Famous Quotes & Sayings

This was huge. Pops helped build this place, and I felt the basketball gods were on our side.

Jerry Colangelo

This whole concept of a Dream Team, that's over and done with, ... The theme going forward is more about respecting the world basketball community, and it's also about redemption. We have a lot to come back from.

Vince Carter

We consider Miami one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference and we see it as a test each and every time. We felt we could really give them a run.

We come off a basketball season that wasn't quite as successful as we'd have hoped. I know that Craig and his coaching staff aren't as pleased as they liked to be.

We don't want to be good. I want to make that next step to being great. We'll work on that and we'll be a better basketball team.

We have great teams in this league. Every game is a battle every night. I think basketball in Utah County has gone up a notch.

We're all close off the floor. I'll miss the friendships we formed through basketball.

We put together 40 minutes of hard fought basketball and that was our goal all season.

We will focus on the positives we had tonight and continue to get after it in practice. If the effort is there, the sky is the limit for this team. I've been preaching that from day one. I think they realize now that hard work - in practice and in games - wins basketball games.

We will definitely earn it this year, not that we didn't in the past. But with this team and some of the teams left we could face, they could put their stamp on things as far as East Hall basketball history goes if they can win it all.

We wouldn't be out here playing basketball and stuff if Martin Luther King wasn't here.

We would like to have three or four players in double figures. Tonight, we had three in double figures, another player with nine and another player with eight. So we're getting there. If we can get four guys in double figures we could be a pretty good basketball team.

George Brett

I don't think I can play any other way but all out . . . I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Kurt Vonnegut

But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.

This will be a challenge to see if we can finish it off. This might be the first Delta women's basketball team that has gone unbeaten in conference.

This summer I was feeling really good about what kind of basketball team that we could create,

Gary Blair

There has never been a region like this. Never. There is no way a basketball coach, whether they're in this region or the other regions, can say this region is fair.

When Chris came back out from the locker room to watch us from the bench, it gave us lift. He's just really important to us emotionally as a basketball team, even from the bench.

We said in the beginning of the playoffs, it's a whole new season. It's always been like that for Vermont basketball and it worked out pretty well for us today.

We rose to the occasion and played our best basketball the past few weeks. The end of our season sets a great tone for next year. These are building blocks for us.

Antawn Jamison

We're not a .500 basketball club, ... but we're playing like it.

We're trying to change a mind-set, because there has been a lack of success with men's basketball. One of the biggest things when I came in was to look at it from top to bottom. We're trying to put a new eye on things. ... A lot of people in the department have been here for a long time, 10 or 12 or 15 years. Hopefully I can bring some insight from (XU's) program.

We saw how we want to play. Eventually we would like our program to be where Bellefonte is and to play that type of basketball with ball movement and court spacing and rebounding and shooting.

Roy H. Williams

We saw a big-time basketball team play in a tough environment. Our guys in the second half, I love how hard we competed. ... It seemed like every time we'd get right there where I thought we could get over the hump, but we couldn't get a stop.

Corey Brewer

We said we played our worst basketball half of the year - and we're tied up.

We just haven't been getting the same financial support that basketball and football get. That's been our main disadvantage. So our programs end up having inferior equipment and poor playing conditions, and we can't hire the best instructors.

We just have not played good defense lately. That's not our character. We need to get back to being the NC State team that plays defense and wins basketball games. We can't rely on our offense to win games. Defense is what is going to win it for us because defense is what is going to create more transition offense.

We knew it would be a tough, physical basketball game and playing Central on its home floor would be a tough chore. We just kept telling the kids to stay calm and composed. Once we got the lead we were able to spread the floor and make them foul us. We didn't make a lot of free throws, but we made enough.

We knew it would be a defensive game tonight. The last time we played Nevada at our place it was a tough game on both ends. They were definitely the aggressor, they came out on a mission. They were determined to continue to play. Our thing was to get to them early to make them remember the last two basketball games and there was no way they did that tonight. They were focused, they were on a mission. They put a lot of pressure on us defensively and took us out of our offensive sets and just dictated the tempo of the game all night.

We just wrapped up a very good week of basketball. First we knocked off Lincoln, and then Bloomington and then finished like this. We are definitely playing our best basketball of the season right now.

We just weren't playing with the effort, the intensity, the desire, the passion that I think we're known for and that we've come to expect from our basketball team.

Billy Donovan

We thought the three-point line would be critical at both ends. It's the great equalizer in college basketball and we held them without one for (nearly) 35 minutes. And I thought Lee Humphrey shot the ball very well.

Mike Fratello

We thought it was the best thing for us to do. Let them have the opportunity to get back home, straighten out their personal lives if there is anything that has to be done and get them away from the heavy concentration on basketball so they can come back with a clean slate.