Mark Few Quotes (101 Quotes)

It's his decision and it's his time frame. He loves basketball, he loves his teammates. I have to do the best job I can of giving him proper facts about it.

This team has been so incredible all year winning games like that and it finally caught up to us.

We're certainly a team that can play with anyone in the country. I don't doubt that a bit.

Billy did a great job on him. The team did a great job. We thought we were going to get him.

Adam has been frustrated there's a lot of holding and grabbing going on him away from the ball. He's a fiery competitor. Besides his play, his great attribute is how he competes.

They saw blood in the water.

I've always had great respect for the job they've done there. They remind me a lot of what we've done out here. They've had great deep runs in the tournament. I was surprised to see them come on the 14th line. Usually, you're used to seeing them as the five or six or eight or nine. We knew we were going to have a really difficult game in the first round. We do have one now.

I'm really impressed with how we showed up and finished off 14-0. I don't care how you get there, it just shows that you find a way to win every time out. It means that you show up every night.

They are just not a 14 seed. They're somebody that you think you'd see at a seven, eight, nine somewhere in there. I don't have to use any coaching points. Our guys have seen it on tape. This is a darn good team.

That was a heck of a college basketball game. That was two teams that were slugging it out to stay alive. A team (Xavier) that athletic and that skilled and that well coached and that tough on the defensive side of the ball looked like a five, a four or a three.

Adam simply knows how to score. It was obvious as the season went on last year that his presence was felt more and more.

We had the ball in the hands of the people we wanted to have it in.

Absolutely not. I'd suggest that we're getting the absolute best shots from every team in our conference every night. We've got the Superman logo on our chests. The teams in our conference know us, they know what we do. It's not easy.

It's a different animal, but we've dealt with it the last four or five years.

We were stagnant. We had no energy. It was time to see somebody else.

Everybody can talk about wanting to be up there, but until you are up there with no time on the clock and the score tied ... . That shows how tough a competitor he is.

We all feel for him and have tried to help him with all that (personal issues), but you know, it's time to play. It's time to put all that aside and help your team.

It felt like an NCAA tournament game. It felt like the whole world was focused on us.

The poorest descriptor of a basketball program is whether their school has football or not. It's how good the players are and how well they execute on offense and how hard they play defense and how well they play together.

That's quite a select group we are in. I'm proud of all the guys that have been here and put everything in that allowed people to respect our program so much.

He has head coach responsibilities here and makes head coach-type decisions all the time.

The ACC is the best league in the country. Our guys dug themselves out of a hole and got a great win.

No game is over with the three-point shot, the ability to lengthen the game, foul, make plays down the stretch. I think that's the big thing.

That's a reflection of his personality. He's tough, hard-nosed. They have a toughness about them that comes from him.

They've got a lot of answers, a lot of athleticism, a lot of skill, and they can hurt you in so many ways. We battled hard. We just didn't quite battle for a full 40.

I was really apprehensive about this game and the key is we took care of the ball in the second half and that's not easy against Maryland. We battened down the hatches and really settled down in the second half.

This is another loaded schedule. But it's the kind of schedule we need to play if we are going to keep our program among the elite programs in the country and prepare us for what we hope will be another run in the NCAA Tournament.

They do a good job of taking care of the basketball. They milk the clock on offense.

First, it's not my doing. And second, it does come up. I'm professional in my actions. I can show that I've been in this place for 17 years this is my seventh year as head coach. I enjoy where I am, and we have a great thing going where we are.

People can talk. People can speculate. These guys are hungry and they're ready to go. We've had a great season and I've made sure that they understand that.

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

The people of Spokane, like they always do, again stepped forward to support a very worthy cause. This event continues to grow and everyone involved is grateful for the support from the Spokane community. We have a great committee that takes a lot of pride in this event.

That's J. P. all year. He doesn't draw a lot of attention to himself, but he's been amazingly consistent all year. At the end of the night, pick up the stats, and he's got a double-double.

At the half, I told Adam (Morrison) to start shooting. We needed to get a break going, we were too slow and made some adjustments to the zone and one in man-to-man. Besides Adam's scoring, going 10-plus on the boards was a determining factor.

Adam is like Jesse James. Everybody's out to get him.

I thought we had stretches in both halves where we kind of put together some good minutes on both the offensive and defensive ends.

Adam is really getting roughed up now, especially off the ball. It's getting much more difficult, which makes it so amazing.

It should have been here a long time ago.

They do such a great job with that show. I get up and watch the football one all the time. This is a neat thing, something to get excited about.

No. I mean he could go up to Park City and do back slips off one of those snowboard deals, and it probably would not shock me. That's just Adam, and Adam makes those shots. He does that all the time, and he'll continue to make them for years to come. He's a great shot-maker.

In part, we were so agitated it served as a great motivator, and we played with a chip on our shoulder.

We hate to lose Adam, but we wish him well. He leaves as the most decorated player in Gonzaga history. He's been an integral force behind what we've been able to keep going the past three years.

The business has changed and the landscape has changed since those legendary days. There are a lot more really, really good teams and a lot more getting into the NCAA tournament now.

All year, everybody's been talking about this being Adam's show, but we've got some other players who can really make plays.

He's a heck of a defender. He's a guy who takes a lot of pride in that. He's a guy who has a lot of power, he's strong, he's athletic and he's long. It's a team game, and you have to take what they give you. Adam does a pretty good job of taking what others give him.

All year people been talking like it's all the Adam Morrison Show, but we've got some other players who can really make plays and they all did tonight.

You saw two good teams going at it tonight on the floor. Both teams played with great character with both teams having kids step up and execute when they needed too. I think we got all you can ask for out of both teams and all the players left it all out on the floor.

The unsung guy is Batista. He keeps delivering and delivering and delivering every night out.

It's something we really, really would love to do because we just want to keep playing.

Our guys will see them plenty by the time they get to Salt Lake. Our guys will be well-prepared.