It gives me another outlook and more to play for than just myself and my team. It brings me back and reminds me that I am playing for the state, for the victims of (Hurricane) Katrina and Rita. |
It got sore real quick and I thought it was something worse than it really was. The X-rays were negative, and the doctor told me I'm just going to have to play through the soreness. I was just being a little cautious, but it's looking good for me to be ready to go Thursday. |
It kind of woke us up. |
It kind of woke us up. It could have been any of us. |
It means a lot for the school as whole, the state, the city. |
It was hard to sit out. It just hurts to sit out. There is no way to get used to it. |
It was just my nature. I never cling to people at first. |
It's good when they let us play on both ends. I'm less hesitant about being aggressive. I'm less hesitant about bumping somebody or just putting my body against people because they've been letting us play. |
It's just basketball. But as we traveled around this season, we had a lot of people come up to us ? displaced people who are from New Orleans ? and they tell us that we make them happy. |
It's not a shock to us at all. We've been doing this for so long that it all seems natural. |
Let them think what they want. Like my big man said, we are still hungry, we still have a lot more to prove. |
My mindset is to take my opponent's heart and take his soul. |
People are noticing I'm a good shot blocker. I used to see people going full throttle toward the goal. Now, I see more head fakes and stutter steps. |
Sometimes we call each other soldiers. And soldiers never leave a man behind. |
Texas gave us some hard punches and we had to be Buster Douglas and swing back. And we swung back at them. We knocked out Mike Tyson. |