Fran Dunphy Quotes (49 Quotes)

He's really the guy they rely on the most for leadership.

I am excited about the opportunity to coach at Temple University and look forward to the challenges that lie ahead in keeping Owl basketball among the nation's elite programs.

What are we, about 302nd We're not very good at foul shooting, and we're going to concentrate on it a little more. We certainly need to improve, especially as we get into the latter stages of the season.

I think our guys are pretty bright. They understand how important the game is and how Princeton is playing. They respect everybody in this league and understand how hard it is to win the league.

Defensively, we were about as good as we can be. When the separation occurred, we did things that were out of character for us. We had three open looks we didn't make. We had to have those to beat a team like Texas.

Steve is our best post-position defender. We would have liked to have him in there all the time and hopefully limit the things Steven Smith does.

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

I think our shots were timely tonight. That's what you have to do to win a tough game like this on the road against a good team. You've got to be timely.

Our whole defensive thrust was better that last 10 minutes or so. It was a big stretch for us. From that point on, I thought we really played terrific basketball.

He'll remember it, which is the difficult part. He should never question how much heart and desire and hard work he's put into this. He deserves an opportunity to get one of these wins.

If you allow him to get off, he can definitely hurt you.

He'll have played against some of the best players in the country, so hopefully it will help his game as he plays the guys in our league as well.

Dick Vitale is a very good basketball announcer, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for him and his achievements.

I don't understand what the problem is. To me, it's just a matter of respect. If the athletic department wants to honor or pay tribute to an important media icon like Chucky, then we have to value and prepare for such a colossal undertaking.

I think our league has a philosophy and a stance on what they think athletics should mean to their institutions and overall as a league. I think that's what they want to do, and I respect that greatly.

I thought Friedrichs three-point play in the first half was huge. We were a struggling basketball team at that time. It really settled us. And from that point on, I thought we ran a little bit of a better offense.

I'm proud of our efforts. We worked hard, played hard, played against a very hard basketball team and did a great job.

It's a great opportunity to come to Hawaii and not only enjoy the history and tradition of the place, but also to play college basketball. So we feel pretty fortunate to do both.

He saw the doctor today ... and he's going to have to go slow for a while.

I think we were timely in our shots dropping tonight, and that's what you gotta do if you're going to win a game like this on the road. It's a terrific win for us, no doubt about it.

We would have liked to have won more, but I thought we had great opportunities during those years.

I thought they had some pretty good looks, and they just didn't go in the basket.

He's just a good basketball player, and the opportunity presented itself and he's done a good job with his opportunity. All you want from your young guys when they're given that chance is to play their very best. It looks like he's really stepped his game up.

He was right were he needed to be all the time.

His impact on me has been great. He's been a great friend and someone I have counted on for counsel a number of times in my career.

I wish my job was that easy. The biggest quality of the Texas team is their balance, not just a few players.

We have a situation where we try to look at practice times that might fit for guys, who might have an hour on Tuesday or an hour on Wednesday. In that hour we may only get six or seven or eight guys.

It is a daunting task to try to fill these shoes. To try to be a great representative of Temple University and to continue to be a great representative of Philadelphia college basketball.

It was critical for us. I thought our guys did a good job early on, but you know they are going to make a run.

We took advantage of the fact that they had a couple of guys that didn't shoot it as well as they are capable of. For the most part, we did a pretty good job.

For the most part, I was very proud of our effort. Before the game, we talked a little bit about having tremendous respect for this program, but we couldn't let that become a fear factor. I thought our guys did a pretty good job of understanding that concept.

Our defense wasn't good, and our offense was worse.

I'd be delighted if we could get a lot more of those opportunities now that I'm at Penn -- sorry, Temple. First of many times, probably.

Sometimes it's contagious you make them and everybody makes them.

Harvard had a tough loss last week. I think they'll be real eager to put that one behind them and come out ready to play.

We need to keep him off the glass number one. He's stepping away from the basket and making jump shots, so we have to pay attention to that detail. When he does post up, he's got some pretty good inside moves as well.

It's weighing on a lot of peoples' minds up at Cornell. I know coach Donahue is struggling with it, but I think he's doing a good job of trying to go on.

When we lost to Boston College (85-65) in the first round of the tournament last year, we played right with them except for a seven- or eight-minute span. You cannot afford to have gaps in a game with Texas because they're capable of overwhelming you in a very short period of time.

We've been working hard and getting better at foul shooting. But Harvard doesn't miss too much, so we know we'll have to keep up.

This is a wonderful opportunity and now it's up to me to seize it and surround myself with some pretty good guys.

Things change in a two-year period of time.

I think you might want to give Villanova credit for that, but we also had some pretty good looks, the ball just didn't go.

It was a fractured game because of all the fouling. There's not a good flow to the game, but you have to battle through it some time.

The guard play on both teams was, and is, extraordinary. The Nelson-West combination with Pat Carroll as a shooter was phenomenal. Villanova has great guard play, too. Neither one was a box of chocolates to play against. The knowledge of the game and the way they carry themselves is what you want to see.

It was nice to see Oz make his first jumper of the game and have it be a three, and we put some space between us and them.

We went to Duke this year as decided underdogs. Our job is to prepare our guys we watched a number of segments of film.

It'll be a pro-Texas crowd, but it's a challenge no matter where the game is played.

We have obviously some very bright kids who can do some high-level academic work. But when it comes to playing basketball, nobody cares. Unless we do a good job, nobody's going to appreciate the kind of people that we are or the kind of students that we are.

We had one stretch of very inconsistent offense, and making poor choices. You can't give that team a 21-point lead. We didn't shoot well, obviously, but it would be wrong if you didn't credit Villanova's defense for a lot of it.