Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

It's hard for me, leaving the job I've had here, and leaving the players and staff. But I think this is the right move for me and my family. There's an unbelievable tradition of basketball at Florida Southern.

Ken Green

It seemed like we got better and better as the season came to a close. We played our best basketball in February as the playoffs were approaching.

This issue is much more complicated than it appears. They are playing with race. They are playing with class. The basketball is just a symbol.

This is something you wouldn't trade for anything. It's an unbelievable way to win a basketball game. Things like this may happen all the time on different levels, but there are so many games that you could go a lifetime and never have it happen to you.

Joe Dumars

This is some great competition. There's a high level of college basketball here, so it's a great game for me to come and see.

This is one of the best basketball teams in the nation for a reason. I hope they win it; they definitely are capable.

This isn't like any other conference. If you want to go to the conference tournament, you've got to earn your way there. So that's what we've got to do. We need to go knock some people off and play good basketball and earn our spot.

This is the Fairview Classic. You can throw the X's and O's out when we get together, it is all about heart. Both teams competed hard, and basketball in Montgomery is back.

This is our second year (in the ACC), and I wanted our guys to understand the passion for basketball (in the conference).

Stephen Lang

As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can't play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I'm a little older, a little scrappier. So now I do yoga instead. And whatever else happens in the day, I'm set up in the best way possible. I feel great. I'm so flexible.

Rick Pitino

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

Rick Pitino

Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

Rick Pitino

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

Rick Pitino

Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.

Rick Pitino

When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial.

Rick Pitino

Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

Rick Pitino

The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.

Rick Pitino

At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.

Rick Pitino

The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

Rick Pitino

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

Rick Pitino

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

Rick Pitino

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

Rick Pitino

Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle

Rick Pitino

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Rick Pitino

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

Rick Pitino

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

Rick Pitino

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Rick Pitino

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Steffi Graf

You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.

Woody Allen

Life is tough and it's tough whether you're famous or not famous. And in the end it's probably better to be famous because the perks are better. You get better seats at the basketball game, and you get better tables and reservations places. If I call a doctor on Saturday morning I can get him. There's a lot of things, indulgences that you don't get, if you're not famous. Now I'm not saying it's fair. But I can't say that I don't enjoy it.