Chris Richard Quotes (59 Quotes)

I think it's a great chance (everyone will stay) because none of the people who have an opportunity to leave are really hurting financially. That helps us out a lot. Everybody might not love school, but we love the basketball part about it. Money isn't the issue for the people who have the chance to go.

I think they've played excellent. David stepped up big game in the Ole Miss game and Walter has been stepping up ever since he's been starting. To me, I can't really ask them for too much more. They are doing the best that I think they can do, as far as being freshmen and all. They don't really know a whole lot, they are just playing the best they can play. I think they're doing a great job.

I think I'm kind of cocky a little bit because I beat them last year and I'm 3-1 in the last four games against them.

I don't think anybody's ready to leave yet. Everybody loves each other and we want to come back and try to repeat. We've proven that we're the best team in the country and we'll be the best team again coming into next year. We have a great chance to repeat.

We're going to be eager all day. I bet most of the guys wish they could get up at 7 p.m. and then just go play. There's going to be a lot of sitting around, and we're going to get anxious.

I think it's kind of expected out of me to contribute. I haven't been doing that as much as I should be doing the past couple of games.

I've never seen Corey shoot like this. Corey was feeling it today -- he was hot. He played great. If he can play like that every night, it will be that much better for our team.

We didn't want to be a part of their movie. No Glory Road . We didn't want to be the team in the movie that gets upset by the good guys.

I think I have the drive to do it. I think I'm capable of doing it.

We don't get caught up in all that (favorite) stuff. It's just a lot of talk. We came in (to the season) as a team that might not make it to the NIT and now we're in the Final Four, so all that stuff is irrelevant.

I'm not saying anybody in the past didn't want to win. I wasn't here and I wasn't a part of all those teams, but this team just wants to win so bad. We're competitive. It's in our genes. It's got to be in our blood.

Lee was the villain today. The fox, the crocodile, all of that. We couldn't have asked for a better game.

I could be wrong but a lot of the fans that are here now, I don't think they were here in the beginning. I think it's crazy. I personally feel like there were a lot of people who weren't coming to the games at home when they were free. Now they're spending thousands of dollars to come to games when we're far away.

All of us knew what he was capable of when he first got here. He just is going out and playing ball. He's just getting opportunities and he's taking advantage of it.

Moss played great. He got a lot of key early offensive boards, got some big-time points and some key stops.

Everyone has been pulling against us. We're used to it. From day one, nobody expected us to be where we are now. Everyone expected us to be in the NIT and now we're in the biggest game we can be in in college. All that stuff is a bunch of hype. We don't care about that stuff, all we have to do is go out and execute.

If Peyton saw how Lee shot the ball, he'd have to be proud of him. I don't know as far as (Manning) it being an inspiration or anything but Lee played great, one of the best games I've ever seen him play. . . . If Peyton saw Lee shooting the ball like he did, he might want his autograph now.

I'm unhappy because we just lost. We thought we had it in our hands, but we just didn't execute.

I can't say I'm surprised. We've been playing together a while and impressed a lot of people in the summer. I'm not going to pinch myself. You know, I'm not cocky, but I knew we had a great team.

We didn't want for them to have that exceptional story -- Glory Road, all that stuff. We don't want to be the team on the movie that got beat, that got upset. We didn't want to be that team.

They stepped up big time. David stepped in and hit a shot. Walter ... dominated for his size and the effort he put in.

He's one of the best in the business. He does a great job. He makes corrections sometimes when the coaches make mistakes. He's pretty good.

It's human nature. They try to protect themselves from being embarrassed.

We won't be happy until we win it on Monday night, if we're fortunate enough to do that. If we win it, that's when we'll be able to say we're happy to be here.

That's one of the great things about our team. Anybody can step in and score the points for us at any time. It's just somebody else's turn on any given night. . . . We were smart enough to pick up what they were doing. We knew once they started doubling (down low), our guards would be wide-open.

You make contact first and it's a lot easier to defend him. I kind of knocked him off balance. We did a pretty good job on him.

Personally, I think we'll be pretty good. I think we're a defensive, stopping team, I think we'll score more points than a lot of people think that we will, but I mean I think we'll be pretty good.

George Mason is just another team that wants to win as badly as we do. They deserve the Final Four. If we come in with the wrong mind-set, we won't be playing very long.

We might not lose to anyone if everybody comes back. I might be going outside of myself right now, but I think if everybody came back we could be one of the best teams in the history of college basketball.

I don't really care who we play. We just want to win. If everybody wants to think beating lower-seeded teams is the way we got to where we are, let them think that.

If we go out and win it, we'll have a greater chance of going to Jacksonville, even though towards the end of the season we didn't play as good as we're capable of playing and lost a few key games. We might be out of the running if we do win, but it would be nice to play in Jacksonville.

We have a lot of different people that can go out and get 10 or 15 points a night, and that's tough for other teams to match up against. They might focus on two or three people when we have others.

I think he's one of the best free-throw shooters in the country. He never misses, so it's not the smartest thing in the world to do.

I think if everyone comes back next year, it could be scary. We might not lose a game. We might go down as one of the best teams in history.

It's hard to believe we're here in the state of Minnesota. I never thought I'd go to Minnesota for any reason. But here we are, and we're excited to be here. I'm glad I don't live in weather like this, though.

I hope those uniforms don't mess anything up if anybody is superstitious.

The Big East, the best conference in all of the land, won't be there. We've shown what we can do.

That's the way it is in practice. Every time he misses a 3-pointer, the coaches keep passing it to him until he makes it. We want him to keep shooting.

It's intense. Sometimes, you get tired of losing, so you do whatever you can. You try and foul the guy every time.

If we get complacent with where we are now we could easily lose (to George Mason). It's not good enough now. We want to win the whole thing.

I think it must be his hair. You know, the ponytail.

The best part is nobody is jealous. Because if we keep winning, the attention goes to all of us, anyway.

This game will be a lot tougher. If we just play the defense like we played the last time, maybe a little harder, we should be OK.

The last time I did something like that was in high school.

Everybody wanted to see us lose. We just had to make the Cinderella story a different outcome than all the ones in the movies.

I think a lot of teams got the idea that they could run over us because of our past. That's not going to happen. We're a different group of guys.

I don't have to pinch myself. I knew it was a good team from the beginning. It's just surprising to all of y'all.

We felt like we let those two (games against South Carolina) get away. We've got to come back in more focused (today).

You give yourself a little workout before you get into the game running to the scorer's table.

His improvement is more of a shock to the fans. We always knew what he was capable of doing. Now he has the opportunity to showcase his skills.