Famous Quotes & Sayings

Overall it comes down to our defensive effort. We had 47 deflections, and that's always something good because that means you're able to pressure the basketball and not let them feel comfortable in their sets.

Our women's team is just not where it needs to be to compete in the Ohio Valley Conference. We need to move forward in our women's basketball program. Having said that, we need to make sure our coaches and players understand we are not going to compete at the mid-tier level or below in the OVC.

Our women's basketball team is going through the same thing. It's disgusting, people trying to kick someone while they're down.

Our whole team's different so I'm just glad we've gotten this far. It's been an interesting year. At one time, I think, we were 7-4, and now we're sitting here at 18-5 so we've been playing some pretty good basketball the last two months.

Billy Donovan

Our basketball team this year has played with energy; they've played with passion and enthusiasm. And this time of year, those things will keep you around and keep you in the game, but they're not good enough to win the game.

Our administration wants to be good in all sports--not just a power in basketball. They've put $1.5 million into our facility and given us the budget to travel and play good teams like Stanford and Clemson. Kids want to play those teams, and you get better by playing them.

Damon Jones

Right now, that's the best we can do. We just want to do the best job we can to stay in that position, not to be content with only being in that spot, but taking our game to another level, because playoff basketball is totally different.

Rivalry games you pretty much throw everything out the window. They are going to be fired up to play their best basketball for us and we will be fired up to play our best basketball for them.

Rogers has started learning what it's like to be a basketball town -- our community's been starved for it. The crowds have been there. They've really been a force for us. It's really been like an extra player.

Rod Barnes has been a very positive and important part of Ole Miss basketball history throughout his playing and coaching career. He has always represented the University with the utmost class and integrity. Because Rod means so much to the Ole Miss family, this was a difficult decision. However, due to our lack of success in the Southeastern Conference, I felt a change needed to be made.

People often had other plans on Saturday night and didn't want to be sitting at a basketball game until 9:30. So I thought we'd try something different.

Sutherlin came out and played some inspired basketball tonight. They played with a lot of heart. We buckled down in the fourth and took care of the ball and turned up the defense.

Billy Tubbs

Steve knows the tradition and has a genuine passion for Lamar basketball because he grew up with it. I believe he has a great future and will continue to take Lamar basketball to our expectation level of where the program should be on a yearly basis.

Steve has great credentials and really has an enthusiasm for the program. We feel that he can elevate this program and his hiring shows our commitment to providing our women's basketball student-athletes with the tools necessary to be successful as the sport continues to evolve on our campus.

Stay at State and run the basketball program into the ground, Herb.

Stephanie has matured a lot as a basketball player in the last two weeks. The whole team has. I'm really proud of them. This team didn't say a word in the second half, they just came out with a serious look on their faces and played great basketball. They're believing in themselves and each other. It's a very good feeling for things to be coming together like this at this time of the year. It's a real good place to be right now.

Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

Sports are really big around here. I love basketball and I've been playing ever since I can remember.

John Brady

That first 20 minutes was as good as I've had a team play. We looked like a real basketball team for 20 minutes.

Kobe Bryant

That felt good. That's basketball. That's how basketball was in the '80s. You see Isiah Thomas and Magic Johnson standing, talking in the tunnel, and that's basketball.

John Calipari

My stars were stars. They are skilled basketball players, and there's a lot of them, which makes it kind of nice.

My son will never serve his time. He will never get out of the boot camp, never get the chance to turn his life around, and never see his dream of becoming a basketball player.

My son and Marty's son (assistant coach Marty Luc) come to every practice. My son Tommy is 9 and Marty's son L.J. is 7. They can't come on the court until their homework is done. Sometimes, when we have a late practice I'll walk into my office and our players will be helping them with their homework. When we went on a trip to Pennsylvania over the holidays, our players would play with the kids in the pool or take them to the mall. Most high school kids don't want to deal with that, but this group is special. My son's favorite basketball player of all time is Desmond Wade.

My sisters were really good basketball players. A lot of time when I needed to talk to somebody, I could talk to my sisters. I wanted to follow in their footsteps, but I also wanted to do my own thing, too.

Steve Alford

My only focus is on our team. All my efforts and passion and enthusiasm are on this Hawkeye basketball team.

Nah. I'm not looking to do that. I'm keeping the same perception.

My wife says the word fan is short for fanatic. But it's just that I love basketball and baseball, sports which promote both good exercise and teamwork.

My priorities are family first, work second and basketball third. I really care about the program and I really love the school and I will do whatever I can for the team. But I know that dedicating that many hours a day and in a week will just be impossible.

Rick Barnes

Look at Oklahoma. They start three seniors. They're a good basketball team. If people thought they were just going to go away, they (were wrong). You don't get ranked in the top five in the preseason if you don't have a good basketball team.

Jay Wright

Look at Kyle missing the first semester and coming back and being able to play because of his basketball IQ. Shane has not been on campus the whole first semester, and has been able to come in and pick things up rather quickly.

Jerry Stackhouse

I went for a rebound, felt a stiff-arm, and it was Horry. It was a basketball play, a heat-of-the-moment thing. I didn't see him try to bite me.

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.