Famous Quotes & Sayings

Basketball is a game of runs, and whoever has the last one usually wins.

Basketball is a game of runs, and we had a run they didn't match. Our pressure led to some quick turnovers and some threes. That run ended up hurting them late in the game.

Basketball is a game of runs, and we got our run just at the right time.

Basketball is a game of easy baskets ... and we had no place to go for easy baskets.

Basketball is a discipline game. There is a time for running and gunning and a time to slow things down.

Basketball is 40 minutes. It's not 20 minutes. You have to play 40 minutes.

Basketball in the state of Iowa is probably at an all-time high.

Basketball in Kentucky is supposed to be really big, but you never know for sure what to expect. The players are all excited about the opportunity to see what basketball is like in another part of the country. I don't think any of the players have ever been to this part of the country before.

Tex Winter

Basketball has been my life. There are trials and tribulations, it's time-consuming. But there's glory and the thrill of competition. I've never emphasized winning or losing. It's giving your best and the glory of competition - that's what keeps me in it.

Basketball has always been my first love. Second, I want to be the point guard at Duke. I don't want any obstacle to get in my way of that, even if that means giving up football.

Basketball fans have diverse interests and through Toyota one-on-one, we wanted to give them a chance to really pursue their passion...

David Cohen

Basketball doesn't get any better than that. Just being able to run up and down the court, getting transition buckets. It doesn't get any better than that.

Tex Winter

Basketball can really burst your bubble. There are moments you want to walk away from it and never come back. Somehow, I'v always gotten over those moments.

Basketball ain't No. 1 no more, not now. Yes, it will hurt, but I've got to move on. School is important, that's all.

Mo Williams

I look up to him man, I do. Being a basketball player, coming from the same city the same town, he set the mold for us to shoot for.

My dad taped the game. I'm used to seeing myself play basketball, but when my interview came on - I had to leave the room!

Monroe is an outstanding team. That's how playoff basketball is.

Monique is a clutch player. She is very confident and capable, and she will be a tremendous basketball player by the time she leaves high school.

Morris was observed and videotaped playing basketball at a 24-Hour Fitness Center.

Willie Wilson

(Morris) has developed a temperament on the basketball court. Give Marshall credit, they played him physical, but he has developed such a focus. He can do it all.

My goal is to improve my basketball IQ as a point guard. I'm working on getting everyone involved. I'm the floor general out there and I want to get all the troops ready. I like the role. I just want the Ws.

My heart goes out for the girls. I know we didn't necessarily show consistency, but at the end I thought we were a solid basketball team.

My great-grandparents own a youth camp back in Indiana. It's a Christian-based camp where they take inner-city youths out into the country. So I want to incorporate some of the same ideas, but just put basketball in there.

My girls are playing good basketball. They never quit.

Dante Hall

My favorite is probably NBA Basketball except during the NCAA tournament which I like even better than NBA.

My dad is probably the biggest reason why I'm going there. He got to coach Tiffany and my brother (T.J.), but he's never got to coach me, and I know he can make me a better basketball player.

Maybe the odds were that that one wasn't going down this time. Honestly . . . we talked about this - you don't want to leave a whole lot of things to chance. You've got to find a way. And this basketball team has found a way.

Maybe he's made a mistake; we all make mistakes in this life, but if you look at his accomplishments as a basketball coach and his contributions to the game of college basketball, I don't think there's any question he should be in the Hall of Fame.

No one would want to broadcast the event or at least pay anything substantial for it, coming as it would on the heels of the World Series and the onset of the football and basketball seasons.

No, I don't think we're playing extremely well. But we always want to be playing our best basketball toward the end of the season and we're playing pretty well, but we still have not played our best game yet and we still have that to look forward to.

Now that we won our first state title, we'll always be remembered. Our fan support, we kind of grew it at the school. Now down the hallways people say 'Hi' even though I don't know them. It's more comforting to know there's a little more school spirit. My freshman year when we were horrible, I wouldn't want to go to the basketball games, either. It's more fun now.

Now our jitters are out so now it's time to play basketball. Like we said before, we're not here to participate, we're here to win. The whole thing. So right now, the game's over and we're going to enjoy it for tonight, but we have to prepare for our opponent Sunday.

Next time we play Mullen, we're going to play a basketball game and not just sit back and watch and react to what they do.