Lee Melchionni Quotes (27 Quotes)

We want to play six more games and I think this helps along the way. Maybe we did prove to ourselves and to others (that we're back). I think there's a renewed spirit, a renewed energy.

It's so close and it's been a long rivalry on Tobacco Road. We would like to play them more than once, but that's the way the league has it.

Every time we play, we know it's a big game. We know we have a target on our back, but we know what we're capable of, too.

He has that will to win. He wants the ball. ... He will make those big shots. ... We certainly look to get him the ball.

The past is the past. We're not worried about what happened last weekend or last year. As far as we're concerned, J.J. has been an All-American and a Player of the Year, and we know he's going to show up and have a great game for us on Thursday.

There's a trust factor. Our offense is fueled by our defense.

For him to make those shots at the end, it's a little like daggers, nails in the coffin.

J.J. is an All-American, the player of the year, and we know he's human, he's going to have off games. But we know he's going to come back and play well and he did that today.

We have to work on our shooting more than anything else. It's a big place so there could be a little wind or anything different to affect you. We'll get used to the court and the atmosphere and be ready to go (tonight).

They're very capable of beating us, and we know that. They're a very cocky, very confident team.

That's when you need to have ultimate confidence in yourself. Be cocky.

This time of year, people kind of expect Duke to still be playing. We are excited because we want to accomplish something for ourselves as our part of this storied program.

It's tough to lose on Senior Night but it would be a lot tougher if this was the end of it all. This part of the season is over and a new part is beginning. Nothing's guaranteed any more. We've got a minimum of two games left. If we don't play well, you lose and you go home.

We did that in pick-up one day, playing to seven by ones. I think we won five games to one, and they had a lucky win. We'll just leave it at that.

I think it's such a heated rivalry, you can throw out rankings, standings and stuff when we play them. It's just something special. It's hard to describe, it's the level of the game.

With it being your first Duke-North Carolina game, you can't help but get nervous. You don't know what to expect because this game is the highest level of competition at the college basketball level. We will see if everyone is ready for that.

You put your name on something, it becomes yours, you have some ownership in it. When something is yours, you don't let anybody take it from you. That's our home court out there, and nobody takes anything from us on our home court.

We're not going to play well all the time, but we find a way to win. I think we just need to fight together, just come out and play with more energy. And we can do that.

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity

I think that's the hardest anybody has played against us all year. We had two tough games this week and (Clemson) kind of knocked us back.

We can't meet the freshmen halfway. 'They have to come up to our level. We're not going to wait for them. They've got to get on our train.

Being in your home environment and having a crowd cheering for you, that's something that always helps you out. I think we've had some success here at Cameron for the same reason they have We've had the crowd behind us.

I think we put a lot of pressure on ourselves offensively. They made shots and we didn't make stops. They were better than us tonight.

That's something that can be a little burdensome and we just need to go out and play basketball and have fun like college kids.

We're a senior-laden team and we'll go up there and treat this as a business trip and come back here with a win.

It's nice but it's a lot of fluff at this time of year. We want to be No. 1 come April. That's our ultimate goal, the one we've been pointing to since the start of practice last fall.

Three or four. I asked our trainer if I could get a nose job at the end of the year. We'll see what happens.