Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winning the regional title and beating North was an emotionally difficult experience for me because Dave and I have been friends for 25 years and we had to beat someone you care about and kids your care about. But I like to think of it as a great basketball game between two good teams.

Kelvin Sampson

Whoever got Mike Neal was getting an impact guard, and we obviously knew that coming in. A lot of times shooters are one-trick ponies. Michael is an outstanding shooter who happens to be a really good basketball player.

We couldn't get over the hump. We made a good effort to get within eight (points). But then the next three possessions, we turned the basketball over.

Jeff Smith

We were very impressed with Kelly's goals for a basketball program. He is a great family man, he has three kids all under 4 years old (Zachary, Noah and Joshua), and so we thought he would be a great fit for us here at Grace Community.

We were up one and we got a rebound. But they got a key steal, basket and foul shot. That was a huge turnaround. Then, they got another three-point play and next thing you know, we're down five. We felt that was the breaking point of the game.

Bill Laimbeer

We were unable to play our game of being a physical basketball team. The disparity in free throws was a major factor in the game.

We'll be ready to play. We have seniors who realize this will be their last high school basketball game if we don't win. They're going to play hard.

We were nervous coming in. We knew they were going to be in better basketball shape than they were the first time we played them, and that ended up being true to form. They played us really good for a half, and then we turned it on in the third quarter and did what we had to do to get the win.

Mike Jones

We were motivated by the fact that (North Carolina) had won four in a row. We know all about the reputation they have as a basketball state, but we just said they weren't going win this year.

We were able to get shots close to the basket and got Kirk going.

We were able to get a couple of lay-ups when we spread the floor and I thought the 3-point basket by Palm was a huge one. The kids have worked hard for this.

When it's going in like it was tonight the basket tends to look a lot bigger.

When I took over two years ago, my feeling was that we needed to make basketball more enjoyable for the kids. We wanted to loosen up.

Yao Ming

We?re all basketball players, and were all out there on the court, ... We all live together on this earth.

Well I just wanted to come meet you. It said you like basketball and I watched your game.

We played much better basketball this year. With the style we played, we were just so much more competitive.

Dick Bennett

We played miserable basketball in the first half. We looked like a team trying to prove it could be a 94-foot (end-to-end) team -- throwing one-handed passes, shooting on the fly.

We played like a very unaware basketball team. We knew Marissa was a threat with her shooting. Look at her stats. She shoots the 3 great. We just weren't aware, and to not be aware of a player that good is scary.

We put her in some situations to get her the basketball and she did a nice job of getting some buckets.

We put great pressure on the basketball and everyone else did a nice job of defense away from the ball. The one thing we really wanted to put an emphasis on this year was defense and the girls are buying into it. We didn't shoot the ball well, but we played great defense.

Byron Scott

We played hard tonight. We had the tempo in our favor and that's the type of basketball that we want to play.

We played hard and I like the way this team is playing. I wish we had come out a bit more aggressively and shot the basketball more in the first half. We passed up a lot of shots early tonight. We took those shots in the second half. That's coming. I'm feeling pretty good about our team and I like where we're at. I think good things are in the future.

We played great basketball (Wednesday). I was really proud of our effort and the fact that we played such good team basketball.

We played good defense in the final quarter and we made our foul shots. Those two things win basketball games at the end. It worked well for us tonight.

We played good defense and moved the basketball in the first quarter, but like all young teams, we got into a four or five minute funk where it's like you're brain dead.

We played football as many games as we can, we're going to play basketball as many games as we can. There's a lot of good friendships on this team.

We played basketball like it is supposed to be played. We moved the ball, we played good defense, we took care of the ball, and we shut down their top player. It was a great first quarter for us.

Avery Johnson

We played a very small stretch of decent basketball out of a 48-minute game. We've been defending the 3-pointer pretty well this year, but it didn't happen tonight. We pretty much know where we're going to finish now (the No. 4 seed).

We played a very good basketball team tonight. They made the game too hard for us. I thought we gave everything we had in the first, but the way they played, the way they shot the basketball I don't think we could have won. They did what they had to do, and they took care of the home game.

We have to take care of the basketball if we want to win, 10 turnovers or less. And we have to guard them on the perimeter.

Jerry Krause

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

Jay Hernandez

I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

Jay Leno

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.