Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Barnes

We realize we're in the middle of a conference race. We're not going to take anything for granted.

We played more like we did earlier in conference play. We did a good job of executing on offense. We moved guys around and got them in. It was good to see.

We put a lot of emphasis on the conference meet. To me it's the most important meet.

We hope to be part of the Nutmeg Conference next year. It will make us a little more competitive.

He can lead us to the championship. Omar and I have talked, and the great quarterbacks in the history of our conference have all taken their teams to championships.

Heath, Jake (Black) and those other seniors ... they just want (a conference title) real bad. They've done nothing but work their tail off to try to get us there.

I'd take 10 of him. He's a warrior. He's just a guy who's going to win you a lot of games. You look at the teams who go to the Elite Eight or the Final Four or the ones who win conference championships, and those teams have two or three guys like him.

I don't think finishing second or fifth is going to make a difference once you get to the conference tournament. In this league, everyone's the same. This was a road game. We didn't play well, but we can go out and win the next one.

I don't see how much else we could have done defensively. We stoned the No. 1 team in the conference for 63 minutes. Every time we needed a big play we got it. We were rocking.

Herman Frazier

I am pleased that the conference office and our department were able to work on this together and come to a conclusion.

I am proud of our guys and am starting to see some positive things. Our guys are still playing hard, despite our record. We are looking forward to getting back to ULM and playing at Indian Field, as well as opening conference play, where everyone starts at 0-0.

He's not a back-slapping hail-fellow-well-met kind of guy, ... if you need someone to go to a press conference or to be on the Senate floor, he's always been there.

I don't like the idea of playing five conference games in a row.

Carolyn has kept everybody together. She's been positive all season and she's been a great captain. We're not looking forward to losing her. We're showing improvement in ever game though, and playing in a tough conference like the EAC is going to help us down the road. Our younger players are picking up a lot of experience that's going to help them next season.

Our goals are to keep getting better, and when we get to that conference tournament we want to be playing well.

Our goals are still the game. We want to win the SCC Quinnipiac Division, defend our conference title and win the Division I state championship. Those goals will now be harder to attain, but they are still attainable.

Our goal is to win the conference title so we know every game is important. It's nice to be on a team where so many people can contribute.

Over the summer she worked really hard. I'm looking for big things from her. I think she'll show do fine in conference play.

Our preparation and focus is to get ready for the Big Ten. Our record is 0-0 in the conference and that's our mentality right now.

Our plan was to get as tough of schedule as we could in the spring, so that way when we played our conference we'd be prepared, and I think we have been able to do that.

Our plan is to get ourselves ready for the conference schedule with these early games.

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.

Billy Donovan

Our starters didn't play a lot of minutes, and it was good to see us score as many points as we did with those guys not playing. For our team right now, playing this midweek game before getting back into the (Southeastern) conference at Tennessee (Saturday) was good for us.

Our schedule is very challenging. The early portion of the schedule will help us to identify our strengths and weaknesses and better prepare for the most important part of our season the conference schedule. Obviously, we want to become as successful as possible. We also want to improve and develop as much as possible as we go along.

Our schedule does not give us any breaks, especially early on. We wanted it that way to get our guys ready for conference play.

Our schedule allows us to play our traditional local rivals, as well as some national powers, before we get into the conference schedule, ... We travel to Duke and Virginia Tech, play a full slate at the Garden and play in the Holiday Festival. This will give St. John's fans a great opportunity to follow our team, which features a lot of new faces this year.

Our rivalries are the conference games. But as far as trying to determine who's king of the hill, the Patriots are the king.

Our focus has been on winning the conference title.

Our goal is just to get the next win. Our goal was to get one conference win and now we're searching for that next win. We need to be eager and get better every day.

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 goal is to make it into the conference tournament.