Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I was very pleased with Nicole at the foul line. It's not just because she shot so well from there, but because it shows that she's going to the basket and trying to make things happen. As a freshman, that's very important.

I was going for a quick basket and try to foul again. There was still about six seconds left, but it didn't work out.

Ricky Davis

It felt good. The basket was kind of wide. You don't ever see who's guarding you. You just get it and put it up.

We do have other kids that can play. Katie Snead had a huge rebound and basket in overtime late in the game.

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

Hakeem Olajuwon

I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

Jim Calhoun

We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on the mistakes of our opponents. At the same time we feel it is a very safe press because we work very hard at the necessary rotations.

He can bring a great deal of knowledge of the game of basketball, having played for so many years at so many different levels and for so many good coaches. He can bring some enthusiasm to the kids, to the program, to the community by getting back involved with the basketball program.

Billy Donovan

For our basketball team, it was a tale of two halves. In the first half, our guys were very, very impatient on offense. We didn't have the ball movement and the player movement we needed to have. We had good ball movement and player movement and we shot 57 percent in the second half. If we would have played similar to that and rebounded like we did in the first half, it would have been a different game. We couldn't put it all together.

J. K. Rowling

The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score,” Harry recited. “So — that’s sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn’t it?” “What’s basketball?” said Wood curiously. “Never mind,” said Harry quickly.

Ernie Kent

If ever a team needed a win, it was certainly this basketball team.

I can't tell you how many times, even with a guard, we've found ladies with a basket in here shopping.

I can probably show you a positive impact on our state for basket weaving.

I don't think there's anything we could have done differently. We had a great look at the basket at the end and it just didn't go, and before that we needed to grab a rebound and just couldn't get to it.

I don't like to go to San Jacinto period. They're a very good basketball team that has lost some close games and are going to be dangerous in the tournament.

John Brady

College basketball is something, isn't it? I thought we had the game won on a couple of different occasions when we had 14-point leads. We made some careless turnovers. For about a six minute stretch, we didn't make the proper decisions to close the game out.