Santa Clara University basketball coach on recruiting Canadian high school senior Steve Nash

After seeing him I was nervous as hell just hoping that no one else would see him.  It didn’t take a Nobel Prize winner to figure out this guy’s pretty good. It was just a case of hoping that none of the big names came around.

~ Dick Davey, Santa Clara head coach, 1992

(“You’ve got to be the worst defensive player I’ve ever seen,” he told Steve and his family as they all walked out of an arena in Vancouver together after a game.)