Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think about that all the time. To make the tournament, you don't need a great season, you need a great weekend. We're going to go to the conference tournament, forget about the season, and we'll try make something happy out of a season that hasn't been that happy.

I think our kids did a good job of being in the right frame of mind; to come out on the road in a conference game and be ready to play right off the bat. I've been very proud of these kids in their abilities or their willingness to look at what's right in front of them.

Lou Holtz

I think N.C. State is on the threshold of being an outstanding program. The only problem is the ACC. It's such a great conference now.

Aaron Johnson

I just tried to stay focused, stay in the game (after the throwing error). We need this conference win.

But you can only do so much. The frustration has been incredible. We should be at the top of the conference and now we're trying to just get a playoff berth (within the top six in the league). In the past, we would be trying to win the league at this point. Now, we're just trying to get in (the playoffs). We were doing well, winning six in a row, but now, we're going in the other direction, losing three in a row.

I have to deal with speculation all the time. But 10 years from now, I see a conference with 12-to-14 basketball-playing schools and at least 12 football-playing schools. We do have a strategic plan, and we'll follow it.

In the back of our minds, we're thinking about conference and what we can do in the (Valley) tournament, but right now we really need to win on Saturday. That's our main focus.

If you start focusing on a conference championship you lose sight of what you have to do with the next game you are playing. If we don't focus on Portage completely and get over it quickly, we will have the same thing happen.

Cheney has really stepped up for us offensively. She seems extremely confident up at the plate and if she can continue that trend in conference we should be successful.

By all means, we are not out of the hunt with three losses. It is a 15-game conference season, and we expect to be back in the race.

Georgia is the leading team in the SEC, in conference play, in steals. We have to be smart. We need to rebound the ball, get a good running game going and get stops on defense.

(Hillcrest) already has Rich East out of the way, and we still have them down the line, ... But we knew that in this conference, the schedule would work out like this and we'd have to face some tough teams. I think the conference hinges on every game from here on out.

Chauncey Billups

I don't think so. It's going to be a long time before we even possibly see each other (in the conference finals), and even if we do, our records will be 0-0.

I don't think I look at myself as all-around because we go as a team. If I had to pick out a point, it would be on bars, definitely. There was a fall and then there was a conference and having the pressure of putting on a good routine, I think that I handled the pressure really well.

I don't really know if anybody's got a realistic shot at winning the conference outside of Mascoutah.

Lute Olson

I don't know if somebody could win four in a row. There isn't a team in the conference that can't win one or two games. But it would be difficult to win four straight.

I didn't tell our kids this, but this wasn't a do or die game for us. We had to win two of our last four to get a bye (in the conference tournament) and now we've got to win two of three.

Davis did a great job for us. He was the player of the year in our conference and he proved it tonight. We had a lot of heart and I'm very proud of them.

Conference USA doesn't expect us to do very well, but we use that as motivation. They put us in last place (in preseason rankings) and we're using that as motivation. It's working pretty well for us during the game.

Conference play is a totally different level of intensity. The stakes are higher. It's hard to put into words how big it truly is.

Concordia has been the team in the conference for a long time. We want to be that team.

TCU gave us everything we could handle. It was a great meet, and it will be really fun to see how things turn out at the conference meet.

Summit Conference is a very interesting play in that it doesn't tell you anything. By the end it actually says, why did this happen, I don't know, you're going to have to figure that out, and you may have to figure it out sooner rather than later because it may happen again.

It's ironic. An hour or two after we have this press conference on drug violence, we're having another (robbery).

It's important for us to get those guys going now, so by the time conference games come along, it won't be such a big adjustment.

It's important for us to establish a mind-set on how we're going to play in the conference tournament. You want to go into the tournament with positive momentum.

It's conference ... then you look to districts. One step at a time.

It's a new season once you get to Big South Conference play. I'm disappointed in our record right now but hopefully we'll be ready to play come Wednesday night.

It's a new season and we can't worry about what we did in the conference season. We still have the opportunity to kind of reach our goals and get to the NCAA tournament which is our ultimate goal.

It's nice to get recognized by the conference and to also start moving up in the rankings.

It's nice for Andra to be recognized by the conference early on in the season. Andra worked hard in the off season, and his early results reflect his work ethic.

Bob Brown

It's strictly 1A schools from here, and I think by the end of the year we can be one of the better 1A schools. We may not have won conference since 1998, but we've won three state championships since then. That's what we're shooting for now.

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