Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think our team will be better, ... I rely on the coach and GM for that and they're jazzed. The team is going to be a little different. The thing people need to remember is we've got some pretty smart people in the basketball organization and they're looking for the same thing everyone else wants.

I think she's a wonderful person. I think her basketball knowledge and relationship with the girls was outstanding.

I think putting four kids in double figures tonight really shows were growing as a basketball team and that's an encouraging sign.

I think prep basketball over the entire state has gotten better. And I think you can see it from these players that spring up at programs from around the country and you say, 'Where did this kid come from?

I think everybody was excited and a little nervous with Robert out. But Tyler Smith did a great job coming in. What I like is that Tyler is a different kind of player than Robert, but he played solid basketball and set up some guys for easy baskets and made some really nice passes early. He just blended in like he'd been starting forever. It was nice to see a different lineup come out there and succeed.

I think everybody in basketball knows that about 70 percent of the rebounds go opposite of from where you shoot it. So we just figure if you get more players on the opposite side, we've got a chance mathematically to grab a lot more boards.

John Brady

I think on any given night, any good college basketball team can beat another one, particularly in a tournament situation.

I think our biggest strength this year is our height. We've been spending a few years to try and convince a few of the basketball players to come out and play, and this year we got a couple of them.

I think of everything I have been through... It makes me see how blessed I am. I've done real hard labor, working as an electrician and stuff. I was out of basketball, working labor jobs to make money. I could have stayed there, done the work, and made a pretty good living for my family. But I couldn't let basketball go. I had to see this all the way through, and I am glad I did. You will never hear me complain. I have nothing to complain about. I've been on the other side. I know how it is in the real world.

It does hurt, obviously. Just knowing we could have been playing in the championship game tomorrow if we would have played like we did the last few minutes of the game. We just didn't have the right mentality. We didn't have the right fighters making smart decisions. We didn't play Michigan State basketball for 40 minutes.

It doesn't matter who we play. We're just going to go out and play Carolina basketball. If it's Maryland, we play Maryland. If it's Duke, we play Duke. It doesn't matter.

I tell our players all the time to be grateful for the support this community gives us. It's unbelievable. There are a lot of basketball players in this state that would love to play for these fans.

I tell kids, I'm not going to coach you like a 'mid-major' basketball player. You're going to be coached like Indiana when I was there.

I tell the kids all the time basketball is a game of runs. We made our run to get back in it. They made a run to take control of the game again. The game is a bunch of runs and a bunch of stops. The team that gets the most of those is the team that wins the game. Unfortunately it wasn't us tonight.

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.

Jim Calhoun

I think Indiana is a very good basketball team. I just think there were moments and minutes in that game where we were pretty special. It didn't matter who we were playing because we blocked everything, we ran out and we made good decisions. I'm very proud of my basketball team today.

Allen Iverson

I think I'm getting better as a basketball player.

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.