Famous Quotes & Sayings

Getting John was an all-around blessing. His basketball I.Q. is through the roof and he's humble about it. Your hands better be up any time John has the ball. He won't look at you the entire possession and still he drops it right in your hands.

Gibbs is our money free throw shooter. Down the stretch, there's not a guy on the team I'd rather have with the basketball in his hands than him. He's got ice in his veins and knocks those free throws down.

Tim Carter

(Former North Carolina coach) Dean Smith said that any team can play one great basketball game once a year. It's about time for us to do that.

Sean Taylor

(Friday night) Galesburg made shots, so we weren't able to get it off the rim and transition it. When we can get it off the rim and in transition, we're a much better basketball team.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

From a basketball standpoint, this team is going up. And I wanted to be a part of it.

John Paxson

From a basketball standpoint, I understand what I'm doing. But I have an obligation to this organization and the people I work for to do the right thing. And I did the right thing. That's all I've got to say.

Tim Buckley

From a basketball mentality, he'll be where he needs to be when he comes back. The physical stuff is always going to take time.

From a selfish standpoint, for me, he's a great basketball player. But for the franchise, and for everything Ronny has done in this state, it's the biggest one we've ever had. And he hasn't even stepped on the floor yet.

From what I saw, Section has a good trapping team. You have to open things up and make sure you know what to do with the basketball when you get it, move towards it.

Fulton made a decent comeback in the fourth quarter, but our guys calmed down and played good basketball over the last three minutes. We really played unselfish basketball and this was another great team effort.

Jim Calhoun

From top to bottom, this league is terrific - Notre Dame, is a fantastic team, they sit at 1-5, but they're not a 1-5 basketball team. That's the unfortunate thing about the league. You can't have an off day, or an off couple of minutes, or you'll lose.

Leslie Howard

I don't think I could've scripted it any better for myself, but I've put a lot of work into shooting. I've kind of built my entire basketball career throughout my life on shooting, and the rest of it's just kind of fallen into place.

I don't think we played very well early in the game. A lot of that was Georgetown. They're a very good basketball team. I'm just proud we gave ourselves a chance to win.

Jim Calhoun

I don't think we played an ounce of basketball after that.

I don't want them to fall prey to thinking so much about consequences. I just want them to play basketball.

I don't usually call a lot of timeouts. I like to keep the game going. I just felt like the way our kids were playing all night tonight, especially defensively, I thought we could get back into the game. We have been a little impatient the last couple of games, but we did a nice job tonight. We took care of the basketball and got back into it.

Larry Brown

I don't tune them out at all. I hear it all. I'm embarrassed. I know how much they love basketball and love this team and want us to do well. And when we play poorly, I hear it, and it kills me because I'm responsible.

Bill Evans

I expect a really well-coached, disciplined, talented basketball team coming in here to try and kick our butts. And we'll try to kick theirs.

I enjoyed tonight. These are some very good players on both sides, but I'm not in as good a basketball shape for this type of game as I should be.

I don't think it was because they missed open shots. Defensively, it might have been our best half of basketball all year. And it took all five guys.

I don't think it'll change a whole lot for us. He's a very good player, and he's one of the leaders in the country in shot blocks and can really rebound the basketball for them. I don't think it'll really change the way they play. They put a big at each block and just pound it inside. It doesn't matter who they have down there, other than Justin's probably their best post player.

I don't think so at all. We've got a good basketball team.

For us to come out in a game I deemed a lot at stake - a chance to move up in the conference - it was disappointing. I was disappointed on how we performed. It's not a heart problem. The kids did not have a very good basketball IQ tonight.

For us to be successful, Sergio has to rebound the basketball and he's doing that. If he can rebound, we're going to be successful. If he has a big night scoring then obviously that's a bonus, but we have other guys that can shoot the basketball.

For us to be right behind them, I think is a testimony to the heart and character of our basketball team.

David Stern

For the week of the all-star celebrations we are going to see a merger between the basketball capital of the world and the entertainment capital of the world. We're looking forward to what we think will be one of the best all-star celebrations of all time.

Billy Donovan

Glen Davis is to college basketball and to this league what Shaquille O'Neal is to the NBA. There's nobody quite like him.

Given the situation Tiffany was put into this year, she's done a great job handling the pressure of sharing her knowledge and experience with the freshmen. One of Tiffany's strengths is that she follows up her words with the way she plays; she's a great leader by example and we all see from Tiffany that hard work really does lead to being a great basketball player.

Bobby Jones

Give Robert Morris a lot of credit. I thought they played like a team desperate to get that fourth seed and the home game. They showed great focus and determination to win this basketball game.

Glenn Washington is a great kid with a great shot and I'm glad I'm done with him. I'm glad he's going off to college.

Tommy Amaker

If it ended tonight, I think we'd be in. There's a lot of basketball left to play but it doesn't hurt to have this win on our resume.

Al Groh

If it was a basketball team and Wali was the starting four, and we told the other guy he was going to go in at the seven-minute mark and he suddenly hit four straight three-pointers and kept hitting them all year long, you'd have to be fairly foolish to say we're going to the way things were, ... That's the only situation that occurred there.

I got better in math and reading after I got a mentor. My mentor talks to me about everything. He plays basketball with me in the gym, too.