Famous Quotes & Sayings

Channing Frye

We're not playing the type of basketball we need to be playing.

Bruce Pearl

We're not playing our best basketball right now and haven't been. I think that for the first time the confidence has to be shook a little bit.

We're not playing our best basketball of the year, but we're definitely closer than we were a couple weeks ago.

We're not in it for moral victories. We've got a good basketball team. We have to continue to get better. They have so many weapons, they can beat you in so many ways.

We've decided to go a different route. (Crisostomo) didn't have the time nor energy to coach our basketball team.

To be such a young team I feel like we've made some strides at the end of the season. Co-Lin has a really good basketball team, and it will be a challenge.

We were tired, physically and emotionally. But mostly emotionally. We were unable to make plays. It wasn't for a lack of effort. Just basketball luck.

This year Washington is playing outstanding basketball. We've continued to play well, so each year when we meet, they get bigger and bigger with more excitement. It's beginning to be a big rivalry.

This town has such a passion about women's basketball. Hats off to our fans. I think I may have seen a couple leaving early, but we'll forgive them.

We just have to see what we did back then, and see what we're doing now. We're going to have to finish the last games off strong. I felt pretty good out there. Right now we're not playing both ends of the floor each game, only sometimes.

We just have to rise to the occasion. This is college basketball as it is in the ACC. We still have two more games left. We still can realize some opportunities. And this team has had a history of bouncing back.

We just have to pull some kids out of the places they're in. Some kids aren't as confident as they need to be. We have to build their confidence and remind them they're still a good basketball team. They've got to believe it and play like it.

Jim Boeheim

We just have to play better. We're in control of our fate. We just have to play better basketball down the stretch.

We just have to make sure we play good, fundamental basketball Friday night and see what happens. Northwest's not too bad, either.

We didn't give up. It was a hostile environment (with 3,500 fans in White Auditorium) and a rough basketball game. To come back and play well speaks a lot for the character of this basketball team.

Lisa Stone

We didn't get out to the shooters. We were switching things around and we did some things to disrupt them, but they're just a good basketball team.

We were not in basketball form at the time. But I think we're now more confident with each other and understand where we're supposed to be at.

We were very lucky to pull the game out. It was the worst basketball that we've played all year long.

We don't play basketball to give up 65 percent shooting in a half. That's why we put ourselves in the hole. We didn't following our scouting.

Trent Johnson

We don't make that decision. The NIT is money generated and if the NIT powers say we want you to play at home, we will. ... But if it was my decision, I would like to take this basketball team on the road. Because we compete well at home, but for the guys that are returning next year we've got to fight through on the road.

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.