Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

You can never speculate on what will help or hurt. At this stage, you just want to try and win a basketball game. I would never encourage a team to lose a basketball game and we're just too dang competitive. I don't want to lose.

Roy H. Williams

You can't do that in college basketball and consistently win games. I don't like it.

We had a really good team that was made up of guys who were very good high school players and competitive guys, but not marquee Division I basketball players. This team reminds me a lot of that.

We wanted to come out and put our foot down and let people know that we are a good basketball team.

We've had a good run the last five years and that's a credit to the kids and the coaching staff. We always seem to play our best basketball of the year once the tournament begins. And we're going to have to play well on Friday to stay with South. They've got a great team this year.

We've got two more games to go through before we can start talking. Right now, we'll let our basketball do the talking for us.

We've had some tough basketball games this year. There's going to be some tough ones down the road. The Perry game Tuesday is just as important to us. Tonight we came out with a real sense of purpose and things worked out well for us.

We've had one of our best seasons in a number of years. It's a positive development for the boys' basketball program and for the school.

We'll have to play our best basketball of the year to repeat.

We'll have to play good basketball for 32 minutes.

Tom Crean

To start us out with one of the most storied college basketball programs of the last 15 years, I guess that?s good. My players would see right through me if I told them it was just another game.

Mike Holder

We all want what's best for Coach Sutton and wish him a speedy recovery. His dedication to college basketball and Oklahoma State University is unquestioned and his tireless effort on behalf of the institution is sincerely appreciated.

We're taking everybody's best shot right now. We're playing good basketball as a team and most everybody that comes in, we're going to have to take their best shot. We're just going to have to come out and play every night.

We all love to play at Shirk, but I think we've played our best basketball away. I don't know what it is, but we've been playing pretty well on the road.

Carmelo Anthony

Tonight we stuck to our game plan which was to get out in the open court. We just needed to get back to playing basketball and having fun.

Tonight it was particularly good that we beat a really, really fine basketball team... and we did it in front of a highly supportive crowd led by our student body. I mean, they were terrific. I think our team certainly responded to that.

To me, it doesn't matter where Indiana gets their basketball coach. Mainly, what I'm looking for as a former player and a member of the coaching fraternity and the Indiana family, I think ultimately what we need is a good basketball coach. We don't necessarily need a 'name.' We need a good basketball coach.

Wayne Embry

To me, he's a terrific player. I had mixed emotions about that because I really liked Jalen as a person and a basketball player but this is the NBA, we've all been there before.

There is a lot of pressure on us to win gold. We want to come out and play great basketball on Friday, and win well.

Up to that point, we played some of our best basketball of the season.

Very fortunate to get the win. We have to leave it at that. We can learn some things but we won the basketball game, and at this point that's all that matters.

Ron Hunter

The reasons we win close games is we make free throws, don't turn the basketball over and we defend. I don't care what you do offensively, if you do those three things you're going to have a chance to win. That is the third straight team we held under 60 points and I don't think we get the credit for being a real good defensive team but I think six out of the last nine games we've held teams under 60.

There is no reason for any coach to leave Texas A&M University. We have the support; we have resources and the facilities to be champions in every sport we field. Basketball is certainly no different.

There is still a lot of basketball to be played.

Eddy Curry

There definitely is some kind of relief, but my journey is not over, ... I'm going to have even more expectations to live up to the trade and Isiah's trust in me to come here and be a good basketball player.

We had a great half the last time up here, and we chipped away this time and got it back to where it was winnable. But you have to play flawless basketball at that point. You can't turn it over and give up easy plays.

We had a great all-around team effort. We're glad to be playing basketball for at least another week.

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.