Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're fairly talented and hopefully the second half of the season will be the best basketball we play. The girls are really getting my style of basketball. Our kids are playing really well ? I'm seeing some good signs.

Karl Hobbs

We're just a different basketball team when Pops is in the lineup.

Billy Donovan

We're just a basketball team that doesn't have a lot of depth right now. That's our biggest challenge.

Byron Scott

We're just not a very good basketball team right now. To me, we have a lot of glaring holes on both ends of the floor. The biggest thing is that we're so weak mentally.

We're getting ready to introduce a new basketball coach. Nothing makes sense here right now.

We're getting better. In fact, at times tonight, I thought we played some of our best basketball of the season.

We're honored to host the opening game of the new BIG EAST Conference. I know the Marquette community will come out and support us and get a taste of seeing what one of the best women's basketball conferences in the country is like.

We're basketball crazy down at Burr and Burton again.

We're a young, inexperienced team and sometimes we look good offensively and play with a lot of confidence. But until we can put four quarters of good basketball together, we will struggle just as we have.

We're a young basketball team that has kind of been learning on the job. Our kids have really bought into the mind-set of defending and rebounding.

We're a very streaky team. It doesn't seem to matter whether it's the beginning, middle or end. In this type of game, you score one basket in that 12-minute stretch you win the game.

We're really excited. This is new territory in Hampton basketball history.

We let this one get away from us, there is no doubt about that. All we can do at this point is understand that these things will happen with a young team. We need to learn from this loss and move on. There is still plenty of basketball to play.

Charles Krauthammer

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

Bob Myers

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

Billy Donovan

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

Billy Donovan

As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more

Billy Donovan

If you don't feel you have something to prove every day, you'll never improve

Billy Donovan

False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.

Billy Donovan

If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?

Bill Russell

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

Bill Russell

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.

Bill Russell

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

Bill Russell

People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ' coach had ever told one of them he couldn't guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.

Bill Russell

The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

Bill Russell

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

Bill Russell

The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace.

Bill Russell

Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!

Bill Russell

The only important statistic is the final score.

Bill Russell

We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.

Bill Russell

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Bill Russell

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

Bill Russell

Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.