College Basketball Quotes - Page 2

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

  Jerry Tarkanian

  Basketball, College, Play

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• 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

  Basketball, Sports, Football

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Basketball, New York, College

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• 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

  Basketball, War, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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

  Basketball, Team, Player

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

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• 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

  Basketball, Athlete, Winning

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• 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

  Inspirational, Basketball, College

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• We did have three go to the YMCA.

  Abe Lemons

  Basketball, College, Ymca

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• 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

  Basketball, Football, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Basketball, College, Parent

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