Famous Quotes & Sayings

We feel like we're playing our best basketball of the season right now. This is a great accomplishment, but the kids are not satisfied. Fremont is a great team, but these kids want to win a sectional championship.

You don't know how much of a relief (it was). I thought our kids came out and relaxed. We lost a game (to St. John's) the other day when there was too much other crap running around out there. This time, they could just play basketball and not worry about other things.

You have to spend a lot of time at church prior to playing in the Spectrum. There's a lot of praying that needs to take place, and the basketball gods have to be with you.

You don't win a state championship last year and lose once this year if you're not a good basketball team, and that's what Great Bend is. We just struggled to make shots and free throws, and that's been a bugaboo for us all year.

Pat Summitt

You don't win a basketball game in the first half, but you certainly can lose one.

We've really had a rough couple of months of basketball and it's been tough and draining. I'm very proud of the girls because they've persevered. They've come out ready to play every night and they haven't had a letdown.

We've probably played more basketball as a whole, than any team around.

Jim Calhoun

We've probably had five complete games all year. I truly expect, though - and I hope it happens, and it needs to happen - for us to have a bust-out game where we put together a lot of longer stretches of the kind of basketball I think we are capable of.

Billy Donovan

What happened is significant in basketball in the state of Florida, is significant to the University of Florida. To be a part of it, as I am, I'll remember this for the rest of my life. I'll remember these 10 years, in terms of trying to build things and create a level of consistency.

Bill Self

What are they, 6-9 in the conference? They could easily be 9-6 or 10-5. They are a good basketball team. Jim (Wooldridge) has done a great job with them and it will be a very difficult game for us.

Jim Harrison

What they do, they do extremely well. We kept a shot chart on them and about 80 percent of their shots came within two feet of the basket because they're so good inside. We've got to give up shots to people who don't normally score to get some more bodies inside.

What they are is a good basketball team. Not too fancy. Just a good basketball team.

We're 'pesky'; I love that word that's being used for our basketball team. As a university, too, we're annoying, like George Mason was. We're aggressive. We go by the rules but we don't do it the way it's always been done.

We talk more basketball (because) we go home from practice together. I just wanted to make him proud of the way I was playing.

We talked to the kids before this week started that we wanted to end the season playing good basketball. The kids responded to that. You want to be playing your best basketball this time of year. It has been a roller-coaster year but now is a good time to peak. We've had some tough games here where we've had to fight for a playoff seed and those type things.

John Jay

Thursday's game was a difficult game to coach and endure. Today's was not. It was the best 40 minutes of basketball we've played since Washington State (on Jan. 21). There's an enthusiastic locker room that is excited about practicing on Monday. From those things, I'm pleased today.

Through the winter months, during basketball season, he found time to get to the weight room and to work on his throwing. There are things like that he took the initiative to do and it all pays off. We're hoping it pays off come state time.

We tried to make sure he didn't get a clean look at the basket most of the night. We tried to make him chase us and then force him to make shots that he didn't want to.

We talked about it before - 10 losses by eight points or less and a couple by a basket or two. They're a great bunch of guys, they work hard, they do all the things we ask them to do.

We talked about coming out and playing 32 minutes of solid basketball and I think we played 27 or 28 minutes very well.

We talk defense all the time. When out shots are not falling, we can still win a basketball game by playing good defense.

We just refused to lose. Great leadership and a great basketball team. The girls won it with their heart.

We just played with energy, leaving everything that happened before in the past. Our minds are just all clear, and we're just playing basketball now.

We just played basketball. Everybody throws all these funky things at (Prairie). We just played basketball, and I'm very proud of them. We played basketball like a team.

We just peaked at the right time. There were five really good teams. I'm just ecstatic for my boys. (Riverton coach) Steve Galley did a tremendous job; that was a great high school basketball game.

We just need to focus on winning a game. We don't look at it as trying to get into the tournament. We're just trying to win some basketball games.

We just need to continue to win basketball games. I think what's happening right now is probably going to be more important in terms of recruiting than what happened 40 years ago.

Bob Thomason

We just looked like a tired basketball team. We haven't had a day off since the day after Christmas, and we looked like a team that needed a break.

We just want to be sure we finish strong. We want to be playing our best basketball in the playoffs.

Wayne White

We just turned the basketball over too many times in the second quarter. The girls played hard, we got back on track in the second half, but couldn't make up the difference.

We just signed a basketball player (Tyrone Hansen) from Maine, so you know Mark (Fox, the men's basketball coach) had to fly all the way back there just for one player. That's going to cost some money.

Avery Johnson

We just had to make some points about it. We've got to play our best basketball to win Game 1.

Rick Carlisle

We just gotta try to continue to build on what's been a pretty good week of basketball and we've got one more opportunity before the playoffs start and it's important for us.