Paul Sather Quotes (15 Quotes)

Basketball is an up-and-down game. You have to be able to handle runs.

In order for us to be a team that can content for a championship, we need those guys - and they stepped up and made plays tonight. We had some guys that had some rhythm going and that really helped us.

It was disappointing. But not that we lost the conference regular-season (title). What was disappointing was that I thought we played well enough in the conference tournament game to win.

We have the opportunity for two playoff games at home. A lot was on the line (Saturday).

Our goal was, as the season went on, to get better. I think we did that. When we finished our year, I do think we were playing some of our best basketball at the conference tournament.

We were really fortunate to win this game. It's too bad because I thought in that first half we had so many missed opportunities.

In the first half we tried a few times. But we were poor on the defensive block outs. You have to get a stop, or create some turnovers. They didn't turn it over much in the first half.

It's something new for us still to be ahead by three goals. It takes a while to get that instinct to really finish somebody off. A pretty easy game, really one that we're dominating I thought, then we let up a little bit.

I think we have to realize that we lost six seniors. You can say what you want, but next year we won't have six seniors. We will be young and have new faces. We can't go into next year thinking that we will be able to repeat finishing second in the conference and go to the conference championship again. We have to understand that it might take a little time.

People have been asking me if the boys (were) ready to play. We were going to find out. It's that time of the year. If you want to keep playing you have to step up and make plays.

I think it's our best style for us. We probably play our best in that style.

What a great soccer game. I thought my kids really deserved it. I thought we had them on their heals most of the game. We didn't have that many chances offensively, but,boy, when we needed it, someone stuck it in the net. What a great feeling to be heading the finals.

I keep talking about the lessons that we're learning. And here's another one. You just don't give up on anybody. ... Maybe we're not quite as good as we think we are sometimes.

If you want to keep playing, you have to make plays, defend and rebound.

We're frustrated and we should be. How many times do you have to go through this How many games is this now that we could've won We play pretty well, but it's not good enough for me and I don't think it's good enough for them. When we play playoff teams, we need to play a lot better.