Famous Quotes & Sayings

I should've had 13 assists because of missed passes to Courtney Sims. I wanted to come out and distribute the basketball because we knew they'd be playing a lot of zone.

Michael Cooper

I signed a two-year contract. My goal, obviously, is to get to the NBA. Right now I can tell you I'm quite content and happy being here. Albuquerque is like my second home. I've set up shop there, I've got a home there and I've got a girlfriend there, so I'm pretty happy. But if something were to come up - and that's a real if-if situation - but if there was an opportunity to move up I may have to consider that.

I should be trying to coach basketball and our guys should be enjoying their college careers. But I don't know if I've had a team that's had positive memories out of this whole deal since I've been here.

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

I've been trying to do it for a while. I'm back in the job search, and it looks like I'll be going. I told the soccer players I won't be back. If I am back, I'll still be the girls basketball coach.

I've been here since 7:30 a.m.. Now, I've got to get to the basketball game.

I've been playing basketball since I was a little kid. It's always been a big part of my life. My initials are underneath it because it signifies that I have been playing basketball since I was six years old.

I've been playing basketball for a lot of years and this is the most special one. Our team just cared so much for each other and that helped make it special.

I've been coaching basketball for 35 years and I've never been in a game like that.

I've been blessed. I got to live the American dream when I was coaching, and I continue to live the American dream. Without basketball in my life, I don't know what I would have wound up doing.

I've been doing this for the past three years, it helps keep me in basketball shape. This is the strongest team I've been on, we're well-rounded and don't have to rely on a certain group. We have great depth.

I've been looking forward to this game for a long time. Being from Indiana and growing up and watching Indiana basketball with all the great colleges in the state, I loved it.

It would have sounded crazy to people outside of this basketball team, but we believed. We didn't come here to play one or two games. We came to win a championship.

It would have been nice for them to recruit me, but I really didn't care. I just wanted to play basketball somewhere.

Mike Fratello

It would be good for us to try and keep playing good basketball and see if it is possible for us to start out a playoff series at home. That would be very significant.

Paul Hewitt

It wouldn't make any sense because there's just too much time between fifth or sixth grade and the time a player is a high school senior. Kids mature at different rates -- not just physically but with their basketball skills.

It would have been a shame to turn people away for what should be a great girls basketball game. I think it's a credit to girls basketball that we're getting these crowds. What a shame it would have been, when we're finally getting crowds like this, to not let people in.

I understand people's concerns and I understand the perception of things, and I don't like it because I don't want any kid ever to leave. It comes to maturity, and comes to understanding college basketball isn't the easiest thing in the world.

I understand I've got to do a little more in the first half. But to be able to come through down the stretch for my basketball team is a good feeling.

Billy Donovan

I've never gotten into any of that stuff. If we win basketball games, our seed will continue to improve. If we don't win basketball games, our seed will not improve.

John Calipari

The zone bothered us more than it should have. Our guard play was very tentative. I don't know why. ... We will have to go look at the tape and take a look at it. But, it was a heck of a basketball game.

Things started out really rough for us. We had a lot of kids who came in late from basketball and soccer, so it took them a while to catch up. But starting out 0-8 was pretty tough and stressful and that was because I anticipated us having a really good season.

Things in college basketball are a lot more competitive than they used to be. We've seen upsets all over the place. I'm just happy to have a full deck of cards and having Bryan Hopkins back.

Things have happened pretty fast for me in this sport. I didn't even start playing until the ninth grade. I played basketball most of the time. But once I got started, I knew volleyball was going to be my sport. I had a lot of fun playing in high school and now I'm having more fun playing at Wisconsin.

They are a great group of guys and a great group of young men. I'm not taking anything away from them as basketball players, but they really are great people. I can't say enough about them as people. In the long run, that's probably more important than anything else in life.

They are a good shooting basketball team. And when they are able to make shots from that far out, they are hard to guard.

They are a good basketball team. They are really physical, and they beat us up the first two quarters.

Rick Carlisle

We just gotta try to continue to build on what's been a pretty good week of basketball and we've got one more opportunity before the playoffs start and it's important for us.

We just got a little sloppy at times with the basketball and some of the kids were trying to do too much.

We weren't playing disciplined basketball and that's what hurt us.

Bob Gaudio

We weren't kids, and not too many odds were in our favor, ... We didn't look the part of a rock group by any stretch. We played the Copa, and Walter Winchell said it was a good show but (that) we looked like two bookies, a jockey and a basketball player!

We were pretty unselfish with the basketball and got a lot of good looks at the basket. Offensively, I was happy with what we did.

We were playing very good basketball four or five days ago, even in the first half of the Hartford game. We just have to get back to doing the things we do.