Bill Tierney Quotes (20 Quotes)

Every game is so important, especially in a year like this with so many upsets. You can't lose focus. After last year, I think the reminder is still clear enough.

We lost our composure a little bit at the end, and they're good enough to take advantage. You hold somebody to four goals, a team like Cornell, that's averaging god knows what, that's all you can do, its all you can ask. If you told me we were going to hold them to four, I'd say we might at least get five, but we didn't.

I think, just like Syracuse the other day, we may have felt like we had our backs against the wall. This was a classic Princeton win.

Any one shot on goal can be the difference. We need to concentrate on every opportunity.

What goes on with Princeton lacrosse is as much to the credit of him as to me and the players. He's a dynamic man with endless energy.

We have got to take care of the little things and protect the ball on offense. We lost a huge opportunity, but it was confidence building in that we can compete at that level.

I think it is uncharted waters and we have no idea.

The kids stepped up big time when they could have quit.

Syracuse did an amazing job, I thought, defending our guys individually, which meant that as a team they didn't have to do quite as much of slides or anything.

I think they're the best-shooting team in the country. They spread their scoring out, and they have guys who can just finish their shots unlike a lot of teams.

The guys actually were mixing up their shots pretty good, so you've got to give him a lot of credit.

You can imagine him nodding his head as you listen to the tape.

You look at their goals and they took advantage of some situations, and you look at our goals and we didn't.

This is one of those games that if you come into Princeton to play big-time games, well this is one of them.

Something is going to have to give. We know they have hot shooters. We are going to have to stay with them and take control of possessions.

It's going to be quite a challenge to bounce back after a tough loss. It really becomes as close to a must-win as you can get.

I was really disappointed in our offense today, Cornell didn't slide to anybody. All our players had to do was run by somebody and throw the ball in the goal.

They've got an amazing group of offensive players. So we have to take care of that business.

Alex is phenomenal, if not the best goalie the country, certainly one of them. He does it every day in practice, so it's almost commonplace to see him do these things. He was great today, he kept us in there when things got crazy.

We are going to have to play them harder than we ever have before. They have remarkable senior leadership, and their guys are making tough shots.