Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dirk Nowitzki

It's going to be a big game, a fun game. That's about all it is. But there's a big difference in being the first seed and the fourth seed. All we can do is go for it. Even if we should lose, there's a lot of basketball to be played.

Roy Williams

It's going to be a heck of a basketball game. But I don't think I'm going to watch it.

Allen Iverson

Its easy to say that because we have been winning. Obviously we have been playing good enough defense to win basketball games, but we still need to get better.

We are not getting the results I would like from our defense. We have to do a better job of guarding the basketball on the perimeter.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.

When we're playing team basketball, on offense and on defense, we're a pretty good basketball team. And lately, our guys have really been playing well together.

Carolyn Jones

Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.

Carmelo Anthony

Although you do look at the big picture, if you're dealing with the now, it can be kind of frustrating. You're losing basketball games, things not going the way you want it to go or should go, but at the same time we've just got to stay with it. Just stay positive, just stay focused, as a team, as a unit, because the ship easily can sink early.

Pat Summitt

Put the Team Before Yourself.

Pat Summitt

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

Pat Summitt

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Oscar Robertson

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

Oscar Robertson

The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

Oscar Robertson

When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.

Oscar Robertson

There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.

At the end of the season, (university president) Dr. (Charles) Dougherty and I will take a look at where we are and where we stand for the future. ... We need to put an established product and winner on the men's basketball court.

Taurean Green

That's every team's dream, to get to the Final Four and win the national championship. Just the excitement, the atmosphere. That's what you play college basketball for.

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.