Famous Quotes & Sayings

Defense is a big concern. In '01, '02, '03 we were at the top of the conference in defense. That didn't happen last year.

Coach, we're going to win the conference tournament.

They're a good football team, and they will be a force in the conference this year.

Jamie Dixon

They're not leading the conference in 3-point percentage. They win games when they don't shoot a high percentage. They're going to make some 3s. They'll make some tough 3s. We talk about making them all tough shots. We can't give them any easy or open ones. When you give them an easy shot it just going to feed their confidence.

There's a reason why they're the conference champs.

There's a reason why they're conference champs. They played like it.

At least from our conference there's not a really big stage for us to play in. This is the goal -- to get here.

All of us are working hard and preparing for this press conference (Monday), and that's all we can say.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

A lot of people are making a big deal of (the layoff) and obviously we wish we had one more game. But, we're going into our conference season motivated and healthy. We know the only way to get into the playoffs is to win our league. So I'm done feeling sorry for myself for not having 10 games. Let's get going and play ball.

A lot of people think the Valley is the strongest conference in the state and if you look at our track record it speaks for itself. Most years we have two teams down here and this year I think we could have had more if we were more spread out.

A lot of teams that have won their conference tournaments have lost in the first two rounds. It was unfortunate to lose, but it got us hungry again.

They played very well, and they played extremely hard. But I thought they were in the (regional) tournament anyway. The conference championship - or the opportunity to play for it - would have been nice.

They must have been pretty sure of themselves. To be honest, to me it was just a conference game, a very important game. Those around me wouldn't let me focus on it. We had to step away and focus on it being just another game.

They have fewer numbers, but they have a good running back. This is our first conference game of the season, and we need to get better. We have a lot of work to do this week.

They get to run four events (at the conference meet). We want to use him at the fullest capacity.

This is probably the toughest the conference has been. If we're not playing well, we could go 0-7.

The Western Conference is jam packed with good teams. So every conference game counts.

The weather is getting warmer, our players are playing better. This is a fun time in the season as we are approaching the conference tournament. We are looking forward to the remaining of the matches.

This gives us a good start. We feel a lot better winning than losing. We think there is going to be a lot of difference at the conference meet and we are going to need our kids to step up like they did tonight.

This doesn't wrap up the conference numerically. But it gets us very close. Everybody else has at least three losses and we have four games left.

Daniel Alfredsson

This conference playoffs is going to be very tough.

Ayad Allawi

This conference is not the end of the road for us, it is the first step ... to open up horizons of dialogue,

This conference is about gold. But there's going to be other conferences, I hope, dealing with other subjects, especially art, which is an enormous subject.

Jay Wright

This feels like a conference game. It feels like it's the middle of January and we've got BC next. I don't know if that's going to be positive or negative for us.

It really is good. It was so lopsided with them in the conference. It's tough going into the conference meet knowing that you're going to get beat.

It's a huge week. Hopefully we could be playing for a conference championship in that last game.

It's a great time of year. There's a lot going on, and there's a lot of focus being paid to conference standings and potential NCAA tournament teams. It's a time of year where some people thrive and others struggle.

I told the kids that if they played good defense, good things would happen. And I can't say enough about how well they did. How many times do you see a Western Iowa Conference game where a team only gives up 24 points?

I told the kids that this is our conference championship.

It's very disappointing, but it's something that happens. It happened to us today. Yeah, it hurts. It's going to hurt for the rest of the day. We know tomorrow's a new day. We've got to keep our heads up and hope the NCAA realizes what we did in the pre-conference schedule and in the conference and picks us.

John Chaney

For any stellar player in our conference to get hurt, I really feel for that. I'm sorry to hear that.

They had already had their indoor season and been practicing. So I was less prepared. I can't drop out of a conference tournament. Plus, in order to be a successful student, you just don't have time for everything.