Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elgin Baylor

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

Elgin Baylor

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

Eli Manning

It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

Eli Manning

I don't play basketball for the money. I don't play it for the crowd. When I didn't have a friend, when I was lonely, I always knew I could grab that orange pill and go hoop. I could go and dunk on somebody. If things weren't going right, I could make a basket and feel better.

Eli Manning

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

B. C. Forbes

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

B. C. Forbes

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Ben Roethlisberger

Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.

Ben Silbermann

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

Avery Johnson

I was really fortunate. I don't believe in luck so I was really fortunate. God really blessed me in terms of my health. I was really healthy. But I tried to do my part in terms of preparation, in terms of perseverance, to make sure that I was always ready to play and try to stay ahead of the game, to beat people with my mind. I wasn't the biggest or the one that jumped the highest, but I had a real high basketball IQ and I knew it. I was a student of game and tried to prepare and be professional and have a good attitude. All of those things helped me have a long career.

Avery Johnson

People really don't care, in some ways, that you have a family. With a high profile job like I have, they just want you to win basketball games. You can do that and still keep your family together. I try the best I can to be at the basketball practices or tennis practices or recitals. In my first year at Dallas my (then 11-year old) son Avery Jr., said, "You know daddy, you're still the best coach in the NBA." I was like, "But I haven't won a playoff game yet." And he said, "That's okay. You're still my daddy." That makes you feel good.

Ashley Judd

And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

Brian Tracy

There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.

The only way we have a chance to win is taking care of the basketball and getting good looks at the basket.

Carlos Arroyo

We're playing our best basketball right now. We're playing together. That's the main thing.

We're playing our best basketball right now. But we haven't peaked yet.

We're playing our best basketball right now. But the moment of truth is the playoffs.

Ben Howland

We're playing our best basketball of the year by far.

Ben Howland

We're playing our best basketball of the season by far right now. We're improving, we're getting better.

Al Horford

We're playing our best basketball all year and we're a really tough team. You can't stop us.

We're playing good basketball right now. I thought the way we started the game really set the tone.

B. F. Skinner

We shared the basketball after that 13-point (Oklahoma State) lead. We started getting good shots. We made plays.

Ron Hunter

We've been in close games and I think we are 6-1 in them and that is the difference in the two basketball teams. Our kids know how to finish games.

We've been here (playing a top seed) before, but it was always in the first or second round. The kids have to be able to focus and still enjoy it. One-and-out basketball is still one-and-out basketball, whether it is the first game or the third.

Jerry Stackhouse

We've been here a long time. We seem to tighten things up on the road. We've been experiencing a little bit of a lull. But we played good basketball for a lot longer stretch than we've been playing not-so-good basketball.

We really had a slow start tonight. But we kept our composure and we finally started playing Gorman basketball in the fourth.

Tayshaun Prince

We really got off to a slow start, but once we got going, we started taking better shots. We drove to the basket a little bit, penetrated and kicked and made some plays. Everybody knows when Rip and Chauncey are making shots, it makes it easier for the other players.

We really focused on controlling the basketball and making them work on defense. To make the separation we had to do the grunt work.

Karl Hobbs

We're a different basketball team with Pops in the lineup. It makes a world of difference.

We're a better basketball team than we were at the start of the season. But we were a pretty good team when we started the season.

We're a basketball team that understands it limitations. We understand that we don't have all the cards to play that many of the other teams have. At the same time, we're a basketball team that has some very good cards to play. Shuffling those cards and dealing them in the right manner - playing with each other and playing with each others' strengths - has in fact become our team's strength.

We're 0-0. Right now, this game doesn't mean anything to us. We surely didn't want to lose it, but the nature of the game of basketball is you get to play the next game. Hopefully we keep on playing.

Robert Griffin

We ran the floor and scrapped and played hard that whole first half. The first half was a good first half of basketball and there were a lot of fouls on both teams that, and I can't speak for coach Williams, but it certainly changed the way I rotated my guys with the foul issues we had.