Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Lin

I was shocked cause I didn't even know that they made my jersey. I didn't know that they made it so fast, so when I saw it I was like, I had to look three times and I was like, 'Did they customize that?' And then I saw a couple of other ones and I was like, ok, they must've made them overnight or something.

Jeremy Lin

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

Jeremy Lin

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

Jeremy Lin

Just because I had a good game doesn't change who I am, my identity is in Christ and not in basketball, I love playing basketball and it's my job but at the same time I recognize that I'm a sinner and that's not gonna change regardless of how well I play on the court

Jeremy Lin

God loves me, and that he has the perfect plan for me. His plan will take me through a lots of ups and downs, but if I stay faithful to him that in the end he will work everything for my good. Now when I play basketball, I don't play for anyone else, I only play for God. That's the type of purpose that he gave me, and once he gave me that purpose, is when I found my peace, and once I got my peace, that's when I got my joy.

Jeremy Lin

And when other people see me play basketball...the way I treat my teammates, the opponents, the refs, that's all a reflection of God's image and God's love so that's the stuff I try to focus on.

Jeremy Lin

My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

Jennifer Hudson

I love being outside and feeling free, so I jog or ride my bike. Some days I play basketball or tennis.

I'm pretty fundamental when it comes to running. A basketball player doesn't practice his free throw shooting by doing slam dunks all over the place. He does it by practicing free throws. That's the attitude I take: You don't get better at running by doing everything but running. You get better by running.

Chris Rock

If you told me two years I would miss the greatest basketball game ever to hang out with Nathan Lane, I'd say, 'You're crazy!'

Chris Noth

Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing basketball.

Chris Matthews

The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"

Gilbert Arenas

My swag was phenomenal.

Gilbert Arenas

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

Gilbert Arenas

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

Gilbert Arenas

Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.

The first thing we told the kids when we went in was that we hadn't played very well at all and only trailed by two points. We felt like we could take better care of the basketball and felt like we could guard better. ... We felt like we were in pretty good shape.

Devin Harris

The first trial was successful. It was good to get out there, get my legs under me a little bit. I didn't get as fatigued as I thought I would. That explosion to the basket I've got to get that.

Flip Saunders

The first time I talked about that, we went out and turned it over the first four times we touched the ball. That mark I credit to players who are extremely disciplined and players who know their roles. They don't play out of character and that goes back to what I've talked about all year -- this team has a very high basketball intelligence.

Chuck D.

The first time I coached, a kid named Casey Adkins won his first-ever medal in the basketball skills competition. The smile on his face when he won was just amazing. It made me want to do this even more.

The coaches at Memphis recommend (Bailey) to come here. We have a good relationship with those guys. They know that we make the kids better students, better basketball players and kind of take care of them.

The first half was the best basketball we've played all year. I don't know if we came out a little lackadaisical in the third quarter because we had a big lead, but they turned up the pressure on us and we just didn't make as many plays in the second half as we did in the first.

The first half was the best 20 minutes of basketball I've seen all year. I've never been so proud.

The first half, I was settling for jump shots. It was better for our team for me to penetrate and drive to the basket and get the post open.

Sylvia Hatchell

The first half and the second half were very different. We weren't rebounding and weren't playing very good defense. Once we started playing Carolina basketball we were OK.

The final score definitely is misleading. We didn't play Xavier basketball at all. I'm really disappointed with the loss.

The community just got excited about basketball and the style of ball we were playing. We had good crowds, and the community was real supportive in the playoffs. People were coming in who hadn't been coming just to see what was going on. They came to see what this team was doing. Hopefully we can carry it over to next year.

Billy Donovan

The complexion of college basketball has changed so much.

The head coach has to crack down a little more.

There's not going to be a whole lot of change, to be honest with you. I don't think there's a reason to fix what's broke.

The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games.

We got almost the entire team coming back; we only had two seniors last year. We plan not just on making it back, but on taking the next step.

One of the learning curves I'm not going to have is being a head coach.