Basketball Tournament Quotes

#1. We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.

Mark Gottfried

#2. I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Hunter S. Thompson

#3. How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday.Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I'm going to be inferior tomorrow, it's that simple.

Jack LaLanne

#4. Our vocation and professional work is not a second class activity, something we do just to put food on the table. It is the high calling for which we were originally created. The way we serve a Creator God is by being creative with the talents and gifts He has given us.

Nancy Pearcey

#5. Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.

Richard Wright

#6. As I swung a third time, he grabbed my wrist. "That's enough hitting," he growled. "You don't exactly hit like a girl, you know.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#7. In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

Pat Summerall

#8. That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.

LeBron James

#9. Take a wrong turn. Get lost in something you love.

Marty Rubin

#10. I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.

Will Rogers

#11. Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.

Tasha Alexander

#12. Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Life is like a basketball game, you can shoot but miss. sometimes you even lose a game. There is always a next tournament, but never a time to give up.

David Dunham

#14. When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.

Vic Ziegel

#15. I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

Cesc Fabregas

#16. When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

Stanley Clarke

#17. Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New York state, but when your system of government is an eleventh century monarchy, someone's going to end up poor, and it's not gonna be the guy whose first name is King.

Craig Ferguson

#18. Socrates learned to his cost, the true nature of democracy is to encourage corruption and excess in all its forms. But the

Philip Kerr

#19. An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.

Publilius Syrus

#20. I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.

Allen Iverson

#21. Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

Joseph Addison

#22. As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so that you can give an honest portrayal and performance.

James Wolk