Famous Quotes & Sayings

Travis has been good for us academically, socially and basketball-wise. He's been a model student-athlete here.

Today's game give credit to Jackson, that was two tired basketball teams. We played as hard as we could play.

Jeremy Foley

Yeah we went on probation, but we made out all right. After all that talk of whether we were a basketball or football program, those girls in spandex made us proud. Florida was a true gymnastics school.

Chauncey Billups

Yeah, we play with a little extra incentive when we're here at our building. Our fans are the best fans in all of basketball and we want to give them a treat. We play with a little special chip when we're at home.

You know what it's like in basketball when a guy's hitting 3-pointers and can't miss? When you get in a zone? It doesn't happen very often, but we got fortunate.

When I first heard about it, I thought to myself, 'I don't want a chair that looks like a basketball goal.' This doesn't look like that. The pillows are really beautiful. I'm going to put them in my house.

When I first came, I expected to play, and it just didn't work out that way. I don't second guess my decision or question myself as far as coming here. I think this still is the best situation for me. There still is a lot of basketball left. We still have nine games, we still have the playoffs and you just never know when you'll be needed.

Jim Les

We needed to play our 'A' game tonight, and we didn't play our 'A' game. But that was because of what they did. That's a very good basketball team.

We have kids who love to play basketball and coaches who love to coach and in the overall scheme of things we need to figure out how to bring this together. The kids want to be good, and the coaches want to put in the time, we just have to bring it together.

We know they're a heck of a basketball team that will be ready to play us.

We know they play slow basketball and put a lot of pressure on you and keep it that way for 40 minutes. But I think we're going to be all right. We showed who's the boss over there at Washington State and (we'll try) to do the same thing.

Corey Brewer

You know, all year we've been talking about staying focused because that's what's going to get us to the Final Four. We were just telling each other we have to stay focused for two more minutes, we are going to Indianapolis. That's what we did. We are on the way to the Final Four.

James Jones

You know it's kind of hard to say from my side looking in. I think that coach Miller is a blank coach. Whether his relationship with the Penn basketball program is secure or not kind of remains to be seen.

We've been getting better and are playing our best basketball right now. Since Christmas, defensively, we've stepped it up a notch.

We've been gearing for that all year, to play our best basketball down the stretch, and hopefully we do.

Brian Keith

We get to do something we love, which is basketball. It's been fun, and we are looking forward to the trip. With that in mind, we know that if we want to be a state champion, we've got two more games to win.

Mike McConathy

We get hung up on basketball and winning games, but when you reflect back to that and you've lost everything, it makes you thankful for what you have. That is a life experience that has helped them grow as young men and as basketball players." ()

We gave up too many easy baskets tonight. That's what's frustrating about this team. We're not basketball intelligent right now.

We can build on this. We will probably continue to have some type of basketball lettermen's reunion every year. It might not be this same formal process where they're recognized at a football game, but it might be at a basketball game.

We can be a dangerous team when we play like we did for the last 10 minutes. We fought extremely hard after we got down. I hate to be proud when we lose, but I am tonight. You saw some great basketball and a great team effort. A lot of guys had to step up to make it happen.

Daniel Gibson

We came out with a lot more energy and just played basketball.

We had tons of chances to win the basketball game.

We had to limit their three-point attempts. We had to control the boards, and we had to take care of the basketball in the half-court set, which we didn't do. Two out of three wasn't good enough.

We didn't execute on our last two offensive possessions down the floor and it cost us the basketball game.

We have all the tools that we need. We went on a five-game winning streak with these same guys in this room. So we've proven we can do it. We just need to come out every day and do what we need to do on the basketball court and let the front office handle the rest.

Pat Summitt

We have a mutual respect for this game and working with young people, not just on the basketball court but to see these young women become confident and successful in career opportunities beyond basketball.

We need to keep our focus for 40 minutes and we're not doing that right now. A basketball game is all about ups and downs, peaks and valleys, and we can't have so many deep valleys.

We need to improve throughout the year. With us, it's all about taking care of the basketball.

We could never make that run offensively. We couldn't ever get any continuity offensively because of turning the basketball over.

We know that we're playing a great basketball team and that we're certainly going to have our work cut out for us. But I'm looking forward to going back and playing an old rival all over again.

Tom Robinson

We have two basketball players. The other kids are athletes. In an up-and-down game, hopefully, our athleticism can take over.

Pat Summitt

We have to win that basketball game to have a chance to win the league, and that's still our goal.

We just didn't have it and they took it away from us. We won a bunch of basketball games, and our time was up. It hurts.