Katie Gearlds Quotes (60 Quotes)

It's a good thing it's not a track meet. It's a basketball game.

I'm just excited to have the opportunity to be in the tournament and play our opening game on our home floor.

In all honesty, (the Big Ten title) is kind of still in our own hands. We do still control our own destiny. With two games left, it's first or second from here on out.

We started executing offensively and got stops defensively. Basketball is a game of runs. We had to sustain ours a little longer, and we did.

She is the Magic Johnson of our game. She can do it all make the big shot, rebound and run the ball up and down the floor.

Very fortunate to get the win. We have to leave it at that. We can learn some things but we won the basketball game, and at this point that's all that matters.

Going to camps with Noelle Quinn, I always thought she's the best player I've ever played against. She is the Magic Johnson of our game. She can do it all.

It didn't really cross our minds (to foul) and we kind of backed off a little bit and Cyndi made a great shot. Great players make great shots.

I was just trying to add a little humor to the situation. That's just me being me.

That's just me being me. People don't need to worry about it. I know what's going on and I hear the talk. Coach Curry found a little humor in it. It's not a big deal.

Anybody can go down on any given night. That's why you play. We feel like we're on top of the world. We'll be ready.

Anybody can go down on any night. That's why you lace them up, and that's why you play. That's why God invented the scoreboard to keep score. So, who knows

We finally put ourselves in a position where (Hoskins) didn't catch it. She loves to drive baseline, so you have to take your chances with the jump shot. But it wasn't just Hoskins a lot of other people hurt us.

It's huge, but at the same we know it doesn't guarantee us anything. It's going to be nice to play in a familiar place, but at the same time, we lost our last game there.

I don't think Erin played bad. It's the things that people didn't notice. The box outs and her defensive presence. Her presence on the floor opens up other things for other people because she can score.

Hopefully we can focus on just that one game and not worry about the other 62 teams in the bracket. We've just got to play our game.

With all of the distractions, I think if anything, it has brought us closer together and we understand that once we cross the line and get on the court, it is basketball. All the off-court stuff needs to stay off the court.

Give Indiana credit. They played a heck of a ballgame. We just had to start playing to win instead of playing not to lose. The last five minutes showed a lot about the character of this team.

They came out strong and very aggressive in the first half. We weren't strong with the basketball. Give them credit but we have to do a better job of being strong with the ball.

I thought Lindsay was huge down the stretch for us.

I always thought Noelle Quinn was the best player I've ever played against. She's fun to watch.

Defensively we came out and we were aggressive. They just didn't knock down shots and credit our defense for that.

There's no moral victory here we wanted to win and that's why it hurts.

(She is) someone who I've always said is my favorite person to play with, and someone I'll definitely miss playing with.

For 40 minutes I thought we played extremely good basketball.

Personally, it does (feel great) deep down inside all of us. It makes this game feel pretty good.

In the second half, we were very, very aggressive. We had the lead (in the first half), but we weren't playing our best basketball. It's so hard to put into words. We just dominated in the second half.

I was hurting in places that hadn't hurt before. (The Gophers) are so physical one through five and that's how they play.

(Webb) is our humor. She's our humor when we need to be funny, she's our comedy influence when we need to be serious.

If we want to win the Big Ten title we have to win and that's pretty much what it comes down to. If we lose, we get second.

She told us that first and foremost she was going to be here for us as people. If we need to talk about anything, her door was always open.

We kind of got fired up when Coach Curry got a tech. We gathered ourselves and said, let's go, let's make this a ball game. We did that. It's a shame. If we'd played like that for 40 minutes, what would have happened

It's a great honor. It's just a testimony of how our team finished this year.

We went on a run and they made a little run of their own. Give them credit, they kept fighting.

The flight into Penn State (on Saturday) was brutal. When we're up in the air, that's when all my joints start to swell a little bit. So once we get to the hotel, it's a matter of putting my feet up and giving my knees a break.

Who know what would have happened if we played like that for 40 minutes. But I thought we showed great character battling back the way we did.

You come to Purdue to hang a banner. We were successful this year. We put ourselves in position to hang a couple banners. The best thing to realize is, we don't have to worry about making the NCAA tournament. I think a lot of teams across the country should fear Purdue.

I thought we put ourselves in position to win. We came here thinking and knowing we were going to win (and) I thought we played well enough to win.

There is so much individual talent on this team that at any given point someone is going to step up and make a play. When someone gets it going, we're going to go to them.

We're going to have our hands full on the perimeter, but we're going to try to attack them, too.

This is going to hurt for a while. They played hard and they got stops when they needed to. You have to like their chances of going all the way.

I looked at the bracket and I thought about it. I've been thinking about (2004, when she made the all-tournament team as a freshman) a lot lately. I remember the feeling of celebrating after we beat Penn State. Hopefully, that's one we can duplicate.

In the past games, I thought we've done a good job of staying composed and letting little things rub off our backs, but (on Sunday) we let things bother us. We're human and we're going to make mistakes. We're just very fortunate to get the win.

There's just so much individual talent on this team that at any given point someone is going to step up and make a play. Lindsay was huge down the stretch and Erin hit some big buckets for us.

They're a hard-nosed, physical team and that's what they live by. We didn't fall down, we kept punching back. I thought our post players did a good job in there. (Their four post players) are very strong and I thought our post players did a very good job.

Defense wins our games for us. It's just a very good defensive effort.

Basketball is a game of runs. It's just all a matter of how you handle it.

For 40 minutes, I think we played extremely good basketball. We came out a little sluggish to start the second half, but we stayed poised and didn't let it rattle us.

It's only human to look ahead and think if this happens or if this happens. Realistically, you have to take it one game at a time because if you don't win, you don't go on.

That was probably the biggest game in non-conference we had. Once we got that win, it got us going confidence wise.