Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think the Duke game really helped us for this one. We're more calm, and I think we're going to go out there and play our game.

Being 15 minutes from Duke and Carolina, that's tough. Going to the tournament five or six years is not good enough. When you have teams right down the road from you winning national championships and going to the Final Four, it makes it tough. . . . Fans want it all. I think it was time for him.

These kids are good. They're going to schools like Duke and North Carolina.

Mike Jones

It's racial. I figured they were going to get away with it because they were white and it is at Duke. They're going to protect Duke and those players, plus they have the money to do so. If this was at this campus, we would've been locked up.

I want to know whether or not Dr. Dukes is still on their list of experts.

Prince Philip

You managed not to get eaten then?

Sean William Scott

I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

We've always had a sense of humor about ourselves, ... Heck, we need it when things like 'The Dukes of Hazzard' come around.

Doris Burke

Performance pressure in this stage has had an impact. When you think of Duke historically, they have folded. But there is a different presence. Gail has made it a concerted effort to take pressure off of this group. I sense that they're ready.

Zach Duke did a good job. He had to battle, obviously.

We tried not to come out flat because we were extremely hurt after the Duke game.

Duke played well down the stretch when they needed to, and J.J. made all the big plays.

Glen Campbell

Duke insisted that he do his own jump,

Duke had quite a few one-on-one opportunities and faced a lot of breakaways. He did a good job of making saves and holding us in there.

Duke had a real strong period in the first period. He kind of held us in there.

This thing at Duke isn't going to wake up anything. You'd like to think that it would. You'd like to think this is one of those things that you talk to your kids about at home, that it's a teaching moment. But here's what people want to know about it - that it didn't happen, or that it didn't happen as it was first reported. And that's the unfortunate part - because something wrong happened there.

We knew Duke was going to be very good this year, there is a reason they are No. 1. I really think we are on track. We're still training really hard. I feel like we ran well. We never peak early so we're a long ways from where we want to be at the end of the year, but I feel satisfied that we are in the right place.

Alec Baldwin

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

We haven't practiced well since the Duke game, and unfortunately, maybe we needed a loss to recognize that. We didn't handle success as well as we would have liked.

Prince Andrew

The queen is a great mother and a great parent, and so too is the Duke of Edinburgh (her husband Prince Philip), and we used to have wonderful fun racing up and down here at weekends, we'd do all sorts of things.

Julia Roberts

I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.

Now we really have to get the Duke game and the Miami game. We've been in this situation plenty of times, so we're used to it. But this year we've got to get it done. We've come too far as a team and as a staff to let this season slip away like this.

Getting Thomas would move Duke way up the list.

I would be livid if whatever happened to these young men at Duke happened to my daughter.

Steve Lacy

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

I think Duke would have a tough time with Villanova.

Dean Smith

I think Duke should be the favorite. And Gonzaga will be a tough out.

My thing with Duke is they are a high percentage team, so I'm real pleased with the fact that we held them to 41 percent shooting. But J.J. is a great player and when the game is on the line your players have to make plays. He knew he was going to try to make a play and he did.

I think this thing's got a ways to run, and they've got to duke it out.

That's the official day he will make an announcement. He could see himself at any of the three schools that were interested in him, that have been recruiting him the whole year, Florida, Duke or Rutgers.

We got frustrated. Duke does that to you. We tried to keep our composure, but we're a young team and this is a tough environment.

Billy Donovan

We had won 17 games, but going into tonight we were 0-0. I knew Duke had lost, but these are different guys. They are more wrapped up in trying to become a good team, to become better individually and really sacrifice for one another.

Shay Doron

Well, in the past, obviously I just think Duke was better. And right now, I think that it's pretty even.