Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're excited to move forward and be one of the 105 teams that's still playing. There are some really good basketball teams in this tournament.

West Georgia is very athletic, and you have to earn everything because they play great defense. We must take care of the basketball and play smart.

West Fork is a quality team. They like to get it out and push it like us, and we will have to play 32 good minutes of basketball to beat them.

We've been working very hard on our routines for quite a while. It was really hard to put it all together and still be there for all the basketball games.

We want this to be more than just a basketball tournament. We also want this to be a social event.

Jim Larranaga

What we stand for is far greater than whether we win or lose on a basketball floor. We are all educators. Our responsibility is to teach these youngsters, whether they're basketball players or any other student-athlete we're working with, to set the right example.

Doug Flutie

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.

Dot Jones

I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track because I was good at shot put and discus. And then I got a full ride to Fresno State for their track program. Shot put was my main thing. I was the five-time All-American, and I set a couple records.

Doug Collins

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

Doug Collins

The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

Doug Collins

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

Doug Collins

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

Doug Collins

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

Don Imus

I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.

Don Haskins

I really did not think a thing about playing five black players to start the game; they were our best players and deserved to start. But if I knew all the misery it was going to cause me in the weeks following the game, I'd have thought long and hard about it. The players from Kentucky were gracious about it, but many of their fans and people from other parts of the country did not want to see it.

Don Andrews

There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.

Donyell Marshall

Those Europeans, they know how to negotiate.

Don Shula

Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things the right way. And the right way is [abiding by] the rules and regulations ... I may not like all of them, but once they are [official], we play by them.

Don Meyer

Have character, don't be one.

Don Meyer

It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

Don Meyer

In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.

Don Meyer

Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

Don Meyer

Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.

Don Meyer

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

Don Meyer

Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.

Don Meyer

Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

Don Meyer

Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.

Don Meyer

To those who much has been given, much is expected.

Don Meyer

We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.

Don Meyer

The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

Don Meyer

When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.

Don Meyer

There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.

Don Meyer

In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.