Tara VanDerveer Quotes (25 Quotes)

We weren't sloppy. We played well down the stretch. We needed a stop or two that we didn't get. I thought we gave a good effort. Basically, the statistics were the same except for one.

I know after the Connecticut game, I was personally exhausted. I felt like I had a rod in my neck and I didn't sleep at all that night. Some of it was the pressure the team felt with all those seniors.

We did not have the intensity we needed. We did not play them well last time and it will help us coming out and being hungrier. I'm excited for UCLA. It's exciting to have new teams (in the final).

She was the post to talk about (on Saturday). She doesn't have the dunk, but she has the hook. It's a great old-time move.

We have a very different team it's a whole new show. We have one of our most athletic teams, and that's not necessarily been a trademark of Stanford basketball.

I'm already thinking about how we can build on who is coming back and who is coming in. And I don't want to waste a day.

It's so different when you are sitting there and watching her. You get a much better sense of her game and what she does. Being able to watch her was really helpful.

The athletic director job is so demanding and I think it's changed a lot over his 15 years, but he's done a great job. You have to bring your 'A' game to work every day, and I give him credit for saying it's time for a change. It's hard to walk away from Stanford. This is a wonderful place to be. I'm happy for him that he's able to transition into something he really enjoys doing. I hope I can do that.

They have been up and down, but they definitely showed what they are capable of. Teams get tired of getting beat. I knew when I watched them warm up that they were serious.

We're not a deep team. We are not going to play 10, 11 people. Our starters should be able to play 32 or 33 minutes a game, but they shouldn't have to play 40 all the time.

She is so funny. I wasn't watching the game as clear as I needed to when I was watching it with her so I told her in the second half I needed to go. She's a riot.

There were some times that I wondered what we were doing and who this team was in the Stanford uniform. We are used to depending on our offensive execution. Tomorrow, we will go back to the drawing board.

She's come a long way quickly. She's the reason why we've been successful the past couple of games. She's gained the team's confidence in running the offense and she's shown great maturity.

We have played more games on the road ... we've had that experience already. We're ready to play, and we know we have to play well.

I thought our players were really paying attention this week in practice. They saw her in person and they said, 'Wow OK, we know what we need to do.

I'm surprised when she misses. I think she's going to make every one.

She wants to win more than anything, so she'll do what it takes. A lot of people want to win, but they won't do what it takes. When your best players are your hardest workers, you have the chance to be very good.

It was a dagger to hear that whistle. That's a tough way to lose a game. I figured, if anything, it would be a no-call.

There's not a player in the country that I'd want on our team besides her. I think she'll have to go to Stanford for about six or seven years.

When you have a big-time player like Candice Wiggins, you just can roll the ball out there and something good will happen. I love coaching Candice. There's not another player in the country I want on this team ahead of her.

I can't remember a year when I've moved on as quickly. I made a concerted effort to do that this morning when I got up. I talked to Candice (Wiggins) I talked to my assistant coaches. I am really motivated by the fact that I don't want to be feeling this way a year from today.

With the change in the second half, I really felt like we went with people who give us great energy. I'm just glad we have that kind of people coming off the bench.

I was upset with some of the knucklehead plays we made early. People were trying to force things they don't usually do. In the second half, people focused better, made better decisions and we didn't turn the ball over.

Brooke is tough to stop one-on-one. They didn't double her a lot. She's very talented and capable of this kind of game. She was the post player to talk about today.

I think we'll mix it up. We've got a Plan A, a Plan B and a Plan C. Maybe none of them are going to work. We will try to do a lot of different things. She is so different. She is not like anyone we have played against.