Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Les

We play in a major basketball conference. There are some awfully good players here. Some players who were snubbed a little bit at the higher schools, and they've got a chip on their shoulders.

We played with composure and we controlled the clock. It was real basketball and it's taken us a long time to get here.

Jeff Schaffer

We played well. We're finally starting to come together. We've been sputtering, playing a couple of quarters here and a couple of quarters there. Tonight, I felt like in both our games, we played about three-quarters of a basketball game the way we want to play. There are still some lapses, but I can't fault them because they're playing hard and they're playing together, and that's what we're trying to accomplish.

We played all 40 minutes of that basketball game. We held them.

We played a great team. We just played very well. We had stops. You play good defense and you get those spurts. We didn't want to match them basket for basket.

We played a full 40 minutes of sound basketball.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We played about a quarter and a half tonight. But we played the fourth quarter with some fight to get back into it. The shot Brand made late in the game was a big-time shot and he made it at a very critical time in the basketball game.

We played a big, big week of basketball. I was wondering if some of it would catch up to us.

We play Amador Friday in Sutter Creek at 5 p.m.. Please come out and support all basketball in our county.

We probably played our best quarter of basketball of the season.

We probably have 10 to 12 guys on our basketball team that will have 40 quarters of experience for next year. If we can get a win (Friday) it will give us some momentum. For any kind of win will help us with the season we're having. It's able to keep the kids energized and excited about coming to practice and the players have done a good job.

We want this to be more than just a basketball tournament. We also want this to be a social event.

Dean Karnazes

Running was a part of my hardwiring, and that's what I wanted to do. So this is what I tell people who talk about wanting to follow their passion. 'It doesn't have to be running. It can be basket weaving. Be the best basket weaver in the world. Throw your heart and soul into it.'

Angela Featherstone

The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

We're like a family, us four. Brothers. It's not just basketball with us. We all hang out together. We come to practice together, we leave together, sort of do everything together. We include each other in everything we do.

We're leading in several categories but one thing is sure, we want to be the leading sports brand and if we want to lead in basketball then we need the NBA. With the NBA we have a new dimension.

Phil Jackson

We're not even going to discuss it. It's a basketball team and we've got to focus on what we need to do.

The one variable that could throw this whole thing in the trash basket is if Delphi workers walk.

We set basketball back about 100 years in the first half. They shut down everything we tried to do and we shut down everything they tried to do. So in the second half, I played dumb. I told the kids to spread the floor, don't run any sets and just play basketball.

Chauncey Billups

We still have the best record in the league, but we're not playing the best basketball in the league right now. We have to get back to doing the things we were doing earlier in the season.

We beat a great basketball team tonight, certainly as tough a team as we've ever faced in the 10 years that I've been (at Monroe).

We battled; we played hard. We played a great 45 minutes of basketball. To be honest, we had three opportunities in overtime to win it and just couldn't execute.

Mark Fox

We battled to win. We beat a good basketball team. If you do that on the road you have to be pleased.

Billy Donovan

Those are great for our basketball team. You hate to lose them. But our team has to go through this before they can reach their potential.

We actually made good decisions with the ball. We don't do that all the time. It's been an interesting year as far as some of our decision-making at the end of basketball games. I thought we did some real good things and had a lot of composure. That's been a tough one for us.

Tommy Les was one of the most determined basketball players I've ever been around. He was sort of like a basketball version of Pete Rose, only I think Pete Rose had a better jump shot. But Tom was the sort of player that you were going to have to carry off the court before you were going to beat him.

Yao has a dream of winning the NBA finals at least once, and he believed to stay at Houston he would have a better chance than moving to another team after the next season. He also believed the Rockets can help him develop his full potential in the sport and make him a really good basketball player.

We are just not a good basketball team right now. I think we are going to be, but we are just not good right now.

E. B. White

We are just having the mix our football players with our basketball players. We are just having to some growing pains right now.

Kevin Allen

We're a team trying to find ourselves right now. We just ran into a good basketball team with a good shooter tonight.

Tom Burnett

We recognize that Mississippi State isn't what it was a year ago, but for a league like ours that is starved for basketball success, Mississippi State might as well be ranked in the top five.

We're excited about this game. We're excited about the opportunity to play a team like Lemoore. Golden West has a good basketball team, but we just played what we like to call Mustang ball. We're a tough team to beat when we play like this.

Carly Fiorina

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