College Basketball Quotes:

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

- Rick Pitino

topic: Basketball, Wise, College, College Basketball

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

- John Wooden

source: John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

topic: Inspirational, Success, Integrity, Good Character, Best Coaches

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

- Dean Smith

topic: Inspiring, Basketball, Sports, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Coaching

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

- Jim Valvano

topic: Trust, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Best Coaches, Inspirational Coaching

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

- Dean Smith

topic: Basketball, Teamwork, Player, Sports Coaching, College Basketball

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

- Sara Bareilles

source: Song: Uncharted, Album: Kaleidoscope Heart, 2010

topic: Law Of Attraction, Motivational Basketball, Want, Great Coach, Chicken Soup

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

- Rick Pitino

source: Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

topic: Basketball, Dream, Hard Work, Pipe Dreams, Great Coach

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

- Don Meyer

topic: Basketball, Team, Player, Basketball Leadership, Great Coach

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

- Rick Pitino

topic: Basketball, Mistake, Coaching, Best Coaches, Basketball Coaching

A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.

- Bill Maher

source: "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. December 15, 2005.

topic: Teenage Girl, Flu, Shots, Sports Coaching, College Basketball

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

- Dean Smith

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Basketball, Best Coaches, Basketball Leadership

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now

- Holly Johnson

topic: Basketball, Player, College, College Basketball

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

- Bobby Knight

topic: Basketball, Sports, Past, College Basketball

I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship

- Aselin Debison

topic: Basketball, Dream, Winning, College Basketball

When you're 18, when you're at college, sports can be your life. You can watch every baseball game, every college basketball game, every football game. Once you have a family and kids, you can't do that anymore.

- Drew Magary

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Basketball, Sports, Baseball, College Basketball, College Sports

The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.

- Thad Matta

topic: Basketball, College, Ohio State, College Basketball

College basketball was one of the hardest, most rewarding experiences of my life. Every single day on the court was a mental and physical challenge.

- Ashley Graham

source: Source: awesomesportsproject.com

topic: Basketball, College, Challenges, Rewarding Experiences, College Basketball

Get your education. The number of guys who are blessed to be in the league is so small compared to the number of high school players [who want to play in the league]. But one thing you can do is get your college education. If you are blessed enough to get a scholarship to play college basketball, make sure you get your college degree, too, then move on from there.

- Tim Duncan

source: Interview with Josh Staph, www.stack.com. January 1, 2007.

topic: Basketball, Moving, Blessed, College Degree, College Basketball

One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation.

- Len Elmore

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Basketball, Team, College, College Basketball

I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.

- Lewis Black

source: "Lewis Black Is No Judge Judy". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2008.

topic: Basketball, Football, College, College Basketball

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

- Alonzo Mourning

topic: Basketball, School, Thinking, College Basketball

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

- Jim Nantz

topic: Basketball, College, Mecca, College Basketball

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.

- Bobby Knight

topic: Basketball, Player, College, College Basketball

I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.

- Jerry Tarkanian

topic: Basketball, Nice, Kids, College Basketball, Alumni

I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.

- Jerry Tarkanian

topic: Basketball, College, Play, College Basketball

I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

- Frank Deford

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Basketball, Sports, Football, College Basketball

We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theater and you're interested in seeing what live theater looks like in New York, you probably already set your DVR. It's gonna be a hard ask to get a bunch of college-basketball fans to tune in for three hours to watch the Tonys.

- Neil Patrick Harris

topic: Basketball, New York, College, Live Theater, College Basketball

One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war. When you know a kid can't turn pro and is going to go to school for one year and then go pro, that's when you see everyone going to games and courting players.

- Sonny Vaccaro

topic: Basketball, War, School, College Basketball

For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90.

- Mike Krzyzewski

source: "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

topic: Basketball, Team, Player, College Basketball

The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.

- Geno Auriemma

topic: Basketball, Athlete, Winning, College Basketball, Basketball Winning

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

- Bill James

topic: Basketball, College, Games, College Basketball, Basketball Game

We did have three go to the YMCA.

- Abe Lemons

topic: Basketball, College, Ymca, College Basketball

I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year.

- Frank Deford

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Basketball, Football, School, College Basketball, Alumni

I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

- Al McGuire

topic: Basketball, College, Parent, College Basketball