Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Donovan

That's the one thing that's been great about our basketball teams over the years -- they've earned their way in. Now, we've got to make something happen.

That's what I knew when I was being recruited. Just her impact on women's basketball ... it's something you will always have to appreciate, even though you weren't a part of it.

That's been our lineup since the preseason. When you take a cog out of that, it kind of throws everything off and put us off-balanced. We came out in the second half and played some basketball with our starting five.

That's been our bread-and-butter all year long. We knew that in order for us to be a good basketball team, we were going to have to focus on getting the ball inside to Hammonds and Doyle. We've been pretty successful in doing that.

O. J. Simpson

Yesterday we were well, I don't think we were quite mentally here to play basketball when we showed up. I guess we had too many distractions.

We're a great basketball team, and they thumped us pretty good. I think that's the team that's going to win the state championship.

We don't want to look too far ahead. But we do want to establish ourselves as a strong basketball program. We just don't what this to be a one-year thing.

We ended the season on a good little run and we're playing probably our best basketball now. Our defense is feeding our offense and it's much better basketball for us now that we're focusing on defense.

Ben Wallace

We dug a hole and had to fight to try and get back in the game. And when you play like that, sometimes it just bites you in the end -- when you play garbage basketball for the first 24 minutes.

Jim Calhoun

We really played our best basketball. It was one of the few games I can say you could just enjoy. It was just really a tremendous basketball game for us and hopefully it's a peek into what we're capable of. Seasons are really funny. But I think those things are good. We jump right now into a hot stove.

We really moved the basketball tonight. I liked our ball movement, our spacing, and we were very patient with the basketball.

We got beat by a much better basketball team today. They had a lot to do with how we played.

We got beat by a much better basketball team today. Albany has great pieces. They just have a lot of weapons.

Gary Blair

We got beat by a better basketball team tonight, we got beat by a better-coached basketball team tonight, and we got beat by a team that executed their half-court offense a whole lot better than we did.

We got beat by 20 last year. We got some quality kids here, they're gutsy, they're not all basketball players but they're gutsy. We'll be ready.

We got back to playing team basketball and believing we are a good basketball team. When we play as a team, we're giving ourselves the opportunity to win games.

We finally clicked a little bit in the second half today. Defensively we played the three-point line well in the second and we finally made some baskets. It seemed as if the lid was on the basket in the past few games, but tonight we were able to get them to fall.

We finally began to get some good looks at the basket and made some shots to put ourselves in a position to win the game in the fourth.

We don't have a 20-point-a-night scorer. Our kids share the basketball and score by committee. Whoever is open shoots it, and we all have pretty good shooters, so that helps.

Jay Smith

We have some young guys who have played, so it's not like we don't have any experience. I like the energy, but it's the unknown that concerns you. Taking care of the basketball and rebounding are two things that could be problems for us.

It isn't easy when you've got the pressure on, the question always is are you going to do it or not going to do it. How many basketball players can't make a free throw; this time you have a goalie in there, it's a little different.

I think sometimes basketball teams north of the Trinity River are sold short. It speaks well of both teams. It speaks well of northern suburban basketball.

I think Texas is a really good basketball state. We're ranked about 15th in our area. That tells you what the competition is like.

I think that is a horrible way to decide the game. I'm not saying he didn't hold him, but he easily could have called a foul, given him the one-on-one and let the kids decide the basketball game.

Chuck D.

He's a special person and an unbelievable student. He will be part of a basketball team that might have an opportunity to play in the state tournament. That shows what kind of team player he is.

Jay Wright

He's always doing the dirty work. He keeps battling and battling. Will Sheridan is everything that Villanova basketball is about.

He's always dangerous. If you give him an opportunity to shoot the basketball he's going to knock it down.

He's always dangerous because if you give him an opportunity to shoot the basketball, he's going to knock it down. It doesn't take much time for him to get them off. He's a senior and he's going to make big plays.

He?s got my faith as a head coach of this basketball team. I feel strongly that he will do what it?s going to take over a number of years to build it back to where it can be successful.

He's just such a competitor. He's the type of kid who would play basketball 24 hours a day if he could. He just always wants to be on the basketball court and always wants to get better.

He's just gritty and determined. He's made more than one game-winning basket this year. He just doesn't have much fear.

He's just gotten better and better since basketball has been over. He's really coming on right now, and I thought he did a great job.

He's been steady all year for us. He kept us close. It just seemed that every time we were making a run, they'd come up with a key bucket. We just couldn't get any closer than three of four.