Famous Quotes & Sayings

We wanted to go up and down the court real fast, but it didn't end up happening. We just had to make sure we were crisp with our offense and play hard D, and stay together and play focused.

We wanted to go get the basketball and we really crashed the offensive boards with a little more passion. Defensively we tried to make sure we got a body on somebody and try to get the basketball.

We've got the biggest week of our basketball lives.

We've got some high expectations for all our sports programs, and we're certainly looking for some improvement in our women's basketball program.

Geno Auriemma

We've got some good basketball left in us we haven't played yet. There's a lot that still has to come together for us and hopefully it will be Monday night.

Jeff Hawkins

We've got our minds so much on basketball stuff and practice, I forgot it was New Year's Eve. Thanks for reminding me, though.

We've made a push to play our best basketball in the final two weeks. We will need to be at our best mentally and physically in the tournament.

We have been working really hard here the past three years. We've had some hurdles like all rebuilding jobs. This year we have more players. We have more experienced players. The first-year guys we have signed are making contributions. We're kind of getting it from everywhere. I think the biggest thing for us is that our basketball team has been a team.

We?re not a very skilled team. We have kids who play hard. ... We don?t have good basketball skills. And in games like this, it hurts.

Rick Carlisle

We're not a very good basketball team right now. This was very disappointing. We couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle. The ball not going in in the third was key.

Rick Carlisle

We're not a very good basketball team right now. This was very disappointing.

Jose Fernandez

We're not a very good basketball team right now. But hand it to them, I thought they brought a ton of energy and they brought a ton of enthusiasm and they made plays. And they did whatever they wanted to do. I'm embarrassed that we didn't give a better showing.

Usually, Saint Joe's teams play their best basketball this time of year. We are just going to have to take this game, learn from it and move on. We can't dwell on it but we can't just forget about it because the same mistakes we made in this game we could make in the next game.

With the way things have been, we don't want to get too excited. It's fun to be playing basketball now. It wasn't there for a while.

Chuck D.

We've just been playing steady basketball the whole season.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We've hit the wall as a team. Our guys have played a lot of minutes and were having mental lapses, and the common things we just didn't get done. It was an indication of a basketball team that has hit the wall. We were giving it up on the defensive end and we were really lacking.

While I am sorry to see Mitch leave and we will certainly miss him, he has made a difficult but wise choice, ... There are times when basketball becomes irrelevant and this is one of those times. I and his teammates wish him the very best in his future endeavors.

With our youth comes not having much confidence. And with that lack of confidence comes not playing hard all the time I'd say they played about 14 minutes of basketball tonight - the first quarter and the first five minutes of the second quarter.

With our pre-draft camp in town and with our draft taking place less than 24 hours after an NCAA national champion is crowned, Boston will be the Mecca of women's basketball during the first week of April.

With it being your first Duke-North Carolina game, you can't help but get nervous. You don't know what to expect because this game is the highest level of competition at the college basketball level. We will see if everyone is ready for that.

When we played there a couple of years ago, I was really impressed with their fans because I felt like they were knowledgeable but not out of control. It didn't feel intimidating to me. It just felt like a great basketball game with good, appreciative fans. It was a different feeling than some places you go to.

Connor Barwin

When I went in, my guy was sitting in the paint. He wasn't even guarding me. That's the most disrespect I've seen on a basketball court.

We've just learned what to do since our freshman year and that's not to get excited and to execute when we need to. We just played Villanova basketball better than Louisville played Louisville basketball.

We've played in tough games ourselves and tough atmospheres. You've got to give credit to those (Vermont) guys and you've got to respect them, but at the same time, we're all basketball players and we've all been in hostile environments.

Gary Payton

We want to win basketball games, and not let our egos get in the way. Everybody on this team has, at one point, been a star or a starter or a bigger part of their team. ... We have to understand that we are talking about wins, not who is going to have the points.

We'd been working on going all the way through our offense. We tried to make the extra pass and we were able to get it to the right people.

There has to be the natural gift. When I see her do her thing on the soccer field or on the basketball court, to be able to do what she does, I think there's just a natural gift.

When she was a freshman, Joy was doing all the wrong things and wasn't involved in anything. She was headed down the wrong path. I grabbed her in the middle of her freshman year and told her she needed to play basketball. Since then, it's been a complete turnaround. She didn't start playing basketball until the second semester of her sophomore year, but she's been doing all the right things since then.

When March Madness is in Indianapolis, there's probably no other place that can have this kind of basketball in a mile square area.

Financial independence in women's basketball is a goal of mine and should be a goal of all coaches. If any of us can guarantee the financial rewards that Hartford can, than we should talk about moving it. But until then, they've created it and we should all ride it.

(Fighting) is not high school basketball. Officials from Auburn and Carver, you need to get control of your kids or we'll clear this place out.

There are a lot of good, young talented basketball players in this conference. Wolff, being a freshman, she plays like a junior. You can tell she plays a lot of basketball.

Dirk Nowitzki

I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I'm tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I'm tired of lifting and conditioning and doing all that other stuff around it, and I'd rather stay in bed, then it's time to go.