Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's been a family and we spend so much time together. Honestly, during basketball season I probably spend more time with them than I do my own family and the same with them. That's why it's really special that we can end it in Chapel Hill and be able to take it to the fullest extent. I would hate to be shorted a week with them.

Andrew Bogut

It's been a challenge, but at the same time it's been a learning experience and I'm having fun with the guys on the team.

It's been a burden on her, but she's handled it well. She's had to do it all at times, but her strength is driving to the basket and making things happen.

Mark Allen

It's been a brilliant season. Two of the squad members are also representing Yorkshire at basketball and we wish them well too.

It's been a long time coming. It's been a long time for me and a long time for these kids, too. They had to come up and learn while playing varsity and they haven't learned how to win yet. Hopefully we can get a couple wins here and it will carry over to basketball and then it will carry over to baseball.

It's been neat to watch T.J. grow from when he was a little boy to a man now. When he came here, he had everything together. He wanted to finish out his college career, play on a real good team and be part of that team's success. He wanted to get his degree and move on the next stage of his life. The pro basketball dream that everybody has, he was already beyond that.

It's great for our state to have Indiana and Purdue in the semifinals. We're playing a great basketball team. They've got a tremendous history.

Larry Shyatt

It's great for college basketball. We've seen teams get close . . . but we haven't seen that one team break through.

Gary Payton

It's got to be up to Shaq. If he hits the boards like that with us, we're going to win a lot of basketball games.

For 18, 19 minutes it was a really good basketball game (but) their team making 3s separated us.

For all the players that will return for our team, they'll know and have a taste for what high-level playoff basketball is about. Having this experience is irreplaceable.

Football is a collision sport, basketball is a precision sport and volleyball is an emotional sport. You've got to get the emotion. Once you get that and the momentum behind you, there's a lot you can do.

The number one all-star high school basketball game in the nation will be coming to Louisville, Kentucky.

It's three River-to-River teams and a Black Diamond Conference team. I think the girls basketball in this conference has gotten a lot better with us going to state three (of the last five) years, Sparta being very talented and Herrin being in the sectional two years in a row now.

It's the toughest group I've ever had to deal with. The reason why we've been so inconsistent this year has been the players just not buying into our philosophy. I've been trying to teach the game of basketball and life skills at the same time. It's been tough and frustrating, because with the talented players we have, we should be at the top of the conference.

It's the story of this season. We've had guys that have stepped up from a lot of different spots and Brady is a guy that is a very talented basketball player and he's getting his opportunity to show everybody else what we already knew about him.

It's one of the most phenomenal things I've ever seen, and I coached basketball 26 years at Otterbein (College). During the summer, he'd go through four hours of two-a-days then go out and play 18 holes. One day he shot 73. I don't know when he sneaks in the extra time to play.

It's not that the sport is dangerous, but it's people trying skills they shouldn't. Basket tosses are the most difficult skill you can do, but that doesn't mean you should do them.

It's one of those things that as a team we need to know that we deserve to be here. It's one thing to be happy about where you are. It's another to go out and prove what San Diego State basketball stands for . . . It is great that history has repeated itself for us, but it's time to take it another step forward.

It's only second nature to be scared when you're in there. Sometimes things can get out of hand and, all of a sudden, you find yourself in the middle of something. There's a lot of fighting. Sometimes you don't know what's going to happen and, all you can do is try to stay away from the trouble. For me, basketball helped.

It's obvious, you can't turn the basketball over as much as we did and beat a quality team like LSU.

Brad Soderberg

It's the craziest thing I've ever been around. I've never been on a team, coach or player, where this has happened. I just hope we can take the positives to Rhode Island and see if we can play good basketball again.

It's like basketball players being told not to use their arms. Right now all the judge did is he put up a wall. I don't know how they can function with this. I don't know who they're going to turn to because these people are not qualified to do what they're doing and now they lost their support systems.

It's like a clock in a basketball game: you start out with the number of minutes in the game and you count down.

Rich Rodriguez

It's like a basketball coach saying he's been to the Final Four. It's nice to have that recognition, but our goal is to be there more than once, and win it.

James Jones

It's kind of hard to compare what they did to Cornell and Columbia to our team because we're so different. If we're going to beat them, we just need to take care of the basketball and take care of ourselves. We have to do the things we're capable of and that we're supposed to do.

It just opens your eyes to what these kids are really about. After a big win, believe me, when you see the look in their eyes after they make a basket or something, it hits you in the right spot.

It's always been my dream to go to college for basketball on a scholarship. I always wished my senior year I would have a good year and have someone look at me. It happened before that, and I'm really excited about it.

It's always been football and basketball and finally when hockey starts winning, we get a little bit more attention. I think the guys are really enjoying it and I think we're using it to our advantage.

Vince Carter

It's always fun, it's not like it hurts my feelings or anything, that's just the way it is, ... It's just basketball at its finest. I enjoy it and take it all in stride.

It's always big to score a basket like that at the end of a period. Schuster made a great pass, and Johnny scored. It gave us a big boost going into halftime.

Manu Ginobili

We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

John F. Kennedy

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.