Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was pleased with the effort, but not in the loss. We didn't play as smart or take care of the basketball like we need to or should have.

I guess if we can't be first, we might as well be second. There's no shame in losing to (Lancaster). That's a top-notch basketball team. They're a tough, hard-nosed competitive team.

BC is a smart basketball team. They've got experience. They know how to play in those situations.

David Stern

Basketball without Borders is truly a global program that transcends all boundaries. It unites young people from diverse cultural, national and economic backgrounds on four continents.

Oscar Robertson

Basketball wasn't what it is today, ... Being brought up in the ghetto, my parents were told, long before I came along, that education was the way out.

Basketball was my favorite. Probably because I was better at it. It came more naturally for me than the other sports.

Curtis Granderson

Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.

Basketball tournaments are great stuff. Kids careers end out here on jump shots.

Larry Brown

Basketball started for me in this city and I want to be here when it's finally time for me to stop, ... I'm not here to retire. I'm here to help build something that will be around for a long time.

Basketball overseas in general is getting better, and there is obviously a lot of opportunity for the kids to come to America. A lot of times we can get a higher quality player. If Viktor had gone to high school at Alta or whatever, we would have never had a chance to recruit him, because he would have been a high Division I guy.

Basketball is what I grew up with. I didn't know volleyball until junior high school.

Basketball is the only thing I can control. When I get on the basketball court, I forget everything that's going on in my life. This is my place to have fun and be with my teammates.

Basketball is the only sport you don't have to travel early in the tournament.

Basketball is that kind of game. This is why college basketball is the best game going because of the unpredictability.

Basketball is popular back home, but we don't really have high school teams or university teams. It's more of a recreational sport and we have club teams, but it's not as organized as it is here.

Basketball is not life, it's a job. It puts everything in perspective when you see something like that.

Basketball is important to me, whether it's this game or a game at the YMCA.

Basketball is her life. Her getting to see me play is my motivation. I don't know what she'd do without me playing basketball.

Basketball is great, but they're not going to find you in middle school. You've got to get your grades up and get to college.

Basketball is basketball, but life is life. That's a tough situation. He's a mature guy.

Basketball is a team game, and I'm so proud of all of our guys. They have kept working hard all year, and it is paying off for us now.

Bo Ryan

Basketball is a streaky game. The best thing to do is to make sure you get what you want at your end. We went through some stretches where we didn't get that.

Bo Ryan

Basketball is a streaky game. The best thing to do is getting something at your end and we went some stretches where we didn't do that.

Bo Ryan

Basketball is a streaky game. The best thing to do is get something at your end and we went some stretches where we didn't do that.

Basketball is an up-and-down game. You have to be able to handle runs.

Keyon Dooling

Basketball is an emotional game. Sometimes you don't think, you just react and tonight was one of those nights.

Basketball is always a game of spurts. And as a coach, it's my job to coach the team to stop the spurts. And that's what I told the team at halftime. We knew it would eventually be a much closer game, maybe single digits.

Nolan Richardson

Basketball is all about decisions and we took the best ones, especially from the third quarter on.

Andrew Bogut

Basketball is a global game, just like soccer is a global game. You see the Manu Ginobilis and Yao Mings of the world. We can play the game in every country.

Basketball is a game of spurts, you have to stay within reach. They played hard. They didn't play bad. We've stepped on the court before and I felt like we didn't play hard, but we've played hard. They deserved to be here.

Basketball is a game of spurts. That run in the third quarter was big because we took a good lead, but they came back to their credit.

O. J. Simpson

Basketball is a game of runs. Who has the longest one at the end usually wins.

Basketball is a game of runs. We knew that when we were down 15, it was far from over. Everybody was just trying to leave it all on the floor.