Famous Quotes & Sayings

Condoleezza Rice

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

We came in and did what we wanted to do. If I was talking to you right now and the score was 70 or 80-something, then we didn't execute. But we held them to 53. They're a well-coached basketball team, their guards are very hard to guard. They all handle it well, they all shoot it very well and they're going to be tough to beat.

We build a big lead and we let it go. We definitely played scoreboard basketball tonight.

We picked tonight to play our worse game of basketball.

We'll just have to do a little bit of fund-raising. I think this shows the interest there is in high school basketball -- and it shows how much money there is out there in it.

Rafer Alston

When (Jalen) comes over here, Im going to give him a kiss. Not on his lips, though.

Benny Parsons

While our drivers are probably not nearly in the physical condition of the NBA's All-Stars, the Daytona 500 is going to have 43 of the top drivers in the country, trained to drive at speeds in excess of 180 mph. Now that's intense! The NBA only has like 20 or 25 basketball players playing.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that's locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It's a vote for the future, for animal welfare, for the environment, for your children's children.

We were right in the game. One more basket here or there and we could have had them.

We weren't cutting to the basket, and we finally started cutting to the basket and got some good looks, and luckily we made them.

We were not in basketball form at the time. But I think we're now more confident with each other and understand where we're supposed to be at.

We were within two or three possessions of winning six to eight more games. One defensive stop here and a basket there, we could have been looking at 18-4 or better. That's how close we were. If only we had been a little more consistent.

We were within a basket of Hurley at our place and missed 19 free throws in the game.

We were very lucky to pull the game out. It was the worst basketball that we've played all year long.

We don't play basketball to give up 65 percent shooting in a half. That's why we put ourselves in the hole. We didn't following our scouting.

Trent Johnson

We don't make that decision. The NIT is money generated and if the NIT powers say we want you to play at home, we will. ... But if it was my decision, I would like to take this basketball team on the road. Because we compete well at home, but for the guys that are returning next year we've got to fight through on the road.

Vince Carter

We consider Miami one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference and we see it as a test each and every time. We felt we could really give them a run.

We come off a basketball season that wasn't quite as successful as we'd have hoped. I know that Craig and his coaching staff aren't as pleased as they liked to be.

Danny Pudi

I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.

David Foster Wallace

I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).

Dave Bautista

Basketballs dont hold grudges!

Daryl Morey

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

Daryl Morey

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

Dave Brubeck

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

David Stern

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

David Stern

It`s not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let`s put it on display and have some fun.

David Halberstam

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

We don't want to be good. I want to make that next step to being great. We'll work on that and we'll be a better basketball team.

We have great teams in this league. Every game is a battle every night. I think basketball in Utah County has gone up a notch.

We have got a basket of what we call 'new economy electrics,'

We're all close off the floor. I'll miss the friendships we formed through basketball.

We put together 40 minutes of hard fought basketball and that was our goal all season.

We will focus on the positives we had tonight and continue to get after it in practice. If the effort is there, the sky is the limit for this team. I've been preaching that from day one. I think they realize now that hard work - in practice and in games - wins basketball games.