Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Baker

It felt good to get out and play. This should help us going into conference play.

It feels really good to get our first conference win, ... and it being on the road makes it that much sweeter.

Brendan Shanahan

I still see us as having a real strong lineup. Definitely the teams around us in our conference have improved but I don't think people should count us out yet.

I think our offense is starting to turn it around and we're going to need that in conference because everyone pitches well.

I think playing Duke helped us become a better football team, and that's what it's all about. This game helped us get better in our conference and the remainder of our season.

I think most of what people will be looking for will be discussed on the conference call. There's a lot going on in the product front.

I think it will be tight race. Every conference game is really going to matter.

It hasn't been done since I've been here, so it's a big deal. To win the first Big 7 Conference title is a huge accomplishment.

I think this team understands what the Big Ten conference is all about. It's pretty tough to say we're going to win a Big Ten title with Michigan returning but we expect to be in the thick of it.

I'm sure after the Shore Conference (Tournament), everyone thought we were a joke. We take things for granted a lot of times. I think we do better as underdogs.

I'm hoping we get another shot at them in the conference tournament. We gave it our all, they just knocked down shots.

I think we can contend for a conference title. We are a faster team than we were last year.

I think ultimately, with six weeks to go before conference tournament week, a lot of these seeming inequities will even out. The Valley is more likely to get three than four. They are more likely to go down than they are to go up. The Big XII can only go up. The Pac-10 is probably going to get three, because frankly they're not that good, so they'll have to get over it.

I think that starting conference this weekend is a big deal, and it's nice to do it at home. I hope that we can take the momentum we have, especially what we're doing offensively right now, and kind of gain confidence and keep rolling.

I think that we were tired, there's no question about that. It took us a whole day to get here, and we played a game two days ago. And they haven't played since their conference tournament, so they are fresh.

I think that a lot of times it seems that the focus can get lost. But this team seems to be very focused, and I think they have an understanding of what they need to do reach their goal of a conference title. I think I'm going to be happy with the transition.

I think that is truly amazing. It shows how unique the ACC has been this season and what a tremendous conference it has been from top to bottom. I expected the depth, but I'm not sure we expected three teams in the top four.

It is nice to see five GNAC teams selected for the regional. It provides our conference with a lot of much-deserved credibility.

I think we're one of the better teams in this conference. I think we have as good of a shot as any of winning a conference championship.

Dave Bautista

I was actually sitting on stage at a press conference one day, and I totally lost touch with reality. I just thought to myself: 'Vin Diesel is sitting next to me, and Benicio Del Toro's on the other side. This is weird, man.'

I want to work on my overall strength and quickness. It's a guard-oriented conference (Big East). I want to be able to step in right away and be a difference-maker.

I will never, ever make a prediction with any Southwestern Conference team this year. Every time I think that I might have a read on a game, you can just throw it out the window. If you can predict a game after all the stuff that's happened so far . . . Good luck.

Playing in our conference gets you ready for this time of year.

Playing for the conference title is really what it's all about. We have to win the conference before we can start talking about playing for a state championship.

Players want to win championships. They want to win conference championships, they want to win a tournament championship. .. Players want to be able to cut down nets -- it doesn't matter what the nets are, they want to cut down nets.

Plan A right now, if it's just seven teams, is for each team to play the other conference teams three times,

Really, we're just trying to end the regular season on a good note having a winning record and going into our conference tournament with confidence.

Recent history suggests they're in. When you win the championship of a top-10 RPI conference like the Mountain West, you're in.

Our players have their sights set on winning our conference this year. Last year, we were around a .500 team, so we're definitely looking to improve, because we know we can do better than that.

Our regular season conference schedule prepares us for the post-season. To come out of our district was rewarding, for sure.

Flip Saunders

Part of it is teams that were not very good have gotten better, which makes for a much more competitive conference. What developed for a few years in the Western Conference has now come back to the East, where there aren't really any gimme games.

Jeff Schweitzer

We're still playing for a share of the conference championship on Friday and that (a conference title) was our goal from the get-go.

We're looking forward to getting into conference now.