Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is a big basketball community. Very few regional tournaments bring in the number of spectators that the one here does. It is a large event for here. All the participating schools bring large numbers of fans to our area. Mason and Pendleton County schools bring in huge numbers of fans and we have worked hard to accommodate all of them. It is beneficial to the community in a number of ways and will hopefully please the crowd.

This is a big accomplishment for me to play in this event. Everybody is always talking about how good I am at football and everything, but to get to come to this basketball camp is an honor.

This is a basketball team that had our number last year. I am very proud of our team. FIU is one of the most physical teams in our league and it showed tonight.

This has been a very resilient basketball team and a very focused basketball team. This is a basketball team that has really flinched. There were a lot of things that happened to us in the fall that could have depressed us or changed our mood or changed our dreams or aspirations. But that really hasn't occurred. Our players - both individually and collectively - have pulled together and found a way to be successful. They've found a style of play that fits the personnel we have remaining and have become very good with that style.

This has been a dream ever since I have been at McCutcheon, to win a sectional basketball championship. Coach P really put it on us. He said we have to have a look in our eyes that we want to compete. We definitely did right after he said that.

They showed us what playoff basketball is all about. It will be good for us to have gone through this if we learn from it.

They showed us what playoff basketball is about. It was good for us to go through. We've experienced some ups and downs in the past and we've bounced back before. So I'm going to spin this into a positive and say that this butt-kicking was a good lesson for us on both ends of the floor.

They're used to getting up early in the morning. They're just not used to playing basketball then. So we're going to have to do something.

They're used to competition, and they love the competition. The pressure doesn't seem to make them want to back off. If anything it might make them step up to that next level, which is where you've got to be able to get, and hopefully these kids will be able to do that in basketball as the next few weeks unwind.

They're the type of kids that set the stage. These freshmen we have now, all they talk about is Sally and Sarah, Sally and Sarah, and the only thing they talk about in terms of basketball is how hard they play. They've set the stage high and, hopefully, we'll be able to keep that.

Steve Alford

They've got an incredible resume, this is a very good basketball team, and we know that. They aren't going to be intimidated or worry about playing a Big Ten opponent.

Mike Harris

They told me exactly what style of basketball they like to run, which is up and down the court. They're just great coaches all around there. (New Rochelle) was beautiful and I felt loved as soon as I got there. It felt like my family.

They (the fans) are never going to forget to go to football games. This is a dominant football school. But we're trying to get basketball up there with the football program.

Byron Scott

They said he was going to be out a minimum of two weeks and he misses one game. It just shows you the type of person that he is. He's doing some unbelievable things for this basketball team. It just shows the type of character (he has).

They say every village in Oaxaca, like Chiapas, has a basketball court. Sometimes there's not much else there.

Sheryl Swoopes

And I just think right now, we're clicking (on) all cylinders offensively, defensively; we're moving the ball, we're making other teams have to work on defense. And when you're playing basketball like that, you're going to be pretty tough to beat.

A lot of people gave up on our basketball team. But I knew we were playing well. We lost some games, but we just weren't shooting the ball well. We never used it as motivation. We just kept our confidence.

A lot of people buy floor seats for the basketball season and pay $2,000 each without batting an eye, ... People spend money to get a great seat at Yankee Stadium, the World Series, or the opera. People who spend that kind of money at restaurants instead are restaurant enthusiasts, and they are willing to pay whatever to get whatever they want.

Roy H. Williams

It's very disappointing there's no question about that. If you didn't care about who won the game, you had to enjoy the ebb and flow of a great college basketball game. But I do care who wins, and so it wasn't that much fun for me.

It?s very difficult knowing you did what you could and it was still in someone else?s hands. But that?s what basketball is -- sometimes you get it, sometimes it gets you.

It's not over until the final tick of the clock. Hopefully, the basketball gods will bless us.

It's not just soccer. There's basketball and volleyball. Everything is going on. It's a competition. The Olympic Games should be seen in a wider sense.

Keith Miller

It's not like the maturity of a basketball or football player who learns systems and things like that. Shooters do progress during school, but if they come in as good shooters they can immediately be a top-five shooter, and that's not unheard of at all.

For me, I really don't care how much I play as long as we can win basketball games. And obviously we were able to do that tonight so I'm not upset at all.

Robbie Jones

For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot.

Ryan Williams

Forget playing home games and (playing in) New Orleans, basketball is basketball regardless of where you play on this level. You have to step up and make shots and do the simple things to win games.

For four years, she's run our offense and we've never had to worry about that position. She's a complete basketball player.

John Thompson

For basketball games, you walk up five minutes before the game starts and get your tickets.

For 18, 19 minutes it was a really good basketball game (but) their team making 3s separated us.

For all the players that will return for our team, they'll know and have a taste for what high-level playoff basketball is about. Having this experience is irreplaceable.

Football is a collision sport, basketball is a precision sport and volleyball is an emotional sport. You've got to get the emotion. Once you get that and the momentum behind you, there's a lot you can do.

The number one all-star high school basketball game in the nation will be coming to Louisville, Kentucky.

It's three River-to-River teams and a Black Diamond Conference team. I think the girls basketball in this conference has gotten a lot better with us going to state three (of the last five) years, Sparta being very talented and Herrin being in the sectional two years in a row now.