Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Calipari

The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.

John Calipari

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

John Calipari

I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else

John Calipari

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

John Calipari

There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.

John Calipari

The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.

John Calipari

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

John Calipari

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

John Carpenter

I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.

John Beilein

Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win

Joan Smalls

I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.

Jimmy Tillette

Players will never do more than you demand.

Jimmy Fallon

President Obama recently sat down with ESPN and said the NCAA should reduce the shot clock for basketball games. Then he said, 'And while we're at it, is there any way they can reduce the 'being president clock?'

Garry Shandling

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

Frankie Muniz

Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.

The likelihood of finding any high school basketball team with the defensive players to match with the three of them is highly unlikely. I'd like to see the team that can match up with them and still have the fourth and fifth guy to stop Landon and Lawrence.

The main products in the basket are still sugar, meats, ore, manufactured products, vehicles and agricultural machinery.

James Naismith

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

James Naismith

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

James Naismith

Basketball is a pure invention,

James Naismith

Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.

James Naismith

Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

James Lafferty

The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball

Joe Gibbs

I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then Id go baseball, and then Id go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.

Joe Gibbs

Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.

Joe Gibbs

People who enjoy what they do, invariably do it well.

Jim Larranaga

Just remember, their fans think their players are supermen. We'll we're the kryptonite, and we're going to win.

Eric Snow

I haven't seen one guy beat five people yet. It needs to be done collectively.

Eric Musselman

At the end of the day, no matter how well you score, you've got to be able to stop people

Eric Davis

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

Heidi Klum

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

Heidi Klum

Nowadays children look at everyone in the magazines and they want to be a basketball star or on a television show, but there is only so many people who can do those things and not that you shouldn't aim or dream for these things, but there are so many other fantastic jobs. So it's good to talk about how to get there and how difficult it is to get there.

Lou Holtz

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game