Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Les

We play in a major basketball conference. There are some awfully good players here. Some players who were snubbed a little bit at the higher schools, and they've got a chip on their shoulders.

We played with composure and we controlled the clock. It was real basketball and it's taken us a long time to get here.

Jeff Schaffer

We played well. We're finally starting to come together. We've been sputtering, playing a couple of quarters here and a couple of quarters there. Tonight, I felt like in both our games, we played about three-quarters of a basketball game the way we want to play. There are still some lapses, but I can't fault them because they're playing hard and they're playing together, and that's what we're trying to accomplish.

We played all 40 minutes of that basketball game. We held them.

We played a full 40 minutes of sound basketball.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We played about a quarter and a half tonight. But we played the fourth quarter with some fight to get back into it. The shot Brand made late in the game was a big-time shot and he made it at a very critical time in the basketball game.

We played a big, big week of basketball. I was wondering if some of it would catch up to us.

We play Amador Friday in Sutter Creek at 5 p.m.. Please come out and support all basketball in our county.

We probably played our best quarter of basketball of the season.

We probably have 10 to 12 guys on our basketball team that will have 40 quarters of experience for next year. If we can get a win (Friday) it will give us some momentum. For any kind of win will help us with the season we're having. It's able to keep the kids energized and excited about coming to practice and the players have done a good job.

Vince Staples

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.

When I was a kid, I went to school in a small town. I wanted to play basketball - that was my dream.

When I got fired, I was a little disappointed with the timing of it. Other than that, it's all been good memories. I had some of my best basketball moments here at the arena.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm always ready for a change. I'm Irish. I'm a leprechaun.

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.