Bruce Pearl Quotes on Opportunity (5 Quotes)

This is what March is all about. Alabama is a very good team. They've made four straight NCAA tournaments and reached the Elite Eight last year. But we represent a high level of basketball as well, and when you get in this tournament, you get the opportunity to show it.

It's incredible. To be seeded higher than any team in the history of Tennessee basketball, goes a long way. I'm happy with where we're at. Now we have to take advantage of this opportunity.

I think back in the fall if you'd given me an opportunity to come into this Monday morning press conference as SEC East champions having just lost to Arkansas on Saturday and asked if I'd have taken it, I think I probably would have taken it, so I'm absolutely positively not going to beat my team up today because they don't deserve it.

Saturday will be a great time in the SEC. It'll be as good an atmosphere as there will be anywhere in the country. ... We look forward to the opportunity.

I just think the opportunity to be on the road to the Final Four, to have the opportunity to be there for one shining moment, those are all the things we've got to push. We've got to try to get our identity back and playing a team out of conference that's not played us for the second or third time will be a positive. Ready or not, here it comes.