Kathy Lanter Quotes (20 Quotes)

I think they have the size to match up with us. I thought their guard play was very aggressive. They match up with us well.

She needs to get stronger, she has to improve her work ethic and when she gets to college, she'll do that. It's a business in college. You're playing basketball four and five hours a day. You're in that weight room and you're practicing all the time. There's no doubt she'll get better.

We've really had a rough couple of months of basketball and it's been tough and draining. I'm very proud of the girls because they've persevered. They've come out ready to play every night and they haven't had a letdown.

At the end of the game, we wanted it in her hands on the free-throw line. It's just smart basketball. We're a veteran club and Amy knows just to go right to Tiffany. We have to play smart basketball at this time.

Tiffany is shooting the ball really well right now. You guys were saying if somebody stepped up and hit the outside shot it would make a difference in the game, and she did today.

Man, we had some opportunities there. We battled back and we never quit. To be down by that much and have an opportunity to win the game with under 10 seconds, that says a lot for the girls and how well we played defense at the end.

I knew they were going to have their hands full with Kelly. You can double-team her or triple-team her, but she's going to be a hand full. She made some nice moves.

I said from that very first time that it gets in your blood. What's so special is you get to share it with a different set of girls now. That's what is so special.

I'm just so proud of the way she's handling all this this year. That's a lot to put on a kid's shoulders. I know her dad is just so proud of her, because Jill was his baby girl.

Kelly and Jill are quite a pair inside. We all read how they came back from 16 down with three minutes to play to win the sectional, so we knew we couldn't let up.

These kids haven't won a regional championship. Only a few of the seniors were involved when they were freshman. This is an exciting time for them.

We ask Jill to do so much. She doesn't just have to score. She has to guard the perimeter, she has to help us break the press, she has to play outstanding defense.

I really hope not. Now it's going to have more of a Final Four atmosphere. Maybe we can gear it toward that. Make it to the Final Four like the NCAA does and still have a lot of prestige and honor behind it.

She's not afraid to take that big shot and you like to see that. That's a good sign if a freshman is not afraid to take a big shot in a game like that.

I don't think there's any favorite. You're in the Elite Eight. Being the favorite really doesn't matter. You have to go up there and execute. It's that simple.

I even told Theresa this, it was a pleasure to coach against her these past four years. She can do everything.

Sure, it's disappointing, but I'm not disappointed in the effort. We got down too much in the first half and they hit some big 3's. We had to fight back the whole time. I think we were a little fatigued as well.

They shot the ball extremely well in the first half. We got into a hole and got behind because they shot the ball so well. On the other end, we missed too many easy shots in my opinion.

It is such a good rivalry that I don't mind it, and the girls don't mind it. It's good clean basketball. I think the girls respect each other very much.

We want to go to Jill in that situation, but they just did a good job of collapsing on her. We tried to play a little two-man game there, and we were going to go to our strength and pound it in to Jill.