Famous Quotes & Sayings

This was a great team effort. We beat a very good basketball team.

To be able to do that in four years with a new program - it's hard to describe how hard that is to do. It'd be like making the Final Four in basketball with only five years of existence. It's that hard. But it's always a possibility in sports. Anything is possible.

Herb Williams

The players understand they have to play a basketball game. Everything has to go on as normal. This is our job, this is what we get paid to do.

B. F. Skinner

There are a lot of ways to win basketball games, and obviously the easiest way is to score points. But when you don't do that, there are other things that you can do -- hustle plays like the tip-in or the rebounds on the free throws. Those plays can make a difference and they obviously did this afternoon.

When you get the first cool night of the fall, you start thinking basketball. We're not there yet, but I know it's right around the corner.

Allen Iverson

When you get down like that, you use up so much energy to get back into the basketball game. Then you have to be perfect the rest of the way. And playing this game, there is no way you can be perfect, because this game is so hard.

When you get 400 wins, it reflects the kids you've had in the past, it reflects the parents, it reflects the program itself, the coaches. We're just trying to win a basketball game. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it doesn't.

When you have her at those numbers ... you think you'd win a basketball game.

When you play the style we play, you're going to have some turnovers. But we had some uncharacteristic mistakes tonight. We need to get control of that. But I liked the way we clawed back into it. It's something we can learn from. If we don't learn from it, then we're not as good a basketball team as I think we are.

Rick Adelman

We always talk about basketball stuff, ... She'll talk to me about the practice, what she observed. She's very knowledgeable. She's been very good as a coach up there. They really do play hard, do the right thing.

Morris Peterson

We made a conscious effort to not make mistakes at the end, just play basketball and defensively we wanted to get some stops.

We love Maya; I could go on and on. Maya has a great desire to get better every time she steps on the court. She?s never complacent. And as much as she wants to improve on the court, she sees basketball as a tool to make a difference. Maya is far more than a great basketball player; she?s a great person. I have been blessed to have one of her because most coaches go through their entire career and not even come close to being able to coach a player like her. The kid is special.

When you have a guy like Bryce for four years, you know you are going to miss him not only because of the type of basketball player he is, but the person he is. He is one of those people you just build your system around.

Chris Gardner

When you don't guard the post and you don't take care of the basketball it is tough to win on the road in an environment like this. But we're young - we only graduate one - so, hopefully we can learn from this experience and go a little bit further next year.

We've got to get back on defense, control the boards and stop their transition game. We've got to guard their sets and rebound the basketball. They're a tremendous rebounding basketball team.

We've got to focus on two things: taking care of the basketball and getting out of the situation of letting our offense dictate our defense. Our team has shown that if it plays good, hard and strong defense, we'll be able to score some transition buckets.

We've got to finish quarters strong and in the fourth quarter we have to play our best basketball.

Chuck D.

We've just been playing steady basketball the whole season.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We've hit the wall as a team. Our guys have played a lot of minutes and were having mental lapses, and the common things we just didn't get done. It was an indication of a basketball team that has hit the wall. We were giving it up on the defensive end and we were really lacking.

While I am sorry to see Mitch leave and we will certainly miss him, he has made a difficult but wise choice, ... There are times when basketball becomes irrelevant and this is one of those times. I and his teammates wish him the very best in his future endeavors.

With our youth comes not having much confidence. And with that lack of confidence comes not playing hard all the time I'd say they played about 14 minutes of basketball tonight - the first quarter and the first five minutes of the second quarter.

With our pre-draft camp in town and with our draft taking place less than 24 hours after an NCAA national champion is crowned, Boston will be the Mecca of women's basketball during the first week of April.

With it being your first Duke-North Carolina game, you can't help but get nervous. You don't know what to expect because this game is the highest level of competition at the college basketball level. We will see if everyone is ready for that.

Sheryl Swoopes

We're talking about women's professional basketball here. We're still new at this. A lot of times people forget the NBA was once where we are now. We've got to go beyond the true diehard women's professional-sports fan.

We've been looking forward to this for a long time, it's Duke. No one is expecting us to win, but within this locker room we're a confident basketball team.

Tucson is a big basketball city. The Wildcats are No. 1, but I think we're second.

Tucson is a big basketball city, ... The Wildcats are No. 1, but I think we're second.

Bryan Colangelo

Tucson and the U of A and (men's basketball head) coach (Lute) Olson and the basketball program really stepped up and gave us everything we needed, ... (Olson) just was involved in the process of discussions about facilities and what it would take. Obviously, there were some financial terms to the deal, and they were receptive to us coming down. It just turned out to be a great scenario.

John Brady

To question whether Dave Odom can coach a basketball game, that's ludicrous.

We were fortunate to get out with a win. Basketball is a game of runs and we were fortunate to make the last one that won it for us. (CBU) were up seven late, but we persevered and battled back.

We were due. It's fantastic for these seniors to be able to finish it like this, especially at home. This is a big one for us. Bonner is a great basketball team.

We were down by 12 at Cincinnati at the point where probably in the past they might have crumbled. The whole team stepped up and made some baskets and believed that they could win a basketball game like that. Even though at the end of it, it was like, 'Wow, we just won a basketball game.' But through that whole process, they believed in themselves.

We were down 18 going into the fourth quarter. We had no business being in the basketball game. We got it to a two-possession game with the ball. If we make a shot, who knows what happens.