Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Don Hogan

West Georgia is very athletic, and you have to earn everything because they play great defense. We must take care of the basketball and play smart.

Don Meyer

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

Dave Brubeck

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

David Halberstam

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Andy Murray

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

Buck Showalter

I'm going to play everybody, but Mark has certainly earned that opportunity.

David Bowles

I'm getting increasingly alarmed at how much we still have to do, given the few days that are left to do it. I've mentioned my concerns to the speaker, and he certainly shares those concerns.

Robert Niles

Doing things like this certainly increases Disney World's visibility in the minds of travelers. This will certainly make people think more of a Disney World vacation.

Tom Rath

It's certainly emboldened those who would be president to come up here a little earlier and show a little leg. As they do that, as folks come through, they talk more about their take on issues, and they're less likely to toe the White House line on everything.

Michael Goodman

It's certainly been a very slow recovery for New England over the last several years, and this new data is certainly consistent with that.

Allen Nogee

It's where they have to be to stay up with the cutting edge. It certainly does seem to be approaching the low-level desktop computer in terms of functions.

Bob Nicholson

They certainly are supporting (our position) and that is to have Wayne Gretzky at the Olympics.

James Utzschneider

They were the first really big, complicated acquisitions Microsoft has ever done. It took us longer to consume the acquisitions than we thought, and certainly longer than we indicated.

Jack Keefer

They'll have to step up their roles, as to how they fit in. I think Q. and Damian will lead them, and they'll know how to win. They certainly haven't lost much, and they know what it takes to win.

Bobby Douglas

I think Oklahoma State has a great team, and they've had a great run. (The Big 12 championships) have always been a tough tournament, and a lot of the national champions come out of this tournament. I don't think this year will be any different.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Bobby Frasor

Coach Williams from Day 1 was always preaching how good we could be. We could surprise everyone in America, all the analysts; we could be the darlings of America.

Jim Calhoun

Albany gave us every single thing they had. I hugged Coach Brown, who I don't even know, and said to him very simply, 'You guys are special.' And they were special.

Mike Davis

You're sad because as a competitor you'd like to go to the national championship game every year. I'm happy because six years from when coach (Bob) Knight was let go this is still a program. I'm very disappointed and sad I didn't get it done the way I would have liked.

Rod Marinelli

You would think, at this level, that you shouldn't have to coach tackling. No, you do. The people that don't, don't tackle well. You watch games and say, 'Man, that's sloppy tackling.' Well, you have to work on tackles and angles. It's your fundamentals. It's like if you are playing golf, you work on your golf swing even if you played 20 years, right?

Joey Meyer

You should have gone with coach to the Final Four. He would stop to talk to John Wooden, and he would talk to a fan. And you couldn't tell the difference.

Jack Lengyel

You see that. He walks up to the player and he's very firm like a coach. He speaks like a coach.

Mark Schmidt

Your goal is to coach the perfect game, and to have all your players, play the perfect game. That first year is difficult. You can never really be prepared for it. You are going to make mistakes. You just have to learn from those mistakes.

Larry Brown

You're not supposed to have to coach effort. I've never been in a situation where that's ever been an issue. I've always been in places where I knew you could count on the effort. But again, this is as young a group as I've had in a long time.