Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Brady

If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

John Brady

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

Pat Summitt

You could put our entire basketball team and our entire coaching staff in one room, and she has more poise and more composure than any of us. It shows up on the court. I could be about to lose my mind and she's just calm.

You circle 'em up. That's the nature of the beast, especially in Baton Rouge. It starts with football, goes right through basketball and to baseball. You're expected to win every one. Until you experience it, with a lot of the younger guys, it happens too fast.

Pat Summitt

You can't win a basketball game in the first half, but you can lose one. We just dug ourselves too big a hole.

We feel really special to be part of the only basketball program in Lower Bucks County to win a district championship, this is a rare experience. This is truly special; every time I turn around, I can't believe it.

We feel like we're playing our best basketball of the season right now. This is a great accomplishment, but the kids are not satisfied. Fremont is a great team, but these kids want to win a sectional championship.

You don't know how much of a relief (it was). I thought our kids came out and relaxed. We lost a game (to St. John's) the other day when there was too much other crap running around out there. This time, they could just play basketball and not worry about other things.

You have to spend a lot of time at church prior to playing in the Spectrum. There's a lot of praying that needs to take place, and the basketball gods have to be with you.

You don't win a state championship last year and lose once this year if you're not a good basketball team, and that's what Great Bend is. We just struggled to make shots and free throws, and that's been a bugaboo for us all year.

Pat Summitt

You don't win a basketball game in the first half, but you certainly can lose one.

You can't play one half of basketball and expect to win. You can't spot a team a 20-point lead. I'm going to have to decide whether we want to play the same people. The team we put out there tonight didn't want to play. If they don't want to play, we have to put someone else out there that does.

You can practice and get ready for a team like this. They do so much well. You can scout and look at film and talk about it and practice . . . they are a quality basketball team. I think they could beat some college teams.

You can only blame yourself when you mess up. In basketball, it's a team effort. Everyone is together for a win or a loss. In swimming, you get to see how much you've improved.

Rick Barnes

The major reason for our score is we had four of our five seniors leave school early last year to chase their dream of playing professionally. I'm not sure the score is a true reflection to the commitment and success we've had when it comes to education in our basketball program.

The kids aren't quitting. They are not going to lay down for any reason. There is a lot of basketball to be played. We need to take one game at a time and don't look too far ahead.

The kid is playing at a phenomenal level. And they really don't know about him. I don't know if it's because if you're not at the top of the league or whatever. ... He is in my estimation the most underrated basketball player, not just guard but player, in the country.

Their athleticism was tremendous. We had no chance to rebound tonight. We forced 28 turnovers, but we weren't able to finish shots in transition. I think 76 points is enough to win a college basketball game, but we couldn't stop them.

The ingredients of a good basketball team are here. We have size, shooters and athletes. What people don't really see is the behind-the-scenes stuff. I don't think that we ever totally jelled as a group.

The two toughest things in high school basketball are handling backcourt pressure and getting the offense started. If you don't have a good point guard, you're going to have trouble with both.

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.

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.

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.