Maggie Dixon Quotes (25 Quotes)

I remember he bought me my first Cabbage Patch Kid. When he was younger, he was really quiet. It was kind of like me the younger sister running around, being rambunctious. He'd always bring me around with his friends, and I just loved him to death.

We do not have it out there as a distant dream. This could actually be reality.

Obviously, I probably need to recruit some tall players, but we've been pretty good with that group all year. But I don't think there's a team in the country that's nearly as big as Tennessee.

I believe her personality and her presence, her strength as a player, is being able to settle everyone down. She is definitely a calming effect for all of us.

On the floor, we've had a lot of close games so far and he has said, 'You know you (girls) have got to understand you need to take care of this (offensively).' He's such a good person to have (on our side).

When I came on my (job) interview, I could tell this was a special group of kids. They had the mindset that they wanted to win the conference. ... I knew we could do something special because of the leadership and the talent.

Cara is an amazing player. When she's feeling it, she's feeling it. She does a great job of understanding what the defense gives her.

That's Candace. I've seen her do that since she was 15, 16 years old. I knew it was going to come one of these days, and so it doesn't surprise me. I don't think we'll be the last though in this tournament.

West Point graduates love everything that has to do with West Point. As much as it is male-dominated in terms of numbers, there is a great respect for female athletes and the females who go through here.

I am so proud of Cara because she came in with so many expectations on her. She has done well in getting other people the ball and she has picked up her defense.

I just take it as it is. I don't let it frustrate me. I just try to work around it. With our kids, our theme is, there's certain things in life you can't control, so let's just make the best out of them. And that's kind of where I'm at right now. The academy has been around a lot longer than I have. I respect it and respect what they're all about, and I try to roll with everything that's thrown at us.

That's just part of it. Everyone can't be a No. 1 seed. For us, though, it gives Tennessee motivation.

I just want to start by saying that I've never been so proud of a group of young women as I was in the last four months. They have been through so much and really just kept fighting back. I'm so honored and proud to have the opportunity to coach these young women, and I'm looking forward to the future of Army basketball.

There won't be any shame in us not winning this game. At the same time, our girls have a lot of pride. They want to keep playing.

We talk about no excuses because we've all had some sort of adversity that we've had to deal with in our lives and that's there to make us stronger and not to be used as a crutch. Erin is an extremely talented player. I've changed her around to play her at the two (guard) to get her scoring a little more.

She is very calm but I think we're getting to where we can get her laughing and joking more than she did. She really does have a good sense of humor.

I felt like this team had a chance to make some noise and do some things. I didn't know exactly how.

I told them that they did a really good job of executing our game plan for about 20 minutes. We have to carry that through for a full 40 minutes next time. I don't think anyone walked out of the gym tonight without thinking that we can compete at the highest level.

I'm 28 years old. I'm going to go here and I could lose every game and get fired in four years. But I'll be 32 and I'll still have a lot in front of me and I'll be a smarter person for it. That's kind of how I looked at it. Worst-case scenario, what could happen is I could fail, but I still felt like I'd come out on top.

I've been in a lot of arenas around the country and there is nothing like a cadet crowd. It's not just the noise and how they get into the game. It's the camaraderie and the feeling that everybody is in this together. It's a family.

Cara Enright is a very special player and definitely has the talent to be first-team all-Patriot League. Right now, she's dealing with all the attention she's getting by the other team's defenses and as she gets more comfortable and as we get more people involved in the scoring that she has a chance to be one of the top players in the conference.

The biggest thing has been balanced scoring. We've had a number of kids who didn't look to score as much last year and have gotten them more involved.

We've got some talented players here. But we need some time to get it all clicking and hopefully in the next couple of weeks we can do that.

I'm so proud and impressed and really happy for how his career has played out. That has a lot to do with how he carries himself and how he deals with people. It's not just this year, obviously this year is great, but I'm just so proud of his whole career.

Adversity, ladies. How are we going to react.