Melvin Watkins Quotes (16 Quotes)

It gets to the point where maybe the kids need to hear a new voice. I always tell the kids you should never quit. I'm not quitting on them, but maybe there comes a point in time where you just can't do it there anymore.

I maybe have a few years left in me. I enjoy this. I enjoy the kids. . . . Yes, I want to be a head coach. I was a head coach, and I want to continue to be a head coach.

If you're talking to me, I want to be the head coach here.

It's a decision that he's been contemplating for some time. I do hope he would keep his options open.

They're playing the best basketball in the conference right now. They're playing with a lot of confidence, hitting shots and playing very well as a team.

We're fragile, but what you saw today, there have been other teams that have come here and got spanked pretty good.

They may be playing the best basketball in the conference right now. You are seeing a team grow up right before your eyes.

I thought we played the way we should be playing. I can live with (the result) if you're not good enough and you play hard.

Surely, they hear what's going on around campus or whatever and the Internet. Our kids have done a good job, at least as far as we can see, of not bringing that stuff to practice. ... Coach (Snyder) has done a good job of saying, 'Let's stick with the task at hand.' Some of those things we can't control, and we're not going to worry about, and I think our kids will follow suit in that.

What he told us is, it's an opportunity to get back to playing basketball. All the speculation was a heavy burden.

The external motivation lasts maybe one or two plays Im just directing things a little bit. We needed to shake things up a bit and just get back to the basics and fundamentals.

On game day, I expect the guys to have energy no matter who the coach is. We just didn't have it today. Kansas just took it to us and that's the way I'm going to look at it.

I could probably write a book about that.

I'm excited about the opportunity to be a part of what I feel is an exciting brand of basketball and a winning brand of basketball. How can you not want to be a part of this.

We played the way I think we should be playing all the time. I thought our guys were into the game. I thought our guys had some energy out there for long periods of time. Where there's an emptiness in our gut because we didn't get the win, I can live with that fact that we're not quite good enough, but we played to the best of our ability.

I feel like I know better than anyone what needs to happen here in terms of the players we need to get in with what we've got returning. I'm going to have the upper hand on anyone in terms of trying to get this thing turned around and get it back in the right direction quicker than anyone that's out there. That's my opinion.