Rashad Anderson Quotes (26 Quotes)

I couldn't ask for anything better for coach. It's an honor to be playing for him. Why wouldn't you want to play for a Hall of Fame coach who's got numerous guys in the NBA

Everybody's getting better, no matter what school you go to. People want to be good. People who probably got overlooked by other schools, you know, they take it as a challenge and they work their butt off.

These games mean a lot to us especially for guys who normally don't play to get their confidence.

We smell blood when we get up like that. When a team gets down, that's when you want to pound a team. No disrespect to Seton Hall, but if any team gets down we have to jump on them, because we know if it was switched around, they would jump on us.

This time of year is what you live for.

I think it hurt them more than us because we were able to take their elite scorer out of the game. That was a boost for us. And we just decided, hey, this is the time to turn it up.

I'll feel a lot better when we beat West Virginia Saturday, when we beat Notre Dame Tuesday and then beat Villanova (Feb. 26) when they come here. You want to win every game. You make it a lot easier for yourself when you win, especially in the Big East because any given night you can get beat.

The seniors have won an NCAA title. We know big games and big shots. That comes easy to us.

They're learning, and I keep telling them don't worry if you mess up, just play and don't worry about anything. Craig is stronger and Rob is quicker but they're both efficient. They get the ball where it needs to be.

Me and coach sat down and watched some film to see what I was doing wrong. I wasn't squaring my body up a lot of times. I've been doing that the last couple days in practice and it's paid off.

If Hilton keeps playing the way he is, we're going to be tough to beat in the tournament. He gives us so much balance.

My sophomore year I took a crazy shot and I felt the spit on the back of my neck from half-court.

If you take me and Denham, Rudy and Marcus, Hilton and Josh and put us on different teams, we're 20- to 25-point scorers. But put us here and we have to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. We don't worry about who scores this and who scores that.

You just have to come ready to play every night and strap it on. Anytime you're going into enemy territory against a team like Villanova that's a great team, you've got to be ready to play. You've got to get some momentum.

I told him to come back and be ready. You can't undo the past but you can learn from your mistakes.

I said, 'Give me the ball and I'll knock it down for you,' and I was able to do it.

A day hasn't gone by where I don't think about it. There's never a day I don't think about cutting down those nets again, the feeling we had in '04. We had a taste of it two years ago and we want it again.

We didn't want to lose. I just knew if Marcus (Williams) got me the ball, I was going to knock it down, no matter what. We weren't going to lose this game.

That was kind of a toss-up call. I thought I got nudged into Marcus a little bit. But at the end of the game, no excuses.

Any time you play in the Big East, you don't want to give anybody a chance to come back. We wanted to put it to them.

You can never stop improving. We like to walk out of arenas with all of the air sucked out and all of the fans calling us names. We love that.

Guys got to understand that you have to come out with intensity from the opening tip, that's basically what it was.

Man-child. He's a man-child. That's what we need every night.

I tell him not to worry about any of that. Everything will take care of itself.

I wanted to let them feel the trophy too. They mean a lot to us with all the support they give us. I'm going to miss this place.

I think it's better to be on a team with such great players. On other teams you have one or two great scorers and if one of them gets hurt or in foul trouble, that's a lot of points you're not getting.