Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

Let your life be your argument.

Like coach said, we just go out there and have fun. We're all calm, poised and we make sure we have fun. I mean, basketball was made to have fun. So, if you ain't having fun, you're not going to perform.

Let's be honest, we had much higher goals and expectations for ourselves this season. What would (Wake men's basketball coach Skip) Prosser say? Skip would say 'mercurial.' He's a wordsmith. We were mercurial. We were up and down.

LSU did a great job. We took care of their zone pretty easily, but then they played a lot of man and did a good job with it. I'm not pleased with our team's toughness. We really need to be strong on the court. It was a good lesson for us, but not at all the kind of basketball we play.

Maine's won three in a row and they're shooting the heck out of the basketball. They're shooting 53 percent from three in the last three games so those guys are on fire right now. We just happened to catch those guys on two nights when they didn't shoot it very well.

Make sure you give them one look at the basket and you really have to rebound. We're not going to win a jumping contest.

Lynden is a good basketball team. There is no question they were better than us. That certainly wasn't the best effort we had.

Leon and I have talked a lot about his future and his options. He just had the best season of his basketball career, which is a credit to his work ethic and perseverance. I trust that Leon will ultimately make a great decision.

Lowell is a very, very good basketball team and they pushed us to the limit. Both teams played extremely well and I'm very happy with the way we hung in and executed at the end of the game.

Lorenzo will still be a valued member of our basketball family, and we will support him 100 percent in his desire to obtain his college degree.

Justin Young

Love is one of the top five players in the country, regardless of class. He's old-school, tough as nails and he's starting to extend his game out to the 3-point line. If you're a basketball purist, he's fun to watch.

Look, when we played Bellevue Christian the first time we got our doors blown off. I think we might be going the right direction at the right time. It would be great to play our best basketball in the state tournament.

Last year, we had (Brandon) McPherson and Donald (Cloutier) and Tyler (Morris). The year before we had Penny and Stefan Routt. These are guys that were awfully good basketball players. When you think of the Marion teams (that won three straight state titles in the '80s), it was all the same kids. They didn't have to make all the adjustments (from year to year).

Last year, we didn't have a whole lot of leadership from the seniors. I thought this year there's been a huge difference all the way through. We weren't playing very good basketball early in the year, and then throughout February into March we've been playing really, really solid basketball.

Juan Carlos

Many people who saw basketball as something distant, different from soccer, are coming around to the sport. It is becoming a national phenomenon.

Several people have told me this is the biggest on-campus sporting event in the history of the Capital District. It's the biggest game, obviously, that we've ever played in the history of the men's basketball program here.

LeBron James

So many great basketball players haven't won championships before, and they're still great. But that's what people judge you by.

(Missouri State is) too good of a basketball team to have the turnovers we had. Missouri State is big, they're good, and we just need to take care of our opportunities. We let too many of them slip away.

Greg Davis

Matt's friends with all the basketball players, so I guess he just wanted to dribble the ball a little bit on that run,

Matt's basket at the end of the first half was a big lift for us. He's a guy who just worked his tail off to get in position (for the offensive rebound) and then finished the shot.

Me and Nico always played basketball in the summer.

My kids played steady basketball and Summerville's a tough place to win. They did what they had to do to win.

My involvement has been nonstop since basketball ended.

Jerry Sloan

Nelson did a great job keeping us off balance. I thought his play was terrific. He's strong ... he can score, he was able to get people the basketball and help them get the kinds of shots they wanted. That's one of the big things that hurt us.

One of things I think he showed today was his tremendous moxie. As good as he is with the ball, he made the plays to help us win this basketball game without it.

Kara Lawson

One player is not bigger than the team. A some point during the season, we've pretty much had every one of our starters miss time or miss games and we've been fine. It's unfortunate, the timing of some of our injuries but that's the way basketball goes. We have confidence in each other.

One of the things I thought tonight is that we could never put two big baskets together, or put a basket and a stop together. And I give Nebraska a lot of credit for that. We got the crowd into it. I thought we were going to get a little momentum, and they would stop it immediately with a big play.

Skip Bertman

One of our short term goals is to begin a feasibility study for a new basketball practice facility for both our men's and women's basketball teams, and this move is the first step in making that happen.

One of our goals was to be league champs. We talked about playing our best basketball at the end of the season and they are playing their best basketball. Our depth has won us a lot of games.

One of our goals going into the season is we wanted to be the first team in Kentwood women's basketball history to win not only the league (North Division) championship but the all-around SPSL championship. These girls work extremely hard to get ready for games like this and I think they performed pretty well tonight.

Jason Richardson

One injury can change the course of a season. You lose a key player, you've got to change your offense, your defensive schemes. It hurts your team. You don't want that to happen to anybody, but that's the way basketball is.

Obviously we want to make sure that (emergency e-mails) reach everybody and, for those, the opt-out wouldn't apply. But obviously we don't want to deluge people with tons and tons of stuff, (like) basketball tickets.

Obviously, with the success of basketball and football, his imprint is apparent. But he's also done a lot with the non-revenue sports and has helped bring the budget under control. Finding the right leader is imperative right now.