Dee Brown Quotes on Basketball (10 Quotes)

I hang with E. B. (Halsey), Mel (Melvin Bryant) and J. D. (Jason Davis). I beat them in video games, and they beat me in video games. Those are my guys. They know I played football and that I have a special love for football. Illinois is a football school as well as a basketball school, so I have to show them respect.

That's one emphasis now - energy, enthusiasm and having fun playing basketball. We have to bring the fun back. . . . We have to continue to play with energy and enthusiasm and we'll be fine.

That's the thing about James we need him to rebound the basketball, and he had nine. We need him to come out there and show senior leadership and he did. He's big for us. We need him on the court. We talked about it before the game. We need him in the game. When he got back in, he made his presence known.

No reaction. It's basketball. That's what happens. They (the selection committee) have a hard job.

I want to thank my mom for putting me in a basketball environment and coach (Bruce) Weber for putting the ball in my hands when he got to Illinois.

I think that's what we've been emphasizing. Energy. Enthusiasm. Just have fun. You've got to have fun playing basketball. We've got to bring the fun back.

I think every team comes out and just gives it their all and plays good team basketball, and we've got to be focused every game and come out with intensity.

I play basketball. This is what I do. There's a lot of pressure put on me, but I'm a complete player. I'm going to play how I've been playing, but now I have the ball in my hands.

That's the way it goes. We have to focus on basketball.

I miss football a lot. Football made me a better teammate basketball-wise because I knew I needed my line and my receivers to block for me. Once I realized how much I needed my teammates to make me look good, that helped me as a basketball player.