Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Larranaga

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

Eric Snow

I haven't seen one guy beat five people yet. It needs to be done collectively.

Eric Musselman

At the end of the day, no matter how well you score, you've got to be able to stop people

Eric Davis

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

Heidi Klum

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

Heidi Klum

Nowadays children look at everyone in the magazines and they want to be a basketball star or on a television show, but there is only so many people who can do those things and not that you shouldn't aim or dream for these things, but there are so many other fantastic jobs. So it's good to talk about how to get there and how difficult it is to get there.

John Irving

I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we’re understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.

John Elway

When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to fail before a game, but it shouldn't stop us from continuing, and from doing what we have to do to get the job done.

John Edgar Wideman

When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.

John Calipari

You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game

John Calipari

What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

John Calipari

What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself

John Calipari

The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.

John Calipari

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

John Calipari

I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else

John Calipari

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

John Calipari

There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.

John Calipari

The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.

John Calipari

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

John Calipari

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

John Carpenter

I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.

John Beilein

Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win

Joan Smalls

I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.

Jimmy Tillette

Players will never do more than you demand.

Jimmy Fallon

President Obama recently sat down with ESPN and said the NCAA should reduce the shot clock for basketball games. Then he said, 'And while we're at it, is there any way they can reduce the 'being president clock?'

Garry Shandling

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

Frankie Muniz

Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.

Frank Deford

I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year.

Frank Deford

I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

Frank Deford

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

Frank Deford

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

George Clooney

On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

Geena Davis

I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."