Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Wooden

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

John Wooden

Build shelter against a rainy day.

John Wooden

When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.

Michael Jordan

I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.

Nick Taylor

Nobody sees Granite Hills as a basketball school. But we're the real deal this year.

Scott Bauman

If this were women's NCAA basketball, this would be like going into Tennessee - there's nothing like it. We're fired up for this; when you walk out and there are 15,000 people screaming and the walk-out is like the NBA finals - hey, it this doesn't get our kids ready nothing will.

Robby Reasonover

We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.

Jim Furyk

Winning two years in a row, pretty much being in control of this tournament most of the way, he's the guy to beat.

Josh King

It's frustrating. We need for somebody step up and start making shots and take control.

Stacy Gardner

It's easy to get distracted or go too fast. You want to make sure you always have a sense of speed or control -- really a physical and mental presence.

Chris Pronger

When you're taking control of a game, you lose a lot of momentum killing penalties. Granted, you can kill them off and you're good.

Kristen Renton

Any woman that is willing to take control of their life and do what they want to do to make their living, I have a lot of respect for.

Dave Hakstol

That's all we've talked about. For six weeks we've been talking about how we can only control what we do, and we've got to win hockey games.

Phil Leigh

The labels want to feel like they have some power and influence. They're losing the control they once had.

Al Alvarez

And if you can't keep your ego under control, it's going to cost you a lot of money.

Jane Harman

couldn't get the secretary of defense to stop his opposition, which has been ongoing for months and which emboldened some of these House folks to dig in.

George Beck

We should have a better defense with more experienced girls in the field. The inexperienced girls are gone. It was a struggle defensively, as well as offensively, last season. The new girls we have should fill the void adequately. More than adequately, actually.

Tom Rodriguez

We should be in every game. I expect to be right in there the last game of the year and hopefully win the section. If the defense holds up, I think we'll be fine. If not, we'll be in trouble.

Jaswant Singh

vigilant in our defense of democracy and constitutional government.

Jeff Parham

(Washington is) going to be a great player in this league. She's strong. She can go right strong, and she can finish. She did give us a problem. But I was proud of our defense at times rotating, especially down the stretch.

October Harris

We did a great job on defense tonight.

Devin Brown

We did a great job in team defense and we shut down Vince. Richard Jefferson still had a big game, Kidd was a little off. You can't let all three of them have great games or they'll hurt you.

Ed Smith

We did a good job of executing on defense in the first half. But we missed scoring opportunities after turnovers.

Matt Siegle

We did a good job defensively the whole game. It's just a matter of hitting shots. We played the same intense defense and got out of there with a win.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Billy Wagner

Sometimes it's good to just be thrown into the fire, Did he even know it?

Mark Johnson

Sometimes it's good being the underdogs. We don't mind that role.

Don Baylor

Sometimes it's a real good thing. But once you get it out, the next day it has to be over. Over. If it's not, if it festers, then you can't repair it.

Karen McCabe

Rubin and Doherty play really well together and have done some good things this year. They started to shadow Danielle in the second period and Jessi played even better.

Andy McDonald

Ryan did a good job getting it started. I thought we had really good puck movement on that, and it wound up not being a pretty goal, but we'll take it.

Holly Ismail

Samantha is such an unselfish player. That's what makes a good player great ù making everyone around her better.

O. Singh

I've played pretty good for the last two years. I'm just trying to win tournaments, plodding along, and here I am.

Andrew Brunette

I've played on teams where there were more (injuries). But I don't know if it was so many key players and players that were having good years.