Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonah Hill

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

The director knows that right now basketball is tops, so he works around that.

Malik Rose

All the basketball players in the city, the NBA guys, the coaches, everybody told me to go see Herb. He's shaped the games of so many players.

All the basketball and football tapes, restoration might cost $75,000. We're hoping to get a grant. David and I both, we'd just like for Dad's work to be preserved in a way that people who are interested can get to it.

All the friends he had when he was Mr. Basketball guy, they're gone. He's not Mr. Basketball guy anymore. They weren't his real friends. They all wanted to be on his bandwagon. Where are they now?

All the guys were really, really excited. That was a great win over an excellent basketball team. That we did it after playing the night before (against Toronto) made it even more impressive.

Elayne Boosler

I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?

Edward de Bono

Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

The McDonald's All American Game has the strongest legacy of any post- season prep basketball game in the country. The 2006 class features some of the most evenly-matched talent we've seen in a long time, making these games especially exciting both for the players who play in the games and for sports fans watching at home.

Holly Johnson

The great thing was my teammates really set some great screens to get me open. I just went out there and played basketball.

Holly Johnson

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now

John Irving

I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we’re understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.

John Elway

When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to fail before a game, but it shouldn't stop us from continuing, and from doing what we have to do to get the job done.

John Edgar Wideman

When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.

John Calipari

You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game

John Calipari

What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

John Calipari

What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself

John Calipari

The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.

John Calipari

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

John Calipari

I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else

John Calipari

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

John Calipari

There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.

John Calipari

The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.

John Calipari

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

John Calipari

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

John Carpenter

I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.

John Beilein

Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win

Joan Smalls

I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.

Jimmy Tillette

Players will never do more than you demand.

Jimmy Fallon

President Obama recently sat down with ESPN and said the NCAA should reduce the shot clock for basketball games. Then he said, 'And while we're at it, is there any way they can reduce the 'being president clock?'

Garry Shandling

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

Frankie Muniz

Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.

James Naismith

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.