Dean Foster Quotes (17 Quotes)

I think the secret is out that this team is pretty good. What has made them so successful is the fact they really play like a team. They've been together so long that they truly care about one another and look out for each other both on and off the court.

We thought a while back that this group had the potential to achieve great success. Although it wasn't easy, their time has finally arrived.

Even though we had less rest time because we had to play the second game, I still thought we performed with a lot of energy. They've earned some rest, so I guess I won't make them run home from here (Michigan City).

They're similar to us in that they'll make one pass to shoot it, or they'll make 20 passes to shoot it, whatever it takes. They limited bad shots and never gave us a great chance.

We moved the ball around really well tonight. We really focused on moving the ball toward the goal and we were able to attack the boards and follow up on some of the close ones we missed.

We had watched (E.C.) play enough that it seemed like if they scored on the break, they could give up a score back. I thought we matched them and then got some really good shots. Sometimes we made eight or 10 passes, but we were knocking the shots down.

He's just a great basketball player. People want to know how fast he is, how high he can jump, and I don't even know those things, but I know he can play basketball.

Since we don't have access to them on Sunday, we've asked them to remain active by running two to three miles. They told me they've been doing it, so I have to take their word on it.

I can't say enough about the players and the way we played. Three game in three days The kids could have been tired, but they just kept playing. I thought they showed a lot of courage tonight.

We expended so much energy to get ourselves back in the game that we started pressing ourselves a little too much at the end. We forced up a lot of shots at the end, but give them credit. They came at hard defensively and caused us to do some things we're not used to doing today.

Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.

I think our kids knew they didn't play very well in that third quarter and wanted to make amends. Basketball is a fairly simple game. All we did was do a better job of passing to find the open man and get some better looks at the basket.

International business has always existed in some form. But because of advances in technology and travel, we can do business with India as well as Indiana. In fact, it might even be cheaper to do business with India than Indiana. And that's true whether you're a large multinational corporation, or a mom-and-pop business there are new cross-cultural markets you can expand into. You've got to know how to work well with other cultures.

Right now, we should all be learning Mandarin. We are going to be so impacted by the growth of China and India.

Actually, we kind of thought we could speed it up on them. If they did (get a fast) break on us, we wanted to come right back and break one on them.

Those are two really outstanding players. We do a lot of switching, which pushes players a little higher on the floor. We gave them some wide-open looks. We were just very fortunate they happened to miss. When you get a great defensive effort, a lot of times that's what happens.

Those shots Caleb hit were big, because I think they gave us a big confidence boost to get us back on track. During the first half, we looked like a bunch of scared puppies at times. I just felt we needed to be more aggressive. Instead of playing passive, they responded to the challenge very well.