Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The whole basketball psyche of Indiana really makes a difference, both from our hearts, but also from our pockets.

Tim Brown

The way we run our offense, my job is to shoot it when I'm open.

The way we're playing defensively right now, I think we can play our best basketball of the season in these last couple of games and going into the conference tournament. Defense is keeping us together.

Pat Summitt

This Georgia basketball team statistically is very impressive. They shoot the ball well from the floor as well as the free throw line. I'm impressed with their speed and quickness overall as a team and they're not at all shy at putting up the three-ball and that extends and challenges your defense.

Andre Miller

This game really hurts because we've been playing good basketball lately. I don't think we were overconfident, they just played much better defense than us.

Skip Bertman

This could be the first time in history that the men and women from one school won the SEC basketball championships.

Skip Bertman

This contract shows our belief in what she's doing and what she will do in the future for women's basketball at LSU.

Think of the basketball metaphor, ... He sees the whole court.

They set the tone for what college basketball is today.

They (Seton Hall) were very well prepared and we were just not a good basketball team tonight.

Avery Johnson

They were in sync. It really shows how great of a team sport basketball can be when you have everybody on the same page.

They were disappointed. ... They could've had an opportunity to go through league undefeated again, which is a pretty tough deal to do. ... But it's gone, and we'll have to play smart basketball the rest of the way to stay in first place.

This is a building block. We are getting better, the kids are starting to learn the offense and the flow and I'm proud of them. I think we are playing discipline basketball and our sportsmanship is there.

This is a nationally ranked basketball team. They can play with anybody.

Skip Bertman

This is a modest increase in our ticket price in order for us to continue to move forward our basketball programs. One of our short term goals is to begin a feasibility study for a new basketball practice facility for both our men's and women's basketball teams, and this move is the first step in making that happen.

This is actually kind of a surprise. If I would have voted, I would voted for (NIC women's basketball coach) Chris Carlson, because he had a fantastic year. I give all the credit to the players on the field.

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.