Famous Quotes & Sayings

H-K is too quick for us right now. They're going to be one of the strongest teams in the conference by the end of the season.

He's going to be tough. He always is. He's been pitching in the conference as long as I have. He can be overpowering at times. I know right now the game is going to be close. I look at it as one of the tougher games I'm going to have throughout the season.

We may be the only conference ? I'm sure we are the only conference ? in the country where the majority of institutions are being penalized by the NCAA.

I thought we had a good meet with some great performances. I feel good going into the conference championships with our level of health and our marks where they are.

I think we did the job we had to do. We led wire to wire in a conference game and won, which is tough in the WVIAC.

I think we have to realize that we lost six seniors. You can say what you want, but next year we won't have six seniors. We will be young and have new faces. We can't go into next year thinking that we will be able to repeat finishing second in the conference and go to the conference championship again. We have to understand that it might take a little time.

Jamie Dixon

I think we should have nine teams in the NCAA tournament. I think we should set a record. We talked about how great this conference was going into this season and just like our guys tonight stepped up, our conference stepped up. We deserve nine bids. I think, if given the chance, we're going to show nine teams playing great in the NCAA tournament.

Kenny Smith

I think that any other year he would be playing. But because (there's) so many great forwards in the West, it's difficult to do that. But (Paul) is one of the top five guards in the Western Conference without question.

Gerry Hunsicker

I think as much as anything, this has raised the confidence level of our players. I don't think there was any question this was totally unexpected by everyone, including the players ... To see the excitement on their faces in the Clemens press conference ...

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.

He has needed some time to get back to the high level that he was at a year ago. Going into the conference tournament we told him that he had to try and put up with the pain and just go.

Vince Young

He flipped the switch and had confidence and took over our team,'' said Texas' Mack Brown, who is still searching for his first conference title in 22 years as a head coach.

Tommy Amaker

For us, we know the rivalry, the proximity and that we hadn't won this game in a long time, so we're pleased. The focus for us was to try to stay in the hunt for the conference title.

For us to win I think we are going to have to have 180 points. I think we can have five guys in the finals again, but I'm not sure which five. We could get as many as seven or eight, which shouldn't be unusual for a team that could win the conference dual title.

For us to win a conference game on the road at Sauk Prairie, it's a huge momentum lift for the second half of the season. We have lost eight games and seven of those losses have been by six points or less.

For us to be a conference contender, we've got to be a better team defensively. You can't give up (35) points in the first half and expect to win. Our offense played well, but didn't get the stops when we needed to.

Fortuna always plays us tough here. For whatever reason, they're tougher than nails here and tonight was no exception. Fortuna's a quick team and they have some strong players but our guys knew our position in conference right now and they really stepped up.

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Give Westbrook credit. Those kids play hard. They don't quit. They did the same thing to us at our place when they got us. They play tough wire-to-wire. They could have rolled over. Teams are well-coached in this conference and they all play hard every night. And if you don't play hard for 32 minutes you're not going to get a W.

He's got to step up his game, as a senior, in conference play.

I wouldn't say there's no trouble because I think there is frustration and disappointment at going out early in your conference tournament. But this has been a resilient team all year long. We'll be ready to go (tonight).

Hector Rodriguez

If we go in as the No. 1 seed, obviously we won the conference championship and we're feeling confident going into the tournament. Even if we go in as the No. 2 seed, we're fine with that. We're comfortable with that spot. One seed or two seed doesn't make a difference to us. We just need to go out and play our game.

If we do well in the conference, it will look good in our region. The conference season is such a huge focus for us.

If we had lost, it would have put us back in the middle of the pack. So this is a big win for us. Now, we've got to go on and finish the second half of the conference season strong.

If this isn't stripped out in the conference committee, it's going to be very difficult.

We knew we had to get this game going into the big one on Friday. In this conference we can't overlook anybody.

Robert McCullum

We're still winless in conference play but we've played a number of games that could have gone either way. I feel our fortunes are going to change." ()

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Arun Jaitley

Without the presence of separatists on the round-table conference on Kashmir called by the Prime Minister, the entire exercise has turned futile.

Lou Holtz

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I'd tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we're going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

This will be the first reasonably-sized conference room with capabilities like LCD display projectors and a divider wall for simultaneous events. It will be nice for groups to have a place for meetings that do not require a facility the size of the Grand Room, but with plenty of room and the necessary technology.

This was a huge road win. We started the conference season 0-3, but now we've won two in a row. I feel like we're back in the hunt.