Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yao Ming

We?re all basketball players, and were all out there on the court, ... We all live together on this earth.

Well I just wanted to come meet you. It said you like basketball and I watched your game.

We played much better basketball this year. With the style we played, we were just so much more competitive.

Dick Bennett

We played miserable basketball in the first half. We looked like a team trying to prove it could be a 94-foot (end-to-end) team -- throwing one-handed passes, shooting on the fly.

When he showed up here, he could just blast it. I've told many people this, but I've been coaching 38 years. He's the best basketball player I've ever had who can play without the ball.

Napoleon Hill

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

Dwane Casey

We've got to try everything to get better and in a groove. I've seen flashes of real good basketball from Mark Blount. I think getting him in the starting lineup will give him a little bit more ownership, a little bit more opportunity to score early in the game.

We've got to treat this like a new season. The scary thing is, I don't think we've played our best basketball yet.

Larry Brown

We've got to take care of the basketball and take good shots. They just don't get it.

Caron Butler

We've got to have it. Anyway, anyhow. We're going to win this basketball game.

We've epitomized the word 'inconsistent' for professional basketball.

We've done so much this year already that why stop now? We actually got a gift from our administration and on the back of our shirt it says,'We're not finished yet.' (Even though) we are so excited to be here and at the NCAA tournament, you're not just satisfied with making the trip and staying at a nice hotel. You're down here for one reason and that's to win basketball games.

Paul Hewitt

We talk about the tradition of Georgia Tech basketball when we go out recruiting, and in some sense, I feel like I owe those guys something, ... Now, we've built on that tradition, and now here we are in the Final Four.

Jay Wright

We take the responsibility of representing United States basketball very seriously,

Kelly Packard

We suffered three losses early in the season when we were injured and just not playing as a team. We've obviously played much better basketball since then.

We told them at halftime to keep plugging away. Our second quarter was just awful. I saw a couple pouts out there and I told them to turn those frowns into smiles and pick it up and play basketball like we know how to play it.

Chris Paul

We told our kids that anything's possible. I'd be lying to you if I looked you in the eye and said we were going to come out here and beat Purdue. That's a great basketball team we just played.

We threw a few guys at (Lucas) trying to keep fresh legs, and there were a couple of times we tried to run a play at him to get him to give the basketball up and then try to not let him get it back if we could. But he seemed to get it back a little bit more than we wanted.

We thought we had it the whole way. The shots didn't fall. That's how basketball goes, I guess.

Avery Johnson

We thought we got our defense under us in the first half and kind of set the tone for the rest of the game. We had a little lull defensively in the third quarter, but they're a very good offensive basketball team and they weren't going to come out of the locker room lying down.

What you do in golf helps you in basketball and vice versa, ... It's a similar mindset, and fundamentals are really important in both.

What we've had is two years where the competitive level of our basketball program has been well below our expectations. And that needs to get fixed.

We are not a selfish basketball team. And we played some selfish basketball.

James Worthy

The Hall of Fame has strong people.

James Worthy

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

James Worthy

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

Jason Behr

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun

Jason Collins

Now I'm a free agent, literally and figuratively. I've reached that enviable state in life in which I can do pretty much what I want. And what I want is to continue to play basketball. I still love the game, and I still have something to offer. My coaches and teammates recognize that. At the same time, I want to be genuine and authentic and truthful.

Jason Collins

Some people insist they've never met a gay person. But Three Degrees of Jason Collins dictates that no NBA player can claim that anymore. Pro basketball is a family. And pretty much every family I know has a brother, sister or cousin who's gay. In the brotherhood of the NBA, I just happen to be the one who's out.

There is a lot of basketball. We try to separate it, but invariably we talk basketball pretty much all year 'round.

There is no doubt that this facility will put our two basketball programs on a par with any Division I school in the country. We couldn't be more pleased.

We used to have the gym rocking. Kids couldn't wait to get in there. You had to get in there early to get seats. In those days, the basketball team was making more money than the football team.

We set the game of basketball back 100 years tonight. We got guys doing one-on-one's. Urbandale played like a team tonight. We certainly didn't do what I taught them to do.