Famous Quotes & Sayings

Digger Phelps

They're going to get eight teams in every year. You just want to get in the hunt. You can be a 5 seed and win it like Syracuse did a few years ago. Just get in it. Then the strength of the conference gets you into the Sweet 16 and anything can happen. You saw that happen last year with West Virginia.

They're feeling great right now after four straight wins. Now we'll see if we can ride that into conference play. It doesn't get any easier from here on out.

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.

Zach ended the conference season with a save percentage of 90 percent. I am very happy for Zach. He has worked hard and deserves this recognition.

You take it for what it is. It was a great learning experience, and again, you hope these experiences pay off in the conference season.

You need to recognize that you're not going to win in this conference if you don't have speed. So you better get it.

Sylvia Hatchell

You may think I'm crazy, but I think the conference will be stronger next year.

Julian Wright

This is a young conference as a whole. In the future, there's a lot of parody now, but I see us as only a year a way from being a super powerhouse conference like the Big East.

This is as competitive, from top to bottom, that the conference has been in a long time. Every time you step on the field for a conference game, you know you're going to be in a battle.

Dave Wannstedt

If you look at this home schedule, it really will be a great one for our fans. We play an ACC team, a Big Ten team, we play two teams in our conference that are likely to be ranked in the top 10 -- it is going to be a lot of fun but it will also be a great challenge.

If you look at the outcome of what happened, you have an existing conference that is 80 percent minority.

Steven Anderson

If you own a restaurant or any small business, it's vitally important to be involved politically at the grassroots level, ... We literally storm the Hill (Capitol Hill) during our public-affairs conference in September. The legislators know when the restaurant owners are in town.

Steve Ralston

If you look at the core group of guys, they've been here four years now, really. There are quite a few guys still from the team that went to the Finals (in 2002), and we went to the (Eastern Conference finals) the last couple years.

If you look at the conference schedule, there's going to be a lot determined here in the next three or four weeks. It's going to be tough but that's the way we want it. We want to earn everything we get. We've got to be ready to play.

There's three undefeated teams in the nation right now. And I doubt that any of them will finish the season undefeated. Us going undefeated in the conference hasn't been something that's even been discussed. Obviously, that would be a great accomplishment. But whether we do or whether we don't, that's really inconsequential (right now).

There was a lot riding on this game in terms of postseason play and a share of the conference championship,

This is a very important game. We're vying for position in the conference with Boston, and we definitely want to get a win at home.

I want to make this clear. Whether it's for the Pac-10 Conference tournament championship, Pac-10 championship or second place, whatever it is, this is a big game to us. It means a lot to us, whatever way you slice it.

The newcomers in the conference all should be strong right away. Kennesaw State won a division II title and should come in immediately and dictate the standings. UNF was a division II powerhouse and ETSU should come in and have an immediate impact as well.

After this week, the whole conference playoff picture could be settled.

(The) last conference title (we won) was two years before I got here. I hadn't tasted it yet, but you know what, it tastes pretty good.

Katsuya Okada

The fact that you, as secretary general of a political party, made remarks contrary to the fact in a forum such as a news conference can mislead the public and is very regrettable. I strongly protest and demand that (you) retract the remark and apologize.

I'm ecstatic that they're in the league. West is a great measuring stick for the rest of us. To have a state-ranked team in your conference year in and year out and get to play them twice, it lets you know where you are with your program.

I'm not going to tell the kids it's likely. It's out of our hands. We'll just have to wait and see. It would be great, however, and I know we'd represent our conference well.

I'm disappointed to a point. I knew we were on the board, but I knew our status was tenuous because of our conference record. ... It was disappointing to see some of the other teams that got in that shouldn't have. There's a lot of conference politics in this.

I'm disappointed that we have lost these games but I am not discouraged. We are using these games to get ready for our conference games.

I'm proud of the girls for our performance. Last year at this time we weren't even playing seven innings. We made it seven innings with them and we hung in there. They are 6-0 in the conference so they are the team to beat.

I'm proud of the fact that we won the conference title. It means a lot to me and to the girls.

I'm proud of our guys. We won 21 games. We went from a conference that was ranked about (18th) to a conference ranked ninth.

I had some jitters before the game. I'm not going to say I didn't when I did. I've got to play better if we're going to be a successful team in a conference like this one. I need to make a lot of throws that I didn't make today.

I'm very proud of this team and program for winning another conference championship.

George Mason

I'm very excited with the quality of the non-conference teams we have on our schedule, ... To play at Mississippi State and to host Creighton, to potentially face Wake Forest on their floor, those are the types of games that should help prepare our team for the rigors of conference play.