Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brendan Haywood

As talented as Gilbert is he is going to feel like he has to do it by himself, and we have to ease that pressure off of him. And you don't want us to become that type of basketball team.

At that point, I thought we were going to win the game. We had renewed hope, played well and made some stops. But we couldn't get that next basket to really put pressure on them.

At that point in time it was just about stepping up, doing the little things, making free throws, giving them one shot at the basket and making them earn every shot they got. The kids really showed tonight that they have a lot of heart. To be down seven and go back up seven, that's a 14-point turnaround. For the kids to turn it up a notch and believe they can do it, they just had a belief in one another.

At the end of the day, they were a far more mature team playing basketball than we were.

At the time, we were the biggest thing to hit the state of Florida. This town really embraced basketball, and for a few weeks, everyone forgot about spring football.

Rick Barnes

Coming in, they were like us, a team that's up there. They start three seniors, and they are a good basketball team. If people thought they were just going to go away, you don't get ranked in the top five or six in the preseason if you don't have a good team.

Andrew Carnegie

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital.... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Division I basketball was my dream in Poland. Not too many people get the chance to come to a school like UT and graduate and play for a legendary coach. I have great thanks for being given this opportunity.

District basketball is about playing under pressure. The pressure got to us.

William Carey

Dillard, in fact, was meeting (Wednesday) to first decide if they were even going to have school in the spring, second, where they would have school if they did, and third, if they would play basketball if they did.

Billy Donovan

Corey had a very good game shooting the basketball.

Corey came to the state tournament to play. He's playing his best basketball of his career. He's shooting well, but he's defending and rebounding well, too.

Confidence is never a problem. We're a very good basketball team. We know what we need to correct to make things happen.

Flip Saunders

Do we play hard? Yeah, we play hard. There are situations where they hit us. That's the way basketball is.

Credit to Jackson -- those were two tired basketball teams. We've never missed that many shots before, and we played as hard as we could.

Credit this victory to some big hearts and a very determined group. We knew on this swing down here that we hadn't played good basketball in several games. We just committed ourselves to play as well as we could and the most important thing is wins and we accomplished that.

Credit Minot. They came here to compete and won the basketball game. I felt they wanted it more than we did. We showed a little life. Then, all of a sudden, we backtracked.

This situation has been completely blown out of proportion. This was just boys after basketball practice goofing off, simple horseplay.

To be honored at the State of the City is really special. It goes to show you how far the Mount Vernon basketball program has come and how it's interwoven in the community.

To be honest, we don't know a whole lot yet about Arkansas, other than that they played very good basketball down the stretch.

To be honest, they are a great basketball team, they are one of the most talented in the state. We played them tough the first time, we just have to take next step. We're just excited to be playing Saturday.

Brian Johnson

To be honest, at first some of the guys had the mindset that they didn't want to play in the NIT. But this is another opportunity to play basketball again. We're trying to win a championship. It's not the Final Four, but it's the next best thing.

Carmelo Anthony

This one hurts worse than the other two. We have issues. I saw guys who did not want to be here and play in this game. We did not play playoff basketball in this series.

This new rule will now give players the option of playing minor league professional basketball in the United States.

We shot the basketball and that's what we have to do. If we are going to win at this time of the year, we will have to shoot the basketball.

Mark Gottfried

We're disappointed, but I couldn't be more prouder of a basketball team than I am right now.

David Stern

We think that basketball is the international language. It's a sport that was invented in America, but it travels the world. It's been an Olympic sport since 1936, and we have worked with many of the countries here.

Rashad McCants

was a weird basketball game, to say the least.

We are very proud to unite the best of professional and college basketball as we look to reclaim our dominance in both World Championship and Olympic competition.

We are very excited about this large recruiting class. I feel we are bringing in some guards that can help us immediately and some forwards and centers that will probably be our front line of the future. These players are not only good basketball players but most have excelled in different sports.

We are very excited about Charles and Philip coming to South Alabama. They are outstanding people and students who have a world of basketball potential...We certainly look forward to both of them making contributions to helping our team as freshmen.

Jerry Sloan

We did a better job of staying in front of them and not letting them get on top of the basket every time. And that was a huge thing because the first half was atrocious.

We didn't play a terrible first half - they're a very good basketball team, but we raised our level of play that extra little bit we needed to.