Gary Williams Quotes (104 Quotes)

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He's certainly a great team defensive player. You don't get a lot of attention for that, but he makes N. C. State a very tough team defensively.

You think about (the tournament). But it doesn't matter, you have to win the next game.

You don't expect it from a senior. Having been here for 3 years, you know how the system works. But at the same time, it can happen. I look at this as a one-time situation. We have a lot of things in place that help our student-athletes ... but we also have to have people that are willing to do their part, too. This is a two-way street.

It's kind of a thank-you type of thing for our fans. It's all about practice tomorrow. Tonight, it's just a good time for everybody.

Percentages can be misleading. We weren't good with the ball. We had 23 turnovers. You have that many against a team as good as Gonzaga and you're in trouble.

Give Duke credit for their defense. We couldn't handle it tonight. We've handled it before, but we couldn't handle it tonight.

This is a big time of year. You've got to win.

Chris was late for a meeting.

He works, don't discount that. He plays hard every play he's on the court.

The husband wanted to get me to say it was OK not to pay off their credit cards, but I'm willing to tell a client when I think they are wrong.

I just didn't know a lot about the NIT, the new format, and in talking to C.M. Newton, that helped a little bit. I would think with the resources the NCAA has, they can make it a better tournament. We'll see.

I'll take our guys the way they played today, and we'll go play and see what happens. We're 4-4 for the first half of the league. I think we're getting there toward playing the way we have to play now for the last eight games.

There's more good teams out there now, so you have to do everything right to make sure you're one of those good teams. If you slip a little bit, you're not going to be one of those good teams. We have to do a better job of making sure we do everything right so when it comes time to play you earn the right to be a good team.

Well, he's a good player, number one. Number two, we're not defending anybody from the three-point line right now. So he's no different than anybody else.

He is the best inside player in the country. Generally, nobody stops him.

I thought we had recruited a very good class.

This is the first time in 28 years I've been in this situation. It's something I take personal responsibility for. He'll be missed because he's a four-year senior who has played on some really good teams.

It's a tough thing because I thought our guys did a good job this year to win 19 games. A lot of times 19 wins are rewarded by going to the NCAA.

He was on his way. Player of the Year as a sophomore. He was certainly capable, but who knows It's easier to stop an inside player because you can put three guys around him in college basketball.

Chris' career was outstanding here at the University of Maryland. He has contributed a great deal to our success the last 312 years. I'm fully confident Chris will be successful in life.

We had to dig deep and find a way to win.

We were looking for a family boat. I was in construction with my father, and I began looking for a boat at some of the dealers after work. I was still dressed in my work clothes and when I walked into those places, I guess they didn't think I had any money to spend, so they ignored me.

I thought our players did a great job the way we started out today, with everything that's going on around this particular game.

Hopefully, Chris will be available for Sunday's game against Boston College.

This is a pretty resilient team. They have great attitudes, ... It's still great basketball.

But we'll have to see how that plays out. I say that with the idea that there will be a couple of teams that play well these last three weeks of the regular season.

A lot of times in a close game, it's only four or five minutes that are different. You have to pick your stretch and run it as long as you can. We got it out to 13 and it was enough to win the game.

You don't expect a game like that going into it, and our guys did a good job of being ready to play but also being ready to play at the start of the second half. It was good to see, especially at this time of year.

I think all of the first-round games in the ACC tournament are going to be really difficult. Those will be some great games on Thursday. If you're a basketball fan, that may be the best day. Teams are playing for a lot on Thursday.

Every team that gets into the NIT has different feelings. Some teams are very excited. Other teams are trying to get over the disappointment of the regular season. I'm sure our guys are disappointed I'm disappointed. But I don't let that affect the way I

I thought he needed another year because he was limited offensively. Just another year of basketball at the college level wouldn't have hurt him. (But) once we found out he was going to be a lottery pick, then for a player, you almost have to go. There really wasn't much of a decision there. For Chris, maybe that was his best time to go.

We didn't make a shot. We had them but we didn't make them. That's the way it is. You have to make shots.

The big thing was they were averaging 26 free throws a game and we held them to 15. That helped us a lot. I thought the contact was there at both ends of the court. You try to adjust to how the game is being called.

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This is special. This university has had so many good teams, but it never quite worked out. Tonight it did.

In a game like that you expect Manhattan to play with a lot of emotion. They did. We didn't play with enough emotion. That can make the difference.

You have to be better than 27 percent. I thought we had some opportunities.

We're battling, and that's all you can do. This time of year, you can't make any trades, you can't pick up anybody. You have your team. This is what you do. You go play.

I know what it takes to win, and it's up to each individual player to make that happen. We have to earn the right to be a good team. We have several returning players that got a lot of experience as sophomores and juniors, and we have four new players coming in that want to get things done. Hopefully, that will be infectious.

You go through periods where you start to rush and all the sudden it shows up. You have to work on it, get that under control and wait for the next thing to pop up. You think you can score taking shortcuts. You don't just take your time and run your offense and be patient. Patience usually leads to really good shots.

I just didn't think he got a consistent run. Some games he'd get 20 minutes, 25 minutes and then he'd get like four the next day and I think that's hard on any player. Since he's been with Seattle, he's gotten a lot of opportunity to play. He just needed a chance.

We don't know what we have to win. And nobody else knows, either. Despite what all those people who get paid to act like they know, they don't know. The selection committee knows who's going to be in the tournament. Or they will know. They're the only people who really know.

Carolina is playing better now than they were up at Maryland. We're playing about the same, and that combination was the reason for the outcome today.

I thought our defense wasn't good enough. Whether we doubled down or didn't double down, it just wasn't good enough.

Im just thinking as a draw card, the more stuff we have in the Valley to bring people down here, the better, ... Were losing a lot of our Winter Texan trade. Every year they have less and less to do.

The players are responsible for whatever way we're playing right now, because it's their attitude and their effort in practice that allows us to play like this. To the players, you can say all the right things, but if the players don't have the fortitude to get it done, it doesn't mean anything as a coach.

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If you're going to be a good basketball team you have to play every play. I preach that all the time. And I kind of coach that way to back up what I say.

Just to get that thing to six at halftime took a lot of effort. I've seen that before. You're almost in a trap in a situation, where their best scorer (Grier) doesn't play, they lose a game probably everybody in Minnesota thought they should have won. ... Good teams come back after a situation like that, and we happened to be the next game.