Randy Foye Quotes (52 Quotes)

You can't have concern, you can't panic. We're 11-2. It's not like we're under .500. We still have a lot of games to play and a lot of room for improvement.

It's out of his head. He's playing really good, so please don't bring it up.

We just said to ourselves that we had to make a couple of stops, keep a great attitude and keep it together. No matter what happened, we had to stay together. That's what was going through our minds at that time.

This was one of our goals. This is what we wanted, to bring Villanova back (to national prominence). But its not like were going to say, Oh, were No. 1, and rest on that. You cant take a night off in this league, especially now. Other teams are going to be gunning for us. Its not like in the past. Were the hunted now, not the hunter.

It was crazy. Our interpreter was something like 19 years old so she had no idea what was going on.

I think that we accomplished a lot in our four-year career here. At the beginning it was a struggle, but these last two years for the senior class and the junior class, (what) they went through with us has been great.

We just had to learn from it. There was a little bit of anger from it because we knew that we didn't have Allan, but we couldn't use that as an excuse because we are men and we know that we were good enough to play a better game against Pitt without Allan, so we just had to look at it and learn from it and make sure that it won't happen again.

Coach Hill did a good job working with not just me, all our guards. The summer when I got here he showed me little things he did with (former Seton Hall guard) Andre Barrett to make him one of the best guards in the Big East.

The rivalry's great for the fans and most of the alumni, but we're just out there to take care of business. We never try to get too mixed up into the rivalry because if you get too much into it, that could probably lead into a fight or something on the court. That's something neither team wants.

We know he's (Bunch) going to be tough and alter a lot of shots. The key (on offense) is just trying to get the ball up and over him. He's going to be a handful just boxing him out and getting him out of the lane to try to rebound over him.

After we cut it to three, give Florida credit, they're a great team. They did what they needed to do on offense and defense.

We're ready, everyone's ready. Everyone can't wait. We're ready to go.

I know where we were at two years ago, three years ago. We were in the NIT. To come from the NIT and be a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament shows tremendous respect.

Sometimes the rim looks like an ocean, ... My teammates were finding me in the right spots and I was talking the right shots.

I just told Coach Wright, 'Thanks for the ride, thanks for pushing me these four years, for me being the man that I am today. He just told me just keep my head up and keep working hard, and he would always be there for me.

One of the main things I remember about that game is that I got my shot blocked - twice. And how much it hurt.

That's a play we run all the time. We have plays for 7 seconds left and plays for 4 seconds left. We just ran the play, and they left Dante wide open.

I was shocked. I thought it was a celebration of new teams coming in.

It's going to be two great teams going back and forth and the crowd is going to love it.

Like all my shots, it went in and rolled out. Someone came out of nowhere and tapped the ball in. I ran to the wrong person. (Then I saw) everyone was around Kyle. It was just joy, man.

There was no frustration at all. The shooters were going to keep taking shots, (so we) didn't worry about offense. Just keep on playing defense.

Florida did a great job finding our shooters, defending the three-point line. Every time we took a shot, they made sure it was a contested shot.

We knew they weren't done. Coach told us to get a great attitude, keep on them with defense and the offense will come.

I was just shooting the ball perfectly at the time. The '85 team had a lot to do with it -- what we went out there and did.

It was like the coach kept calling our number. And every time he did, we knew we had to make a play.

That's the type of games that we like. I know no one believes us... but we like to grind games out.

He is not really talking about basketball most of the time. He is talking about the big picture and life in general. He always tells us basketball only lasts for 12 years and you have 50 more years to live after that. He's a father figure to us.

There was no frustration at all. Every time we come to the huddle, we just say it's all right, just keep on playing defense, don't worry about offense and we're going to score.

I think this is what the NCAA Tournament is all about, just playing against great competition night in and night out. I wouldn't want it any other way. I always want to play against the best players in college basketball.

Everyone is starting to believe we can win with four guards. Win big games with four guards.

Some teams play man, some teams play zone, so in practice we just go with everything to be ready for whatever defense we're going to play that night,

If we're going to make this program go, it had to start with us. We took it upon ourselves that we've got to do this.

Walking into the stadium of 80,000 people was amazing. I was nervous at first, but then I started to get into it, waving at people and putting up the peace sign.

You look at the great teams and all the great teams went 30-1, 30-2. They took a loss. You've got to learn when you lose in the beginning, you just have to learn from it. You can never let it be a setback. If it's a setback, you can lose five, six games in a row.

I guess that's what makes us unique, having a lot of different obstacles.

These are the type of games we like. I know no one believes us but ... we like to battle it out and just grind it to the end.

We still have to go out there and play the game. The other team is hungry, just like we are hungry. It doesn't matter once you get out there on the court. If you are a one seed or a 16th seed, once you get into the tournament.

To me, if you're No. 1 it's like having a target on your back. Everybody wants to beat you. Everybody's going at your knees, going to the floor, diving for loose balls.

I didn't feel any frustration. Just because I miss a couple of shots doesn't mean I'm going to quit shooting.

That was a perfect example of what can happen. It just shows you how tough this league can be. You can lose to anyone on any given night.

Every time we took a shot, it was a contested shot. They made sure every shot we took was not an easy one.

When I was dribbling the ball at the end of Sunday's win, I just thought about a lot of hard work, a lot of little bruises and injuries we had. But we just kept fighting through it.

My mindset was just to keep a great attitude. I knew if we lost that (it) was my last game. I just wanted to keep playing.

That's Villanova basketball. Coach Jay Wright trusts us enough to give us that freedom. He knows we're not going to make every shot, but he knows we can make enough of them. We just like playing at a fast tempo. It's worked pretty well up to now.

It was like a home game for us today. When you needed a stop you heard the crowd. It was important for us down the stretch.

We didn't underestimate them. We knew they were a very good team.

We shot really bad against Texas and we still could have won the game easily by 10 when you watch the film. We've got to get back to having fun out there.

Give Florida credit. They beat us tonight.

We've got to get it together. We can't wait for them to roll over and die.

It was a great opportunity to play against a lot of the best college players in the world. I also got a chance to see a different style of basketball. The players over there are different. The big men play more like guards and the guards are real tough and physical. It was good because we had to adapt.