Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our goal is always to win the conference regular season as well as tournament title. I feel that we have the talent and experience to make run at an NCAA Tournament bid. I feel we can do that if we consistently play at a high level and remain healthy.

Our goal every season is to win the regular season title and then once we get that part done, we want to win the conference tournament and make a good showing there. We have made steps in that direction the last two years - I don't know if this is a natural progression but I think we should be in the mix.

Our first goal is to make it into the conference tournament.

Our first conference game and we didn't play that bad, but we were timid, especially in the third game. I saw positives throughout the match. Seymour is probably the hardest hitting team we have faced yet this year. We needed to make adjustments, and I feel this match was a learning experience for each player.

Bear Bryant

Our game plan is first year, a .500 season. Second year, a conference championship. Third year, undefeated. Fourth, a national championship. And by the fifth year, we'll be on probation, of course.

Overall it was good to get outside the last two days, even though it was cold. To get out here and work out a lot of the kinks before we kick off the conference season on Tuesday, I think it will make a big difference.

Overall it was a good weekend, with several more Big East qualifiers and with two more weeks of preparation, I think we will be ready for our first ever Big East indoor conference championships.

Overall, it was a good meet. We're very optimistic. We have a much better team than last year. A top-three finish at the conference meet is the goal.

Overall, the team has been working well. I am happy picking up two wins in the conference this week.

Our young team has worked hard, and it showed in the opening game. This was a great conference win for us.

Our young guys don't even know what they're getting into with the conference schedule. With the more physical players we'll see now, we could get overpowered inside.

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.

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.

I think every season is important because there are so many variables for the conference and the schools, ... Certainly, this year presents the opportunity for the Big East Conference to step out and show its capabilities.

Eric Hyman

Is a $40 price to go watch a Southeastern Conference football game reasonable? We've done our due diligence around the country. You'll see that it's more than reasonable.

Pascal Lamy

Some of you will have read, or perhaps written, stories about a Plan B to be implemented in the event that the Hong Kong ministerial conference falls short of our objectives.

John Hendricks

Somehow, they have become our conference rival, and we're opening the season with them, so I'm expecting a good, hard-fought game.

My time at conference would have been good enough to make it to state last year.

Chris Spielman

Look at the conference as a whole, and I don't think it's any question it's the strongest conference in the country.

Like I've been telling the guys, we need to put three meets together like we wrestled Valley, at conference and districts.

I will tell you without any question that every league game I've been in part of in the Big East seems like a conference tournament game. There's an intensity and urgency. It took a while for our kids to get used to.

I was very pleased and surprised our girls won the meet, ... Actually I was a little shocked. This was the first time Kennedy Collier and Katie Upton have run a varsity race. I didn't know what to expect from them, but I knew they could help our team. First place in the conference is quite an honor.

It feels good to win the conference regular-season title, and to head into the tournament with an unbeaten record would be nice, too. But it won't really mean anything when we get to state. We'll have to start over from scratch, then.

It feels good to get back-to-back conference titles. We want to keep it going and keep it rolling.