College Basketball Quotes

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship

  • 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, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional
  • He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

  • 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.

    Basketball   War   School  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Source: awesomesportsproject.com
  • 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.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

    Interview with Josh Staph, www.stack.com. January 1, 2007.
  • What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

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

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

  • 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.

    "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
  • The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

  • 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.

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

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

    Source: aalbc.com
  • 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.

    Basketball   Nice   Kids  
  • 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.

  • Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

    Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 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 Is No Judge Judy". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2008.
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