Gene Rasmussen Quotes (17 Quotes)

Being the top-ranked team, everyone is always trying to knock you off. We have to be ready for that. But at this time, you should be ready for that. There are no easy games. Like I mentioned before, we're going to take one game at a time and see what happens, but we're excited about the opportunity in front of us.

It's a great accomplishment for her. She's worked really hard to get where she's at.

That was nice that we had a tough game, especially coming from behind the way we did. (Our girls) didn't hang their heads or anything, they really came out and played hard and took care of what we needed to take care of.

They were a very good ball club, very physical and very aggressive. (Coach Mike Fischer) does a good job with his program and gets his girls to play hard. I know the last few games they've been playing very well, so I figured it would be a battle.

They played very physical inside. They were not as tall as our girls but they were a little bit bigger, and they did a good job on the boards, too.

We really thought it would be a battle. I'm really so proud of the girls, the way they came out and played so strong. I just think they did an awesome job.

Not looking ahead, we're going in with the goal of bringing home a state championship. That's not an unrealistic goal.

After we got beat last year, the girls put a lot of time in and worked really hard to get back to this position. One of their goals all season was to get back to this position and take it one step further. It's an awesome feeling.

Last time we didn't do a very good job of shutting those (other) girls down.

(In the first half), I thought offensively we tried to rush some things and forced some things, instead of just letting things happen. We did a much better job in the second half, and defensively we played much better in the second half, too.

If the stakes were the same as last year, that would be good.

We got off to a nice start. I thought we did a much better job on defense against them this time.

We're just happy to be in this position right now and hopefully we can take care of what we need to take care of.

We don't have to talk about last year. The girls have it in the back of their minds what happened. Just as it was then, our goal is to win a state championship, but we're not going to overlook anybody and we're going to take it one game at a time.

Our height was a big advantage against them. We (still) have to make sure that we get in good (rebounding) position, too.

On a bigger court like (at Wells Fargo), hopefully we can get up and down the floor like we like to and make it an up-tempo game. That would be to our benefit.

I didn't think we could get off to that good of a start.