The BIAH Quotables

This a new feature we are trying out here at BIAH this season. Throughout the week, we are going to post some notable quotes or excerpts that show up in our google reader. Stupid people say stupid things 24 hours a day, and being somehow associated with the college hoops landscape does not preclude that fact. That said, we will not limit our quotables to the simple and idiotic, as the insightful and intelligent will also be highlighted. Feel free to pass along any quotables you stumble across to contactbiah@gmail.com or @ballinisahabit.

Isiah Thomas on winning his first game with Florida International:

It feels great. Every coach, when he or she starts, especially after you've lost three games, you start wondering if you're ever going to win a game. I told the guys at halftime, 'I don't care how we win. I just want to win the game, go home, rub my dog, wake up in the morning and see the sun.'

More on Isiah Thomas, as Dan Hanner weighs in on villains in college basketball:

Does either team have a coach or player who is a natural villain? See Isaah Thomas (sic) who has so far i) complained about having to face North Carolina, ii) whined that Tulsa ran up the score on his team, iii) and spoke about how it was about time his team won a game. The only caveat for Isaah Thomas is that I wish his team was better so that watching them lose would mean something.

I know it isn't college basketball, but this is a classic. Ron Artest, speaking with Sports Radio Interviews, on the shoe throwing incident. In case you don't know what I'm referring too, watch this.

Well what happened was…obviously I didn’t know his shoe would come off that’s the first thing conservative reporters. I didn’t know his shoe was gonna come off. I don’t speak to his feet so I don’t know what his feet are thinking, I don’t know what his toes are thinking, I don’t know what he’s thinking. Then his shoe comes off and I’m like okay a shoe is not supposed to be on the basketball court without somebody standing inside of it. So I said alright, I’m just gonna buy me some time. I really didn’t know whose shoe it was, but I said it has to be one of the player’s shoe. As soon as I toss it off the court, not throw into the stands which some people said, it’ll buy me some time. What happens is I come back down, Trevor is trying to put his shoe on and I politely hit a three in his face. (Ed. Note: our emphasis because, well, its awesome.)

I know a disgusting display of sportsmanship. How about that was funny as hell? I gotta find out who said that. I’m like you’re on my side, you’re siding with the other guys and you’re no longer on my side. He’s not a friend of mine. It just took one thing for him to comment like that. So now I gotta treat him like I treat my good friend in Sacramento.