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JOAH TUCKER I know it has been a frustration for some, but I've also seen how its enabled a lot of people who ha...
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DWAYNE JONES Strong college basketball is great for the NBA.
ADAM SILVER![]()
From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with coll...
BOBBY KNIGHT![]()
There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren't a lot of guys who have a chance to win...
JAMES HARDEN For a lot of these guys, that light doesn't go on until they leave college. For some kids' cases, it...
TONY GWYNN This was a great college basketball game with two teams who have a lot of respect for each other.
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CHUCK TAYLOR It was a great college basketball game, there were a lot of lead changes, the guys were playing hard...
DAVE DICKERSON I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.
COBY BELL This is the best team I have had. I don't know exactly what makes them play so well. There is not re...
BRAD TINGEY These crowds are going to be like college basketball crowds. It's unlike anything else you'll see at...
DESMOND MASON![]()
I think people go to movies and they know too much about the movie before they go into it, whether i...
ADRIEN BRODY It was just a classic college basketball game. And our young guys came through.
CARL KRAUSER Guys who go to junior college have to go to junior college for a reason. So for it to be in the midd...
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BOB SPITZ The most important aspect of college basketball has been being a student of the game more than anyth...
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Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of col...
BOBBY KNIGHT It helped out a lot that I was in Providence. I got to know some guys, the coaches, and the style of...
ANDREW ALBERTS In college basketball, you can only go as far as your guard play takes you. A lot of people have pos...
DEVAN DOWNEY![]()
Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing?
DEYTH BANGER Theres no electricity, stuff like that down there. Its a little different. Its going to be crazy.
AARON KATZ It changes a lot and it gives us a lot to play for. The playoffs are possible. These guys really nee...
GREG DIXON They're definitely going to go with guys with more experience and I understand that. It wasn't that ...
JAKE WOODS It looks at one element of the value of the Seaway. It certainly doesn't take into account many othe...
ALBERT JACQUEZ![]()
It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
ALLEN IVERSON It combines elements of football, basketball and soccer.
GEOFFREY FOSDICK![]()
If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playi...
SAM BRADFORD I've been here 18 years as a varsity basketball coach, and there might've been a kid that went D-II,...
GREGG ASHORN![]()
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of...
BOBBY KNIGHT There are families who have lots of kids who go to Harvard, ... I don't know too many who have five ...
HARRY LEWIS![]()
I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those g...
CALVIN JOHNSON![]()
A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... Bu...
KOBE BRYANT I knew this was possible. Louisiana has been a hot spot for high school basketball, and Baton Rouge ...
DARNELL LAZARE Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball whe...
KEYSHAWN JOHNSON![]()
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I've seen a lot of people I know kind of get into trouble. They come to college and there are a mill...
JEFF WILLOUGHBY It's always been my dream to go to college for basketball on a scholarship. I always wished my senio...
BRITTANY RAYBURN It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l...
LAURE96 If it’s history, let it be history.
BEN TOLOSA![]()
Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.
HODA KOTB I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and ...
UDONIS HASLEM When I look at someone's face, there's something in my brain that just clicks - that breaks ...
STEVE BREEN A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down fro...
UDONIS HASLEM It's a mutual understanding - we know what they have to go through, they know what we have to go thr...
BRAD KONERMAN![]()
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I can tell you I go on a lot of college campuses and I see a lot of very handsome-looking cars drive...
RICHARD LAPCHICK It was different. There were a lot of whistles, and some of the guys who got penalties didn't know t...
ADRIAN AUCOIN![]()
A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You se...
DAVID ROBINSON You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I thi...
MIKE COOLEY I have had a great time in high school, and I'm going to miss it a lot. At the same time, I'm lookin...
DEREK HOELLEIN A lot of pro teams like to play their exhibitions in various places. The NBA likes to go to differen...
LARRY KEATING We had practice Monday (Columbus Day), and most years there would be a lot of guys looking for excus...
ARCHIE MCNELIS Three or four of those guys are in the NBA now. Illinois was a lot better and they proved it. This i...
STEVE FISHER![]()
When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor...
DEYTH BANGER I knew they had a lot of young guys, but their young guys have been playing a lot longer than our yo...
KYLE DAVIES They couldn't. When you have guys that don't know to adjust and audible in a split second, you can't...
TED JOHNSON Everything [has changed]. It has been a great year. A lot of times you really need that extra motiva...
JOSE GUILLEN Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six...
MARK E. HYMAN![]()
It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their pa...
NAT WOLFF I know a few different women who really enjoy fantasy football, but if it doesn't work out for t...
MAX HANDELMAN I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a spo...
RAMON RODRIGUEZ I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been fo...
CALVIN AYRE I have been saddened a whole life time, it will not bother me any longer
BEN OAK It's a vacillating situation. There just haven't been six, seven guys who have established themselve...
JOE MADDON![]()
If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER Having Kinard and Barry helps a lot. Kinard can score, and Barry anchors our defense. They've been p...
ED HICKEY Along with really protecting a lot of the young kids because they've been abused (in terms of usage)...
JOHNNY ALMARAZ It's good, because now everyone knows it's possible. As coaches, you can always motivate that way. O...
SCOTT CHERRY![]()
One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring a...
NOLAN BUSHNELL We will have a lot of students from Georgia College come and talk about sports. Not athletes. Usuall...
BRANDON WILLIAMS It's great to know that I helped someone play at the next level and get a free college education. Th...
CASAUNDRA WILSON You just don't see a lot of players like Glen Davis in college basketball.
BILLY DONOVAN There have been a lot of attorneys that like to get involved in this stuff and make it into somethin...
CRAIG HUGHES![]()
Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a bett...
DENIS LEARY It has been a lot more fun racing since those guys got into it. It's made better racers out of all o...
GARY BALLOUGH From a coaching standpoint, it makes it kind of special to go and coach and know that you have four ...
FLIP SAUNDERS I think a lot of it is that he has young guys blocking for him right now. There's a lot of young guy...
JOE DECAMILLIS That was a great college basketball game there. Great environment. I told our guys, 'You live for op...
BUZZ PETERSON We've gone through some things that haven't been a lot of fun. They deserve to win one at the buzzer...
MARSHA SHARP The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand...
BILL SIMMONS![]()
Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS![]()
There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There...
FRANK DEFORD It really just makes you trust the guys out there even more. You know it's just a bigger demand. We ...
JUSTIN REED We had opportunities. I've asked the girls to do a lot of things they have never done, and they have...
LORI DRESBACH![]()
College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and liv...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN![]()
There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So ma...
ROBERT GRIFFIN III They love to go to Santo Domingo. They have a lot of friends there and they really enjoy it.
CLAUDINA ESTRADA![]()
I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school i...
TOM WATSON I didn't want to play junior college football. I just wanted to go home and focus on basketball. I k...
KENNY WILLIAMS I think guys that play basketball really understand how to go up and get a ball. Because in a reboun...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the...
KAWHI LEONARD I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achiev...
TERRELL OWENS We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.
MANU GINOBILI I have been a part of one of the greatest comebacks in college basketball history when we beat Duke ...
JOSH BOONE Its something that I have been blessed with in terms of playing the game and being able to underst...
ISIAH THOMAS I think if you have a strong athletic program without there being boundaries, there can be advantage...
GREG TODD
BEN SIMMONS I think that because guys go to the NBA so early (at bigger programs) it evens the game out. A lot o...
JOAH TUCKER I know it has been a frustration for some, but I've also seen how its enabled a lot of people who ha...
JENNIFER GRIFFIN It was definitely a good experience, getting a NBA type coach and being able to play 30 minutes a ga...
DWAYNE JONES Strong college basketball is great for the NBA.
ADAM SILVER
From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with coll... BOBBY KNIGHT
There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren't a lot of guys who have a chance to win... JAMES HARDEN For a lot of these guys, that light doesn't go on until they leave college. For some kids' cases, it...
TONY GWYNN This was a great college basketball game with two teams who have a lot of respect for each other.
TOM CREAN DMAX music choices, those sort of cable-based digital radio systems, have been around for years. The...
CHUCK TAYLOR It was a great college basketball game, there were a lot of lead changes, the guys were playing hard...
DAVE DICKERSON I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.
COBY BELL This is the best team I have had. I don't know exactly what makes them play so well. There is not re...
BRAD TINGEY These crowds are going to be like college basketball crowds. It's unlike anything else you'll see at...
DESMOND MASON
I think people go to movies and they know too much about the movie before they go into it, whether i... ADRIEN BRODY It was just a classic college basketball game. And our young guys came through.
CARL KRAUSER Guys who go to junior college have to go to junior college for a reason. So for it to be in the midd...
JODY ALLEN Over the years, the Beatles themselves have incorporated so much fantasy into their own stories that...
BOB SPITZ The most important aspect of college basketball has been being a student of the game more than anyth...
DOMINIC JAMES
Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of col... BOBBY KNIGHT It helped out a lot that I was in Providence. I got to know some guys, the coaches, and the style of...
ANDREW ALBERTS In college basketball, you can only go as far as your guard play takes you. A lot of people have pos...
DEVAN DOWNEY
Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing? DEYTH BANGER Theres no electricity, stuff like that down there. Its a little different. Its going to be crazy.
AARON KATZ It changes a lot and it gives us a lot to play for. The playoffs are possible. These guys really nee...
GREG DIXON They're definitely going to go with guys with more experience and I understand that. It wasn't that ...
JAKE WOODS It looks at one element of the value of the Seaway. It certainly doesn't take into account many othe...
ALBERT JACQUEZ
It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game. ALLEN IVERSON It combines elements of football, basketball and soccer.
GEOFFREY FOSDICK
If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playi...
SAM BRADFORD I've been here 18 years as a varsity basketball coach, and there might've been a kid that went D-II,...
GREGG ASHORN
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of... BOBBY KNIGHT There are families who have lots of kids who go to Harvard, ... I don't know too many who have five ...
HARRY LEWIS
I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those g... CALVIN JOHNSON
A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... Bu... KOBE BRYANT I knew this was possible. Louisiana has been a hot spot for high school basketball, and Baton Rouge ...
DARNELL LAZARE Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball whe...
KEYSHAWN JOHNSON
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I've seen a lot of people I know kind of get into trouble. They come to college and there are a mill...
JEFF WILLOUGHBY It's always been my dream to go to college for basketball on a scholarship. I always wished my senio...
BRITTANY RAYBURN It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l...
LAURE96 If it’s history, let it be history.
BEN TOLOSA
Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied. HODA KOTB I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and ...
UDONIS HASLEM When I look at someone's face, there's something in my brain that just clicks - that breaks ...
STEVE BREEN A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down fro...
UDONIS HASLEM It's a mutual understanding - we know what they have to go through, they know what we have to go thr...
BRAD KONERMAN
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL I can tell you I go on a lot of college campuses and I see a lot of very handsome-looking cars drive...
RICHARD LAPCHICK It was different. There were a lot of whistles, and some of the guys who got penalties didn't know t...
ADRIAN AUCOIN
A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You se... DAVID ROBINSON You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I thi...
MIKE COOLEY I have had a great time in high school, and I'm going to miss it a lot. At the same time, I'm lookin...
DEREK HOELLEIN A lot of pro teams like to play their exhibitions in various places. The NBA likes to go to differen...
LARRY KEATING We had practice Monday (Columbus Day), and most years there would be a lot of guys looking for excus...
ARCHIE MCNELIS Three or four of those guys are in the NBA now. Illinois was a lot better and they proved it. This i...
STEVE FISHER
When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor... DEYTH BANGER I knew they had a lot of young guys, but their young guys have been playing a lot longer than our yo...
KYLE DAVIES They couldn't. When you have guys that don't know to adjust and audible in a split second, you can't...
TED JOHNSON Everything [has changed]. It has been a great year. A lot of times you really need that extra motiva...
JOSE GUILLEN Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six...
MARK E. HYMAN
It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their pa... NAT WOLFF I know a few different women who really enjoy fantasy football, but if it doesn't work out for t...
MAX HANDELMAN I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a spo...
RAMON RODRIGUEZ I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been fo...
CALVIN AYRE I have been saddened a whole life time, it will not bother me any longer
BEN OAK It's a vacillating situation. There just haven't been six, seven guys who have established themselve...
JOE MADDON
If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it. DEYTH BANGER Having Kinard and Barry helps a lot. Kinard can score, and Barry anchors our defense. They've been p...
ED HICKEY Along with really protecting a lot of the young kids because they've been abused (in terms of usage)...
JOHNNY ALMARAZ It's good, because now everyone knows it's possible. As coaches, you can always motivate that way. O...
SCOTT CHERRY
One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring a... NOLAN BUSHNELL We will have a lot of students from Georgia College come and talk about sports. Not athletes. Usuall...
BRANDON WILLIAMS It's great to know that I helped someone play at the next level and get a free college education. Th...
CASAUNDRA WILSON You just don't see a lot of players like Glen Davis in college basketball.
BILLY DONOVAN There have been a lot of attorneys that like to get involved in this stuff and make it into somethin...
CRAIG HUGHES
Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a bett... DENIS LEARY It has been a lot more fun racing since those guys got into it. It's made better racers out of all o...
GARY BALLOUGH From a coaching standpoint, it makes it kind of special to go and coach and know that you have four ...
FLIP SAUNDERS I think a lot of it is that he has young guys blocking for him right now. There's a lot of young guy...
JOE DECAMILLIS That was a great college basketball game there. Great environment. I told our guys, 'You live for op...
BUZZ PETERSON We've gone through some things that haven't been a lot of fun. They deserve to win one at the buzzer...
MARSHA SHARP The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand...
BILL SIMMONS
Why be greedy when you can have it all. ANTHONY T. HINCKS
There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There... FRANK DEFORD It really just makes you trust the guys out there even more. You know it's just a bigger demand. We ...
JUSTIN REED We had opportunities. I've asked the girls to do a lot of things they have never done, and they have...
LORI DRESBACH
College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and liv... GERALD CHERTAVIAN
There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So ma... ROBERT GRIFFIN III They love to go to Santo Domingo. They have a lot of friends there and they really enjoy it.
CLAUDINA ESTRADA
I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school i... TOM WATSON I didn't want to play junior college football. I just wanted to go home and focus on basketball. I k...
KENNY WILLIAMS I think guys that play basketball really understand how to go up and get a ball. Because in a reboun...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the...
KAWHI LEONARD I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achiev...
TERRELL OWENS We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.
MANU GINOBILI I have been a part of one of the greatest comebacks in college basketball history when we beat Duke ...
JOSH BOONE Its something that I have been blessed with in terms of playing the game and being able to underst...
ISIAH THOMAS I think if you have a strong athletic program without there being boundaries, there can be advantage...
GREG TODD
I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being... 
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