Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Meyer

It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people

Don Meyer

You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.

Don Meyer

Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

Don Meyer

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

Don Meyer

If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

Don Meyer

Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

Don Meyer

If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.

Don Meyer

Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.

Don Meyer

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

Don Meyer

When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

Don Meyer

Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

Don Meyer

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

Claudio Reyna

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

Doc Rivers

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

Doc Rivers

Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

Doc Rivers

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

Doc Rivers

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

Doc Rivers

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

Doc Rivers

Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

Doc Rivers

Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

Doc Rivers

How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

Doc Rivers

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

We are just not a good basketball team right now. I think we are going to be, but we are just not good right now.

E. B. White

We are just having the mix our football players with our basketball players. We are just having to some growing pains right now.

Kevin Allen

We're a team trying to find ourselves right now. We just ran into a good basketball team with a good shooter tonight.

Tom Burnett

We recognize that Mississippi State isn't what it was a year ago, but for a league like ours that is starved for basketball success, Mississippi State might as well be ranked in the top five.

We're excited about this game. We're excited about the opportunity to play a team like Lemoore. Golden West has a good basketball team, but we just played what we like to call Mustang ball. We're a tough team to beat when we play like this.

Carly Fiorina

We're enabling Nokia phones to connect to printers and print anything that lives on the Web -- everything from basketball game scores to e-mail messages,

John Brady

There are times during a game when we have five freshmen on the floor. I don't know if there's a younger basketball team in the country at this level.

Up front, you can't see the cable, so you have to trust the guy in the back to give you proper instructions to keep you from getting the basket caught on anything. It's definitely a team effort.

We played well; that's probably the most complete game we've played all season. We moved the basketball extremely well and got good looks on offense. We played good defense, pretty solid all around. The team effort was unbelievable.

Charles Barkley

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Charles Barkley

You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.