Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you have her at those numbers ... you think you'd win a basketball game.

When you play the style we play, you're going to have some turnovers. But we had some uncharacteristic mistakes tonight. We need to get control of that. But I liked the way we clawed back into it. It's something we can learn from. If we don't learn from it, then we're not as good a basketball team as I think we are.

Rick Adelman

We always talk about basketball stuff, ... She'll talk to me about the practice, what she observed. She's very knowledgeable. She's been very good as a coach up there. They really do play hard, do the right thing.

Morris Peterson

We made a conscious effort to not make mistakes at the end, just play basketball and defensively we wanted to get some stops.

We love Maya; I could go on and on. Maya has a great desire to get better every time she steps on the court. She?s never complacent. And as much as she wants to improve on the court, she sees basketball as a tool to make a difference. Maya is far more than a great basketball player; she?s a great person. I have been blessed to have one of her because most coaches go through their entire career and not even come close to being able to coach a player like her. The kid is special.

When you have a guy like Bryce for four years, you know you are going to miss him not only because of the type of basketball player he is, but the person he is. He is one of those people you just build your system around.

Chris Gardner

When you don't guard the post and you don't take care of the basketball it is tough to win on the road in an environment like this. But we're young - we only graduate one - so, hopefully we can learn from this experience and go a little bit further next year.

We've got to get back on defense, control the boards and stop their transition game. We've got to guard their sets and rebound the basketball. They're a tremendous rebounding basketball team.

We've got to focus on two things: taking care of the basketball and getting out of the situation of letting our offense dictate our defense. Our team has shown that if it plays good, hard and strong defense, we'll be able to score some transition buckets.

We've got to finish quarters strong and in the fourth quarter we have to play our best basketball.

Chuck D.

We've just been playing steady basketball the whole season.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We've hit the wall as a team. Our guys have played a lot of minutes and were having mental lapses, and the common things we just didn't get done. It was an indication of a basketball team that has hit the wall. We were giving it up on the defensive end and we were really lacking.

While I am sorry to see Mitch leave and we will certainly miss him, he has made a difficult but wise choice, ... There are times when basketball becomes irrelevant and this is one of those times. I and his teammates wish him the very best in his future endeavors.

With our youth comes not having much confidence. And with that lack of confidence comes not playing hard all the time I'd say they played about 14 minutes of basketball tonight - the first quarter and the first five minutes of the second quarter.

With our pre-draft camp in town and with our draft taking place less than 24 hours after an NCAA national champion is crowned, Boston will be the Mecca of women's basketball during the first week of April.

With it being your first Duke-North Carolina game, you can't help but get nervous. You don't know what to expect because this game is the highest level of competition at the college basketball level. We will see if everyone is ready for that.

When we played there a couple of years ago, I was really impressed with their fans because I felt like they were knowledgeable but not out of control. It didn't feel intimidating to me. It just felt like a great basketball game with good, appreciative fans. It was a different feeling than some places you go to.

Connor Barwin

When I went in, my guy was sitting in the paint. He wasn't even guarding me. That's the most disrespect I've seen on a basketball court.

We've just learned what to do since our freshman year and that's not to get excited and to execute when we need to. We just played Villanova basketball better than Louisville played Louisville basketball.

We've played in tough games ourselves and tough atmospheres. You've got to give credit to those (Vermont) guys and you've got to respect them, but at the same time, we're all basketball players and we've all been in hostile environments.

We came in and did what we wanted to do. If I was talking to you right now and the score was 70 or 80-something, then we didn't execute. But we held them to 53. They're a well-coached basketball team, their guards are very hard to guard. They all handle it well, they all shoot it very well and they're going to be tough to beat.

We build a big lead and we let it go. We definitely played scoreboard basketball tonight.

We picked tonight to play our worse game of basketball.

We'll just have to do a little bit of fund-raising. I think this shows the interest there is in high school basketball -- and it shows how much money there is out there in it.

Rafer Alston

When (Jalen) comes over here, Im going to give him a kiss. Not on his lips, though.

Benny Parsons

While our drivers are probably not nearly in the physical condition of the NBA's All-Stars, the Daytona 500 is going to have 43 of the top drivers in the country, trained to drive at speeds in excess of 180 mph. Now that's intense! The NBA only has like 20 or 25 basketball players playing.

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.