Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ugly. We couldn't make a basket the first quarter, and they were really beating us on the boards.

Don Adams

I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me. I am looking forward to putting my stamp on the program. I am confident that I can and will be successful here.

Dominique Wilkins

Well, (Michael) Jordan was definitely one of the kings of the game. There's no question that he was one of the more dominant figures. If you look at the top ten players of all time, he was certainly one of the most dominant guys.

Dominique Wilkins

The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.

Dominique Wilkins

Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing.

Dominique Wilkins

Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved.

Dominique Wilkins

First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.

Dominique Wilkins

Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

Dominique Wilkins

Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people.

Dominique Wilkins

As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.

Dominique Wilkins

And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!

Morris Peterson

When things are clicking and going right for us, I always thought we were a pretty good basketball team.

When these seniors came here, we were 2-22 and 1-and-something. They helped put Waukegan basketball back on the map and get the respect back for our program. I'm proud to have been able to coach them for the past four seasons.

Mike Bailey

When the schedule came out this spring, we knew we were playing Marist and St. Joseph back-to-back. I told the team it would be 27 hours of basketball from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. Saturday.

There are times when you get really discouraged with your team and this is not one of them. This team fought hard. We weren't very good tonight, but there's a lot of basketball left to play and this team is going to get better.

We made a great run at the end of the third. I feel that if we would've started the fourth quarter with a basket instead of a turnover, things would've been a lot different.

Justin Timberlake

When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I wanted to learn to sing the right way, but at the same time, I was playing Junior Olympic basketball, and I was playing point guard for my school. But I was wanting to get into entertainment, into music and film and television.

We're glad to be back. With the national championship game on Monday night, we'll be able to talk a little bit of basketball (on Tuesday).

We?re showing signs of playing our best basketball as we?re approaching March. That?s where you want to be at.

We?re just excited to still be standing. We very much look forward to playing a very good Connecticut basketball team in the next round and have some sense of understanding about what?s involved in that task and what a challenge it?s going to be.

Albert Schweitzer

Let your life be your argument.

Like coach said, we just go out there and have fun. We're all calm, poised and we make sure we have fun. I mean, basketball was made to have fun. So, if you ain't having fun, you're not going to perform.

Let's be honest, we had much higher goals and expectations for ourselves this season. What would (Wake men's basketball coach Skip) Prosser say? Skip would say 'mercurial.' He's a wordsmith. We were mercurial. We were up and down.

LSU did a great job. We took care of their zone pretty easily, but then they played a lot of man and did a good job with it. I'm not pleased with our team's toughness. We really need to be strong on the court. It was a good lesson for us, but not at all the kind of basketball we play.

Maine's won three in a row and they're shooting the heck out of the basketball. They're shooting 53 percent from three in the last three games so those guys are on fire right now. We just happened to catch those guys on two nights when they didn't shoot it very well.

Make sure you give them one look at the basket and you really have to rebound. We're not going to win a jumping contest.

Lynden is a good basketball team. There is no question they were better than us. That certainly wasn't the best effort we had.

We're just trying to recover from a hard-fought double-overtime game. It was one of those games really neither team lost. Both teams played winning basketball and we were fortunate to come away with a win.

What we did this year has no bearing on how many games we win next year. There has to be a commitment in the off-season to get better, and there has to be a commitment when we come back to training camp. If we make that commitment, then we'll be a better basketball team.

Bobby Simmons

Not really. I'm not a fan of Chinese food

Bobby Knight

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

Bobby Knight

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.

Bobby Knight

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.