Glen Davis Quotes (51 Quotes)

The road to the Final Four was a great experience, and I grew up tremendously experiencing that environment and the people I met. As a team we shared the feeling of being there, and playing that last game was a terrible taste in your mouth that you would never forget. Losing like that in that way is going to affect you, and me being the guy that I am - a competitor - you always want to leave out on top. That altered my decision a lot. Because not only do I want to be the best player, but I also want to win. Being there and not winning was a disappointment, and that made me want to come to back.

It was hard out there banging with those big fellows. We kept our composure with how tough they were playing defense.

It feels good, but we're not finished yet. We have a goal and it's right in front of us. We have to go and accomplish it.

Things didn't go my way today. I just wanted to do something to turn the game around and help our team win.

We knew Tennessee had lost, but we didn't dwell on it. We hadn't stepped on the court yet. We're in first now. If it falls in place for us, it falls in place.

For breakfast, I'll have soy milk with some South Beach Diet cereal, and maybe a pear or an apple,

It feels real good. To beat Duke, they're a great team. That just shows a lot about our team.

He gave advice to not follow in his footsteps. He had a lot to do with me making my decision.

Last time I checked the roster, Bill Walton wasn't playing. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wasn't playing. Reggie Miller wasn't playing. We can't let that scare us.

I'm just so proud of us, the chemistry that we have. To beat Duke, they're a great team. And that just shows a lot about our team, and what kind of character we have. It feels good, but now it's over. Now it's another task at hand.

I've heard so much we can't do this, we can't do that. We beat Duke, it was luck. Texas is going to murder us. After we win the whole thing, what can you say What is the deal then

Just to be around this great group of people, I have grown up a lot, thought things out and have prayed about it. I have come to the conclusion that I am not finished yet. There are a lot of things I want to accomplish not only as a player but as a person.

I saw a lot of stuff. I saw little kids in intensive care, old people real bad off, a lot of things.

It gave me a sense of purpose. What I'm basically here for on this earth is to impact little kids and other people through the game of basketball with my personality. It just made me realize how important projecting a positive image to people who are down and out can be and to give them a sense of hope.

My coaches are always telling me, if you have an open shot, take it because you can shoot the ball. I took what the defense gave me.

We are a team that likes to use selective hearing. Day after day we have to go out there and compete. What the critics say thanks for the pub. But it is for the birds.

I want to have my own stamp of immortality. Shaq is going to live forever. I can't live forever being Baby Shaq. I want to be my own guy.

He didn't make it. He was being transported to Baton Rouge General. He didn't make it I heard. I heard he passed in the ambulance.

I just wanted to do something to turn the game around. And at that moment (at the free throw line), I saw the opportunity where I can get a rebound, and I went and got it. ... Twice.

We are going to play him with his hand in the ground at defensive end mostly. We plan to do a lot of different things with him similar to how Auburn plans to use him. He is everything as advertised. Coach Collins and his staff did a great job getting him ready for us.

The loss is basically my fault. I didn't play the way I have to play for us to win a game like that. The loss is on me.

He's a great player. He's an All-American. I am trying not to get too excited because a guy like me who is kind of low on the radar, is licking his chops right now because this is an opportunity to show the world that you can play.

Shaq is one of the top 50 greatest players, and to be compared to him, I appreciate that. But I want to have my own stamp of immortality. I can't live forever being known as 'Baby Shaq.' But we've got a couple of similarities we both like to dominate.

It feels good, but it's over. There's another task at hand.

It makes you appreciate life at a younger age. You think about the choices you make in life. You want to make sure you go out the right way.

We're going to learn from this. We're going to remember what happened in the Final Four and never let it happen again.

I wanted to give a shout-out to the people of Louisiana. I wanted to give them some motivation ... give them a good feeling about their state.

You don't get this chance a lot. You don't get this opportunity to play on a stage like this, win one of the immortality trophies. That's what I call it. You win the trophy, you live forever, basically.

They did a great job. When I put the ball on the court, they would double team me. I wasn't getting any calls, my shots were not falling and I took some bad shots.

We were shocked. We just couldn't get up after the start. It just didn't go our way today, and that's basketball.

He cuts a lot of slack off me and the rest of the team. We just hope he gets well and we can get all the way to the top.

It feels good, but we're not finished yet.

We call each other brothers, brothers from another mother.

I've grown to love it. I'm a nice guy. Depends on how you use it, though. Somehow y'all (in the media) got a hold of it, and turned it inside out, man. I can't shake it.

It shows how much talent we have in the area and how much we love our state.

I never saw this type of game coming, especially the kind of team we are. But you never say never. They came out and punched us and we never recovered from it. What can I say This was their night. We were kind of shocked in (the beginning). We got knocked down, tried to recover, couldn't get up.

I feel real light, mobile and agile. I feel I can run longer. My endurance is up.

Raven has been a good kid since he got here. I could tell he was a little home sick the first week or two he was here, but I think he is over all that. We have been on him about taking care of business in the classroom. He has done everything we have asked.

I thought he was going to throw it to me for a second. But then he looked at the clock, and I knew he was going to shoot it and make it.

They are competitors. There is no doubt it will be a war. We are a tough team. Texas is a tough team, too. Hopefully they can wear down.

I had a high level of concentration out there today. That's how I approached it. I made sure I was ready to play. I just wanted to win.

I feel that Tyrus Thomas is a big impact on our team. We are going to need him to compete and play for us in the tournament.

Every time I'm on the free-throw line now, I think about Kentucky, and that situation.

It was an even contest. They hustled us and got most of our 5050 balls. We just played a little lackadaisical from three days off. We did have excellent defense from Alex Seifert and Carl Tesch.

I witnessed a surgery on a patient from New Orleans who was in a car accident. He didn't have any flow of oxygen. He couldn't breathe. He couldn't get a good flow of oxygen, so they did a surgery on him right there, and I was just holding the IV up watching.

I wish I could hit the rewind button and go back. I can't do that, of course. But this will make me a better person and a better player. It makes me want to get back next year and win it all.

It's called thinking without thinking. That's what I call it. The opportunity was there to make the shot. Most of the time when I'm shooting or when I'm shooting threes, I'm thinking about it too much. So I just was in rhythm, and I felt that it was a great shot and I made it.

We just have a chemistry and camaraderie that most people can't establish.

He (Barrera) was unstoppable. He played excellent. Griffith was the man of the night for Lejeune though.

You gotta love it baby. Oh my goodness.