Jim McLaughlin Quotes (29 Quotes)

Hayes and Burton worked their tails off last year, and they didn't smell the floor. They made a commitment this summer to get stronger and tougher, and it's nice to see them playing well.

St. Joe's played extremely well, and everything was going their way. The loose balls bounced their way. The shots they missed bounced their way and then fell back in. And we couldn't buy a basket no matter what we did.

Nebraska is an unbelievable program and a great university. We played our best match of the year against them. I'm just unbelievably happy for them.

It's just a precautionary notice to tell banks they've got to be watching this.

I think there was a lot of optimism (in February) that peace was at hand, and people could get on with their lives, but I think this optimism has been shattered now in the last few days because of the actions of the RUF and the inactions of the United Nations peacekeeping forces.

He kicks very well. If the opportunity comes up, I would not hesitate to have him kick from 40 yards.

There are ebbs and flows in every season and in almost every match, and we've learned how to handle them. It's difficult to win as many matches as we've won, but the maturity of this group has allowed for that.

You can't go 13-for-24 and win games in March. We had the right plan. If you step to the free-throw line and hit the throws, you have a whole different attitude out there.

We got in the hole right from the get-go. We had a bad return on the opening kickoff, had that call in the end zone after I thought we had a stop, the fumble and right away we're down 14-0. We put the ball on the ground three times in the first half.

Kevin is a great shooter. It's the biggest part of his journey to be a complete player.

We have three divisional games on the way out and in order to be in a good spot, we have to win all three.

We've got kids that don't want to quit. Kevin played well he controlled the basketball game. (And) Andre got off early again.

Nebraska is a storied program. When former Nebraska coach Terry Pettit put in his program, I copied and learned. He not only built the university but the entire state and region. I wanted to do the same thing in the Northwest. It's hard to reflect on it now, but it's just a great win.

Arcadia has honest people. No one has a pretense. It does not matter who you are or what you do, everyone is treated the same. I like that.

I have a fond place in my heart for Arcadia and always will. I am a small-town guy and I love Arcadia.

That was a personal goal of ours. We want to prove that we were just as good as we have been the last couple of years.

Their style of play (at Nevada) fits what he does. He has a high basketball I. Q. He's a top-tier student. He's a super smart kid.

It's a huge award the top woman in college volleyball. It's appropriate. Courtney has worked so hard. Her attention to detail, the way she goes about things it's just a great reward for her.

We played well start to finish. I thought our transition was very good. We are getting more swings on the ball instead of giving free balls. I like our distribution and how it is pretty even.

They see the middle blockers improving and they get fired up. They understand the importance.

I could tell we had the essential pieces in the summer, and the kids have done everything I've asked. Some teams have a lot of goals, but our one goal is for the kids to be perfect practice players.

You get to this point at Proviso, you've got to play with some emotion, some desire, some passion. We kind of came out a little sluggish, a little gun-shy.

They play real big. Young and Turner are two really good players. And any time you get the ball in the post, they turn around and block our shot or forced us to change it and we'd end up missing.

I just never thought he could do that. He was just a nice, quiet person. He would have been one of the last people I thought could've done it.

She is truly great. She goes hard from start to finish and she always has control of her game. It is so much fun to coach her and watch her play.

Both Bob and Carl had very solid basketball games. They didn't score too much, but they played their roles. Carl played great defense inside.

It was awesome and everything I thought it would be. It was neat the way (Bush) interacted with the team.

Bob is the ultimate team player. He couldn't smell the court last year, but you could never tell from the way he practiced. He never hung his head or whined about his role. This year, he stepped up and took a starting job, and tonight he had probably his best game.

People were concerned that we hadn't been tested. We're tested every day in training. We train at a high level and all I want to see is the transfer of that training to game day. I don't think we get confidence from beating (No. 1) Nebraska. We get confidence in our gym.