Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've made a push to play our best basketball in the final two weeks. We will need to be at our best mentally and physically in the tournament.

We have been working really hard here the past three years. We've had some hurdles like all rebuilding jobs. This year we have more players. We have more experienced players. The first-year guys we have signed are making contributions. We're kind of getting it from everywhere. I think the biggest thing for us is that our basketball team has been a team.

We have to make sure we get a crack at the basket every possession.

We?re not a very skilled team. We have kids who play hard. ... We don?t have good basketball skills. And in games like this, it hurts.

Rick Carlisle

We're not a very good basketball team right now. This was very disappointing. We couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle. The ball not going in in the third was key.

Rick Carlisle

We're not a very good basketball team right now. This was very disappointing.

Jose Fernandez

We're not a very good basketball team right now. But hand it to them, I thought they brought a ton of energy and they brought a ton of enthusiasm and they made plays. And they did whatever they wanted to do. I'm embarrassed that we didn't give a better showing.

Usually, Saint Joe's teams play their best basketball this time of year. We are just going to have to take this game, learn from it and move on. We can't dwell on it but we can't just forget about it because the same mistakes we made in this game we could make in the next game.

You just knew Thurston was going to come back. Even at 18-2, I knew it was going to be something like this. That's what playoff basketball is.

You just kind of get out there and don't even think about it. You're just playing basketball. We've all played basketball at some level at every point in our lives. You're just out there trying to execute.

Billy Donovan

You just don't see a lot of players like Glen Davis in college basketball.

Amy Stephens

You can call me a disciplinarian, but I like to think we brought high expectations to the basketball program in terms of the work ethic, in terms of our vision for the program.

Winning the regional title and beating North was an emotionally difficult experience for me because Dave and I have been friends for 25 years and we had to beat someone you care about and kids your care about. But I like to think of it as a great basketball game between two good teams.

Kelvin Sampson

Whoever got Mike Neal was getting an impact guard, and we obviously knew that coming in. A lot of times shooters are one-trick ponies. Michael is an outstanding shooter who happens to be a really good basketball player.

We couldn't get over the hump. We made a good effort to get within eight (points). But then the next three possessions, we turned the basketball over.

Jeff Smith

We were very impressed with Kelly's goals for a basketball program. He is a great family man, he has three kids all under 4 years old (Zachary, Noah and Joshua), and so we thought he would be a great fit for us here at Grace Community.

We were up one and we got a rebound. But they got a key steal, basket and foul shot. That was a huge turnaround. Then, they got another three-point play and next thing you know, we're down five. We felt that was the breaking point of the game.

Bill Laimbeer

We were unable to play our game of being a physical basketball team. The disparity in free throws was a major factor in the game.

We'll be ready to play. We have seniors who realize this will be their last high school basketball game if we don't win. They're going to play hard.

We were nervous coming in. We knew they were going to be in better basketball shape than they were the first time we played them, and that ended up being true to form. They played us really good for a half, and then we turned it on in the third quarter and did what we had to do to get the win.

Mike Jones

We were motivated by the fact that (North Carolina) had won four in a row. We know all about the reputation they have as a basketball state, but we just said they weren't going win this year.

We were able to get shots close to the basket and got Kirk going.

We were able to get a couple of lay-ups when we spread the floor and I thought the 3-point basket by Palm was a huge one. The kids have worked hard for this.

When it's going in like it was tonight the basket tends to look a lot bigger.

When I took over two years ago, my feeling was that we needed to make basketball more enjoyable for the kids. We wanted to loosen up.

Yao Ming

We?re all basketball players, and were all out there on the court, ... We all live together on this earth.

Well I just wanted to come meet you. It said you like basketball and I watched your game.

We played much better basketball this year. With the style we played, we were just so much more competitive.

Dick Bennett

We played miserable basketball in the first half. We looked like a team trying to prove it could be a 94-foot (end-to-end) team -- throwing one-handed passes, shooting on the fly.

We played like a very unaware basketball team. We knew Marissa was a threat with her shooting. Look at her stats. She shoots the 3 great. We just weren't aware, and to not be aware of a player that good is scary.

We put her in some situations to get her the basketball and she did a nice job of getting some buckets.

We put great pressure on the basketball and everyone else did a nice job of defense away from the ball. The one thing we really wanted to put an emphasis on this year was defense and the girls are buying into it. We didn't shoot the ball well, but we played great defense.

Byron Scott

We played hard tonight. We had the tempo in our favor and that's the type of basketball that we want to play.