Dick Bennett Quotes (37 Quotes)

We just had no answer for the big kid. He doesn't miss once he touches the ball.

I love good basketball and I haven't been seeing it in my team. If I am to end it this year, I just want my team to go out playing good ball.

I clearly think we've earned that. Take all the close games you want and throw them out the window. When we needed to perform, we were unable to.

We got him into a bad situation, maybe a travel.

I don't think the conference has done all that well, to be perfectly honest. I think this is a conference that will arrive late. I don't know why, but it will reassert itself. We haven't raised the banner very high, aside from Washington. We have a lot to prove as a conference. I'm not disturbed. I don't listen to talking heads that the conference is overrated. It will come out in the wash.

I found it easier than I thought it would be. You have a ton of interviews, but if you're comfortable in those settings, it's not bad at all.

UCLA's execution in the first half was a thing of beauty. Their screens, their cuts, their timing was perfect. In the second half, we made them earn it.

Whether you like his music or not, he's a big name.

At the moment, McCain fits the bill of the type of candidate Republicans are looking for, in light of what's happening to the Bush presidency. He can be a conservative Republican to conservative Republicans, he can be more moderate to independent voters, because of the straight-talk aspect. He fits the profile of what different voters want.

It has been my pleasure to serve WSU in these years.

At halftime, we talked about 'Let's just show some semblance of a half-court defense and some offense. We took a lot of circus shots in the first half.

He's got to wait until his turn comes up. I made it clear I want to go to the end of this season.

They made the plays they had to make and we didn't.

It's not a big secret that I've been leaning that way. Everybody around here wanted me to wait until the end of the season to make sure. And I think it's time for a change. I knew these three years were going to be difficult, and that's the only thing I've been right on about.

What people don't like is uncertainty. What they really don't like is a president who doesn't acknowledge uncertainty and deal with it. Americans can take bad news, but they want a way out of it and they don't see that from Bush.

We earned last place. The team slowly eroded, and we played our worst basketball at the end of the season. The game meant something to Arizona State. They wanted it, and we didn't. We don't have the toughness to play 40 minutes, and Arizona State could have beaten us by 40.

Obviously, we have no leader on the floor. That is obvious if you watch us. I don't think they trust me. My feeling is that most of them think I'm over the hill. Maybe I'm just exaggerating.

This is a game where we were just dominated by a vastly superior group of players and coaches. We picked an awful night to not even be able to find the basket.

You have to recognize that they've got a lot of young kids out there. They're playing freshmen and they lost great players. People don't realize the number of great players they lost. I think probably they're a good team, but they're not the same team as they were last year.

The loss of Derrick has impacted us far more than I thought it would. I don't mind when we're beaten. I just hate to see us come apart at the seams.

We've made it clear, actually agreed as a group, that we would like to make a major effort to turn things around this time. We talked about trying to get a running start last week. We're not going talk about wins and losses.

You test gold in a furnace and silver with a crucible, but you test man with praise.

The biggest problem the White House faces is reconnecting with people. People simply aren't buying it anymore. People can see for themselves that things actually are not fine.

We played miserable basketball in the first half. We looked like a team trying to prove it could be a 94-foot (end-to-end) team -- throwing one-handed passes, shooting on the fly.

I don't know what that is aside from the emotions of the game. Maybe the fact that they have pretty much owned us over the years. I'm not sure. I do know . . . that they've got a lot of young kids out there.

I thought it should have come sooner. I'm glad it came when it did.

It's as realistic for us to win three games, so why not four. Someone has to suffer. I'm just thankful to be in, and who knows what could happen. That's the beauty of tournament time. But, of course it's going to be hard.

The big picture is what has to be viewed in this process. As long as our administration understands it, we'll be fine.

Derrick was unable to process what was happening to him in the lane. Things were happening too fast for him. That's a sign of (Arizona's) ability to be in two places at once.

We got some offensive rebounds in the second half and the fact that our half court defense was better ... particularly from Ivory Clark. He made Brandon Roy work for everything he got.

I thought we were respectable against Morrison.

I've had a lot of teams for 40 years now and they always look smart and tough out there, but I just haven't been able to do it at Washington State.

The loss of Derrick has affected us more than I expected.

Matt is a great fit for our staff. He is a young aggressive assistant coach who has been at two Division I universities that have turned around with his recruiting and coaching abilities. He was an integral part of the players landed at Denver and Middle Tennessee. He was a heck of a player in college who was a bulldog and he carried that into his coaching career. He has recruiting ties in the Northwest, West and Midwest.

I think reality has set in. We knew we had to play well in order to foster those hopes. We played OK against Oregon State, and we just got dominated by Oregon. It hurt to play like that. That's what happens when you are not a good team. Our hopes were higher, but what has happened was not unexpected.

Nobody could guard him. They were just too quick for us. We simply weren't able to handle that or their ability to shoot the ball.

We were consistent on both ends of the court.