Basketball Quotes - Page 134

We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?

You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We're two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.

I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.

French was my first language.

We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

It seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we're winning a different way every time. It's a great feeling.

I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.

This has been a dream for me.

Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.

Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.

I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.