Quotes About Basketball

I worked in Ann Arbor for two years, covering Michigan football and basketball in the early 1990s.

Back when I was a freshman-sophomore in high school, I was saying that I was going to Michigan once I saw the Fab Five come through - I was just mesmerized.

I'm from the Midwest, so I know what Indiana basketball is all about and I'm very blessed to be a part of it.

I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.

I always imagined myself going up against Reggie Miller, Michael Jordan, guys like that, and I had to make the shot to win the game.

The greatest set shooter ever? Larry Joe Bird. Period. The best coming off screen? Reginald Miller. And the best off the dribble? Steph Curry.

I lived in Indiana, and Reggie Miller was everywhere.

I never in a million years would have thought I would end up with Golden State.

To be a Milwaukee Buck, it's a great feeling. It's a unique feeling. It's a small-city market, but when you live there, and you play there every night, you realize how much you mean to that city and how much you can do to impact people's lives around there.

Sean Sweeney is a defensive guy that did a great job with Milwaukee.

I didn't like the way I shot the ball in Milwaukee, so I worked really hard on my shooting - threes off the move and off the catch. And also continued to work on my ball-handling and my in-between game - my runners and floaters.

This is the NBA; you can't stop everybody from scoring 30. But that 30? They're going to work for every point they get. And that's my mindset.

Back in the '60s, '70s, my mindset and the way I play would be perfect.

That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.

KG is Minnesota basketball, he is the Timberwolves - what he did, just the intensity he brought to the game.

I like Minnesota. I'd be very happy playing there.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl.

Zero assists. That's not who I am. That's not how I play.

The Lakers do this all the time. They overload the side the ball's on, and play zone on the weak side.

I might be nervous off the court, being booed. But being on the court, it's my comfort zone. It's basketball. It's what I do. I'm not losing sleep over it.

In college you could say 'Coach, let's go to zone,' when you're tired.

I don't love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.