Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Iverson

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

Allen Iverson

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

Allen Iverson

My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.

Allen Iverson

If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win.

Allen Iverson

When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.

Allen Iverson

I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.

Allen Iverson

I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.

Allen Iverson

Practice? I mean, listen, we're talking about practice. Not a game. Not a game. Not a game. We're talking about practice. Not a game. Not the game. Not the game. We're talkin about practice, man. We're talkin about practice. We're taklin about practice, man. What are we talkin about? Practice. We're talkin about practice, man.

Allen Iverson

I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.

We are not getting the results I would like from our defense. We have to do a better job of guarding the basketball on the perimeter.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.

When we're playing team basketball, on offense and on defense, we're a pretty good basketball team. And lately, our guys have really been playing well together.

Keyon Dooling

When you're playing a good team like that, you've got to take care of the basketball.

When you're on that operating table, knowing they're about to cut you open and work on your heart, you realize that basketball isn't really the most important thing in the world.

We beat a great basketball team tonight, certainly as tough a team as we've ever faced in the 10 years that I've been (at Monroe).

We battled; we played hard. We played a great 45 minutes of basketball. To be honest, we had three opportunities in overtime to win it and just couldn't execute.

Mark Fox

We battled to win. We beat a good basketball team. If you do that on the road you have to be pleased.

Billy Donovan

Those are great for our basketball team. You hate to lose them. But our team has to go through this before they can reach their potential.

We actually made good decisions with the ball. We don't do that all the time. It's been an interesting year as far as some of our decision-making at the end of basketball games. I thought we did some real good things and had a lot of composure. That's been a tough one for us.

Tommy Les was one of the most determined basketball players I've ever been around. He was sort of like a basketball version of Pete Rose, only I think Pete Rose had a better jump shot. But Tom was the sort of player that you were going to have to carry off the court before you were going to beat him.

Yao has a dream of winning the NBA finals at least once, and he believed to stay at Houston he would have a better chance than moving to another team after the next season. He also believed the Rockets can help him develop his full potential in the sport and make him a really good basketball player.

We are just not a good basketball team right now. I think we are going to be, but we are just not good right now.

E. B. White

We are just having the mix our football players with our basketball players. We are just having to some growing pains right now.

Kevin Allen

We're a team trying to find ourselves right now. We just ran into a good basketball team with a good shooter tonight.

Tom Burnett

We recognize that Mississippi State isn't what it was a year ago, but for a league like ours that is starved for basketball success, Mississippi State might as well be ranked in the top five.

We're excited about this game. We're excited about the opportunity to play a team like Lemoore. Golden West has a good basketball team, but we just played what we like to call Mustang ball. We're a tough team to beat when we play like this.

Carly Fiorina

We're enabling Nokia phones to connect to printers and print anything that lives on the Web -- everything from basketball game scores to e-mail messages,

John Brady

There are times during a game when we have five freshmen on the floor. I don't know if there's a younger basketball team in the country at this level.

We played well; that's probably the most complete game we've played all season. We moved the basketball extremely well and got good looks on offense. We played good defense, pretty solid all around. The team effort was unbelievable.

Derrick Rose

My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better than someone else, I shouldn't think that I'm better than them. I know if I change, my friends and family would lay me down. She just wants to see her kids do right.

Dave Gahan

Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.

Chris Bosh

We didn't come out with any energy. We know we're not good enough to let the game come to us. We have to come with high energy, play hard team basketball and do everything the right way. Coming into the season, we all knew we didn't have too much room for error.

We didn't come here to end a streak or just to beat West Aurora. We came here to win a basketball game.