Gary Williams Quotes (104 Quotes)

I know I've worked hard, and I know the players have worked hard this year. We've had to overcome some things, and I hope that's good enough. We're going to be just like everybody else we're going to wait and see what happens Sunday. That's all we can do.

It's frustrating that you don't get that win. I think any game I've ever coached I thought we could win. We've won games believing like that.

In the second half the bench played really well. That was good to see, that they were able to come out and perform and get some significant minutes.

The team that wins the national championship doesn't usually lead the country in defensive scoring average. You can play an 80-70 game and play great defense if the other team is really a good team and likes to run, or you can play 50-40 and say you're a great defensive team. That never bothered me. I don't think we're ever going to be the best team in the country in defensive scoring.

I think so. We got up 25 (points) there. We played pretty good basketball.

We didn't shoot well tonight, but we didn't execute well either. It's a team thing everyone on the court has to take responsibility.

You can't make mental mistakes. You can't forget where you're supposed to be on the press, you can't forget where you're supposed to be on an out-of-bounds play.

Seven's a good way to play, as long as you don't have injuries. The game has changed, with timeouts every four minutes, and teams don't press as much any more. I know we don't press as much. A lot of it is the television influence, where the timeouts go for a minute and 45 seconds.

Our focus and our only focus is on Boston College. We have to do battle one game at a time before we can do any celebrating.

You can blow smoke this time of year, ... Come March, you are what you are.

I was very pleased beating BC, but that seems like it was a couple months ago now. You want to continue to improve. Once you get to a certain point in your schedule, you get to where you're just preparing for that next game, basically. That's not the time of year you can get better. This is a time where we've had practices, and even though it's during exams, you expect to get better.

It's a great time of the year for all of the teams. To see how we finish, how many games we can win in the last couple of weeks, it really tests your team.

At first a lot of the guys at the club were like, 'What do you want women to come out here and shoot for'

A while back we decided to sell the business. We have a new owner, but we're going to be around for a while helping with the transition, and that includes the boat show.

We made some mistakes, but we were tough enough to hang in there. We got a big win to bring us back to 6-6 in the ACC. Winning is what you have to do this time of year. It doesn't matter how you do it or how it looks, but you have to win.

I want to find out what's important, to really look into it and talk to some people. All I want to know going into next year is what we need to do, schedule-wise, to get into the NCAA tournament.

The one thing about going early is you'll get more families with little kids. I've seen more little kids out there. That's nice if you can get kids interested in basketball this way.

The season is so long, and you spend so much time with them, that the most important relationship you have is with your assistant coaches.

Hopefully, we're going to make it a little easier for ... consumers to be able to be seen in a more quick fashion.

There's an increasing awareness of the need for screening patients of all ages who are at high risk for osteoporosis. We shouldn't just be screening women over age 65. We need to screen everyone with identified risk factors for bone loss.

When they're on their game, they're very good because they play good defense, they can control the tempo of the game pretty well and when they make shots they're as difficult as anybody.

This is the first time in 28 years as a head coach I've lost a player halfway through the season. It's something that I personally take responsibility for. I feel bad about it. My job now is to make sure that Chris does a good job in school this semester and is successful with whatever he wants to do after school is out.

Hansbrough deserves all the attention he gets. When they get the ball to him seven feet from the basket, they feel pretty good that they are going to score.

The players, they're responsible for the way we're playing right now. It's their attitude, their effort in practice that allows us to play like this at this point in the season. You look around and see some teams that have gone through some tough things that aren't necessarily playing as well right now.

(Georgia Tech) plays you every play and they make you earn it. That's why I'm proud of my team because we earned it tonight. We made some mistakes, but we were tough enough to hang in there.

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You can't explain sometimes why you play well against certain teams. We've really hit it a few times when we've played against Duke. But the only thing that does for us is we know we can do that. This is a new year. That's not going to help us in terms of the scoreboard.

The first thing is when you turn the ball over 29 times you are probably not going to win the game. I don't think I have ever been involved in one.

As a college basketball coach, I'm upset for the future of game. Somebody has to be accountable. You can't blame just one group of people for this, unfortunately.

All I want to talk about is Boston College.

I really respect the way they play. They share the ball, and when your best two guys do it, it becomes contagious. If you're a good passing team, you have an advantage on a lot of teams. B.C. gets you every time you make a mistake on defense.

We had a wide-open 3 to tie it up and we didn't make ours.

Shane is a great young man, and we wish him well in the future as a student-athlete.

Our defensive intensity was really good to start the game. I had to sell the idea that if you play really good defense most of the time and you're struggling a bit offensively, the defense will break some things loose.

We've seen it about 10 times. You have to be ready to play. Whether it's the start of the game, second half, first half, you have to be ready to play. I can't go out there and play. You have to be ready to play as a player. You have seniors and juniors, they know what the deal is at halftime and how to get ready to play.

In the last few years, we've had such intense interest in sunscreen and hats and protective clothing that we have a lot of patients who lack vitamin D.

Duke's done that for quite a few years now. Players know their roles. You don't have a lot of guys sitting on the end of the bench who think they should be playing.

Travis was suspended because he was where he shouldn't have been, but you're innocent until proven guilty in this country.

You don't gloat about it. You just feel good because you beat a good program. They never let you win. You have to win the game. Some teams give it to you once in a while not Duke.

In the second half, we didn't give enough help on a couple of screens. They were able to get good looks, and you still have to make the shots.

I said coming into this game North Carolina is playing the best basketball right now. They have size, their guards do what they have to do, they work hard on defense and they attack the glass.

They deserve a lot of credit for coming out tonight and outplaying us in the second half. Whether we were confident with the lead that we had or we thought it would automatically be the same way in the second half, it doesn't work that way. Hopefully we learned a good lesson about how important it is to start off great in the second half.

I thought we had a great stretch of basketball early in the second half. We played well enough to keep the lead. Hopefully this is the start of becoming a good basketball team.

We scored runs. I'm not disappointed with the offense. I'm not disappointed with the bats. I am disappointed with our defense.

I'm looking forward to it. This time of the year, if you're a player or a coach, you like these next two months.

I haven't been talking about it today, and I'm going to talk about it tonight. We have Boston College, that's all I'm concerned with.

Sterling righted the ship. Without his contribution, I don't know how many we would have been down by at halftime. I don't think people realize that Sterling is 6-3, 200 pounds and, with his size, he can give people some trouble, especially on defense.

We didn't do it tonight, but it doesn't mean we are a bad basketball team because a lot of teams that were ranked higher than us couldn't get it done.

It really hurts to lose today, but from my perspective, there are certainly years when you get away and appreciate the team you had.

Winning is what you have to do this time of year. Nobody says how you have to do it or how it looks, so that's what I was about today. I was going to try to win that game somehow, and the players felt the same way.