You have to put a lot of drill work in. A lot of your focus is put on things you don't see every day, like counters coming back off of it, play-option passes coming off it. They're always (blocking) at your legs. It's totally different than preparing for the typical team you play. |
You hear about poor Houston and poor Denver and poor this team and that, but we lose one of the top five players in the game and a weapon like (Barbosa) and it's like an afterthought. Yeah, we should be even better, but we know we're going to get better, and that's a good feeling. |
You know, all year we've been talking about staying focused because that's what's going to get us to the Final Four. We were just telling each other we have to stay focused for two more minutes, we are going to Indianapolis. That's what we did. We are on the way to the Final Four. |
You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference. |
You learn over the long haul that there are those games when you leave feeling that we should have something to show for this with a win. Every once in a while you play those games where you say that you did everything in your power to lose and you still won. I'll take the second. |
You never know from one year to the next, one week to the next, what you're going to get in basketball. You have to make all the parts of the puzzle fit. We don't have 15 pieces this year, but we have enough to make it work. And the good thing is we get all of them back next year. |
You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people. |
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You'd like to have Brett in your side all the time, but we've got to try to manage the side as well as we can and manage him as well as we can. He's been a great weapon for us in both forms of the game over the last 12 months and we've just got to be a little bit careful with him. |
You're getting a chance to look at these kids with the number of at-bats they're getting early in the game compared to what they would be getting if you had your whole team healthy and here. It's a little bit different, but you're getting to find out a little bit more than normal. |
You've got to go back and see what you did wrong. I thought we played pretty well and got a little better. But we're going to look awful on film. ... Midway through the season you have to take the win, but we're going to Indiana next. If we play like this, we're going to get beat. |
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