Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've been doing it the last few years, so we're used to it. They're a talented team. They won a lot of ball games early, so this was a good win for us.

We've been slacking when Lou's been in there. We have to make sure we keep moving and not let them collapse on Lou. He'll get us the ball when they double him. Then it's up to us to make shots.

We've been shooting the ball real well the last few games. We just continued it tonight.

We've been shooting the ball really well lately. It was good for us to get this win with only one match left in the regular season.

We've been seeing it more and more, teams just lay back and don't let our guards take them off the dribble. We've got to shoot the ball better.

Roberto Garza

We've been running the ball with eight guys in the box all year long. It's not something that's going to be new to us.

We were rusty tonight and hadn't played any ball games. They (Wolfe City) had already played two games, and we went in and made some adjustments at the half then came out and played better in the second half.

We were running the ball very well in the second half. We had decided we would go for the touchdown, and not kick a field goal.

Phil Jackson

We were relying on Kobe and Kobe couldn't shoot the ball because of a hand injury. He was just reluctant to shoot.

We were really rushing, I felt like, early in the ball game. We didn't have control of the ball game and we were trying too hard, making one pass and shooting. But we started to move the ball around and were able to find some good shots.

We were really on top of our assignments. We just shared the ball well, and when we do what our coach tells us to do, we find easy baskets.

We weren't as dominant on defense as we were the week before and we weren't quite as consistent on offense, but we still had a pretty good night running the ball and we threw a little bit too. When we needed to move the ball, we were able to do that.

We weren't able to put the ball in the hole. The game lacked flow. We would stop each other on defense. They were able to put the ball in the hole a couple of more times than we were.

Chuck D.

We were not a throwing team in high school, ... If you were recruiting now with 85 scholarships, you're not recruiting me. We threw the ball five times a game in high school and didn't get many phone calls.

Bill Cowher

We've worked hard with our look teams about when they break the huddle, getting the ball snapped within eight to 10 seconds. These guys come up to the line of scrimmage and they're gone. It's different. We've worked on it all week. The guys are getting a sense of what the tempo is like.

Bill Tierney

We were worried about possession. We never had the ball up there last year. We tried a bunch of different things. We weren't as concerned with winning or losing the face-off as stopping the fast break or trying to force a turnover. I think we were successful.

We were working the ball inside early and getting easy shots. But for whatever reason we just kept going away from that.

We were what I had hoped we would be, and that's a better systematic team. We have kids with some power, but we're going to rely on handling the ball and distributing the ball.

Ryan Kalil

UCLA had three weeks to get ready. You can't change your whole base defense, but you can put in some new looks. They were shifting a lot right before the snap. But when you've played together like we have, you develop that communication. We eventually figured it out. And we were already moving the ball anyway.

We don't necessarily look bad, but we don't always bang the ball like that. Maybe we are starting to get into the season now since we've seen some more pitching.

We don't make a big deal out of wins, so we won't make a big deal out of a loss either. Give Ohio Northern credit. They did an excellent job with ball control, especially in the first half.

Mark Williams

We don't look anywhere. We look to the first bounce of the ball and we'll graft it out from there, and I'm sure it's the type of game that's going to be a difficult one, one that goes down to the wire, but one in which we eventually persist long and hard enough to get the result.

We are winning the one-run ball games and especially the close games in the ninth inning and that's a boost. However, we need to learn how to hold leads a little bit better and make it easier for ourselves.

We can't turn to the ball over. That's it. Period. We've turned the ball over all year, and if we have a chance, it has to stop.

We can't turn the ball over like that.

We can't turn the ball over five times to a good team and expect to win.

We can't turn the ball over because I'm not sure we can get their offense off the field. We have to control the ball, too.

We can't pinpoint the problem - we're just not knocking down shots. We're getting good shots and not hitting them. We're turning the ball over. That's not the way we play.

We closed out their shooters in the first half, but we didn't do that in the second. We didn't block out for rebounds, and we turned the ball over.

We have been playing well. We just haven't been winning. We are starting to knock down shots. I don't think we shot the ball extremely well at the first part of the season, but we are starting to shoot a better.

We have great depth and interchangeable parts. Everyone seems to be able to put the ball in play and gives us something on defense.

Bill Tierney

We have got to take care of the little things and protect the ball on offense. We lost a huge opportunity, but it was confidence building in that we can compete at that level.

Brian Cashman

We have good confidence if Shawn Chacon takes the ball that we're going to have a chance, ... We'll be in the game and we'll have a chance to win it because he's done that well for us this year.