Famous Quotes & Sayings

The four of us will reminisce about West Portal Avenue, playing basketball at West Portal Middle School, the St. Ignatius-Lincoln battles and all the All-City players we played against.

The closeness our students have helped us to pick each other up. It's more than just basketball, but everyone has been there to help out.

These guys are professional guys and they're all professional basketball players so we should expect to play well and play hard.

Jay Wright

These guys - Allan, Randy, Kyle, Mike even - they're tough kids. They enjoy rebounding. They enjoy being basketball players, not just guards that stand out on the perimeter.

These girls are good athletes, not just good basketball players. We usually start slow in December. Things fell into place and we started to play good basketball.

These games are one last chance for us to entertain a crowd. It's a lot different than the serious basketball we played our whole careers at Kentucky. This is fun.

This is not a basketball issue. At this time in his life, being closer to home will hopefully enable Micah to resolve some of his issues.

This is national. . . . I think it makes a statement about what kind of basketball is played in this state. He's earned every penny.

This is my last season of basketball in high school and I didn't want to go down early in the playoffs. Each one of our teams has been different, and this year it's been more of a team effort.

Jim Calhoun

This is my favorite time of the year. I love it. I just hope we come out and play the best basketball possible. Win and advance: that's all we think about. It's one game at a time. We don't talk at all about Indianapolis or Washington, D.C.

This has been the toughest week of basketball since I have been here. It is hard to move forward knowing that we have these past couple of losses. We played a lot better today than we did at Baylor, but we just didn't finish the game.

Tim Thomas

This is a great situation. To come right in and play heavy minutes, and now we're trying to make this push in the playoffs, it's the best situation to be in. Basketball is definitely fun again.

This is a great opportunity for me, ... I'm fortunate to have an opportunity to learn more about the game and continue my basketball knowledge.

All I know is that I'm the basketball coach here at ASU. I have a contract. I have a year left on my contract. I'm looking forward to going and coaching this week.

All four years I had outstanding teammates and it goes beyond the basketball court. After basketball I will still have them as friends.

All it takes is hard work. We've been playing basketball together since the fifth grade. It's just great to get back to state.

A.J. and I were about as competitive as two people can be. Actually, competitive is a big understatement. It could be in golf, poker, basketball - we just compete. That's a big reason why we both have done so well in competitive situations. It's a huge part of us.

You don't have to be a basketball player to participate. If you just want to be a part of a group this is the place to be.

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

Og Mandino

I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.

Novak Djokovic

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

Angela Featherstone

The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

We're like a family, us four. Brothers. It's not just basketball with us. We all hang out together. We come to practice together, we leave together, sort of do everything together. We include each other in everything we do.

We're leading in several categories but one thing is sure, we want to be the leading sports brand and if we want to lead in basketball then we need the NBA. With the NBA we have a new dimension.

Phil Jackson

We're not even going to discuss it. It's a basketball team and we've got to focus on what we need to do.

We set basketball back about 100 years in the first half. They shut down everything we tried to do and we shut down everything they tried to do. So in the second half, I played dumb. I told the kids to spread the floor, don't run any sets and just play basketball.

Chauncey Billups

We still have the best record in the league, but we're not playing the best basketball in the league right now. We have to get back to doing the things we were doing earlier in the season.

We beat a great basketball team tonight, certainly as tough a team as we've ever faced in the 10 years that I've been (at Monroe).

We battled; we played hard. We played a great 45 minutes of basketball. To be honest, we had three opportunities in overtime to win it and just couldn't execute.

Mark Fox

We battled to win. We beat a good basketball team. If you do that on the road you have to be pleased.

Billy Donovan

Those are great for our basketball team. You hate to lose them. But our team has to go through this before they can reach their potential.

We actually made good decisions with the ball. We don't do that all the time. It's been an interesting year as far as some of our decision-making at the end of basketball games. I thought we did some real good things and had a lot of composure. That's been a tough one for us.

Tommy Les was one of the most determined basketball players I've ever been around. He was sort of like a basketball version of Pete Rose, only I think Pete Rose had a better jump shot. But Tom was the sort of player that you were going to have to carry off the court before you were going to beat him.