Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernie Grunfeld

Right now we're just focused on making sure he comes out of this okay, ... The good news is that it looks like he's going to recover from this . We'll worry about the basketball stuff later on.

Right now we need to put 40 minutes of intense basketball together. Right now that's the biggest monkey on our back.

Phil Jackson

Right now, we need to focus on who we are as a basketball club. I don't live with expectations, so there's nothing there I can say I expected. We're just out here kind of treading water as a basketball team right now. We're neither hot nor cold, neither fish nor fowl.

Right now the kids are playing good basketball as a team. We had high expectations for ourselves and now we're going to try to build on that.

San Diego isn't a hard place to want to go to school. It's a good school. Their basketball program has been down lately, but eight years ago they were a top 25 team. Their coach left to go coach her alma mater at Ohio State. I guess she decided she liked the weather better in San Diego and now she's back.

Scholarships are offered a lot earlier in volleyball than basketball and football. I liked Dayton a lot, so I figured I might as well get my decision out of the way.

Providence is just a good basketball team. Our kids came and battled.

Jim Calhoun

Rashad wanted to be so good tonight, and of all guys who I thought wanted the limelight at home, it's really unfortunate he didn't have the kind of game he's capable of having. He's a terrific basketball player ... the best sixth man in college basketball.

Rarely do you meet an individual with the energy, enthusiasm, purpose, work ethic and kindness that Coach Jack has demonstrated. Under her leadership, we will continue to build a women's basketball program that will be a point of pride and distinction.

Real college basketball begins. Now it's 'get after it.' The teams we played were great, but now the teams we're playing are much tougher. We have to be ready.

Raven and Michelle are growing up big-time right now. They're finding out what big-time basketball is all about. They didn't go away. They kept fighting.

At the end of the day, they were a far more mature team playing basketball than we were.

At the time, we were the biggest thing to hit the state of Florida. This town really embraced basketball, and for a few weeks, everyone forgot about spring football.

Rick Barnes

Coming in, they were like us, a team that's up there. They start three seniors, and they are a good basketball team. If people thought they were just going to go away, you don't get ranked in the top five or six in the preseason if you don't have a good team.

Division I basketball was my dream in Poland. Not too many people get the chance to come to a school like UT and graduate and play for a legendary coach. I have great thanks for being given this opportunity.

District basketball is about playing under pressure. The pressure got to us.

William Carey

Dillard, in fact, was meeting (Wednesday) to first decide if they were even going to have school in the spring, second, where they would have school if they did, and third, if they would play basketball if they did.

Billy Donovan

Corey had a very good game shooting the basketball.

Corey came to the state tournament to play. He's playing his best basketball of his career. He's shooting well, but he's defending and rebounding well, too.

Confidence is never a problem. We're a very good basketball team. We know what we need to correct to make things happen.

Flip Saunders

Do we play hard? Yeah, we play hard. There are situations where they hit us. That's the way basketball is.

Credit to Jackson -- those were two tired basketball teams. We've never missed that many shots before, and we played as hard as we could.

Credit this victory to some big hearts and a very determined group. We knew on this swing down here that we hadn't played good basketball in several games. We just committed ourselves to play as well as we could and the most important thing is wins and we accomplished that.

Credit Minot. They came here to compete and won the basketball game. I felt they wanted it more than we did. We showed a little life. Then, all of a sudden, we backtracked.

Sam Cassell

Elton has always played consistently, but now we're winning basketball games and people are finally taking notice.

Elmwood is a very good basketball team. We will need one of our best efforts to defeat them.

Early, we got caught up in the emotion. Then, they got on a roll. This was a great basketball game. If I had paid to get into this game, it would have been worth double the price of admission.

There's been a half-dozen possessions and we can be sitting here 14-1. But when we've been in close games we do not make good decisions. Game in and game out, when we handle the basketball and if we can keep our turnovers somewhere between 15 or 16 instead of 22 or 23, we can play with anybody.

There's always a prize if you win something. But just being a basketball player should be motivation enough. Every time you play the game should be enough.

There's a lot of things that didn't go well today but the biggest thing is that we didn't shoot the basketball well. We just couldn't buy a basket today.

Tim Ryan

There's an old basketball saying. You recruit offense; you teach guys how to play defense. Not saying anything about his defense - I'm saying that in general. I think his lateral movement is quick enough. That's what you look for.

There was a lot of hype about, 'Oh, Ring can't play football. His dad's a basketball coach. He needs to stick to that,' ... There were rumors about that going around. But I just felt like I had to come out here and prove myself and prove that Ring isn't just a basketball name. Ring can play football, too.

At halftime I said we've played three really good halves of basketball. We didn't get that fourth half.