Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Billy Donovan

As a basketball team you have to go through it. They need it. The game came down to our inexperience on the basketball court to their experience.

Joakim Noah

As a basketball player this is your dream -- to play in the national championship game. It's just such a great feeling that it's finally here. There's been so much hard work and so much sacrifice. There's so many moments that I can go back to -- being a little kid, walking to practice. Now I'm finally playing in the game.

Michael Wong

As a group, we don't have the size and strength of other basketball players, so we try to create our own little world of basketball. We're not trying to lock people out because we're better. We're protecting our weaker status.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want the chance to do. We just did what we've been doing all along.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want. It's been an exciting, exciting week for us.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want a chance to have an opportunity to do.

Gary Williams

As a college basketball coach, I'm upset for the future of game. Somebody has to be accountable. You can't blame just one group of people for this, unfortunately.

Craig Shoemaker

The boys are excited. When we do put four quarters of basketball together, we're a pretty decent team.

Tom Woods

That's where toughness shows, on the defensive side of things. And I think that's exactly what happened tonight. I was real pleased with the defense, and the intensity level.

John Bliss

Our defensive pressure was a big part in the win. It kind of fueled our offense and gave us some relatively easy baskets.

Tramicka James

Normally I play a more defensive role on our team. But my teammates did a good job of putting me in the position to score.

Byron Scott

Terrible. I thought we started off terrible, no sense of urgency, no resistance on the defensive end. We played like the game didn't mean a thing. It's not everybody obviously, but as a team, collectively, we were awful. We looked more like we were scared than anything.

Kenneth Bacon

There are some signs that in recent weeks Saddam Hussein has been concentrating more on defensive measures rather than offensive measures.

Chris Richards

We're a defensive team. I think we can stop anybody.

Jim Wiscombe

We're a better defensive team when we play full-court pressure defense.

Chuck Hardt

We had a few defensive lapses, but the kids found a way to hang in there and battle.

Norm Eash

Eric has natural instincts and we think he can be a top defensive back in the conference.

Dick Umile

The team deserved this win. They played hard, and this is a tough place to play - as we all know. The guys played a real solid game.

Jami Finan

The team deserved it. We played hard and our record doesn't show it, but they totally deserved this one tonight, especially the seniors.

Lloyd Carr

Some things happened at the end, but I'll have to wait and see on tape. I thought our players deserved better. I don't know how many people were on the field. I don't know how that happened.

Patty Moore

Some people didn't think we deserved to get this far, but I think we proved we belonged.

Ron Wilson

We deserved what we got in the second period.

Kevin Keegan

We deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half.

Guus Hiddink

We deserved this win but we should have scored more than one goal.

Ian Millward

We deserved the win and were really exciting in the first half. We have been improving week by week and tonight the players got their rewards.

Kyle Wanvig

We deserved that one. We hit three posts and missed two open nets. ... It didn't seem like it was meant to be tonight.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Lawrence Jr

A win is a win. We'll take them any way we can.

Jammal Brown

A win is a win. We got tested, and that's good.

E. Hicks

As long as we win by 17, I'm with it.

Will Blalock

That was a big win for them. They are probably in.

TR Harlan

That's where we're at. We know how to fight. But we need to win one of these.

Earl Boykins

Definitely. It's going to be very important for us (to win the division).

Carlos Boozer

Any win for us right now is a big win.

Steve Begin

The most important thing is it was the first win here,

Elton Brand

Once we win and get to the playoffs, it's all going to change.