Famous Quotes & Sayings

In that third quarter, we didn't play very good basketball on our end. We had too many turnovers, and we didn't take care of the basketball, which is kind of uncharacteristic of our team.

In that first quarter there definitely was a lid on the basket for us. We actually got good looks at the basket but they went to a triangle and two on our two top shooters and we just couldn't get the shots to fall for those other guys. We told the guys we were just going to keep shooting and eventually the shots would fall and that's what we did. Once we started hitting some shots we started taking control.

Kevin Garnett

Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.

Kevin Garnett

We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.

Kevin Garnett

Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.

Kevin Garnett

So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm.

Kevin Garnett

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

Kevin Garnett

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

Kevin Garnett

The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.

Kevin Garnett

I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner.

Kevin Garnett

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.

Kevin Garnett

They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it.

Kevin Garnett

I'm like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. If I'm not ready, the sled isn't going to go.

Kevin Garnett

Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.

Kenny Chesney

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

Karl Malone

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

Karl Malone

You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.

Karl Malone

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'

Karl Malone

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

Karl Malone

Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake.

Karl Malone

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.

Knute Rockne

Boards, boards, boards.

Knute Rockne

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

It's very, very difficult to win a college basketball game, and this is a perfect example. There's no sure thing. Non-Division I teams are beating teams a lot more experienced than us. I'm just grateful that we survived. And we did a little better than survive. Down the stretch, we played with poise and were able to get the win.

It's very hard. Basketball is my life and I can't be out there playing right now. But I got people around me who are there for me, telling me to be patient. I miss it, though.

Ricky Davis

It's tough, but it's all going out and playing basketball. You get to learn plays and think about the movement later. The terminology is pretty much the same all around the league. You catch on the first couple days. At the end of the day, just come out and play basketball.

I want to give our fans a lot of credit. With our students, fans and the Pirate Nation this was a great place to be tonight. It was loud and hot and a great basketball game.

Phil Jackson

It was a disappointing loss for us as a basketball team. We couldn't keep them off the free throw line in the fourth quarter. We just didn't have things go our way.

Robert Toth

It was 8:30 a.m. and we were supposed to have basketball practice. We came in and the gym was filled with chairs because we had the Christmas pageant the night before, ... It was so hard to move the chairs and he came in to help us.

It took me a year of head coaching to realize officials don't care who wins basketball games. Once you keep things in perspective of what we're doing, you'll be OK.

It took us a long time to realize that everyone was going to get theirs. We had to trust each other. Once we got that chemistry, we started playing our best basketball of the season.

Herb Kohl

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

Jean-Marie Le Pen

"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."