Famous Quotes & Sayings

Flip Saunders

That I liken to players that are extremely disciplined and players who know their roles. They don't try to play out of character. That shows something from Day One about the basketball intelligence of the whole team.

That is what helps you get the blue-chip student-athletes that are exceptional in the classroom and on the court. That is what helps the drive to fill that up. We want to invest in the Auburn basketball program to give them the best chance to recruit the best and have the chance to have a competitive edge on the court.

Taft is an outstanding basketball team. I can see why they're favored to win their section. Not only are they lightning quick, but they can shoot too.

Take a look around the gym. We are all here playing basketball together. Otherwise, we would be standing on some corner.

TCU is an excellent basketball team. They are five or six shots away from having six or seven more wins.

Tampa is a good team. They are an experienced, veteran, well-coached basketball team. They're really good.

Tamara has a lot of experience, a lot of basketball savvy. When she plays within herself she does a great job and helps our team out a lot.

Suppose a minor-league basketball franchise wanted to come to South Jersey? This project will produce revenue in ways we haven't even thought of yet.

Mark Gottfried

It's important to have our legs back underneath us. But the players are in pretty good shape and in good basketball condition and can handle it pretty well.

Lawrence Frank

It's important we continue to practice good habits regardless of what the result is because as we go on, we'll wean minutes down for some guys. But it's still important we're doing what Nets basketball is all about.

It's important to be playing your best basketball right now, and we've won four straight.

Jim Calhoun

It's incredibly needed on this basketball team. He is our inside threat right now.

It's definitely been the toughest year of my life as far as personally and on the basketball court.

It's been kind of frustrating. I wish it weren't this way. I wish that our season could be judged by what's happening on the basketball court, but unfortunately things haven't been that way. The problem is that I thought we would be all right. But we haven't stepped up the way we should have.

It's been trending that way the last few years. The business of college basketball dictates that you can't wait until the spring to get recruits. If you wait until spring, you're dead in the water.

It's an exciting school to be part of, obviously a football dynasty, less so on the basketball side of things, but I'm excited that they are here. They are the number 8 seed and I'm going to see how they perform over the next couple of days.

Billy Donovan

It's a new day, a new season, a new opportunity for both basketball teams.

Aaron Gray

That put them up one point. I felt we were very confident that we were still going to win the basketball game.

It's like in basketball you always need that sixth man,

Jeff Bagwell

It's like going to the (NBA) Finals in basketball or to the Super Bowl,

Jeff Bagwell

It's like going to the finals in basketball or to the Super Bowl. You still have to win it. Yeah, it's great to get there, but that's not the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is to be the last team under the pile.

It's nice to go into the half with a little bit of a cushion, but I thought what won us the basketball game was the way we defended on that end of the floor. And, there's going to be times in the game when things don't go your way, but if you play consistent defense, that's going to be to your advantage.

Maurice Cheeks

It's something we talked about in this new season; to do different things in terms of being a leader out on the floor. That means sharing the basketball and taking over the game when he has to. These three games, he has been phenomenal.

It's something all of us around here already knew. If the only thing you knew about Mike is that he had a good basketball team, it would not be as compelling.

Bernie Bickerstaff

It's not an embarrassment to lose to Detroit that way. They are a very good basketball team. But I told my guys that I would go in a foxhole with them any day. They never lay down, and I'm very proud of them.

Education is a bigger part. I use basketball to help my education so I can pursuit other things.

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Everyone knows there has to be some give-and-take. Especially during basketball season, when our teams seem to do well.

Everyone contributed tonight as a team and I couldn't be more proud of how our guys competed tonight. It was a hard fought physical basketball game tonight and our guys found a way to dig it out.

Everybody's got an opinion and usually misguided. They don't know him. What his basketball character has revealed is that his will to win is in the upper top five in the league, combined with a talent level in the top five of the league. That is a very rare, rare combination.

Everybody's confidence is coming around. This is going to be a good season for us. Everybody is on the same page. Nobody cares about anything else but winning basketball games.

Danny Young

The biggest thing is that we could never get into an offensive rhythm. We gave up too many easy baskets and let them shoot too many free throws.

The biggest thing is that we competed and got a lot of mileage out of our talent. No way I'm bad-mouthing our talent, but I tell you what, our guys played very, very hard in certain basketball games.