Famous Quotes & Sayings

Flip Saunders

This was a game I wish I could have been in the stands, just sitting there watching. This was a great basketball game between two teams who played hard and with a lot of emotion. It was a very entertaining game.

There are tennis and basketball courts in Chili. How do you know if Chili residents are using them?

What you do in golf helps you in basketball and vice versa, ... It's a similar mindset, and fundamentals are really important in both.

What we've had is two years where the competitive level of our basketball program has been well below our expectations. And that needs to get fixed.

He reminds me of Gary Payton when he was in college and how he was a force on the offensive and defensive ends and plays both very hard. He is 6-2, very long and slender and plays with great intensity. He is a heady basketball player.

Having someone come to our gym and put up 30 points, I take it personal that I didn't do my job. But that's the one thing that's good about basketball - you do get another chance.

Having a really solid drummer behind us gave us all a charge. Dave is just this gem in Pittsburgh, this national caliber drummer. We were very fortunate to have him. It's like playing a pickup basketball game with an NBA guy, it just forces you all to play better.

Having played in so many different countries, I consider it a real honor to represent our nation in any way. So I'm real excited to work with such talented young ladies in a quest for gold. I have a deep-rooted respect for the winning tradition USA basketball has and want to see that continue.

He's a big part of my success. He always wants me to be great; he wants me to push myself to the limit. He's very vocal to me. When I do something wrong, he's the first person to come and let me know about it. Off the court, even though we try not to talk about basketball, basketball always comes up. He tells me that I should go harder. If I'm doing something great, I should do it better. He's just always pushing me.

He's a basketball guy. One of the things that's so great about him is that he respects those who played the game. He respects those who came before him and those who come after him. He probably goes out and watches as much high school basketball as I do.

He's a great kid and really an inspiration to people to play Division I baseball. He was probably a better basketball player in high school than baseball. But he has made himself a very good Division I catcher.

He's a good shooter. He knew that to win the basketball game, he had to step up and provide scoring.

He's a different kid between basketball and golf. He gets in his own world on the golf course, unlike the hyper kid who puts on a basketball jersey.

He's a definite student of the game. He knows basketball and he's thorough in his approach.

Larry Brown

He's a good basketball player. He's going to help our young guys just with his presence.

He's 6-10 and growing. He's got size 18 shoes. He's lean, but he has wide shoulders. He can get bigger and he has good basketball sense.

Billy Donovan

He runs, he catches and he alters shots. You just don't see a lot of players in college basketball like him.

Dee Brown

He's a great talent and he likes to talk trash.

Doc Rivers

He's a great scorer every night. It's the other things that he's done for this team that just keeps giving us hope that . . . with the things that we can add, we can be a good basketball team in the near future.

Her legacy is unbelievable. Everyone knew how talented she was. Everybody knows what a great basketball player she is.

Going into this year, we really felt we were going to have a good basketball team. But to go back to state tournament, this team exceeded my expectations. You don't do those things unless you have team leadership and chemistry.

Joe Johnson

Going into the California game, I told the kids the playoff started now. Our next loss was going to be the end of our season, so we had that sense of urgency. I guess we saved our best basketball for the end.

(Going back to the basketball team) crossed my mind a couple of times. But I want to focus in on football right now, especially with the new position. I really want to get in and watch film and take my time and really learn the position. I felt I had to do that to get better and that's what I did.

Chuck D.

He's a special person and an unbelievable student. He will be part of a basketball team that might have an opportunity to play in the state tournament. That shows what kind of team player he is.

Jay Wright

He's always doing the dirty work. He keeps battling and battling. Will Sheridan is everything that Villanova basketball is about.

He's always dangerous. If you give him an opportunity to shoot the basketball he's going to knock it down.

He's always dangerous because if you give him an opportunity to shoot the basketball, he's going to knock it down. It doesn't take much time for him to get them off. He's a senior and he's going to make big plays.

He?s got my faith as a head coach of this basketball team. I feel strongly that he will do what it?s going to take over a number of years to build it back to where it can be successful.

He's just such a competitor. He's the type of kid who would play basketball 24 hours a day if he could. He just always wants to be on the basketball court and always wants to get better.

He's just gotten better and better since basketball has been over. He's really coming on right now, and I thought he did a great job.

He's been steady all year for us. He kept us close. It just seemed that every time we were making a run, they'd come up with a key bucket. We just couldn't get any closer than three of four.

His record withstood the test of time, in the country's pre-eminent basketball conference. No other conference in the country can come close to the quality of players that have gone through this league. So the fact that his record stood for 50 years speaks for itself. But it's also a testament to J.J. that he's the one to break it. A lot of great players tried. J.J. did.

Scott Skiles

His personality has definitely come out this year, there's no doubt about it. He's much more comfortable around the guys. With the coaches, we could always have a basketball conversation with him last year because he understood the basketball terminology. But just as far as other conversations, it wasn't terribly difficult but it's much more easy now.