Leonard Perry Quotes (26 Quotes)

I thought the kids competed. It's hard to do less than 24 hours after coming off an eight-hour bus trip.

You can't win four games and expect to keep your job. You have to win. I understand that.

We've been through some tough times, but we've gotten better. The problem is who we're playing. We happened to be playing the best team in the league (today).

They are coming off a loss at home which is very, very, very rare. So I know those kids will be focused and really concentrated when they come in here.

People talk about his improvement, but he was good when he got there. He has a high basketball I. Q. I don't think there's a better guy in the country that finishes around the hoop. He's extremely valuable to (Utah State's) offense.

The biggest thing is we are going to have to execute offensively. We've been doing a much better job of late of not going on very long starvation periods of not getting a basket.

Our start was not as well as we have been starting games recently. We can't afford to start a game bad in terms of taking care of the ball, making easy shots, defending the basket and rebounding the basketball.

I think we have our kids believing now that we are talented enough to win some games. We improved during this game, and I'm looking forward to Saturday's game. I fully expect to win this game on Saturday.

I hope they go all the way. I hope they get two wins, maybe more. I like their team. I think they are really talented. They execute, they are smart, they know how to play.

Academically we're sound. Our kids don't get in trouble. They are great in the community and on campus.

We were sluggish in the first half. And it really cost us.

The kids are crying. They hurt.

I've pretty much known that you can't win four games and expect to keep your job. You have to win. I understand that. ... We made changes I thought we needed to make. In no way, shape or form am I upset or mad. ... Change is inevitable.

It's a young club. We're young and inexperienced. That's a bad combination for teams with our schedule and who were playing the rest of the year. The kids have hung in there. They're in great spirit. They're quite resilient.

It's a good team. They have a great bunch of guys as far as talent and athletic ability and they bring it to the floor every night. We have to compete, show up, give ourselves a chance.

You have to spend a lot of time at church prior to playing in the Spectrum. There's a lot of praying that needs to take place, and the basketball gods have to be with you.

I think Millsap's a first-round draft pick in my opinion. I've coached them before. I know what they look like. I know how they walk. I know how they react and he's certainly that. There's nothing you can do to stop him from getting 15 to 18 rebounds a ni

We got stuck there (at eight points). We weren't playing bad. But they would answer the bell every time we'd make a play. It kept us at that deficit. It was hard to cut into it. But the kids stayed with it. They did to their credit. I'm proud of them.

It was difficult for us to get a stop, and we couldn't score any shots. ... We did not play well, but give Utah State all the credit. We had a bad game.

In the last five or six games, we've been playing our best basketball in this league. I'm really proud of how our kids have stayed together and gotten better in the course of a very difficult year.

I've put absolutely no thought into it. I've just focused on coaching this team and that's all I'm focused on trying to get some momentum into this team going into the tournament.

We missed some opportunities in the first half to close the gap, but I thought we played as well on the defensive end as we can play.

He's a talented kid. He personifies what our program is all about. He's tough. He plays hard. He got his degree in 312 years. He's completing a second major. Great kid. He keeps us going through the kind of adversity we've had.

When Karl and Lane get in a groove, they are difficult to stop once they become comfortable. And we had some problems on the defensive end that cost us.

I've been playing Coach Morrill for a long time now. His teams are skilled and very discipline and they execute almost as well as anybody in America year in and year out.

We seem to be funk-enders this year. We didn't see a funk. We saw a good team.