Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy H. Williams

I told the guys the game was going to be won on the defensive end of the floor. We had to play well. They are really a good basketball team. Those three (Guillermo Diaz, Robert Hite and Anthony Harris ) on the perimeter are a big time load. We defended awfully hard tonight.

I told them now is hard, but to remember the things they'll be able to look back on, the accomplishments they've had, what they were able to do each and every time they went out on the floor. This is a sad time only because it's the last time that we'll be together as a basketball team except for the banquet.

I told them in the locker room that I was very proud of them. I told them to be disappointed in the loss, because you gave it everything you had and I understand the tears, but at the same time, you have put Harlan girls basketball back on the map in a position that it has not been for awhile.

It pretty much would have been over. This was a big game tonight, but we have a lot of basketball left.

Brian Scalabrine

I told you. I told you a long time ago he was a winner. He's just a winning basketball player.

Jim Les

I told the team after the game not to hang their heads because that was an awfully good basketball team we played. We needed to play our 'A' game. The reason we didn't was because of what they do and how they play.

Brian Keith

(I told them we should) just prepare ourselves the best as we can, and not get caught up in it being such a big game. This is just a basketball game. We are just trying to keep it simple right now.

It puts a lot more pressure on the type of players that we recruit. We have to get players who we feel are committed to get that degree before they leave. But we know that in our sport the trend is two years max before trying it as a professional. It just needs to keep being tweaked every year. The system now is really going to penalize baseball, basketball and football, and that's not fair to those programs.

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.

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.

Billy Donovan

I'm not even worried about that. I don't even focus on that. I don't talk about that. That's completely out of our hands. That's the selection committee. And that has to do with us winning basketball games.

I'm not disappointed. I've never seen a group of kids put together a half of basketball like this before. It was a barnburner, one that they'll remember for the rest of their lives. If we played like that in the first half, we would have run away with it.

I'm not disappointed in our effort at all. We just got beat by a great basketball team.

Tracy McGrady

I'm not just a basketball player. I've got other talents.

I?m excited. I can?t wait to play the basketball game. We know at this time of year, it?s one and done. You have to put it all on the line all the time.

Jay Wright

I?m excited. I can?t wait. And I know the kids are excited, too. I got in here at 6 because there is so much paperwork to do. We have to set up the practice rules, the schedule, everything.But it?s fun. It?s what college basketball is supposed to be about.

I'm excited at the way our team is developing in practice. I think for us, moving into the Colonial and beating a team that's in the top three is a real statement that our basketball team is getting better and that we're progressing.

I'm excited about the opportunity to be a part of what I feel is an exciting brand of basketball and a winning brand of basketball. How can you not want to be a part of this?

I'm disappointed with our effort tonight. Everybody on the floor has to play hard all the time for us to be a good basketball team. Tonight that wasn't the case.

Billy Donovan

I'm fine with them. I think we're a basketball team where different players have stepped up at different times.

Ronny Turiaf

I'm feeling great. I'm feeling fantastic. I'm alive, ... I'm working out every day. I'm just doing everything I can to be on the basketball court, so I'm doing good.

I'm extremely proud of the way we're playing and the way we're developing because we just beat a pretty good basketball team again.

Andrew Bogut

I'm definitely going to be coming into sport. It will be in Australia. Basketball will hopefully be the priority,

I'm proud of the desire and heart that R.A. Long basketball represents. I've been around this program since I was a ball-boy. I couldn't ask to have played with a better bunch of guys.

Jay Wright

I'm proud of our guys, that our senior class can be called champions. Over a 16-game schedule in this conference, to win a championship is a great accomplishment. I think we're playing our best basketball right now.

I'm proud of our basketball team. Without question, I think we saw, from both teams, some big-time performances out there with some very good players. All and all, I think we really executed well, especially down the stretch.