Basketball

What happened to us happens to every champion. We've seen it in basketball. We've seen it in football. We've seen it in boxing. You see it in every sport. Every champion tends to not necessarily relax, but I think maybe you win and you feel like you can take a deep breath.

- Mike Timlin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Effort and determination are two things that can change the course of any basketball series. You play this game, at this time of year, with heart. It's about trying to impose your will on the other team and not let them impose their will on you.

- Jerry West Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They did a heck of a job on our 3-point shooting. You know, we gutted it out. I didn't think it was pretty like last night, but in another sense basketball-wise it was good, to win one when we weren't clicking on offense.

- Mike D'Antoni Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm grateful for the opportunity. Basketball has been great to me.

- Tim O'Toole Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't think there's any question that was our best performance of the year, against a really good team. That was our best basketball in a couple of years.

- Tom Izzo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When things are clicking and going right for us, I always thought we were a pretty good basketball team.

- Morris Peterson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Tiffany rebounds well and she's becoming a better passer. She's always been an athlete, but she's working on her skills to improve her basketball game.

- Mike Ward Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We kind of started the game playing on our heels, playing not to lose. But we bounced back from that and started attacking again. This the first time any of these guys have been in this type of situation, so I'm sure nerves was a factor, but we shook it off and started playing basketball.

- Brock Blassingame Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I've got to give credit to coach (Jim) Cole and the West Central Heat. It's tough to be a first-year consolidation and make it as far as they did. They went through state-ranked teams and played some great basketball to get to this point.

- Zach Keene Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In college basketball it's just difficult to win in somebody's backyard, especially at Arkansas where they seem to play three notches better at home. Most people play better at home, but they are one of the exceptions, I think, in the country that play so much better at home than on the road.

- Jeff Lebo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

That's every player's dream aa to get to the Final Four. The excitement, the atmosphere aa that's what you play college basketball for.

- Sidney Green Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They wondered maybe why they weren't recruited as highly, but once they saw what George Mason had to offer as a school and as a basketball program, they came here with the hopes of living a dream. They now have a chance to go to Indianapolis and make that dream come true.

- Jim Larranaga Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We really had a slow start tonight. But we kept our composure and we finally started playing Gorman basketball in the fourth.

- Sheryl Krmpotich Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is as good a college basketball atmosphere as you are going to find in the country. It starts with the students and this is a very difficult place to play. Our guys love to play here and we feel like we have an advantage in here. It's hot, there are people on top of you and they're loud. It's just a great place to play college basketball. I've always thought its one of the best. I don't know if there's anywhere in the country with a wall of human beings like that behind one basket that can create that noise. We love it.

- Jay Wright Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I really thought it was our basketball.

- Scott Olson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Whoever wins this is the world real basketball champion.

- Ben Wallace Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We wanted to go get the basketball and we really crashed the offensive boards with a little more passion. Defensively we tried to make sure we got a body on somebody and try to get the basketball.

- Scott Minnig Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The game of basketball is a game of runs. They got within 11, but we were able to keep on coming.

- Sharon Versyp Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We want to just roll into the playoffs playing the style of basketball that Coach expects us to play. If we can fly under the radar and get the job done, why not

- Vince Carter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's both being fortunate and having the basketball gods smiling on you a little bit because quite frankly they had every right to win that game as much as we did. We took our foot off the pedal and we can't do that.

- Jim Calhoun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If you try to mess with the basketball gods, they punish you in the end. All the talk of massaging and losing games, that's not in our minds right now. We're trying to win every single game each time we step on the court. Wherever we are at the end of the year, hopefully we'll have some momentum and play well in the playoffs.

- Shane Battier Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

That was typical Pistons' basketball. We got what we wanted and tightened up on our defense, started taking some things away from them and the ball started going in. We just sort of willed our way.

- Chauncey Billups Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To our credit, we calmed down and just played basketball. The thing is, especially on the road, you put yourself in a position to win games. We don't beat ourselves.

- Flip Saunders Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They're a very good basketball team and we've got them on their home floor. They're fresh and they don't have to travel a day. I mean, I could get to the East Coast as fast as I could get to Wyoming.

- LaVonda Wagner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We knew it would be a tough, physical basketball game and playing Central on its home floor would be a tough chore. We just kept telling the kids to stay calm and composed. Once we got the lead we were able to spread the floor and make them foul us. We didn't make a lot of free throws, but we made enough.

- Andy Palmer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes