Gary Blair Quotes (30 Quotes)

We were lucky to only be 11 down at half. I thought we did a great job in the second half try to get back in. Every time we cut it, we made a foul and they made free throws.

I don't see where we have to wait for Texas or Baylor to have a bad year for us to move up. We can have a good year at the same time.

I thought she was going to show up like Batman and start blocking shots out of nowhere. She's the heart and soul of that team, and I hope she's back out on the court against Connecticut.

As ugly as the game was going, she probably would've picked up her third foul.

It might be good for the league if they did go 16-0. It would give us some national attention in our league. I don't see anybody else getting them unless they stub their toe somewhere.

She cannot be blocked out. She's constantly moving without the ball. You think you've got her but you don't have her. She's able to rebound in a crowd and that separates her from a lot of other post players.

This program will definitely help them a lot in preparing for college.

When they had a chance to win a conference championship, they responded. Give them credit.

When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the meaning of it all begin to fill with acts of kindness.

There has never been a region like this. Never. There is no way a basketball coach, whether they're in this region or the other regions, can say this region is fair.

She's the best post player in the doggone country.

You just get down and bow to her. Then you're there to give her a graduation gift in May.

What other teams in the Big 12 are building their men's and women's teams at the same time You seize this moment.

The last 10 minutes of the first half were crucial. We didn't take control of the game. We gave up too many easy baskets.

That's the T-Kay that was playing the early part of conference play that's how she looked. This has really been her best game since then.

We're both about defense, but I don't have the strong power he has in Joseph Jones.

Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit

She is probably one of the only players in the country that can play all 40 minutes in a game.

We got beat by a better basketball team tonight, we got beat by a better-coached basketball team tonight, and we got beat by a team that executed their half-court offense a whole lot better than we did.

Oklahoma played excellent. We played pretty good. We've got to raise our standards a little bit.

We'd never beat an upper-echelon team. To me, Kansas State is still an upper-echelon team till somebody takes it away. They still beat Texas Tech Jan. 4. How did it measure I don't think we can measure till we go on the road and are able to play against a Kansas and beat a Kansas on Sunday.

You cannot stop her right now. She might be the best post player in the country right now as a freshman after only two months. I'd hate to see her as a senior. Maybe I will have graduated by then.

We don't mind taking the trip because we are on Spring Break back home. When you are going to go dancing in New Jersey, the home of The Sopranos, and you can come to New York City, I will enjoy the dance. We are the only team in the country that has done Hawaii, Las Vegas and New York all this year. Now, that's pretty special and we are doing Europe this summer. I've had a hell of a ride.

If they're only coming for the hot dogs, let them be there for the hot dogs. They have to watch us.

ADs finally started taking women's athletics as a tool that they could actually make money on, and they could raise money from. People think it's always making money at the door, but it's raising money.

Hopefully, Jackson will be back for Connecticut on Sunday because the best in our league need to be back on the court when we go on the national scale and face teams like Connecticut. She is the heart and soul of their team, and she can do it all out there.

Our jury services supervisor spoke with (Sanger) a couple of days ago and he notified her that Mr. Jackson was in Bahrain and that he would be changing his permanent address to somewhere other than the ranch.

I'm not Batman. I can't fly off the court that quickly to get to the sideline.

This is the deepest recruiting class that the Big 12 has ever had, top to bottom. These freshmen can play.

This isn't a Cinderella team. This is a team that's playing up to its expectations and you do it with defense first, rebounding second and offense third. It seems kind of funny that we're tied with La Tech for that last spot. That's where I learned all those things.