Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were dismantled by a fine basketball team tonight. I thought they were sensational.

You can never speculate on what will help or hurt. At this stage, you just want to try and win a basketball game. I would never encourage a team to lose a basketball game and we're just too dang competitive. I don't want to lose.

Roy H. Williams

You can't do that in college basketball and consistently win games. I don't like it.

We had a really good team that was made up of guys who were very good high school players and competitive guys, but not marquee Division I basketball players. This team reminds me a lot of that.

We wanted to come out and put our foot down and let people know that we are a good basketball team.

We've had a good run the last five years and that's a credit to the kids and the coaching staff. We always seem to play our best basketball of the year once the tournament begins. And we're going to have to play well on Friday to stay with South. They've got a great team this year.

We've got two more games to go through before we can start talking. Right now, we'll let our basketball do the talking for us.

We've had some tough basketball games this year. There's going to be some tough ones down the road. The Perry game Tuesday is just as important to us. Tonight we came out with a real sense of purpose and things worked out well for us.

We've had one of our best seasons in a number of years. It's a positive development for the boys' basketball program and for the school.

We'll have to play our best basketball of the year to repeat.

We'll have to play good basketball for 32 minutes.

Tom Crean

To start us out with one of the most storied college basketball programs of the last 15 years, I guess that?s good. My players would see right through me if I told them it was just another game.

Mike Holder

We all want what's best for Coach Sutton and wish him a speedy recovery. His dedication to college basketball and Oklahoma State University is unquestioned and his tireless effort on behalf of the institution is sincerely appreciated.

Everybody is contributing and we're just playing great team basketball right now. As long as we win I could care less who's taking the shots. All we care about is getting the victory.

Laura Harper

Everyone was hitting 3s, playing defense, getting shots. It was so exciting. That's the kind of basketball you want to play the entire game.

Jerry Colangelo

Everyone's slate is clean, regardless of what everyone has said. The fact is, we need to change the perception of how we're looked at as a country and as a basketball power, if you will, and we need to reclaim what was lost.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Every game is a big game. We control our own destiny at this point ... we are going to keep playing hard and hope our best basketball is in front of us.

Carmelo Anthony

Every kid has a dream of owning and driving a race car. I have always had a love for cars especially fast cars, and this is a dream come true. I'll stick to driving the basketball lane and let P.J. handle the fast lane.

Every day, all day, I think about that game. It's tough to get over, but still, at the same time, you've got to play basketball and work with these guys. It's my senior year, and I'm really cherishing that right now.

Every coach says it but if you can't make your free throws, you're not going to win games. At one point, we missed five straight or six. If we make four or five of those, the basketball game could have been different.

A stat that is really pleasing to me is 23 assists. That means that we are really passing the basketball and finding the open man.

Brendan Haywood

As talented as Gilbert is he is going to feel like he has to do it by himself, and we have to ease that pressure off of him. And you don't want us to become that type of basketball team.

At the end of the day, they were a far more mature team playing basketball than we were.

At the time, we were the biggest thing to hit the state of Florida. This town really embraced basketball, and for a few weeks, everyone forgot about spring football.

Rick Barnes

Coming in, they were like us, a team that's up there. They start three seniors, and they are a good basketball team. If people thought they were just going to go away, you don't get ranked in the top five or six in the preseason if you don't have a good team.

Division I basketball was my dream in Poland. Not too many people get the chance to come to a school like UT and graduate and play for a legendary coach. I have great thanks for being given this opportunity.

District basketball is about playing under pressure. The pressure got to us.

William Carey

Dillard, in fact, was meeting (Wednesday) to first decide if they were even going to have school in the spring, second, where they would have school if they did, and third, if they would play basketball if they did.

Billy Donovan

Corey had a very good game shooting the basketball.

Corey came to the state tournament to play. He's playing his best basketball of his career. He's shooting well, but he's defending and rebounding well, too.

Confidence is never a problem. We're a very good basketball team. We know what we need to correct to make things happen.

This situation has been completely blown out of proportion. This was just boys after basketball practice goofing off, simple horseplay.