Jimmy Collins Quotes (11 Quotes)

A foul is foul no matter when it comes. Why should it not be a foul at the end Mayo stepped up there and showed a lot of heart to can those three (free throws) for us.

The track will bring Staten Island out of the shadow of the other boroughs.

I'm glad I didn't have a whistle tonight, because I thought we were going to lose the game at the free-throw line. In the middle of the game, they will call that a foul.

Christmas came late for us. As a coach ... we got a gift.

I'm so proud of these guys for sticking together. There were some adverse calls, to say the least. They stuck together. I thought it was a pretty great team effort and showed the toughness the team has.

They move, move, move, get you on a one-one-one situation and just beat you. We did not want them kicking and penetrating on us. We wanted them to make extra moves in order to beat us. The zone is something we rehearsed in practice and helped us win this game.

Speaking of team, that's what we faced. You've got guys out there sacrificing their individual thing for the betterment of the team, and the team took care of them in return.

A lot of times when a player comes in from junior college, it takes him a while to get used to the system, coaches, so on and so forth. Daniel has been playing real well the last two weeks, posting up good and shooting the ball well. We decided today, 'You know what, let's got to him and see what he does.' We went to him initially and he responded. So, we went to him for the rest of the game.

Better to learn them out here on the basketball court than to have to learn them in jail or in the ground. Learn some things about what respect means.

Last year we had to file an extension, and we had to pay penalties with interest. It was around 300.

If you got a guy 6-9 and run him through the paint and suddenly stops and posts, usually he has somebody on him 6-2. We took advantage of that particular opportunity.