Tom Pecora Quotes (42 Quotes)

Many of them are among the better players in the conference. You don't see coaches going overseas to bring back guys who aren't going to play. They have to be high-level players.

We've been ripe for this to happen. We've gotten away from what we are good at.

I thought we had the game won. The foul on the 3-point jumper, I don't know man. It didn't look like it was much.

We can't take the golf clubs out yet.

I don't get caught up in that. I just know it's hard to be a good basketball team, whether it's the first or third time you play them.

I've never seen him do that. That's when I said I guess this isn't our night.

It was a hard-fought game, as we thought it would be. We had some issues with foul trouble, so we had to go small for a while and we had to play zone (defense), which I'm not incredibly fond of. But we found a way to win.

I kept saying that this has to be our Senior Night on the road because after this, we're playing home the rest of the way. I'm thrilled that they will have an opportunity to play again.

They're as good as anybody in executing their half-court offense. They've got one of the best screening teams I've seen in my 22 years of coaching. We just didn't match their physical play and intensity at the start.

I guess that's how teams that win 22 games do it. You just find a way to gut it out and win.

I told the guys, in the next 20 minutes we'll know what we are. They brought the fight to us. I give Delaware credit.

I've been on 'Cold Pizza. I got a couple of good suits. I'm not starving here.

Give credit to Wilmington. They came out and took the fight to us. I'm proud of the way we continued to compete, but they're a tough team to chase.

They deserve to be in the NCAA tournament. Like I said last night, I think we belong, too.

We can't play soft basketball. We have to be little pit bulls and go after people.

I told them just before we met that one of the reasons why I'm staying here is because of them. What a pleasure it is to coach young guys like this. I have a lot of friends in this business, and not all of them have a team like we have. The kind of young men that we have, that want to be coached, that want to grow up and that want to be held responsible.

That was as good a first half as I've seen anyone play since I've been at Hofstra.

It should be a great game. This is what it's all about. This is why these kids came to Hofstra - to play in games like this.

We're getting there. We still haven't had a night where everyone is playing their total A-game. But that's OK. I'm hoping that happens next weekend.

We played Mason twice and we beat them twice. Where I come from, if you win you stay on the court. If you lose you're off. I don't mind them getting in, but it shouldn't have been at our expense.

I don't know if I do, to be quite honest. I mean, it changes your lifestyle drastically. It lessens the amount of free time you have, you know, family time and recreation time, which is important to me. I tell everybody, Jay went home to Villanova. I am home. That's important to me.

He can score in a variety of ways posting up, off the boards and on the break.

I've never been a good math student, but you're not going to catch up if they're making free throws and we're not making jumpers.

Four years ago there were a lot of people who thought we were never going to get it going here again. Now the burden falls on next year's group.

I can't understand what more we could've done. Where I come from, when you beat a team, you stay on the court.

Loren, you just kind of ride him. When he's in a zone like that, he's impossible to guard.

I'm happy that we're a multiple-bid league, but I don't know what more we could have done this year against Mason. I thought head-to-head would be more of an issue along with the fact that they will play without their starting point guard.

I hope they weigh what's important.

I just wanted to put the ball in Loren's hands and everyone in the gym knows that. It was Loren making a play.

That's as good a first half as I've ever seen anyone play since I've been at Hofstra. It's good to have them chase you, instead of the other way around.

Apparently a punch was thrown. Loren is hurting. It was below the belt. You don't get any better officiating crew than we had, and they said they didn't see anything, so it was fine with me. You hate to see something like that ruin a great game.

You can't let a little incident like that mar a college basketball game.

I wish I had an answer, but the truth is I don't. I don't know what to tell my team. It's great that the CAA (Colonial Athletic Association) got two bids. But I don't know what more we could have done to prove we were worthy of that second bid.

I don't think it will take very much to motivate our guys and let them know that now we have to go prove to people how good we are.

Staggering. You win that many games in CYO and it is a lot. To do it where he's done it speaks volumes.

Hes only a sophomore, but hes becoming a leader for us. And he spends so much time working on it, he can only get better and better.

It's hard to say coming in how it's going to progress, but we're excited about Greg. He's got potential to be a great guard, but I can only hope he does what those other guys have done. Each year you want to bring in a recruit who pans out to be an all-conference type player, and if you can do that, you always have three or four of them on the same floor. If it's not Greg, I hope it's one of the other freshmen.

That was as wild a game as I've ever been involved in.

We made a couple of bonehead plays late, things we don't expect out of our veterans, and that allowed them back in the game.

I told the kids at halftime to forget about Monday - it's about today. If you win today, you're in the NCAA tournament. It's March now, and I'm running out of things to say.

As a coach you are always telling them how great they can be and sometimes they don't see the greatness. It was cool to make some history, beat a ranked team, and have a crowd here like this. It was really fun.

It's the first time I've ever had to deal with this.