“It is more likely that Des Moines would be rated low for the first and second rounds (in basketball) due to limited air access and limited hotel space. It would very likely be too small for regional round games.”
Bob Bowlsby
“I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.”
John Wooden
“You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.”
Bobby Knight
“If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.”
Isiah Thomas
“The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'”
James Naismith
“What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.”
“They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.”
Earvin Magic Johnson
