Denham Brown Quotes (25 Quotes)

If I win a championship, Im pleased. But If I dont win an NCAA championship, Im not pleased regardless of how well Im doing. It is to make history out there. Two championships in four years In this day and age, thats unheard of.

I think were tougher than a lot of people give us credit for. They think, Youre talented, but youre not tough. You cant have both. Youd be too good if you had both. I think they read too much into that.

I really put a lot of thinking into dominating this game, getting the team going and winning. I think the older guys put it on themselves to win this game. I think we're tougher than a lot of people give us credit for. They might say, You're talented, but you're not tough. You can't have both. You're going to be too good if you have both.' I think a lot of our guys are tough physical and mentally.

It might be the same mentality we had last year. We struggled our first game last year in the Garden with the same team.

That's coach. It's something guys come to expect. I think he expects so much from us, and he puts a lot into us energy-wise to make us better players, to make us great players. . . . You can't come to Connecticut if you're not going to have a strong mindset.

I would assume that if the coach is smart enough, theyd decide to guard Rudy differently than how they were guarding him earlier in the season. But hes just got to make plays, regardless if hes covered hard or not.

Obviously, we want to go to the Final Four. And something like this, a Big East tournament championship, would have been a nice thing under our belt to have confidence-wise.

It shows that guys aren't going to give up. It shows guys aren't going to lay down no matter what happens. If things on the court aren't going well, the other team's making a run, coach is down your throat, guys are sticking together and maintaining what we need to be doing on the court.

I think it's basketball. These refs are trying to protect players from doing something they will regret for the rest of their college career and season. But at the same time, we are in the Big East. We are in an aggressive conference. You should allow guys to throw 'bows. I think that's what happened with Jeff. He shot an elbow. He was in the wrong, but I don't think he should have gotten ejected.

He sets standards for you, not to let you give up on yourself. He makes you stronger mentally, to be able to go through any situation once you leave Connecticut, in the real world or on the court. He gives you the a mindset just to say, '(The hell with) 'em, I'm going to do what I do.' That's coach.

Plays like that that, we need more often from myself, Rudy guys who are really athletic. It gets the team going and gets the crowd going. Everybody has their ego. I'm not going to take anything away from Villanova calling themselves, The New Bullies of the Big East,' but we're just as tough as any team in the league. We played hard, we played tough and we're a damn good team.

They can keep their heads up because they took the No. 1 team in the country down to the wire.

We didn't dominate them the way we're supposed to, didn't do the things we're capable of doing. We paid the price for it.

Plays like that have to be made by myself to get the team and the crowd going.

We are a championship team at heart and these are the type of games that are preparing us for down the road.

We haven't started like that in a while. With me coming off a pick-and-roll with Hilton and him getting a dunk, I was like, 'That's what we're talking about.' Where was that for the past four or five games

We thought that getting into our fast break, our primary offense, would obviously be better for us.

Rashad and I saw early on what McGrath was capable of. So we took it upon ourselves to lock him up. Getting around all the screens they set for him was the hard part.

A loss to anybody would really set us off track of winning the Big East and being the No. 1 seed in the Big East Tournament.

This shows that guys aren't going to give up and that guys aren't going to lay down, regardless of what happens in the game. We're all sticking in this together.

A lot of teams have played zone, been putting a lot of pressure on us, taking us out of our fast break. I think tomorrow will be a good game to get up and down the court.

We were determined to win. We look at ourselves as a championship team. Coming off a loss, we had to bounce back. It cant take two or three games to bounce back. It has to take one.

Coach has been telling us were the deepest team in the country. It showed.

They're trying to make history, and knocking off Connecticut is a big deal.

We're tougher than a lot of people give us credit for. This was a game we had a bull's-eye on for the last two weeks.