Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Calipari

What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

John Calipari

What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself

John Calipari

The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.

John Calipari

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

John Calipari

I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else

John Calipari

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

John Calipari

There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.

John Calipari

The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.

John Calipari

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

John Calipari

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

John Carpenter

I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.

John Beilein

Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win

Joan Smalls

I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.

Jimmy Tillette

Players will never do more than you demand.

Jimmy Fallon

President Obama recently sat down with ESPN and said the NCAA should reduce the shot clock for basketball games. Then he said, 'And while we're at it, is there any way they can reduce the 'being president clock?'

Frank Deford

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

Magic Johnson

It's almost like we have ESPN.

Magic Johnson

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

Magic Johnson

I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

Magic Johnson

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

Magic Johnson

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

The main products in the basket are still sugar, meats, ore, manufactured products, vehicles and agricultural machinery.

Mo Ibrahim

A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.

Holly Johnson

The great thing was my teammates really set some great screens to get me open. I just went out there and played basketball.

Vince Carter

A big basket was needed. If we don't make it, it would give them the opportunity to tie or cut it to one. I just wanted to be patient and take what I could get.

Tim Buckley

It's just one of those things that you hate to see happen. We had a basket count last year that shouldn't have and it cost us the West Division title. It's an unfortunate situation and I'm sure the official is disappointed right now too.

It's just disappointing the way they got so many second-chance opportunities. That's where we really lost the game. They just seemed to have more guys around the basket than us. It's just disappointing to lose like that.

Corey Brewer

It's every kid's dream, to go to the Final Four. That's what you play college basketball for. But we have a chance to do something special now. We have a chance to win the first national championship in school history.

They push it to the basket hard, but they usually kick it to the shooters. So we were actually stopping threes first, and (then trying) not to give up any twos.

(Amanda Reimer) really did a number on us last year when they came up and played us and we weren't about to let that happen again. Our focus was to shut down their drives to the basket and make it as tough as possible for their post players to move.

A lot of the teams in your league that are averaging 3,000-to-5,000 fans would be a lot better off trying this league because of the expenses. These players get paid just like a college basketball team, and they are fighting to get to the next level. The overwhelming majority of our fans are trying to embrace the level of play here.

They don't trust George Bush. Why trust a 30-second advertisement during a basketball game?

Think of the basketball metaphor, ... He sees the whole court.