Basketball Quotes

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.

The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

I played all four years [at St. Mary's College] with - at a certain point, basketball became the thing I was doing most, but it was really in my periphery.

For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I was a little kid, but they coaxed me into trying it as a 10th grader.

I speak a little Spanish, so I'm able to communicate.

I don't see it happening unless every NBA player is given a stipend to buy clothes.

Everyone thought that the Spurs would run through us and everyone is talking about the Spurs vs. the Suns in the conference finals. This team has a lot of heart and a lot of pride.

We came out to get Game 1 but we also want to get Game 2

One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

It's fun to play defense. It's fun to watch the opponent sweat on offense, start complaining to the officials, and eventually be taken out of the game because he's making so many offensive mistakes

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

Basketball was always something I felt I could dominate, something I could control.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

Driveway basketball, playing against the boys, watching Magic and Michael.

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.

Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.

I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.

What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.

I'm sorry to see it end.

It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

In our eyes we should be up three to one but we're not

Emphasize small goals when you have a team that isn’t going to win a lot of games

I always wanted to teach.

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow

Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.

We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

That's why basketball was so good, because I didn't really need you or anyone else to play it. It would be better if we played four-on-four or five-on-five, but I could go out there alone.

As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16 years old, I started yoga. I started working out at an early age.

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O.

We're gonna get some time to sit down individually with each player and see what their role is.

A return to the NCAA is the expectation... I think that's a good pressure. I'd rather that pressure to the other way. ... I like a little pressure on me.

One of the learning curves I'm not going to have is being a head coach.

I've been on the phone, I think, 20 out of 24 hours the last three days.

Once we announce the staff here, in the next week, two weeks, whatever it takes, I think everyone's going to be shocked at how good a staff we put together.

They wanted me as coach.

We got almost the entire team coming back; we only had two seniors last year. We plan not just on making it back, but on taking the next step.

The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games.

There's not going to be a whole lot of change, to be honest with you. I don't think there's a reason to fix what's broke.

The head coach has to crack down a little more.

I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.

Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.

To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.