Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had to get over the disappointment. We didn't want to let ourselves down. We want to play as much basketball as possible.

This was more important than the tournament. This goes throughout the whole season and means we've played good basketball the whole way. A team can get hot in the tournament for a few days, like we did this year, but this is even better.

This was huge. Pops helped build this place, and I felt the basketball gods were on our side.

Jerry Colangelo

This whole concept of a Dream Team, that's over and done with, ... The theme going forward is more about respecting the world basketball community, and it's also about redemption. We have a lot to come back from.

Those three guys have been playing together for at least 10 years. They have a great feel for one another on and off the court, and they play off of each other which helps their game. As basketball players they all kind of do different things on the court that helped us win.

Gilbert Arenas

Those players, they have a different way of playing. If they're looking at you and you're not with them, they think you're a failure. So I told Kwame he has to go in and use that energy toward the basketball floor to get in good with those guys.

Billy Donovan

This team, starting the season, I felt had all the team makeup. Unselfishness. They wanted to learn, they wanted to work, they wanted to get better. I didn't know if we'd have the experience to win basketball games or enough basketball games because we'd never been there before.

This team's going backwards. It's poor coaching, that's what it is. I'm taking the blame. I haven't done a good job with this basketball team. I haven't gotten the kids prepared to play.

This team is an NCAA-caliber basketball team. It's just the nature of the selection process. There are probably going to be a lot of teams that probably aren't as good as us that are playing by virtue of conference bids or maybe by the exposure of the media in certain regions of the country.

This team is a better basketball team because this team has bought into what we're trying to do. But I can't talk about last year.

This team hasn't won anything. We didn't win our section. We didn't win our Christmas tournament. We haven't played good basketball for a month.

This team has a lot of good basketball in it. We're what, 20 games into the season? We still have time to get things going in the right direction.

This was very close. I'm sure the fans kind of felt like it was Connecticut basketball all over again. And there's no better feeling in the world to be able to get one game like that.

This was the worst night we've ever had shooting the basketball. They played a zone and we just couldn't throw it in the ocean -- nobody, and we played 11 kids.

This was the most inspiring basketball this team has played since I've been here. This is a win for us.

This was probably the first time in quite a few years that we came into a varsity basketball game in the Classic 8 Conference as the favorite. The kids knew that, too. I thought we handled that situation very well. We haven't been in that position in a long, long time.

This was probably Marco's best game. He had seven offensive boards; didn't commit any silly fouls. That's the play that we need for us to be a good basketball team.

This was probably his best game. He had seven offensive boards. He didn't commit any serious fouls ... That's the player we need for us to be a good basketball team.

Chris Stewart

This was about as good as playoff basketball gets I think.

This was a big win in terms of the district, but it's a big win any time you beat a good quality team on their home court. We had a nice fourth quarter and we hit a lot of free-throws at the end ... and you know, this is what high school basketball is all about. The crowd was into it and it was close all the way through, and it was just a great ball game.

This was a big win for us. We played a very good basketball team and for the most part, I thought we were a pretty good basketball team tonight.

This was a big win for us. Now we play ... Flandreau, and they're an awfully great basketball team who's on a heck of a streak over there.

This was a big step for us. I think we're becoming a basketball team rather than a collection of individuals. To me it's very rewarding to see how, at this stage of the season, how hard these guys are playing.

We try to teach more than just basketball. We try to touch the spiritual side of the players, too. That's why we used the twist about covenants. We signed a covenant stating that we wanted to be remembered. We used the scripture Habakkuk 2:2, where it says 'See a vision and write it clear and simple.' So we wrote it down, that we wanted to be remembered, signed it and started working and playing as such since then.

We are certainly going to see some exciting basketball games. I can see four or five teams capable of getting hot and winning. We want to go into the tournament and continue to get better with each game.

We felt we had to play a hard 40 minutes of perfect basketball to beat the United States. But in the end, we had to play 45 minutes to earn this tremendous victory.

Mike Bibby

We got some stops and a lot of fast break points tonight. That was the key to the win.

Joe Johnson

We got out of what got us the lead. We settled for jump shots. I think we rely a lot on our offense to win basketball games. We tend to get away from our defensive scheme. It's hurt us.

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Sean Durkin

We expected huge things out of her this year and it's really fitting that she's getting to exit high school basketball on the big stage. This is something she deserves.

Kristi Toliver

We don't think we're that young. We don't think we're that inexperienced. We've been playing basketball forever.

Kristi Toliver

We don't think we're that young. We don't think we're that inexperienced. We have all been playing basketball forever. So we're just out having fun, playing basketball, doing what we do.

Kristi Toliver

We don't think that we're that young. We don't think that we're that inexperienced. We have all been playing basketball forever. ? As long as we come out with a lot of confidence and keep playing the way we have been playing offensively and defensively, we'll be fine.