Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Quindlen

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off to Faulkner. He'll do the interior monologue. Hemingway will edit - no, don't make that face, you know you overwrite. And be nice to Cheever. He's young, but he's got a good ear. Wharton and Cather can't play - they're girls.'

Anna Quindlen

I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.

Cindy Nelson

There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.

Cindy Crawford

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

Chuck Noll

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

Andre Iguodala

So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s was a great era of basketball. I watched so much of that. That just helped me be a student of the game and pick up any moment. It's the 10,000 hour rule. You're just trying to master your craft.

We have a student body that is fired up about Bears basketball. It's a whole different level, the best our students have been since I've been here. This is a big game.

We haven't been playing our best basketball lately. We hit our peak, I think, in the middle of the season, and that's not good.

Peja Stojakovic

We haven't played good basketball all year. Hopefully, we will play better as a team as the season goes on.

We haven't played Duke, but we've played a lot of teams like them. It's just a matter of putting together a complete, 40-minute basketball game.

James Hayes

We all played on the same Optimist (Baseball) team together, and I think we played on the same basketball team. Pretty much, we've played just about every sport together.

We are in the single-elimination tournament point right now, and I don't think our kids are ready to be eliminated. I know this means something to this basketball team and they are going to come out and play like it means something.

Jim Calhoun

We are incredibly happy to be here today. We survived an incredible basketball game. Washington gave us everything we could ever imagine to handle. But we were able to withstand it and advance. And that is what you want to do in the NCAA Tournament.

Bob Thomason

We know people can beat us in our conference. That's why we have to see if we can play our best basketball over the next four games.

We know our work is cut out for us. They're talking about making history, but so are we. If we can knock off the No. 1 team in the country and get a shot at the No. 2 team in the state, what a great day of basketball that would be.

Eddie Jordan

We'll get a day's rest and close to a full day on Monday and then show up for a 7 o'clock game in Philadelphia. And then we can suck it up. That's what playing big-time basketball is about.

Unfortunately we have shown signs of not being mature enough sometimes. To climb we always seem to have to take a little step back before we take the next jump. Sometimes that's part of the development process you go through when you're building basketball programs.

We were just better than them, and it was as simple as that. We were the better basketball players who made plays, so there is no substitute left for that.

Rick Majerus

I started wearing glasses last season but they're only for basketball games and dirty movies.

Rick Majerus

Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard

Rick Majerus

Great shooters are one dribble guys.

Rick Majerus

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

Rick Majerus

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

Rick Majerus

Switch if you have to! It's not the mismatch that beats you, it's the open shot!

Rick Pitino

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

Rick Pitino

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Tony Robbins

As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.

Rick Riordan

On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to win—grunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing. Oh…and the players were all baboons.

Steve Nash

Besides P.E., geography was my best class in high school. I was in this gifted class when I was younger, and it was wicked!

Steve Nash

Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.

Ron Paul

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems,

Steve Kerr

I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.

Tim Duncan

I've never gotten too high or too low. It only messes you up.