn't be a problem.

Johnny Damon. Just when you think y'all have broke the curse, we put it right back on you. Right back on you.

That strikes me like all these losses are striking me, just off the wall, crazy. Where is this all coming from? Where is this going? It seemed like a plague over this team. If we play like we did (Saturday), I think we'll win a lot more games this half of the ACC than we did the first half.

You'll find yourself watching both the actor and the mouse.

We provide 50,000 barrels of oil a day to the region and it is unclear how Trinidad and Tobago will fit into this agreement. We have been having cordial discussions with other member states and will continue these discussions at the meeting.

We're not a team to quit. We've lost close games and it's been a rough season, but it wouldn't have been right if we'd laid down and just rolled over.

You know, we got a piece of ourselves back this week. It was taken away by the way we played during the regular season in the ACC, but we got it back, and I just hope we get a chance to showcase it again in the NIT. We've just got to pray about it and hope we get that chance.

We don't anticipate any problems with having officials, ... We contacted the FHSAA, asking for advice on the issue. Mr. Baker has been working with Randy Merrill all along. We appreciate the steps the sports officials association has taken to work with us and comply with the state law.

We're treating the trailer park as a mass disaster area.

We knew Rapid Response met a critical need of public safety agencies across the country because of the clear benefits this solution provides emergency response personnel. But we didn't realize our team's efforts to create this solution would be honored multiple times with these three prominent awards.

We didn't expect that at all. It was something that caught us off-guard. We really didn't handle it too well.

We've got a lot of team chemistry now. A lot of guys are playing to their potential. Like a great man always said, 'Better late than never.' I'm glad we're doing it now.

We will be able to handle this situation just fine,

With him, it's like we're one big happy family again. It's like the puzzle is complete.

This year alone, Karen has used Kristi's Christmas to organize relief efforts for the tsunami and hurricane victims. She gathered up frequent-flyer miles for Katrina victims so they could come up here to get back on their feet.

(Attending a production) teaches them about theaters and being an audience member.

It was wonderful, wonderful, words can't express it. I just wish my family was here to experience it,

It was all about the hustle plays. That shows a team that doesn't want to go home yet.

Ten times. Ten times. It's hard to fight back and fight back and get nothing out of it.

Something's better than nothing. I just want to be playing basketball as long as I can. That's all there is to it.

That's where our aspirations are now, trying to win these four games and make it to the (NCAA) tournament.

You take it for granted, ... When it's taken away from you, you realize that just being here is a blessing.

A lot of people are not talking about Wake in any tournament right now. That's the great thing -- we can sneak up on anybody. This is a new part of the season now.

A lot of guys are playing to their potential. ... Better late than never.

A lot of games in the ACC, it seems like 85-90 percent of them, we've been up at half and we lost in the second half. It's frustrating to not be able to come out the second half as strong as we did in the first half, extremely frustrating.

You can't hold back your feelings inside when you see something like that.

You can't help but to think about it, that you're going to have a lot of people that probably know you or have known about you that, even fans that's not rooting for you, but they know I represent New Jersey, they can identify where I'm at, and looking up to an individual like myself who came from the inner city and who made it.

It seems like the whole league is going young now to introduce their new product. It's all about the product.

It was crazy. We got another break, and just like that ? we were going into overtime.

It's a clash, but it's got to be a balance as well. We'll be fine. It's just something we have to work on.

It's an improvement to the older, established neighborhoods. They are all three oil-and-chip streets.

It is the one spot in this area that we have not thoroughly searched because it is under water.

It's crazy. It just seems like they wanted it more than we did. They fought hard to the glass every time.

It's hurtful. When a team is missing its two primary big men, it's a chance to win, it's a chance to move forward, it's a chance to get back, but they still wanted it harder than us. We let that defense get to us. Not in the first half. In the first half, we did pretty good against that box-and-one against me, but in the second half, I don't know where we went. It's all about heart. It's all about hustling 90 feet. We didn't hustle.

I've got one year left on my contract. I'm just waiting it out, you know what I mean.

It's very frustrating. We knew what kind of team we could be, but we didn't play like it. If you don't have that chemistry early, it's tough to get it.

They beat us to every loose ball. All of us should get fined.

They went to the glass hard, real hard, harder than we did.

I'm not used to losing this much. It's hurtful.

I'm not used to losing this much. I haven't lost this much since I've been here. It's hurtful.

I don't really see a weakness right now going to districts. We're more of a defensive team right now, but we're trying a couple things to become more of a striking team.

I don't know, in particular what factors she wants to change from state to state, I can assume it means she wants to change the ability of known offenders being out on the street, increasing the length of prison terms and those types of things.

Honestly, I kind of had a sense while I was out there that I was going back to school.

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

I played baseball, and thats pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so thats why I probably play it the way I do.

Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness.

They have no right to complain! If women were cool with knowing their man is cheating on them then they have no right to complain. Sit down somewhere. BUT, if it makes them unhappy then complain with the understanding that if he doesn't stop, get out the situation. End of story!

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

I feel like everybody in the whole world's backs are turned to us. One thing I can't stand is when people turn their backs on us.

You know, I've pretty much got through the part of feeling sorry for myself and sorry for the team. The only thing we can do now is keep fighting. We've got to play it game by game. That's all we can do.

The Lord compelled me to go. Some people say they were moved by what they saw. Well, I was moved to go.