Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have all the tools that we need. We went on a five-game winning streak with these same guys in this room. So we've proven we can do it. We just need to come out every day and do what we need to do on the basketball court and let the front office handle the rest.

Pat Summitt

We have a mutual respect for this game and working with young people, not just on the basketball court but to see these young women become confident and successful in career opportunities beyond basketball.

We need to keep our focus for 40 minutes and we're not doing that right now. A basketball game is all about ups and downs, peaks and valleys, and we can't have so many deep valleys.

We need to improve throughout the year. With us, it's all about taking care of the basketball.

We could never make that run offensively. We couldn't ever get any continuity offensively because of turning the basketball over.

We know that we're playing a great basketball team and that we're certainly going to have our work cut out for us. But I'm looking forward to going back and playing an old rival all over again.

Tom Robinson

We have two basketball players. The other kids are athletes. In an up-and-down game, hopefully, our athleticism can take over.

Pat Summitt

We have to win that basketball game to have a chance to win the league, and that's still our goal.

We just didn't have it and they took it away from us. We won a bunch of basketball games, and our time was up. It hurts.

We just didn't get the shots up that we needed to get up and you just cannot do that at the varsity level. You're just not going to get away with that. We have to do a better job taking care of the basketball and then on the offensive side, executing and getting some movement in the offense and giving it a chance to get into a flow.

We just didn't come through as far as taking care of the basketball and rebounding. That was a big thing for us.

We played pretty good basketball today. East fought hard and couldn't get some shots to fall early and sometimes that sets the tone.

We played our worst half since I've known these seniors. I've coached them since third grade and I challenged those seniors at halftime. Greenland basketball is about tradition and they see that each day with the banners on the gym wall.

We played our game and I'm confident we're going to win when that happens. I don't think it's arrogance, I just feel that we have good basketball players.

We played one of our worst basketball games that night. After getting out to a 10-point lead, we lost sight of our goals and objectives.

We came out intense and aggressive, ... That was one of the best first quarters I've seen from an Ionia basketball team.

We came out and played well, distributed the basketball and got everyone involved. That was a huge key for us. Defensively, we did a nice job on helping out on Albers in the first half. She is a big strong girl, and I thought we did a nice job of helping on her.

Bob Thomason

We know people can beat us in our conference. That's why we have to see if we can play our best basketball over the next four games.

We know our work is cut out for us. They're talking about making history, but so are we. If we can knock off the No. 1 team in the country and get a shot at the No. 2 team in the state, what a great day of basketball that would be.

Eddie Jordan

We'll get a day's rest and close to a full day on Monday and then show up for a 7 o'clock game in Philadelphia. And then we can suck it up. That's what playing big-time basketball is about.

Unfortunately we have shown signs of not being mature enough sometimes. To climb we always seem to have to take a little step back before we take the next jump. Sometimes that's part of the development process you go through when you're building basketball programs.

We were just better than them, and it was as simple as that. We were the better basketball players who made plays, so there is no substitute left for that.

Chris Bosh

We didn't come out with any energy. We know we're not good enough to let the game come to us. We have to come with high energy, play hard team basketball and do everything the right way. Coming into the season, we all knew we didn't have too much room for error.

We didn't come here to end a streak or just to beat West Aurora. We came here to win a basketball game.

Kirk Hinrich

We didn't come close to playing the type of basketball we need to play to win.

Charles Barkley

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Charles Barkley

You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.

Eric Schmidt

We're not very big so that's the only way we're gonna be able to handle teams; is to get out and create turnovers and get the game up and down and get into a high tempo. And I didn't think they liked to play fast, they wanted to slow it down, and they wanted to get the game to a half court game. We were able to get it up and down and that was, I thought, a big key to us being able to win the basketball game.

We're not usually a basketball program, we're wrestling. This was the first time we had done anything even near this big in our program. It puts us on the map. We'll try to make some noise in states.

We're not satisfied with being 8-8 in the league. I feel we're playing pretty good basketball right now. If we keep it up for 40 minutes, I think we're going to be a good team (in the postseason).

We are really close to being an excellent basketball team. I think if you're both teams you want to play your best before the postseason. And Mattoon has typically had hard-nosed, fundamentally sound basketball teams.

We are playing with confidence. It is clicking right now. We are starting to understand how to control a basketball game, and we are jelling as a team at the right time. It is a nice feeling to see these kids play the way they have.

Jim Nelson

We are playing some good basketball right now, so we are looking forward to the playoffs.