Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Paladino

THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities

Bill Vaughan

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

Billy Donovan

The 3-point line is a great equalizer in college basketball.

Jay Harrington

That was as good a team as we've played all year and probably the most physical. But these kids did what they have done all year. They found a way to win. Defensively I thought we got after it in the second half and offensively we did a good job of going to the basket and getting fouled. We hit free throws down the stretch.

That was too little too late. Nick also, in the first five minutes, let a freshman point guard beat him to the basket for two baskets. I'm happy Nick shot in some 3-pointers but I can't find a whole lot good about our performance tonight.

That was the turning point of the game. We didn't give up a basket and we didn't foul them and put them on the free throw line. I think that right there pretty much closed the game out.

That way, you get them open shots. You try to get them cuts to the basket to where they get easy baskets. And once you get easy baskets, usually your game starts to flow from there.

John Calipari

That was a high-level basketball game. My hat is off to Tennessee . They played exactly like they needed to play. They are executing how they want to play. They got it inside when they needed to get a couple of baskets.

Aaron Brooks

That was a great rebound. His basketball IQ is great. That was one where we knew we had the game.

Eddie Jordan

That was certainly playoff basketball by the Cavaliers. It wasn't playoff basketball by the Wizards. My team (is) not playing the way they were supposed to play. That hurt us. It's a problem we have to correct. Our team didn't have the body language. We didn't have unselfish play. We were undisciplined. We lost our focus.

That was big. We got down by one, but that basket was big. Plus she made the free throw.

That was one of the best halves of basketball I've seen in the five years I've been coaching.

I was really happy with the way the girls played, in spite of the outcome. It seemed that we couldn't buy a basket in the late going but still, I think it's the best we've shot all season.

I was missing easy shots all night and every basket at that point was crucial.

Smush Parker

I would like to stay here. I feel like I can contribute to this team. I want to help this team win basketball games, and I believe I can.

We just went ice cold. Sometimes you can't describe it. The basket just seems like it's the size of a pinhead.

Matt has been good for us all year defensively. We chart deflections and Matt has led us in deflections all year. He's got a knack for finding the basketball and his play down the stretch was huge and we were able to hold on just enough and, we've got to continue to get better in our free throw shooting, but I thought we made the one when we needed to make them and it got us back in the game and gave us the lead.

We don't want to look too far ahead. But we do want to establish ourselves as a strong basketball program. We just don't what this to be a one-year thing.

We finally clicked a little bit in the second half today. Defensively we played the three-point line well in the second and we finally made some baskets. It seemed as if the lid was on the basket in the past few games, but tonight we were able to get them to fall.

We finally began to get some good looks at the basket and made some shots to put ourselves in a position to win the game in the fourth.

Doug Wilson

We couldn't put it in the basket in the third quarter. We played catch-up after that, and every time we made a run they were able to answer.

We couldn't make a basket there at the end.

We couldn't make a basket. The basket had a lid on it.

We couldn't make a basket and we just let it get away.

We couldn't keep T.J. Ford in front of us. He just went wherever he wanted to go with the basketball and created all kinds of scoring opportunities. If it wasn't for him, it would have been a much easier game.

We played terrible (against Zanesville). I don't know what it was. The letdown might have been a good thing for us, but I think we have the potential to be a really good basketball team.

We played really well. We took care of the basketball, we rebounded the basketball and we won comfortably without shooting great.

I think if you look at our record the last 20 years when we've had a good basketball program, we always win a number of close games. That's the type of players we've had.

Steve Francis

I study basketball a lot, so things like that are significant to me. I'll keep that ball, send it to my house.

David Spencer

It hasn't been a distraction to us, but in my first year, it's easily the toughest thing I've had to do as a basketball coach.

Jerry Krause

Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now.

Gilbert Arenas

My swag was phenomenal.

Fred Hoiberg

If your bigs rim run at full speed it not only increases the potential for a quick layup, but opens up court for guards