Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernie Bickerstaff

It's not an embarrassment to lose to Detroit that way. They are a very good basketball team. But I told my guys that I would go in a foxhole with them any day. They never lay down, and I'm very proud of them.

Education is a bigger part. I use basketball to help my education so I can pursuit other things.

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Everyone knows there has to be some give-and-take. Especially during basketball season, when our teams seem to do well.

Everyone contributed tonight as a team and I couldn't be more proud of how our guys competed tonight. It was a hard fought physical basketball game tonight and our guys found a way to dig it out.

Everybody's got an opinion and usually misguided. They don't know him. What his basketball character has revealed is that his will to win is in the upper top five in the league, combined with a talent level in the top five of the league. That is a very rare, rare combination.

Everybody's confidence is coming around. This is going to be a good season for us. Everybody is on the same page. Nobody cares about anything else but winning basketball games.

Danny Young

The biggest thing is that we could never get into an offensive rhythm. We gave up too many easy baskets and let them shoot too many free throws.

The biggest thing is that we competed and got a lot of mileage out of our talent. No way I'm bad-mouthing our talent, but I tell you what, our guys played very, very hard in certain basketball games.

The Bison played a super basketball game. Good for them. I wish them all the best in the championship game.

(The basketball teams) play on it. I think the men's team is undefeated at home, so I guess we're doing pretty good.

Ryan Williams

The basketball team is like my family. We go out a lot as a team, and we all like each other.

James Jones

The basketball is a huge part of it. Everybody's dream is to go to the (NCAA) Tournament. They all want to be in the Super 64.

The basketball coach told me she was a gamer.

The biggest problem that I see in officiating is in basketball, with everybody going to three-man crews. Soon there will be three-man crews for every game, both boys and girls. Let's say there are 200 varsity games in the state on a given night. That means you need 200 more officials.

The best thing about it is that we?re an instant gratification society now, especially in the basketball culture. He?s got somebody back home who?s telling him to leave, to go somewhere else and play, but he decides to stick around, and he?s been rewarded.

Steve's taking on a big leadership role and that started last spring. We have so many young guys who haven't experienced varsity basketball ... and trying to get them to understand the standards of Lake Washington basketball and the level we want to get to.

Not taking anything away from Washington, that's a very good basketball team down there, (but) it looked like our guys thought they were coming out after the first three minutes.

The best half I've ever seen a Citadel basketball team play, and maybe in the history of Citadel basketball.

Al Horford

The best part is you always have friends around, no matter what. It's either one, two or all three of them. You always have somebody to be with or walk to class with or just hang out and talk.

The best junior college basketball in the nation is played here. We bring it. The next best ... maybe a conference in Florida.

Tom Watson

The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and you can't do this in basketball or football or baseball. But in golf, it's a longer live sport.

There was a point where we had four ninth-graders out there. My kids played hard, and they represented Lakes basketball well. I'm so proud of them.

The revenue that he's generated, personally and with the basketball program, it's not only helped us in basketball but helped us in other programs as well.

This is a unique group. A group of guys who come from totally different backgrounds who have come together to build a basketball team. It's special. It speaks of their families and of the character of each one of them.

This is kind a new (football) rivalry but you already see it in basketball and baseball.

Jim Cleamons

This is just another brick in the wall, and there will be others. I don't see this as being significant except that we're trying to improve our basketball team.

This is Connecticut basketball. After suffering the embarrassment of the North Carolina game, it came to a point where we felt like we needed to win. You get tired of leaving the gym crying because you wished you played harder. We came together and won.

Once he gets into basketball shape, he'll help us a lot and give us some strong post play. He's a presence inside.

Jay Wright

On behalf of Allan, his family and our basketball family, I would like to thank everyone for the well-wishes and prayers Allan has received in the last 36 hours. Obviously Allan is very fortunate to have come through a potentially dangerous injury with these positive results.

Stephen Jackson

Once he starts playing basketball and continues to play how he's been playing, a lot of the negativity will soon blow away.

Connor Barwin

Once people start playing the game, they're going to forget we're not in the NCAA Tournament and just play basketball, because that's what we do.

Not only are the kids good basketball players but they're great students.