Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Howland

We're playing our best basketball of the year by far.

Ben Howland

We're playing our best basketball of the season by far right now. We're improving, we're getting better.

Al Horford

We're playing our best basketball all year and we're a really tough team. You can't stop us.

We're playing good basketball right now. I thought the way we started the game really set the tone.

B. F. Skinner

We shared the basketball after that 13-point (Oklahoma State) lead. We started getting good shots. We made plays.

Ron Hunter

We've been in close games and I think we are 6-1 in them and that is the difference in the two basketball teams. Our kids know how to finish games.

We've been here (playing a top seed) before, but it was always in the first or second round. The kids have to be able to focus and still enjoy it. One-and-out basketball is still one-and-out basketball, whether it is the first game or the third.

Jerry Stackhouse

We've been here a long time. We seem to tighten things up on the road. We've been experiencing a little bit of a lull. But we played good basketball for a lot longer stretch than we've been playing not-so-good basketball.

We really had a slow start tonight. But we kept our composure and we finally started playing Gorman basketball in the fourth.

We really focused on controlling the basketball and making them work on defense. To make the separation we had to do the grunt work.

Karl Hobbs

We're a different basketball team with Pops in the lineup. It makes a world of difference.

We're a better basketball team than we were at the start of the season. But we were a pretty good team when we started the season.

We're a basketball team that understands it limitations. We understand that we don't have all the cards to play that many of the other teams have. At the same time, we're a basketball team that has some very good cards to play. Shuffling those cards and dealing them in the right manner - playing with each other and playing with each others' strengths - has in fact become our team's strength.

We're 0-0. Right now, this game doesn't mean anything to us. We surely didn't want to lose it, but the nature of the game of basketball is you get to play the next game. Hopefully we keep on playing.

Robert Griffin

We ran the floor and scrapped and played hard that whole first half. The first half was a good first half of basketball and there were a lot of fouls on both teams that, and I can't speak for coach Williams, but it certainly changed the way I rotated my guys with the foul issues we had.

Jay Wright

We ran into a team that played better basketball today. We're going to suck up this hurt tonight but I want to make sure my guys feel great about themselves. They gave everything they had.

Jay Wright

We ran into a team that played better basketball than us. I think we can play a lot better and we can shoot a lot better, and the other team had a lot to do with that. They were really good.

We're a pretty good basketball team but we've got some things we need to work on. We need to eliminate second chances. With our size, we've got to do a better job of blocking out.

We're a much better shooting team than that. It's frustrating not to be able to show how we got here, and that's by sharing the basketball and setting good screens and knocking down shots.

We're a much better basketball team when she stays on the floor, obviously. She's just so well-rounded at both ends of the floor. I think she's one of the top players in the conference. It's exciting to see her numbers reflect that.

We hope to keep improving, which is what we have done since the break. We feel like we still have a ways to go which is good. We have not played our best basketball yet.

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We didn't want to go that kind of pace. An 80-point basketball game was not one that we were going to win and we couldn't figure out how to slow it down.

We didn't think the game was out of hand at all. We put pressure on the basketball, denying lanes. The front line was trying to do a great job defensively and it all worked.

Michael Grant

We didn't take care of the basketball and we didn't concentrate on knocking down our free throws. I think if we made our free throws in the first half, it would have trickled down to the second half.

We have had a lot of those kinds of games, but I thought we played good basketball. We stayed under control, played good defense and didn't get rattled.

The fact that Marsha took a program like Texas Tech that wasn't even on the college basketball map, took it to a national title and maintained that excellence says a lot about her.

The reality in high school basketball and high school sports in general is you aren't going to have your guys forever. It's time for them to move on. They've gotten everything they could out of their high school careers.

There is a lot of basketball. We try to separate it, but invariably we talk basketball pretty much all year 'round.

There is no doubt that this facility will put our two basketball programs on a par with any Division I school in the country. We couldn't be more pleased.

We used to have the gym rocking. Kids couldn't wait to get in there. You had to get in there early to get seats. In those days, the basketball team was making more money than the football team.

We set the game of basketball back 100 years tonight. We got guys doing one-on-one's. Urbandale played like a team tonight. We certainly didn't do what I taught them to do.

Tom Watson

I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team.