Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Self

Personally I think it was a heck of a college basketball game. The crowd was great. Both teams competed their tails off. Plays at the end of regulation and overtime ... it was just unfortunate for us they made the last play.

Richard Lane

Nick wants to put a basketball hoop in here, ... And the concrete floor is a great surface for bouncing a basketball.

Nick is getting better and better with each game he plays. He's been out of basketball a couple of years and he's starting to get some of his old habits back. He played another great game for us and we expect great things from him in the future.

Nicole has been a big part of our basketball team for four years. She's given us good leadership.

Greg Thomas

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Jim Calhoun

On paper, we seem to be a deep, big and experienced basketball team that should be ranked in the top 10 teams in America.

Brad Soderberg

On paper, we're .500, but if you look in deeper, we're so close to being a really good basketball team.

Tommy Amaker

On the floor, I thought we had a terrific defensive performance. I thought we were very active, I thought our team shared the basketball really well. We certainly tried to take care of it. Obviously, with 23 assists and 13 turnovers, for us, that was the difference.

Michael Finley

Only two guys didn't have a break and that was Tony and Tim. Everybody else relaxed and just got away from basketball a little bit and was fired up to come back here and compete and that's what we did.

I am so confused by this whole process that I think the best thing for me as a basketball coach to do is worry about the things I can control. And that's to make sure we get through today's practice and we're prepared for Wake Forest.

I am pursuing college basketball and it's going to take a toll (playing football) between the time and the (possibility of) injury,

Certainly, one of my main focuses was to try and get the basketball operations up and running and get all our gear here. It seems like we've got that going.

Certainly Louisiana Tech has a lot of tradition and history in women's basketball, but overall I think it is a very good draw for us. It's an opportunity, if we play our best, to advance.

(Catholic is) a good basketball team. They execute well and they've got three or four guards who are very good and a couple good post players. It'll be a good challenge for us.

Cecil you know, started off the first of the year a little rough but he came straight from basketball and he did the same thing last year. Kind of started out shaky but he ended up being one of our best pitchers if not the best.

But we love those guys. They always put Liberty first. They'll always be part of the Liberty basketball family.

But the Cahill family has played basketball since they were little, and we're reaping the rewards now.

Buffalo is playing really good basketball and it's not a fluke that they're 6-3 over their last nine games. One of the things that stands out about Buffalo is their shooting percentage. We came out with the big point of emphasis to keep them under 42-45 percent shooting and we did that. . . . We took away their first option and tried to make them look hard for their other options.

BC is a smart basketball team. They've got experience. They know how to play in those situations.

David Stern

Basketball without Borders is truly a global program that transcends all boundaries. It unites young people from diverse cultural, national and economic backgrounds on four continents.

Oscar Robertson

Basketball wasn't what it is today, ... Being brought up in the ghetto, my parents were told, long before I came along, that education was the way out.

Basketball was my favorite. Probably because I was better at it. It came more naturally for me than the other sports.

Curtis Granderson

Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.

Basketball tournaments are great stuff. Kids careers end out here on jump shots.

Larry Brown

Basketball started for me in this city and I want to be here when it's finally time for me to stop, ... I'm not here to retire. I'm here to help build something that will be around for a long time.

Basketball overseas in general is getting better, and there is obviously a lot of opportunity for the kids to come to America. A lot of times we can get a higher quality player. If Viktor had gone to high school at Alta or whatever, we would have never had a chance to recruit him, because he would have been a high Division I guy.

Basketball is what I grew up with. I didn't know volleyball until junior high school.

Basketball is the only thing I can control. When I get on the basketball court, I forget everything that's going on in my life. This is my place to have fun and be with my teammates.

Basketball is the only sport you don't have to travel early in the tournament.

Basketball is that kind of game. This is why college basketball is the best game going because of the unpredictability.

Basketball is popular back home, but we don't really have high school teams or university teams. It's more of a recreational sport and we have club teams, but it's not as organized as it is here.

Basketball is not life, it's a job. It puts everything in perspective when you see something like that.

Basketball is important to me, whether it's this game or a game at the YMCA.