Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

We need six starters for the season and four for conference play.

Jay Wright

We now have a long-term commitment, a new practice facility planned, a newly expanded conference and renovations planned for the Pavilion. There's nowhere our staff and my family would rather be.

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.

I think these teams are better and while it makes it tougher for us it improves the conference. It gives the conference the power ratings it needs and will help us get four teams into the playoffs. There's going to a lot of tough, tight games.

I think these guys will get it done. There would have still been meaning if we won (the conference tournament), but not as deep as it is now. I don't think I'll have any problem motivating these guys.

I think the Missouri Valley Conference is good, but I don't know who's talking about (five or six NCAA bids) and in what bar.

It is a public conference being put on to develop public policy, and it should be publicly funded, period.

I think there is a pattern of this White House saying one thing at a press conference and then trying to shimmy out of it.

Wes Moore

I think there is less pressure here than what we faced in the conference tournament.

Last week I put a thing up that said it's a six game season right now for us. Right now we're 2-0 in this six game season and we've got to keep it going because all of our games are conference games from here on out. One loss could put us sitting home.

Last season we were fourth in the conference as seventh-graders but when we defeated New Lenox Martino, I knew this season had some real good possibilities.

I think depending on what the other teams in the conference look like, we're going to do pretty well this year. Last year was a struggle to get into states.

That was huge, a sophomore on the mound. You go on the road for the first conference game, and he comes up big for us.

That was a very impressive win for Blackhawk last week. They've gotten better and better each game. Blackhawk is so well coached, there's no way there would be a letdown. In the conference we play in you have to be ready each week.

That win was very critical for us. We obviously want to be in it till the end in the conference race. You have to get some wins. That's not easy, especially in this conference, but that's why it's an honor to play in the Big Ten.

That will be a good test or us a big conference game at home.

That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad.

That was not a senior play. But the guys didn't lose their composure. I just wish we were healthy. We're the only team in the conference who hasn't been healthy from start to finish.

That was only four seconds off the conference record. These guys really were hungry to not only win a conference championship but to get to state.

That's the reason why you play the tournament. We play those two games to get some of that rust out of our system, because after that we don't have anything but conference left.

That's the most we scored in a conference game. We're hitting well and playing good defense. It's good to win the conference outright.

I think it's ridiculous. I've never heard of it in conference play.

It gives us an edge going into the tournament in a sense that now we know we can win the conference tournament.

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.