Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

People had the misconception that if you have three 6-10 kids, all of a sudden you have a good basketball team. The game takes instinct.

Offensively, we did too much dribbling and too much one-on-one stuff, and we're not good enough one-on-one to beat people.

Offensive basketball is like the stock market it goes up and down. He had to reach that level of consistency on defense.

North Dakota is not an easy place to win basketball games. I was proud to carry on from Dave Gunther and proud that we did it the right way.

Jeff Cohen

No one was given an offer, from my understanding. We wanted a big-time college coach. A proven winner that has a big-time track record, and I believe Kelvin Sampson is one of five guys who I would have been happy with as the basketball coach here.

After the effort we gave, it makes it hard (after a game like this). It's hard to walk away with a loss when you give it your all, but we knew who we were playing. We respect them and we know they're a great offensive basketball team. We've got to get better.

Jim Calhoun

The name has magic to it. There's nobody in basketball that when I say the name Gavitt they don't respond.

A foot injury is tough to overcome in basketball. You are pounding it on the floor, jumping and landing on it. It will be interesting to see if he can endure the pain.

John Jones

The one thing I think is that we're an improved basketball team. The things (Monterey does), the pressure man-to-man, I think we saw enough of it that we'll handle it a little better.

Gary Williams

The one thing about going early is you'll get more families with little kids. I've seen more little kids out there. That's nice if you can get kids interested in basketball this way.

The Oklahoma basketball program is built on playing hard and tough and competing on every possession. For us to come out here and lose in the first round, that doesn't bode well. We're supposed to win these games.

Lute Olson

After long and serious deliberation, the men's basketball staff has dismissed Chris Rodgers, effective immediately, from the team. It should be noted that Chris has earned his college degree in three and a half years and that we wish him much success in all future endeavors.

After playing a brutal schedule and dealing with injuries and overtime losses, we finally started to play some consistent basketball.

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.

Jeff Adrien

During basketball, people get elbowed. I get elbowed in practice. It was nothing intentional. It's all in coach's hands. I guess they might appeal.

B. F. Skinner

Duquesne played with a lot of energy and hustle. We didn't match that energy in the first half. But the game is 40 minutes long. I thought our size and strength eventually would take care of that. If Duquesne continues to play like that they'll start to win some basketball games. They've got a feel of how they want to play.

Doc Rivers

Duncan deserves everything he gets, as far as I'm concerned. It's frustrating guarding Tim Duncan even if they think he's not getting the calls. He's a hell of a basketball player.

Kelvin Sampson

Duke is the premier basketball program in the nation. For us, this is a great opportunity, and to me, it is an honor to go to Duke and play. Playing Duke will be a great experience for our kids and will certainly prepare us for the wars we are going to have to play in the Big Ten.

Each year Endicott basketball has taken steps forward and becomes more competitive. And, we will continue to do so. This program is headed in the same direction it has been headed since its first men?s season in 1994-1995 ? up.

Erika made a commitment to succeed academically. A lot of coaches questioned if she would do that. Kids who struggle academically have more choices to make, like if they are going to go to tutoring and make a commitment in the classroom. She isn't one of those kids who could have just concentrated on basketball and made it.

Eric did a lot of good things, but you have to credit his teammates for finding him underneath the basket. I thought we played good team basketball from start to finish for the third straight game.

Especially when we really got hot at the end of season and took off in the conference tournament. He's won a lot of basketball games for us and done nothing but great things for our program.

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails. - AP report describing Fresno State basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian

Maurice Cheeks

First of all, New Jersey is a very good basketball team. We're working our way back. We started out good and they started making some shots. Vince (Carter) made some shots and our defense still has to get better.

Florida, obviously, is a team that's playing well. They're playing basketball at a fast pace and pressing.

Fear. We couldn't catch the basketball cleanly and you don't have a chance when someone bobbles it and tries to shoot it because then you're going to eat it.

Steve Alford

Fans will see intense basketball and competitive games. It will be a great prelude to what will happen in the national tournament.

Fast break basketball is just like pick-up basketball, and we know how to play that.

Everything is new and it's exciting. (The team) still feels like they have work to do. We don't want them to go there and feel happy just to be there. We feel like we still have a lot of basketball to play.

There's other NCAA legislation out there that impacts how many games we can play, too. So our men's and women's basketball schedules are a work in progress.

There was a little frustration because of the mental errors, but I was really impressed with the kids fighting through that. Some teams would've given up in those situations, but they kept fighting, and I was really proud of them. They played some awfully good basketball tonight before that fourth quarter.