Tom Maurer Quotes (15 Quotes)

He has been cleared to play. But I'm not sure if I want to take that chance. I couldn't live with myself if he got hurt.

We got a nice lead early, so, I guess, that meant we could play bad in the second half.

This is a tremendous honor for him and for our high school. Luke is one of only three kids (on the U.S. team) from the West Coast.

I used to work in Gary Indiana. I was a life guard, the brothers and the sister would all come down to the pool but the grease from hair goes everywhere and they can't swim.

It all comes down to what kids decide they want to do. Do they want to make themselves better Do they want to work at it I know Luke is the type of kid who always wants to get better. He's going to spend (the spring and summer) working on his game.

Eric Maupin played with a lot of heart.

In 12 of our games this year he played only about half the game because we had a big lead. His numbers could have been a lot bigger but we just didn't need him in those games.

Luke came in and got six of his eight in the first quarter, which was huge. We had a tough game that ended at 11 last night and came back to play at 11 this morning, so Babbitt needed some help. When Luke went inside and scored over their 6-6 guy, I think they were shocked.

It's going to be interesting because you'll see two different styles of basketball.

Tristan hit a couple shots in the first quarter, bang, bang, and then we stopped getting him the ball. We just sort of stopped getting the ball to our scorers. I just thought we didn't play a very intelligent game.

He played a great game. But we did a poor job of identifying our scorers today.

I'm scared to death of that kid.

We were playing like we were afraid to lose. I could just see it. We were afraid. But when I called that timeout with three or four minutes to go, I finally saw the will to win in their eyes. It finally showed up at the end of the game.

Oh, he's going to love that. I never wanted him to go out on the perimeter.

It (the pace) was way too fast. I know my team. And they'll see what I'm talking about when they watch the film of this one. It was way too fast for us. We are best when we control the ball.