Famous Quotes & Sayings

Once we announce the staff here, in the next week, two weeks, whatever it takes, I think everyone's going to be shocked at how good a staff we put together.

I've been on the phone, I think, 20 out of 24 hours the last three days.

Morgan Wootten

Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

Morgan Wootten

Leadership starts at the top.

Morgan Wootten

True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

Morgan Wootten

Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing. Don't be afraid to lose. Have fun while you're busy playing hard and playing smart.

Jordin Sparks

I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and 'Monday Night Football.' Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.

Jordin Sparks

I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.

Keyshawn Johnson

I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.

Harvey Mackay

Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best.

George Archer

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

Geno Auriemma

The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.

Geno Auriemma

I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.

Geno Auriemma

Bottom line, you're either a risk taker, or your not, and if you don't take risks, you'll never win big.

Geno Auriemma

So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games

The gyms were always filled. LaPorte basketball fans traveled to all of the ball games.

The Highland basketball program will move forward. And that's all I'm going to say about the issue.

The hard part is, you have to figure out which kids care about school. If they want to come and play basketball and get an education, they're the kind of kids you have a shot on.

The good thing is that we are improving every week, and that's what it's all about is to try and play your best basketball at the end of the year, and hopefully we are going to try to do that this year.

Billy Donovan

The greatest equalizer in college basketball -- it doesn't make a difference about talent or who's better than who -- is the three-point line.

The great thing about high school basketball is that everybody has a chance to win the state championship because everybody makes the playoffs. Unfortunately we got put in a regional with Seneca. But we'll come out Thursday and try to perform better than we did tonight.

The important thing for us, we are not playing the program, but a basketball team. We will work on the types of things we need to do to match up with a very good team.

The difference was our inability to take care of the basketball and guard their key players at critical times. They've got so much firepower.

Kobe Bryant

You want to come out here and play good basketball. The fans here know their basketball and want to see good basketball.

You want to be playing your best basketball at this time of the year.

Ben Howland

You want to be playing your best basketball at the end of the season. But not only are we playing good, we're getting better. This is truly a team.

Malcolm Gladwell

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. . . . spontaneity isn't random.

John C. Maxwell

When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity.

John C. Maxwell

When I was 17, I made the decision to have a good attitude. I was a junior in high school; the coach said I was going to be the captain of my basketball team. I thought - that surprised me because I wasn't the best player. And I kept thinking, "Why am I going to be the captain?" I think everybody else was thinking that too. And the coach then answered, "The reason John is going to be the captain is he has the best attitude on the team. He encourages others, he believes we can win, he never gives up."

John C. Maxwell

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

John C. Maxwell

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

James Harden

Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer.

Lamorne Morris

I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.