Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're a basketball team that understands it limitations. We understand that we don't have all the cards to play that many of the other teams have. At the same time, we're a basketball team that has some very good cards to play. Shuffling those cards and dealing them in the right manner - playing with each other and playing with each others' strengths - has in fact become our team's strength.

We're 0-0. Right now, this game doesn't mean anything to us. We surely didn't want to lose it, but the nature of the game of basketball is you get to play the next game. Hopefully we keep on playing.

Robert Griffin

We ran the floor and scrapped and played hard that whole first half. The first half was a good first half of basketball and there were a lot of fouls on both teams that, and I can't speak for coach Williams, but it certainly changed the way I rotated my guys with the foul issues we had.

Jay Wright

We ran into a team that played better basketball today. We're going to suck up this hurt tonight but I want to make sure my guys feel great about themselves. They gave everything they had.

Jay Wright

We ran into a team that played better basketball than us. I think we can play a lot better and we can shoot a lot better, and the other team had a lot to do with that. They were really good.

We're a pretty good basketball team but we've got some things we need to work on. We need to eliminate second chances. With our size, we've got to do a better job of blocking out.

We're a much better shooting team than that. It's frustrating not to be able to show how we got here, and that's by sharing the basketball and setting good screens and knocking down shots.

We're a much better basketball team when she stays on the floor, obviously. She's just so well-rounded at both ends of the floor. I think she's one of the top players in the conference. It's exciting to see her numbers reflect that.

We hope to keep improving, which is what we have done since the break. We feel like we still have a ways to go which is good. We have not played our best basketball yet.

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We didn't want to go that kind of pace. An 80-point basketball game was not one that we were going to win and we couldn't figure out how to slow it down.

We didn't think the game was out of hand at all. We put pressure on the basketball, denying lanes. The front line was trying to do a great job defensively and it all worked.

Michael Grant

We didn't take care of the basketball and we didn't concentrate on knocking down our free throws. I think if we made our free throws in the first half, it would have trickled down to the second half.

We have had a lot of those kinds of games, but I thought we played good basketball. We stayed under control, played good defense and didn't get rattled.

The fact that Marsha took a program like Texas Tech that wasn't even on the college basketball map, took it to a national title and maintained that excellence says a lot about her.

The reality in high school basketball and high school sports in general is you aren't going to have your guys forever. It's time for them to move on. They've gotten everything they could out of their high school careers.

Brian Tracy

There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.

Jamie Foxx

My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass.' I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let's them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don't let me get away with that.

Kenyon Martin

Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never had. Nobody is going to get the best of me. You might score more points than me, but you're going to know you were in a dogfight.

Derek Fisher

Basketball used to be my top priority.

Derek Fisher

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

Derek Fisher

Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.

Derek Fisher

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

Denis Leary

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

Denis Leary

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

DeForest Soaries

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.

We all have various ways of dropping in and getting connected to ourselves. For one person it might be playing basketball. It's a good way to get in touch with how they feel. For somebody else, it might be taking a walk.

Dick Bennett

What does this program/team need this week?

Dick Bennett

What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.

Dick Bennett

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

Dick Bennett

For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

Dick Bennett

Players who are committed to the team first will find a way to help when things are going bad, they will do whatever it takes. Kids that are more into themselves will not do that. They will take care of themselves and get more individual when things are tough.

Dick Bennett

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.