Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clyde Drexler

As a young guy, he probably said and did some things that were perceived as being selfish, but he's a winner. All he's ever tried to do is play hard and maximize his talent on the court. He's a basketball junkie and when a guy is that talented you've got to love him.

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

His biggest improvement this season has been his judgment with the basketball. He's not forcing passes or the offense.

Phil Jackson

His confidence grew as we kept going back in to him, and he got more productive from that. I think guys started relying on the fact that he could be counted on to catch the basketball and convert.

His goal is to raise as much money as he can, to use the basketball program for further research and fundraising.

Bob Thomason

Christian is going to get better and better. He's not done improving, and that's what gives him a great chance to get to the NBA. He's getting stronger, he's maturing as a basketball player, and I just see him getting better over the next four or five years.

That's OK. He sure made things look easy for us. It's good to see him become a basketball player.

That is going to be nice. This will make the basketball in this state a lot more skilled. We have great athletes, but not a lot of skilled programs. This should help.

That is a tough place to play. It's a little gym and you've got people screaming and yelling all game long. It's what high school basketball is all about.

That's a good basketball team. We knew we would have to play very well to beat those guys. Unfortunately, we came up short.

That's a good basketball team right there. They wouldn't let us do what we wanted to do and that was pretty much the ball game.

That kid loves basketball more than probably the whole rest of this whole community.

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.

Rashad McCants

was a weird basketball game, to say the least.

Fat Joe

I'm like a little kid that has a basketball and don't want nobody else to play with it. "It's mine, it's mine, and it's mine!" When it comes to sneakers.

Francis Marion Crawford

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

It's like a clock in a basketball game: you start out with the number of minutes in the game and you count down.

Rich Rodriguez

It's like a basketball coach saying he's been to the Final Four. It's nice to have that recognition, but our goal is to be there more than once, and win it.

James Jones

It's kind of hard to compare what they did to Cornell and Columbia to our team because we're so different. If we're going to beat them, we just need to take care of the basketball and take care of ourselves. We have to do the things we're capable of and that we're supposed to do.

It's always been my dream to go to college for basketball on a scholarship. I always wished my senior year I would have a good year and have someone look at me. It happened before that, and I'm really excited about it.

It's always been football and basketball and finally when hockey starts winning, we get a little bit more attention. I think the guys are really enjoying it and I think we're using it to our advantage.

Vince Carter

It's always fun, it's not like it hurts my feelings or anything, that's just the way it is, ... It's just basketball at its finest. I enjoy it and take it all in stride.

Ray Allen

It may sound like a small thing, but I think Bob is less concerned about things that don't have to do with basketball,

It looked like they were playing in someone's back yard because they had no respect for the basketball and no respect for the Woodstock players. We knew what was coming but we went to some bizarre stuff. I didn't know what we were doing out there.

Jason Terry

It just shows you that the NBA is fantastic, especially at playoff time. The series that are going on right now, this is the best basketball that I've seen in years. I'm glad we took care of our business. Now we can sit back and watch and see what happens in the other series.

It just shows how global basketball is, how unifying basketball is.

It's great to be going back to the sectional. We've had a very good season so far, but we'd like to keep it going for a while. But once you get to this level, every team is tough. We're going to have to play our best basketball of the year on Friday.

It's hard to actually think of it as our last game. We still have a lot of basketball left.

Dwight Howard

It's hard for me to block basketball out, but I'll try to stay away from it for a good month and a half. I expect us to be a little more serious, a little more business-minded next year. No team is going to give us anything.

It's hard for me, leaving the job I've had here and leaving the players and the staff. There's an unbelievable tradition of basketball at Florida Southern. I compare (it) to going to a school like Kansas at the Division I level.