Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our team?s focus has been pretty good (during the conference season). They?re keeping things in perspective.

Our team isn't thinking about the NCAA Tournament. We want to win our conference championship.

Our focus has been on winning the conference title.

Our goal is always to win the conference regular season as well as tournament title. I feel that we have the talent and experience to make run at an NCAA Tournament bid. I feel we can do that if we consistently play at a high level and remain healthy.

Our goal every season is to win the regular season title and then once we get that part done, we want to win the conference tournament and make a good showing there. We have made steps in that direction the last two years - I don't know if this is a natural progression but I think we should be in the mix.

Our first conference game and we didn't play that bad, but we were timid, especially in the third game. I saw positives throughout the match. Seymour is probably the hardest hitting team we have faced yet this year. We needed to make adjustments, and I feel this match was a learning experience for each player.

Bear Bryant

Our game plan is first year, a .500 season. Second year, a conference championship. Third year, undefeated. Fourth, a national championship. And by the fifth year, we'll be on probation, of course.

Tim Hunt

I am extremely sorry for the remarks made during the recent Women in Science lunch at the world conference of science journalists in Seoul, Korea.

We'd like to have been in the championship game, but we won two out of three and at times we played good basketball. We were disappointed but hopefully this gives us some momentum for next week's conference play.

We'd like to have a couple of those early ones back. We took our lumps early to figure out some things, but we're right where we want to be at the start of the conference season.

Dana Perino

We are reaching out frequently and regularly in a variety of ways, including conference calls, small group meetings and personal meetings to a variety of groups.

We are playing better now and we just need to keep improving on it. You want to be peaking at the end of the season. We're definitely not happy going into conference 3-8, but there's nothing we can do about that now. It's a new season, we're 0-0, we just have to focus on conference now and learn from the preseason.

We have a much tougher schedule this year than in years past. I have focused on playing as many ranked teams as possible. Our conference schools have become much more competitive this year. We do not have any walkover matches.

We have two games left, but we want to keep on winning. We don't want to go into the conference and region tournaments on a downfall.

We have to understand that what we did in preseason meant nothing in conference and what we did in conference is not going to determine the outcome of this game. Everybody is even keel. We've got to play ourselves into the regional tournament and anything can happen.

We'll provide Mountain West Conference content in every way possible.

We have the swagger to prove to the conference that we're good enough to win it. We feel like we can be the Duke of the mid-majors.

We have the next couple of weeks to work on some things before the conference tournament. We will be able to take a few lessons from these two matches and see what we can do at the tournament.

We're waiting to see what happens in the conference committee.

Jack Donovan

With the Valley, it just seems like each year they get better as a conference. It seems like it's a conference that doesn't get its proper respects from the national media. But it's a terrific conference and has super high-caliber basketball. Absolutely, there's a lot of excitement with this year's tournament.

With our conference up for grabs, a win like this is just what we needed.

We want to win our conference and also win our regional. We host a sectional this year, and we want to be in it.

We are excited to have Jim back as our head coach. He has done a tremendous job for us in his two years. Our vision remains to win conference championships on a regular basis, and Jim shares that vision and drive to win those titles.

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Faith and Timber Lake are always strong. Lemmon is new to the conference and is an unknown for us. We should be competitive enough to be in the hunt.

We're the champs 'til somebody takes the crown from us. We respect all the teams in this conference but we're the champs and we have to come out like it.

We need to get it before the conference. Because when the conference starts we're going to start traveling, and we'll have school and all that type of thing. It's going to be tough, so we have to get it right now.

Arun Jaitley

Without the presence of separatists on the round-table conference on Kashmir called by the Prime Minister, the entire exercise has turned futile.

Robert McCullum

We're still winless in conference play but we've played a number of games that could have gone either way. I feel our fortunes are going to change." ()

When you get into the conference tournament you can't rely so much on your offense. There are too many talented teams that defend well.

We kept our composure. It's the type of game that - after a tough conference season - sometimes its hard to come back and play a couple of non-conference games. Once we saw we were ranked, that gave your guys a little extra incentive.

We, as a team, have something to prove after last season, ... The general feeling is one of unfinished business. The 2005 team is already determined to work our way back into the Centennial Conference playoffs and NCAA tournament. Being only one year removed from these experiences, we know what it takes and feel this goal is not at all unrealistic.