Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Foreman

My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.

Johnny Unitas

Specialists can never practice their specialties too much. The danger is in not practicing enough. Make that mistake, and soon you may not be in the specialty business anymore.

Johnny Weir

I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

Malcolm Gladwell

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. . . . spontaneity isn't random.

John C. Maxwell

When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity.

John C. Maxwell

When I was 17, I made the decision to have a good attitude. I was a junior in high school; the coach said I was going to be the captain of my basketball team. I thought - that surprised me because I wasn't the best player. And I kept thinking, "Why am I going to be the captain?" I think everybody else was thinking that too. And the coach then answered, "The reason John is going to be the captain is he has the best attitude on the team. He encourages others, he believes we can win, he never gives up."

The gyms were always filled. LaPorte basketball fans traveled to all of the ball games.

The Highland basketball program will move forward. And that's all I'm going to say about the issue.

The hard part is, you have to figure out which kids care about school. If they want to come and play basketball and get an education, they're the kind of kids you have a shot on.

The good thing is that we are improving every week, and that's what it's all about is to try and play your best basketball at the end of the year, and hopefully we are going to try to do that this year.

Billy Donovan

The greatest equalizer in college basketball -- it doesn't make a difference about talent or who's better than who -- is the three-point line.

The great thing about high school basketball is that everybody has a chance to win the state championship because everybody makes the playoffs. Unfortunately we got put in a regional with Seneca. But we'll come out Thursday and try to perform better than we did tonight.

The important thing for us, we are not playing the program, but a basketball team. We will work on the types of things we need to do to match up with a very good team.

The difference was our inability to take care of the basketball and guard their key players at critical times. They've got so much firepower.

Kobe Bryant

You want to come out here and play good basketball. The fans here know their basketball and want to see good basketball.

You want to be playing your best basketball at this time of the year.

Ben Howland

You want to be playing your best basketball at the end of the season. But not only are we playing good, we're getting better. This is truly a team.

Jerry Sloan

Andrei was sensational. He probably played the best basketball game that he's played in a long time. He had the basketball in his hands and did some nice things when he had it.

All we can do is take it one game at a time. We are playing good basketball right now. Our sophomores are giving us a life and our seniors are giving us leadership. We'll be ready for next week.

All three were in foul trouble in the first half, but we managed to weather that. We were controlling tempo and doing a good job until Reed got hot.

All three teams are about as good as you can get. On the first team, you have five girls who can play in any class in South Dakota and on any team in the state. That says a lot about Class B basketball in our state.

These guys are professional guys and they're all professional basketball players so we should expect to play well and play hard.

Jay Wright

These guys - Allan, Randy, Kyle, Mike even - they're tough kids. They enjoy rebounding. They enjoy being basketball players, not just guards that stand out on the perimeter.

These girls are good athletes, not just good basketball players. We usually start slow in December. Things fell into place and we started to play good basketball.

These games are one last chance for us to entertain a crowd. It's a lot different than the serious basketball we played our whole careers at Kentucky. This is fun.

This is not a basketball issue. At this time in his life, being closer to home will hopefully enable Micah to resolve some of his issues.

This is national. . . . I think it makes a statement about what kind of basketball is played in this state. He's earned every penny.

This is my last season of basketball in high school and I didn't want to go down early in the playoffs. Each one of our teams has been different, and this year it's been more of a team effort.

Jim Calhoun

This is my favorite time of the year. I love it. I just hope we come out and play the best basketball possible. Win and advance: that's all we think about. It's one game at a time. We don't talk at all about Indianapolis or Washington, D.C.

This has been the toughest week of basketball since I have been here. It is hard to move forward knowing that we have these past couple of losses. We played a lot better today than we did at Baylor, but we just didn't finish the game.

Tim Thomas

This is a great situation. To come right in and play heavy minutes, and now we're trying to make this push in the playoffs, it's the best situation to be in. Basketball is definitely fun again.

This is a great opportunity for me, ... I'm fortunate to have an opportunity to learn more about the game and continue my basketball knowledge.

All I know is that I'm the basketball coach here at ASU. I have a contract. I have a year left on my contract. I'm looking forward to going and coaching this week.