Bruce Weber Quotes on Time (29 Quotes)

I'm sure they are looking forward to just getting a little bit of time to relax.

Their whole team scares you. They have some experience. They have some guys that have some talent. It's a little bit like Michigan. You're waiting for them to explode. With Minnesota, you don't know when it's going to happen, but it's possible it could any time.

Obviously we're disappointed that he was involved in an incident. We'll wait the course of time, and after the thing is resolved, we'll make a decision on (discipline).

We have to put a closure to it. We're a new team, a different team. We have to create our own image, our own personality, and that might take a little time.

We're more versatile now. The intensity level in that game was amazing. Both teams have progressed since that time.

We've got to get everybody going at the same time again. That's going to be a key down the stretch. If we can get them all clicking at the same time, we can make a run (at the Big Ten title).

He kept apologizing, ... I said, 'Hey, I love that you're a villain, keep doing it.' Deron said one time, 'That's their job, to make predictions. That's what they do.' But at the same time deep down, it gets the juices flowing a little bit. . . . We need a little adrenaline tomorrow there's no doubt about it. If we don't have an edge, I don't know if we can win the game.

We need to watch ourselves. That's the bind. You don't have time. You have to prepare for the next one but give them days off along with their exams and papers.

I may have to scream a little bit. I don't like to do it, especially late in the season. I can't let it slip by this time.

A lot of it is having no practice time. Our offense is not good - our timing, our execution of things. We haven't had time to practice. Teams scout and adjust and take away some plays. We haven't been able to add counters.

Calvin was OK. He tried hard. I'm just not sure he's a point. But at the same time, it was a good experience to play point and have to do some of that because now it gives us another option. Hopefully, we'll have Dee (Brown) and Chester (Frazier) with Calvin as our third point.

I told them they have to act and play like upperclassmen. It might not come overnight. They need some playing time, some minutes and confidence. We're going to have to be patient. We have two very good seniors and a lot of question marks.

I remember watching him go against Al McGuire as a young kid in the little gym. I didn't really like him at the time because I was a Marquette fan. But as I grew older, I grew to appreciate what he did and how he did it. It's amazing, when you think of their facilities, that he had the success he did.

But I would trade it for a national championship any time.

It puts you in an elite group. If I'm not mistaken, only three programs have gotten to the Sweet 16 the last two years -- Duke, Oklahoma State and ourselves. If you can do it a third time, it gets you more on that national level.

He's way ahead of schedule, but he's getting a little impatient. Everyone wants to get him back, but at the same time, we have to make sure he comes back in the right way. He's just got to be patient with it.

I hope Wisconsin is doubting (itself) a little bit. But they might have lost up there, and now they're mean and angry and hungry, and if that's the case, it won't be a good time.

Nothing's going to be easy this year. This is as well balanced as this league's been in a long time.

There's no doubt any kid would love to play. But we needed games early, and now we need some practice time.

Richard came in with a lot of notoriety - you had Dee (Brown), Luther (Head) and Deron (Williams) ahead of him. Two of them were first-round (draft) picks and Dee could be, so he did not get a whole bunch of time like he hoped.

The first half was as good a 20 minutes defensively as I've seen in a long time.

I'm not talking about huge goals. I'm just talking about one game at a time.

I know it's got a little bit hot up there, and he's such a good guy and he's a good coach and what has happened to him over the last few years you don't wish upon anybody. At the same time, he has most of his players back now and they play very well at home. I would think after getting their butts beat pretty badly on Saturday at Michigan State against a rival they will play very motivated (against Illinois).

To me that was amazing considering the first year we were here he couldn't even make the mile time. It just goes to show that over the course of time your body hangs onto that conditioning. It's a continuous thing.

Anytime you win and have to fight to get through it, you learn from it. Experience is your biggest learning tool. We went through it, had some slip-ups on defense early and then late. And there were ill-advised shots that allowed them to stay in it, but at the same time, we held our poise and found a way to win it, which is the most important thing.

I think they're happy to be here, they're excited. This was a great memory. College is a great time. I just hope they keep coming back.

You have to see how they respond when you get to a game again. Any time you lose, whether you call it focus or anger or intensity, they go much harder. I thought they were humbled from watching the film and disappointed.

It's kind of surprising that someone's looking to sell when industry conditions are as attractive as they are right now. Maybe this is the time to sell if you don't think it's a core business.

They were very attentive, no sad faces. It's a tough time, but if you look through college basketball ... everybody's coming back. When you recruit kids, you tell them, 'You're lucky to get two days at Christmas.' We actually had three full days.