Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's a pretty good basketball team. We were very fortunate to win, especially away from home. I thought everyone stepped up tonight with Griffin hurt.

Eli Manning

It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

B. C. Forbes

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Ben Silbermann

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

Ashley Judd

And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

Mike Krzyzewski

We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

Mike Krzyzewski

Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.

Mike Krzyzewski

I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.

Shaquille O'Neal

When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more.

Shaquille O'Neal

Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman.

Shaquille O'Neal

Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.

Shaquille O'Neal

I take that as an insult, even at 36.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm a mama's boy above all.

Shaquille O'Neal

If they want to play football, we can play football.

Shaquille O'Neal

But you can not compare Yao's stats to mine. You just can't compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.

Shaquille O'Neal

On paper, I think this is the best team I've been on.

Shaquille O'Neal

The only demise of Shaquille O'Neal will be his age.

Shaquille O'Neal

Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.

Sheryl Swoopes

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

Kobe Bryant

This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers.

Kobe Bryant

I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.

Julius Erving

When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.

Patrick Ewing

I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm not going to disappear.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

Jim Larranaga

Just remember, their fans think their players are supermen. We'll we're the kryptonite, and we're going to win.

Magic Johnson

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

The main products in the basket are still sugar, meats, ore, manufactured products, vehicles and agricultural machinery.

Holly Johnson

The great thing was my teammates really set some great screens to get me open. I just went out there and played basketball.

Corey Brewer

It's every kid's dream, to go to the Final Four. That's what you play college basketball for. But we have a chance to do something special now. We have a chance to win the first national championship in school history.

They push it to the basket hard, but they usually kick it to the shooters. So we were actually stopping threes first, and (then trying) not to give up any twos.

(Amanda Reimer) really did a number on us last year when they came up and played us and we weren't about to let that happen again. Our focus was to shut down their drives to the basket and make it as tough as possible for their post players to move.