Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Larranaga

Just remember, their fans think their players are supermen. We'll we're the kryptonite, and we're going to win.

Eric Snow

I haven't seen one guy beat five people yet. It needs to be done collectively.

Eric Musselman

At the end of the day, no matter how well you score, you've got to be able to stop people

Eric Davis

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

Heidi Klum

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

Heidi Klum

Nowadays children look at everyone in the magazines and they want to be a basketball star or on a television show, but there is only so many people who can do those things and not that you shouldn't aim or dream for these things, but there are so many other fantastic jobs. So it's good to talk about how to get there and how difficult it is to get there.

John Irving

I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we’re understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.

Smalley destroyed us inside. He's a good basketball player with a good feel down in the post. He jumps out of the gym.

At the end of the season, (university president) Dr. (Charles) Dougherty and I will take a look at where we are and where we stand for the future. ... We need to put an established product and winner on the men's basketball court.

Taurean Green

That's every team's dream, to get to the Final Four and win the national championship. Just the excitement, the atmosphere. That's what you play college basketball for.

Taurean Green

That's every player's dream, to get to the Final Four. That's what you play college basketball for. We have an opportunity to get there, but we have to play a good team first.

Lisa Stone

That's a great basketball team. They're spectacular. They're senior-laden, well-coached - a very, very powerful team.

That might have been the worst half of basketball we've played.

That's a pretty good basketball team. We were very fortunate to win, especially away from home. I thought everyone stepped up tonight with Griffin hurt.

That's a pretty good basketball team we beat tonight. Their quickness I thought gave us some problems. But give our kids credit. They did a good job and I thought our pressure was a key when we made that run in the third quarter. Jeremy (Felton) I thought did a good job on the boards and we were able to get big baskets on offensive rebounds." ()

Rick Barnes

That's college basketball. I just told them they needed to finish the game. An 18-point lead is nothing that can't be overcome and in February you expect teams to play hard.

That's Brittany as a basketball player. She goes out and does everything. She's not usually our leading scorer, but if you want somebody to make a big defensive play or get a steal, that's what she does.

Raja Bell

He was settling for some shots I thought. As a defender, you hope he does that. But he got it going in the fourth quarter. A guy like that is just going to keep forcing the issue until he finds it, and you've just got to hold on.

Ben Howland

He's playing the best basketball of his career. Without him, we would not be here.

Ben Howland

He's playing the best basketball of his career right now.

He spends like five million hours preparing for the tournament. He is dedicated to basketball and puts a lot of heart into it.

I already know the draw. In all my years coaching, I have never once gotten the bye. How can that be? Maybe the basketball gods will smile on this old man for once.

To be honored at the State of the City is really special. It goes to show you how far the Mount Vernon basketball program has come and how it's interwoven in the community.

To be honest, we don't know a whole lot yet about Arkansas, other than that they played very good basketball down the stretch.

To be honest, they are a great basketball team, they are one of the most talented in the state. We played them tough the first time, we just have to take next step. We're just excited to be playing Saturday.

Brian Johnson

To be honest, at first some of the guys had the mindset that they didn't want to play in the NIT. But this is another opportunity to play basketball again. We're trying to win a championship. It's not the Final Four, but it's the next best thing.

This situation has been completely blown out of proportion. This was just boys after basketball practice goofing off, simple horseplay.

Dikembe Mutombo

I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

Dikembe Mutombo

When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.

Dikembe Mutombo

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

Coach said we needed to play 40 minutes of basketball tonight and we only played 36. We had a lot of turnovers and they capitalized on them.

Coach Rupp was kind of an iconic figure. He led the greatest basketball program in the country and was an easy target for those who say he didn't do enough. Whether he did or didn't can be argued.

Coach just told us that we were the best basketball team to come through Woodinville, girls or boys. He told us we brought a lot of joy to his life. He told us to stay in touch.