Manu Ginobili (ARG)

"A dangerous situation would be if I were to have these negative statistics in Japan at the World Championship"
Argentina's Emanuel Ginobili after scoring just one point in his team's Madrid Tournament loss to Spain.


"Tepic is a good, young player. Commitments in our national team are, for sure, in front of him"
Serbia & Montenegro coach Dragan Sakota after cutting U20 captain Milenko Tepic from the squad.


"It's not how you start but how you finish"
Team USA forward LeBron James after the United States broke open a close game for a 119-73 victory over China on Monday.


"They took Turkey to overtime, so they're no easy-beats"
New Zealand coach Tab Baldwin ahead of the Tall Blacks' two friendlies against Qatar.


"We are representing the daily work of all clubs, all coaches, all players, all referees and all officials"
Brazil coach Lula Ferreira.


"It's an incredible feeling"
Marc Gasol after being told he had earned the final place in Spain's squad.


"He [Siskauskas] finished his season (with Benetton Treviso) late and we decided that he would miss the summer season with the national team"
Lithuania national team manager Algis Pavolinis on the absence of Ramunas Siskauskas.


"I have some other things to do in life. This change will be useful for the team to have another colour, to be injected by new possibilities."
Julio Toro after announcing Japan would be his last tournament as coach of Puerto Rico.