Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

Jeff Davis

It was ugly basketball at it's best. We won the game on the free throw line.

It was an excellent high school basketball game. Rhinelander just made a few more plays than we did, but our team played hard. It was an extremely well played game.

It was an embarrassing performance. We didn't come out, we didn't play hard, we didn't give this team any respect and we got our butts kicked in the process. You can't play one half of basketball and expect to win a basketball game.

Chauncey Billups

It was a little different, but I'm happy to see those guys getting some important minutes, playing down the stretch when it really counted. Those minutes are when you really grow. Any move you make could be the best or worst move.

Adam Cole

It was a challenge just to play college basketball. But it's definitely rewarding now. When it ends like this, it's all worthwhile.

These basket sleeves are made from recycled milk jugs. But they are made to slip down over an existing planter. They are weather and sun resistant, and they are specifically for outdoor use.

It's a little disappointing, but it's early and there is a lot of the season left. Cal State Bakersfield beat us, so they deserve to be ranked higher, but like I said, there is a lot of basketball to be played.

It's a little bit like that. As a basketball fan, it's fun to watch. He's a great player.

It's a hard job, and she's been doing it a long time and doing it really, really well. She'll be missed not only at Texas Tech and by the players she's coaching, but in the basketball community. She's one of the solid people who has been really instrumental in the growth of our sport.

It's a group of kids that came together ... and showed people that there is more basketball than hangs out in the big, power conferences. The idea of having a team in the Final Four is kind of beyond dreaming.

It's all part of the game. I've been in this league nine years, and that's the way basketball goes sometimes.

Roy H. Williams

I told the guys the game was going to be won on the defensive end of the floor. We had to play well. They are really a good basketball team. Those three (Guillermo Diaz, Robert Hite and Anthony Harris ) on the perimeter are a big time load. We defended awfully hard tonight.

I told them one basket at a time, one stop at a time. It?s not necessarily how you start, its how you finish.

I told them now is hard, but to remember the things they'll be able to look back on, the accomplishments they've had, what they were able to do each and every time they went out on the floor. This is a sad time only because it's the last time that we'll be together as a basketball team except for the banquet.

I told them in the locker room that I was very proud of them. I told them to be disappointed in the loss, because you gave it everything you had and I understand the tears, but at the same time, you have put Harlan girls basketball back on the map in a position that it has not been for awhile.

It pretty much would have been over. This was a big game tonight, but we have a lot of basketball left.

Brian Scalabrine

I told you. I told you a long time ago he was a winner. He's just a winning basketball player.

Jim Les

I told the team after the game not to hang their heads because that was an awfully good basketball team we played. We needed to play our 'A' game. The reason we didn't was because of what they do and how they play.

Brian Keith

(I told them we should) just prepare ourselves the best as we can, and not get caught up in it being such a big game. This is just a basketball game. We are just trying to keep it simple right now.

It puts things in perspective. We're just playing a basketball game. What those people experienced is real life.

It puts a lot more pressure on the type of players that we recruit. We have to get players who we feel are committed to get that degree before they leave. But we know that in our sport the trend is two years max before trying it as a professional. It just needs to keep being tweaked every year. The system now is really going to penalize baseball, basketball and football, and that's not fair to those programs.

It is what it is. Guys were battling under the basket and I didn't see what happened. But their player, to his credit, stepped up and hit big free throws under pressure.

Roy H. Williams

It's very disappointing there's no question about that. If you didn't care about who won the game, you had to enjoy the ebb and flow of a great college basketball game. But I do care who wins, and so it wasn't that much fun for me.

It?s very difficult knowing you did what you could and it was still in someone else?s hands. But that?s what basketball is -- sometimes you get it, sometimes it gets you.

It's not over until the final tick of the clock. Hopefully, the basketball gods will bless us.

It's not quite like the O-Dome. There's a lot of space behind the basket in both of them. But once you get on the floor, you forget it.

It's not just soccer. There's basketball and volleyball. Everything is going on. It's a competition. The Olympic Games should be seen in a wider sense.

Keith Miller

It's not like the maturity of a basketball or football player who learns systems and things like that. Shooters do progress during school, but if they come in as good shooters they can immediately be a top-five shooter, and that's not unheard of at all.

For me, I really don't care how much I play as long as we can win basketball games. And obviously we were able to do that tonight so I'm not upset at all.

Robbie Jones

For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot.

Ryan Williams

Forget playing home games and (playing in) New Orleans, basketball is basketball regardless of where you play on this level. You have to step up and make shots and do the simple things to win games.

Cal Hubbard

If you commit six turnovers you should have won the basketball game.