Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ashley Smith

I want to thank Texas Lutheran for the opportunity to coach the women's basketball program. I will miss the players, the coaches and the many people that make TLU a special place.

I want Tyson to do well. He's worked hard (in basketball). He deserves to have success. We miss him, but we understand.

I will not comment on the specifics of the ongoing search for the next Temple head men's basketball coach, but I can state emphatically that no candidate has been offered the position at this time.

Roy H. Williams

I will be surprised to see that because I think he's got a chance to play basketball for a long time. So unless he wants to try football at 35 or something like that ...

(I) Went to St. Paul Lutheran and started playing. I always had a basketball hoop in my room. When I got to where I could be on a team, I got on it right away.

I was just glad we were able to hold onto the basketball as well as we did.

Dick Vitale

I think they are a very dangerous basketball team, a team that could create a lot of problems.

I think the sky is the limit for him. He'll work harder this summer than he ever has worked because that's just the type of kid he is. He'll play more basketball this summer than he ever has.

Bo Ryan

I think the way people are talking about how we're going to be is very exciting, ... And If you're a basketball fan you want to ask, 'How's this guy going to look?'

I think the school became interested in building an all-around girls program. They had won only about three to five basketball games each season the previous three years.

I thought we were a soft basketball team tonight. Virginia was physically tougher than we were. When we had guys take the ball out of our hands, well, that's toughness. And that No. 11 kid, he played hard.

Just because we don't have a football team doesn't mean we don't have a good basketball team. I don't think you measure basketball teams the way you measure programs that have football teams. We've been able to measure up.

Just because they (Woodside) beat Hampton and we beat them doesn't mean that we beat Hampton. Tonight let us know there's a lot of basketball left to play.

Just a win feels great. We played a quality second-place team. This is the second second-place team we beat this year. Kaukauna was the other. The 400 wins just mean that I have had many hard working kids. I like to think that our kids are more of a blue-collar type. They may not be the best basketball players, but they give you 100 percent.

Hubie Brown

Jason Williams is one of the most intelligent basketball guys I've ever seen,

John Jay

Jason needs to reaffirm his commitment to the Oregon State basketball program.

Scott Parker

Jarrod hit his stride the second time around in the league season. He definitely played his best basketball at the end of the season.

James makes us go. He's the triggerman on offense. He's a basketball junkie, and he plays extremely hard.

Jim Boyle gave me an opportunity to enter college basketball in 1985 and I will be forever grateful.

Kyle's a guy who doesn't get a lot of notoriety, but he does the little things that make a solid basketball team.

Steve Fisher

Kyle has been suspended for conduct detrimental to the team. He continues to be a member of our basketball program.

Largo has the toughest seven-girl basketball team I've seen this year. We knew we were going to have some problems, especially inside.

Bill Vaughan

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

Bill Bradley

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

Bill Bradley

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

Bill Bradley

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

Billy Donovan

The 3-point line is a great equalizer in college basketball.

The 2006 March Madness just might be remembered for the 'boss button' that gives workers a way to quickly hide their basketball indiscretions.

That was good stuff. It was a great crowd and that's what high school basketball is all about.

That was a very good game. It was a good way to end a back-and-forth game. It was a fun high school basketball game.

That was a total team effort. And finally, we played our kind of basketball for a full game.

That was the most intense and best played quarter of basketball we've played all season.

That would be like having Duke and North Carolina here in college basketball in the same week. We're proud of the fact that those clubs will come over here and play us, and it says we're going in the right direction.