Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

Bill Bradley

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

Bill Bradley

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

Bill Bradley

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

Billy Donovan

The 3-point line is a great equalizer in college basketball.

The 2006 March Madness just might be remembered for the 'boss button' that gives workers a way to quickly hide their basketball indiscretions.

That was good stuff. It was a great crowd and that's what high school basketball is all about.

That was a very good game. It was a good way to end a back-and-forth game. It was a fun high school basketball game.

That was a total team effort. And finally, we played our kind of basketball for a full game.

Jay Harrington

That was as good a team as we've played all year and probably the most physical. But these kids did what they have done all year. They found a way to win. Defensively I thought we got after it in the second half and offensively we did a good job of going to the basket and getting fouled. We hit free throws down the stretch.

That was the most intense and best played quarter of basketball we've played all season.

That would be like having Duke and North Carolina here in college basketball in the same week. We're proud of the fact that those clubs will come over here and play us, and it says we're going in the right direction.

That would be great. I'd love to come back here and play them again. This is a great place to play basketball and it's always a big game when you play Edwardsville.

That was very important. It was huge for our basketball team, being so young, to go in with the lead.

That was too little too late. Nick also, in the first five minutes, let a freshman point guard beat him to the basket for two baskets. I'm happy Nick shot in some 3-pointers but I can't find a whole lot good about our performance tonight.

That was too close for comfort, ... That was most definitely the biggest shot for me as a professional basketball player.

That was the turning point of the game. We didn't give up a basket and we didn't foul them and put them on the free throw line. I think that right there pretty much closed the game out.

That was the first time all year I've had to get in my kids' faces about effort. To their credit, they responded. But we needed three quarters of great basketball after that, and we didn't get it.

That was the difference in the basketball game.

That was the best first half of basketball we have played all season tonight. Defensively we did a really good job of containing both Leon and Williams, not letting them hurt us with their outside shooting. But the big key I felt was holding Windham to just one shot with our rebounding, as both Derek Ward and Mark Redding had strong games inside.

That was really a war out there, it really was. Those were two excellent basketball teams. We just had to battle, battle, battle.

That way, you get them open shots. You try to get them cuts to the basket to where they get easy baskets. And once you get easy baskets, usually your game starts to flow from there.

That was a lot of fun. That's how we want to play basketball here. Now we need to find a way to carry that over to all four quarters of a game.

John Calipari

That was a high-level basketball game. My hat is off to Tennessee . They played exactly like they needed to play. They are executing how they want to play. They got it inside when they needed to get a couple of baskets.

John Calipari

That was a high-level basketball game. My hat is off to Tennessee.

Aaron Brooks

That was a great rebound. His basketball IQ is great. That was one where we knew we had the game.

That was a great high school basketball game. If you weren't here, I'm sorry you missed it.

That was a great college basketball game. You can't walk out of this coliseum with your head down. You've got to be able to walk out proud.

Jay Wright

That was a great college basketball game. We were very fortunate to get out of here with the win.

That was a great college basketball game there. Great environment. I told our guys, 'You live for opportunities like this, to have a chance to play in an environment and championship, the right to play in one of the most prestigious sporting events of all time, the NCAA basketball tournament.

That was a great college basketball game that was played. I am so proud of our guys, and they can't look back and say, 'If only I would have tried a little harder.' They did. They gave it everything that they had.

Jay Wright

That was a great college basketball game. It's difficult to take but we have to. It's part of life and you move on. We have to win the next one that's what's on our minds now.

That was a great basketball team we played. To give you an idea ... that team won the Big West Conference and there are five teams from that conference here (at the national tournament).